Crimson Diplomacy | Critical Role: VOX MACHINA | Episode 25

[@Chug5003]

And so it begins, the long tale of a man who drinks from increasingly unnecessarily large containers

[@superlolgal555]

ahahahahhahaahhahahaha

[@Ermanariks_til_Aujm]

Check Sam Hyde for drinking from weird and big containers

[@azarinevil]

And the start of Sam's collection of stickers that eventually qualify as a built in coaster lol

[@silenamoon844]

Yes, yes it is.

[@Animallovercomedian]

Or normal sized ones for Taryan (/s?)

[@manoro420]

I do love the twins Vax- dagger dagger dagger Vex- haggle haggle haggle

[@matsh5633]

XD hahahah nice one

[@S_047]

Grog : Rage, drink, rage

[@thebluedragonontheskyscrap1838]

Tiberius: My name is Tiberius Stormwind, from Draconia!

[@Malum95]

You... Forgot the comma 🙃

[@duckduckgoose6977]

Thats hilarious xD

[@tylerpierro5309]

Carriage driver: “They’ll find me; they’ll kill me!” Percy: “No they won’t; I will kill you first. Tell me what you know.” No mercy Percy in full force

[@xEvilRaptorx]

1:57:00 is approx the timestamp

[@Darksnakemrniceguy]

haha... torturing his own subject... much funny...

[@johnmackelvey]

#NoMercyPercy

[@dseray9494]

1:57:13 to be precise Saw this comment as the moment happened

[@krystopherguadalupe1760]

Honestly gave me chills

[@Lancer212]

The 2 nat 20's right after Vex spots her brother is something truly beautiful

[@hergie409]

@Robert Nope it’s amazing when the dice respond or tell the story lol

[@cnh3109]

That was a moment of beauty, it was fate, meant to be!

[@KatoLong]

I've only just got to this episode (I actually watched the series before watching the CR stuff) and the animated show is amazing no doubt, but the passion and energy from the other players is something else. This has had 2 of my favourite moments overall so far (the aforementioned Vex scene and Liam going full blown tearjerker for his potential death) noticed the chat going nuts for both moments. Looking forward to the rest of these plus campaigns 2+3, I have a LOT to catch up on 😁

[@sweebos]

​@@KatoLong Enjoy your journey! 🙂 As much as I enjoyed this campaign and watching things come together to form what Critical Role would become, and as much as I enjoy the production quality of C3 with all the legacy storytelling of a decade of prior shows to pull Easter eggs from... Campaign 2 is still hands down my favorite. Those characters are really something special to me and their adventures together were the easiest for me to get lost in. That whole second campaign was just a masterpiece. ✊ Hope you enjoy your journey through these stories... And welcome home new critter. ✌️💙

[@ZeldaWolf2000]

That's one of my FAVORITE rolls in this campaign! So perfect! Thank you Dice Gods! Also, this WHOLE fight is fire. So tense and fuckin' AWESOME. 😀😀

[@ash-tv3bu]

liam was really like "if this is where i die then by god i'm fucking monologuing"

[@shannononeill482]

@@HighOctane01 yes...And I heard a bit of what was to become Caleb as he was giving his "thank you for rescuing me speech to each of them". It was more the cadence but I was like oh...hello.

[@lezzleee]

Breaking both my and the entire cast’s heart.

[@vishaansingh1019]

@@HighOctane01 It was very charming at this point in the campaign and I loved it. Then he became the Raven Queen's champion and it was...less charming, to say the least.

[@PlayerZeroStart]

@@vishaansingh1019 Oh boy, I can't wait to figure out what this means in 5 years when I get to that point.

[@chromaticsky3956]

@@PlayerZeroStart hello, adice from someone who's rewatching the series- it only gets even better from here. Also avoid all spoilers LIKE THE PLAGUE. campaign 2 is also super great btw

[@Deskof003Blogspot]

"Let's play, Matt. Let's play." Truly, dead men have no fear.

[@ignisincendia9430]

what is dead may never die !!!!

[@jamiedodger2361]

This man just lap dances with death like there's no frickin tomorrow

[@yogawarriorgirl]

@@jamiedodger2361 I have a sudden need for fanart of that exact image. Care to clarify- is Vax giving a lap dance to death, or the other way around? Because either way, that's freaking amazing.

[@jamiedodger2361]

Amanda Lockridge Vax is the once giving the dance and Death is Matt Mercer in a black cloak levitating some dice just above his hand (his scythe is propped up against the chair)

[@yogawarriorgirl]

@@jamiedodger2361 You just made me snort water up my nose

[@snorpenbass4196]

...so this is where the tradition of Sam Riegel and his novelty drinking implements began...

[@TeniBear10]

The birth of a legend

[@silenamoon844]

The best part.... Besides the Briarwood's

[@TimStamper89]

I saw a flask in the last episode and thought that was it. Then this !

[@W7RSON]

Whoever gave Sam this "mug" created a monster

[@Reblwitoutacause]

Also, VM hates old people from here on out. They all must die.

[@Shannis75]

"Gosh, you guys are good-looking." If this line is not in the animation, I am going to riot.

[@shaofgreed]

I bring great news if you haven't watched it yet!!

[@CricketsTavern]

Gosh you’re a handsome couple

[@blazypika2]

well, it was xD

[@Pangster]

I came from the future with good news

[@keonilewis6482]

Hahahahahahahahaha this is gold

[@Panic_Pickle]

I love as Vax is having his going-down speech everyone is looking sad and what not but Travis just has that massive grin of “oh yes, that’s the top notch Roleplay shit I signed up for.”

[@Panic_Pickle]

Followed by him freezing up in “I honestly don’t know how to react to this this is too much emotion business for me.”

[@silenamoon844]

And the cheers of everyone when vax lives

[@Hugo-pg9hq]

Plus it's revenge for his poor beard.

[@martinjrgensen8234]

Travis is having the time of his life when his friends are awesome. He is a great player.

[@0riginofdarkness]

i have the feeling when Liam is done saying the thing Vax sees .. everyone is so sad and Travis is so tense like "OK Grog will kick ass like never before"

[@louisec-m9503]

I got so caught up with Vax's situation, and the tiefling, and the Suggestion spell... But Percy's shout of 'SYLAS!' brought me RIGHT back to Percy's story. Taliesin gets better at this every episode, hot damn!

[@virginiamooney4105]

1:16:42

[@Pyrilewski]

@@virginiamooney4105 thanks.

[@chrisrudolf9839]

True. I watched campaign 2 first and thus was used to gentle calm Caduceus, whom he also plays brilliantly. That moment when he interrogated the servant, those glares he gave Matt - really like a totally different person, he totally channels the hate. That's top notch acting.

[@danieldosso2455]

One of the Top 10 best moments of CR: S1

[@honeysuckel1351]

The SYLAS gets me every time

[@friendlyredneckneighbor4326]

Vax on the ground saying “hey percy” gave me some serious feels.

[@macegamma431]

@Astroblaze the Reality Traverser good soul

[@ilypopple]

right😔🙏

[@sparklegemrose]

Yes! Their friendship in early C1 is my favorite 🥺

[@T-Law.]

23:55 never realised before. Fist thing matt does is point out all the possible exits. Neat and subtle way for DM to say “you ain’t winning this one. *run* ”

[@MrSealemon]

Yeah, I caught that. The exact opposite of what a killer DM would do. Be like Matt.

[@Dyanosis]

First thing* You edit your post and don't even fix the misspelling.

[@kennedyhuff]

​@@Dyanosis 🤓

[@hazdra1896]

@@MrSealemon A DM should always be on the player's side, don't fight against them, fight with them to create chronicles of epic journeys while maintaining what the enemies would do.

[@relyimah]

kind of like my session tonight when the DM (to the rogue) was like "and would you like to use your movement???"while he was standing next to what was basically a bomb...

[@doomdoot6731]

Are we just going to gloss over the fact that Vax's monologue actually made Matt's voice crack? Damn, that shit was powerful.

[@azarinevil]

Almost made Laura cry too.. in all my years of D&D I've never seen a RP speech that good. Liam is one hell of an actor and a player!

[@brenta2634]

Yeah. Matt barely holds it together.

[@xEvilRaptorx]

I have felt more emotion from CR than most tv shows I've ever seen. I think it even beats Futurama's emotional episodes

[@TheKOzality]

(in Taliesin's voice) Timestamps people! 39:24

[@bradr5358]

Yeah that had me tearing up too

[@jsmit9063]

Liam:" you can give me- nevermind." Matt: "inspiration? What, begging from the DM now?" Liam: "more like praying." Matt: "I'll give you inspiration when you god-damn earn it."

[@xadielplasencia3674]

Travis says the stuff about prayer I think

[@kittentune997]

I loved that part so much

[@alvinfong1449]

22:55 for future critters stumbling on this comment :)

[@conrox400]

At that point Liam be like 🖕to matt lolz

[@nathanjordan1782]

Begging Dungeon Daddy for some d10 sugar rarely works, but when it does it makes the groveling worth it

[@returnosf5043]

Lillith: "You travelled with my cousin Zahra" Scanlan: "Ohh! I had a sleepover with her!"

[@LoneKuroRaifu]

I laughed so hard there lol

[@LeeJ2512]

1:34:30 is probably my favourite moment. "Oh hello. What a lovely dinner we ha-LIGHTNING!"

[@JtotheMeezy]

Even better when you remember Scanlan canonically fires lightning from his weewee

[@danielevans545]

"What a lovely dinner we ha- LIGHTNING!" Hardest I've ever laughed watching CR.

[@robertwalker5794]

And you know what the cool thing is? That what Scanlan did was a pretty good tactic. I've seen it used before in different books and movies. For example, in one of my favorite book series, the main character, whose name is Will, has to escape an "enemy" camp to get some information to his friends but he is stopes by a guard who says he needs to turn around. Now the Will doesn't want to kill him so he starts slowly walking his horse towards the guard, while he starts making up a story about his sick mother, and when he gets close enough he digs in his spurs and knocks the guy over.

[@stevenritter8719]

+Robert Walker what is the name of that book?

[@robertwalker5794]

+Steven Ritter It was book 8 of The Ranger's Apprentice Epic by John Flanagan. The first book is The Ruins of Gorlan. There are 12 books in the series and a companion series called The Brotherband Chronicles. There are 5 books so far and book 6 is coming out this month on the 14th. And there is a prequel called The Tournament at Gorlan.

[@stevenritter8719]

+Robert Walker yea I know the series. I loved every book. Waiting for my library to bring the new book with Halt and Criley.

[@robertwalker5794]

+Steven Ritter Yeah, me too!

[@jacobjankowski8796]

...guys, we’re getting this animated.

[@TeniBear10]

*shudders with excitement*

[@porkrot]

First time watching this through. I was always an Ac inc fan but this is amazing also.

[@limors]

And starting today (well, yesterday) I finally find out the details!

[@ShinyHero21]

3:05:29 lol (look at donation)

[@Sticklesticks]

2020 can’t come any sooner!?

[@AksentNethariaFilm]

Vex: We're very strong right now and full of health. Vax: (head slams down onto table) Lost my shit.

[@AksentNethariaFilm]

2:20:42 as a nice timestamp

[@EnDSchultz1]

I loved that moment.

[@virginiamooney4105]

The comedic timing was incredible

[@noahayrton6189]

42:02 “A small shiver runs down your spine, Vex: a feeling you haven’t felt before. A feeling of sudden and immediate sourceless dread, and in that instant you know that there is almost no time.”

[@mars-the-ethereal9609]

i like to call that (credit to Ruffnut and Tuffnut Thorston) twintuition

[@jackh7329]

My favourite thing, aside from Taliesin's role playing in this episode and just my overwhelming love for Percy, is Marisha's face when Percy first yells, "SILAS!" Just the sheer eagerness.

[@pbgandie]

1:16:40, awesome moment

[@HouseBug26]

I like how Liam and Laura act like they're actually brother and sister.

[@bongibot1104]

Kevin Darby ye, good roleplay

[@wx7fm]

Wait! I thought they were!? Lol, I guess that's good roleplay!

[@myabella7104]

In a Critmas episode, he even calls her sister to get her attention (after calling her name multiple times I believe) and she reacted immediately

[@superlolgal555]

@@myabella7104 Lol I saw that too that was hilarious

[@WolfgirlAidan]

I legitimately thought they were for the longest time

[@louisec-m9503]

That Broker fight was hilarious. I love how everyone's like 'You picked the WRONG day to mess with us!' (especially Percy. Holy SHIT, Percy.) and is pulling out all their new shit in defence of this person they barely know, mostly because they've just had ENOUGH - while Vax is over there like *chucks dagger* 'Did I ever tell you guys how much I appreciate you? I should do that more often. I'm so glad I'm here with all of you.' *chucks another dagger* It's really entertaining relief after the stress of the first half - obviously the characters are still messed up, but the players (and DM tbh) seem to be on a post-emotion high and just having a bloody great time.

[@ThatGuyIsACoolGuy]

Had this feeling once before. Came back from college to my roleplaying group back home, not sure if they were still interested in the campaign I was running. Turns out they were. After one of the most intense cage matches ever(Jeez, I wonder where the inspiration came from), they ended the session with the Guardians of the Galaxy playlist blaring as they torched a cave of flesh eating birds not out of the good in them, but so they could get their own lair. I love them so much!

[@ikanhazw1n]

Andrew Persson brother

[@ThatGuyIsACoolGuy]

@@ikanhazw1n BROTHER

[@S_047]

I kinda felt they trusted this rando ally(?) Waaaay too fast. That or my trust issues are flaring up again.

[@sammelm5357]

@@S_047 for in game reasons I would agree, but I guess they are doing it for "meta" reasons (not in a bad sense). She's a guest for one session only, it wouldn't be worth it to spend that time second guessing her character which is also related to someone they know.

[@Mike-vj2vc]

Matt: “You are reduced to your primal instincts” * Tiberius runs away*

[@kapitan19969838]

😅

[@anonymousfellow8879]

…and proceeds to stalk Allura, and have his character slobber over everyone (even after he’s restored) 😑

[@jace971]

"Hello, my name is Tiberius Stormwind, from Draconia, and moreover Vox Machina!" *runs away as soon as he's finished*

[@spaceman9599]

Well it's because he could not let off fireballs in enclosed spaces :)

[@tucatucz]

People hate Orion. I just love the way he plays. Goofy and intense. Always trying to do epic and fun things. I am starting to watch now, but I hope that his exit from the show was really about health issues.

[@hawkspiral]

"I think of my friends, that I've spent so much time with. I think of Keyleth, beautiful, walking under the trees. I think of my twin sister as a young girl, folding up linens with our mother. I think of my sister as an adolescent in lessons, smarter than me. I think of the woman she grew into. Hiking over many, many, many miles together. My best friend. My best friend, Vex'ahlia. And before I can think no more, I say a prayer to Sarenrae to watch over my friends and keep them safe." -- Vax'ildan, 2015

[@leomoon2]

I have never cried so hard.

[@NafenX]

DOES HE DIE?! Oh no, reminder to never read a few comments as I listen to Matt's intro to an episode ;-;

[@gameguy0101]

@MasterOfBaguettes those are still spoilers...

[@laratsibelman5053]

i started crying man

[@Helbereth]

@MasterOfBaguettes goddammit, man, quell the spoilers

[@lunahaleraven6011]

Percy's rolls against the Briarwoods...The Dice Know....

[@darkbunny9994]

Luna Haleraven then Laura's double nat 20's. They definitely know.

[@Cyyberslam8]

"Sometimes the dice *really* favor the narrative. I love it." - Matt, paraphrased from some Campaign 2 episode I can't remember.

[@TheXenatron]

Bring in the gnome! Do you desire a gnome, sire? I would like the gnome brought before me. Bring the king a gnome! Make sure he is of foul mouth and many a song! Oh, fetching the gnome! I assure you, sire, this gnome has many songs, a very tiny ... instrument, and ...

[@PastaBakeMilkShake]

Two things. One - Taliesin's voice as Percy is insanely attractive. Two - Whomever did the subtitles to denote Trinke's mood (Happy bear noises, sloppy bear noises, rolling bear noises) is a genius and deserves a lot of love. (Editing for a third - Matt's old-lady running at 3:12:03 is the funniest thing I've seen all week)

[@samuelstensgaard4828]

Glad to see someone else who thinks that Percy has a resting sexy accent lmao

[@tonybradley2053]

In the beginning, critters actually worked on the subtitles and did a fantastic job of it. If memory serves, they were also chat mods. CR now has an outside professional service, around 3+ years.

[@MandyCummins]

@@samuelstensgaard4828 I mean, Percy is just sexy, period.

[@urixl]

SYLAS!

[@sweebos]

Critical Role subtitles are absolutely 10/10. 😄

[@GregJonson]

The way Percy started naming his diceased family members. That was the most intense moment of roleplay I've seen yet. (Watching CR for the very first time!)

[@darkvizardking69]

@Aidan Hall this is honestly my favorite arc because of how this shit was not only built up, but the far reaching implications that happen after.

[@darkvizardking69]

@Aidan Hall his creation of firearms and later the product that whitestone was taken for has so many ramifications. Hell, it inspired me to make a gunslinger-fighter/rogue-assassin. Imagine bad news with extra sneak attack damage that had say, assassinate on top to make it a critical.

[@thomcrabb4237]

@Aidan Hall I love Cad. Never really invested in Molly. But Percy is literally perfect, and in that light I now see Tali completely differently. He is so subtle and nuanced. My favourite player of viewer souls. Liam is the best actor. Sam the funniest. Laura the most entrancing. 'Mamma?!' with that lower-lip curl has me every time.

[@Marpaws]

@@thomcrabb4237 who said the Mamma bit ? Laura with Jester ?

[@privpi]

@@thomcrabb4237 spoiler: Maybe with a bit more time you would've. There was a lot to molly we never got to explore.(well kinda, but it would've been more interesting from a player perspective)

[@CronyxRavage]

I'll start with Bad News. Nothin' travels faster. God I love these guys :D

[@samuelstensgaard4828]

The biggest tragedy of campaign 2 is Tal and Marisha being separated at the table, they're so wholesome.

[@luiza.limaneves]

@@samuelstensgaard4828 yeah I love her with Liam and Travis but the pure bff energy that radiated through them was untouchable

[@me0262]

I just got this. Now I can't stop laughing.

[@LeeJ2512]

I was looking for someone talking about this. That was a glorious moment that nobody appreciated

[@jrpjrp201]

@@LeeJ2512 time stamp?

[@r5gvalencia]

Laura almost crying while Vax gives his (possibly) dying words... What a powerful scene.

[@fingman133]

I would've felt a lot worse for Keyleth and Vex, if Travis didn't have this huge grin on for the entire duration.

[@Alex-mp4kl]

@@fingman133 I think he was grinning at how good Liam was at making this a fantastic scene of role play. Just like when Liam sits and smiles at Matt for "doing this for 3 years and still blowing me away".

[@Cedalion]

no one: percy: my name is Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III. you killed my father. prepare to die

[@gabrielrognon6238]

I though the same

[@Ashowleigh]

Percy DE ROLLO! LAUDNA IS RELATED TO PERCY! Ahh i haven’t been able to catch his full name yet! I heard him mention the de rollos are good people!! But this! I love how connected season 3 is!!!

[@adaraadava734]

@@Ashowleigh pate is named after the de rollo family but is not related

[@Ashowleigh]

@@adaraadava734 oh I’ve caught up with campaign 3, Matilda and the tree and what the connection to Delilah is and what not. I still think it’s really cool how the story links together

[@vishwaramesh]

My god we constantly give credit to the players but Matt just blew this out of the water. Playing such a hateful villain that is hated universally is hard. His briarwoods just gave me chills.

[@connerbruce6205]

this is the best episode ive seen so far

[@xEvilRaptorx]

This was the first episode I ever saw, caught it live about 15 minutes in. Hooked ever since haha

[@juanheloreloaded]

And now he gets to voice him in the animated series!

[@justin9744]

It’s actually not that hard.

[@ranniwolves]

@@justin9744okay justin, let’s see your voice acting resume

[@delaraphilip]

I love how as soon as Liam role plays Vax's thoughts, everyone else gets their game faces on. Every party member knows two things...they're going to save Vax and the Briarwoods are on borrowed time.

[@ProperlyGaming]

I love how everyone looked so sad and serious during that moment except for Travis. He had that look of "now this right here, is my shit"

[@zachlewis9751]

Let’s just be real, as soon as No Mercy Percy mentioned anything about the Briarwoods all of Vox Machina realized there were at least two bodies soon to be in the ground by their hands. They didn’t even need him to explain what they did to him and Whitestone.

[@NoriMori1992]

Percy becoming more and more unhinged after the Briarwood fight is exhilarating and heartbreaking at the same time.

[@bunnys9704]

Ngl Percy really did shine in this episode. Loved it when he sreamed "SYLAS!" and when he said Vax was foolish for risking his life but thanked him anyways. And the "whats wrong with you!?" into a natural 20 in the last fight just cemented it

[@LootFragg]

Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Poof! Click. Click. Click. Click. Click.

[@agathiandevaraj9757]

Percy rolling a Nat 20 when he's practically raging and Vex getting 2 Nat 20s when she's trying to save Vax from death's door both are peak theatric

[@rosenoel]

"SILAS!!" ... that gave me goosebumps like crazy.

[@KalonOrdona2]

Epic moment, all the chills

[@emmacampbell5098]

+rosenoel I actually flinched. Taliesin is a fantastic actor.

[@lostzeppo]

+rosenoel Yeah, Percy was pretty badass in that scene. :o

[@Shoob-k5u]

I got chills but also a little horny

[@afreakazoid4813]

That quote is basically just the posh version of "I would like to rage."

[@SirApplesauce]

Taliesin Jaffe (Percy) impresses me with every episode, if only because he understand his character in great detail and cares about his details. Thanks for the custom character build and the care.

[@klausgaming7365]

We would have seen more of Percy's character if wasn't for Liam's attempt to, once more, call all the attention to Vax.

[@EnderLord007]

Klaus Gaming I think Liam was concerned that that may have been the death of Vax, so him detailing his final thoughts was understandable, and everybody seemed to go with it. And then he shut up for the rest of the episode, basically.

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

Fun Fact: It was nearly two full episodes before it clicked in my head that Percy was the characters name.

[@spazzie89]

"I'll give you inspiration when you've goddamn earned it." - DM of CHAOS

[@magonus195]

That's really more of a DM of LAW

[@danielbeshers1689]

As of now, still hasn't earned it.

[@garyjorgensen992]

Holy shit. This episode went to all the dark places. No Mercy Percy was in full effect, he pulled out THE MASK, Vax almost DIED, Kit was INCREDIBLE as Lilith. I’m so glad that I decided to watch this series after finishing Vox Machina on Prime. I’m forever in love with this group

[@ImOldLegs]

Me too!

[@rexcorvus09]

I love how in character Taliesen gets. While everyone else is yelling and celebrating after the HDYWTDT, he keeps a straight face and obliterates the broker.

[@Uomostrano]

Whenever Vex asks "where's Trinket?" I imagine him wearing a fedora and going on secret missions. EDIT: 31/12/2021 Since this is literally my most popular comment ever (no kidding, how the hell did this happen?), here's a little reward as a sign of my appreciation for all the future critters 1 2 3 4! He's carnivoran mammal From the family Ursidae of action He's a furry doglike beast Who never flinches from a fra-ee-ay-ee-ay He's got more than just share spells His bestial fury comes striaght from hell And the women swoon Whenever they hear him say (insert Matt Mercer sad bear noise) He's Trinket, Trinket the grizzly bear (Marisha: you can call him Agent T) Trinket (Marisha: I said you can call him Agent T) A-gent-T!

[@haileighderosier8540]

Agent T 😂

[@InuShiek]

Doo be doo be doo ba!!

[@theendicott2838]

🎶It’s Trinket! Trinket the Grizzly Bear!🎶 You can call him Agent T.

[@The_Sharktocrab]

Honey hiests

[@jwall1646]

Honey heist

[@tuckerfyffe4999]

"...Third, if you’re not sure what to do next, feign illness, end the session early, and plot your next move..." -Dungeon Master's Guide "And with that we'll go to break." -Matthew Mercer Look at Matt, taking tips from the DMG.

[@unfortunateimperial6019]

I have yet to read the DMG, is that actually in there?

[@squaidpro]

@@unfortunateimperial6019 yes

[@JavierPerez-cx4jw]

Dragonofice27 0 It also says “If all else fails roll some dice behind the dm screen love gravely at your played and say You Are attacked by the Dragon Tiamat.”

[@dig8634]

@@unfortunateimperial6019 Every book for 5e has a little joke comment on the first page, the one with all the credits. The page also explains the cover image, which I always thought was a cool little touch

[@ladylad2763]

Thanks for letting me in on all these great jokes from the books I'll be checking all of them for now on

[@RandomKillerGaming]

I respect that scanlin tried to reject the eagle picking him up as he didn't know it was keylith. Love seeing them being as fair as possible.

[@godspeedhero3671]

How is that fair? As far as he knows eagles don't just randomly show up everwhere in the city and he has a druid in the party. It was metagaming pure and simple.

[@crowwithashortcake]

@@godspeedhero3671 lmao stay mad, thou cringer

[@starshot9418]

@@godspeedhero3671 he is a fairly high level adventurer and knows that he is surrounded by magic folk. A giant eagle aggressively flies towards him. He would be both wary due to survival instinct of being a high level along with knowing there's other spellcasters who could either also wild shape or summon.

[@___.__._.Ayla._.__.___]

@@godspeedhero3671 …and not to mention that a gnome is a small, easy to carry snack for an eagle. I’d say that’s basic small-being-not-wanting-to-be-eaten instincts.

[@Archangelous1337]

@@godspeedhero3671 He literally asks Matt if he knows it's Keyleth and Matt at first says yes but then remembers he has his back to her, so as far as Scanlan is concerned he just randomly got picked up by something flying so of course he'd panic and resist. When it gets to his turn Matt then says that by now he would realize it's Keyleth. So 100% not meta gaming as Sam even checks with Matt first.

[@jrm48220]

"The universe is random. It doesn't care about you and me." Tonight's episode of Critical Role is brought to you by Nihilist Arby's.

[@thamapleboi]

Followed by her rolling double crits

[@ivn5180]

@Lilith2014 those 2 20is is the universes way of showing us thet it actualy cares:)

[@xEvilRaptorx]

If you guys think that's great. You gotta watch the Search for Grog one shot.

[@corvus1253]

Ya hear that, all of U religious nutjobs?

[@godspeedhero3671]

Nihilism doesn't promote that the universe is random. It promotes that everything is inherently without value or meaning.

[@piano9999999]

I always thought this role playing part was just like acting, but Vax thinking of his friends just before going unconcious made me realize just how invested each of them are in these characters. it really is beautiful, I think.

[@isaac8734]

Its like acting directing writing scripting at the same time they made this characters and are very attached to them you can see laura just barely holding herself from bursting into tears while he described his vision of vex

[@Saphiraah1]

Super late reply. Joe manginelo had the same realization when Sam gave up on holding that spell slot and the side drama that caused.

[@me0262]

One really does pour themselves into their character's backstory. Mine character was knocked unconscious and lost everything happy in her life on a fateful night, only has half of a necklace to remind her of that night. She recently had to tell the party this when she was forced to attack her cousin (also in the party). Even though it was templated on the background, it was still very hard to write (I keep an adventure log, most of the time with full dialog).

[@Filmfroghand]

okay how come I see no comments about "YOU FOOL YOUR SOUL IS FORFEIT!" I mean holy crap that gave me chills, Taliesin is amazing in this episode.

[@superlolgal555]

I love Keylith's reaction to that too, and then Taliesin's "oh yeah I did say that didn't I" reaction right after

[@scratch6402]

I love it when Tal gets a HDYWTDT, there is so much excitement in his voice and he has the most brutal descriptions.

[@Roguekriger]

Liam over here like "If I make everyone depressed they'll try extra hard to save Vax!" For real tho holy shit

[@mikigirl18]

Seriously! The emotion he put into his words when he thought his character might die had me worried he was seriously getting upset.

[@FelipeFerreira-wk5nv]

"Then i dont run, i dimension door outside of the palace" The gratitude in liam's face when Sam says that is gold

[@partingofways]

Liam repeatedly blows me away with how great a roleplayer is. Talesian is a close second

[@azarinevil]

Gotta show Sam and Travis some love too.. both of them are easily the best comic relief. Liam is versatile and really nails the dramatic elements, Talesin hands down though remains the king of serious #NoMercyPercy

[@toryfox4580]

Jaffe is imo actually the best RPer, he never fails to act his character, he may not be as dramatic a character as Vax but Percy is complex and Jaffe has his complexity on lock

[@samuelstensgaard4828]

@@toryfox4580 I think what I love about him the most is that he doesn't care if Percy is acting good, evil, witty, or silent, Jaffe always acts in character, he doesn't care about impressing an audience.

[@Darksnakemrniceguy]

@@toryfox4580 oh pls, percy constantly contradicts himself throughout this campaign, with what he says, the way he acts, and what he does... self contradiction is not complexity... its simply not being able to keep the story straight.

[@Darksnakemrniceguy]

Liam sam and travis are the best roleplayers in this show, laura learns to be a great one later on.

[@EvilRobotSteve]

I know these videos are so old now nobody is gonna see this, but for Kit to have the confidence to get fully into the RP and even do accents surrounded by professional voice actors was really cool to see. She did an outstanding job.

[@serenityfreeman5906]

She was so hilarious too, and clearly knew her shit. I wish she was a guest for longer

[@dolphin64575]

I loved seeing everyone's excitement at realizing who her character was related to

[@spenceroneil4747]

Kit was awesome

[@thespankmyfrank]

Yes! She was so good!! I wish she could've stayed for longer.

[@shawnglade790]

She is amazing

[@UrbanCohort]

One of the many things I love is how Sam/Scanlan is so silly, but when shit hits the fan there's no one you'd rather have with you.

[@lemonadespider]

+Urban Cohort hehe... "shit"... always the poo jokes for Scanlan XD

[@smohkweed3860]

+lemonadespider Scatlan

[@Madhattersinjeans]

I have to say Scanlan was probably one of the weaker characters early on. But as time went on he started to grow on me a little, I think these recent episodes have helped focus him on roleplaying the character to help push the game forward when it needs it and a bit less of being the clown who poos on peoples beds at every chance. And ofc Bards have some really strong control spells available to them which just helps push the "silly yet strong joker" idea.

[@ryangranquist9580]

Urban Cohort, is it just me or does this comment show up every episode

[@penguin12902]

"What a lovely dinner we had - LIGHTNING!!!"

[@Quadraxis]

2:18:00 Keyleth: Where are you from?! Your accent's so-" Lillith: "Nicodranas, of course. We have the best tieflings."

[@wikedred7060]

Truth! ❤️Jester❤️

[@silenamoon844]

The beginning of Laura's adventures in teifling.

[@musical._.savage7228]

Having watched Campaign 2 first, it's fun seeing how he has kept the world connected

[@copycrow4486]

@@musical._.savage7228 As someone who has also done such connections. It's really just coincidence that turns into something awesome. We see it as something done on purpose, but behind the screen. To quote the Traveller, "Everything's fucking chaos." It's really just a testament to how good Matt is at creating connections.

[@14Squeaken]

Ack! There’s NO way this is anything other than a coincidence.... that’s why I love this show!

[@The2ndLoop]

There are not enough comments about Vax's inner monologue. That was an emotional scene, and everybody got serious really fast. You can hear Liam trying not to cry, and most, if not everybody else trying not to cry either. I really liked that scene. I'm hoping we will get to see that scene animated.

[@ped3752]

The monologue is so good you can hear yourself trying not to cry

[@cheerio3442]

when you can perfectly picture how you want the scene to play out, but you have no skills to animate it yourself

[@jmb711]

These are my timestamps that I posted to tumblr years ago. I know they already showed up here but I'm posting them for myself now. 8:15 - Sam gets the mug! 13:00 - Game starts (but for real at 14:15) 20:20 - Vax to the Briarwoods trying to talk his way out “Gosh you guys are good looking” 27:20 - Sylas bites Vax 28:45 - Vax says Jenga and jumps out the window (They hear his shout for help and start looking for Vax, Keyleth poops on a servant, fight starts) 40:00 - Vax’s thoughts as he goes unconscious :( 48:38 - Kit Buss joins the game 59:00, 1:00:55 - Laura’s 2 natural 20s to save Vax 1:04:00 - Vex takes 66 points of damage from Delilah’s Finger of Death 1:10:00 - Scanlan heals Vax ♪ 1:11:50 - Scanlan ♪ Hey there Delilah ♪ and suggests she to make out with Silas, but it fails 1:13:10 - Liam “She doesn’t even feel a little bit horny?” and “She has a headache” 1:15:35 - Lillith is revealed to be a tiefling/Not the time to be hitting on her Tiberius 1:16:40 - Percy “SYLAS!!” 1:19:05 - Sylas recognizes Percy, “The pup yet lives” 1:22:00 - Scanlan distracts Sylas ♪ 1:30:15 - Tiberius cursed, feeble mind? 1:38:55 - “SYLAS” part 2 1:49:35 - Briarwoods teleport to carriage, Percy shoots out the wheel, it topples over 1:53:05 - Delilah taunts Percy about visiting his home and family 1:54:55 - Briarwoods disappear for real this time 1:55:38 - Percy shoots off 3 of the carriage driver’s fingers, interrogation, Percy asks about his family and says all of their names (except for Cassandra’s) 1:57:20 - Break starts 2:09:10 - Break ends (Percy knocks driver unconscious, guards try to arrest Lillith and Keyleth gets them to back off) 2:14:20 - Tiberius tries to get help from Allura 2:15:10 - Vex & Keyleth help Vax, who thinks he’s dangerous, while Percy searches carriage 2:16:30 - Vox Machina questions Lillith 2:19:35 - Lillith explains the glowing mark on her chest 2:20:40 - Ailing Vax/Liam headdesk, Uriel arrives right after 2:22:00 - Percy tells Uriel the Briarwoods killed his family 2:22:53 - Lillith frantically tells Uriel what happened - “heaving bosoms” and thinks she’s “getting the vapors” 2:24:10 - Scanlan “(Tibs) seems normal to me”, they go to a temple to get Tibs and Vax healed 2:27:25 - Tiberius healed 2:28:40 - Vax “You didn’t shit yourself so you’re a winner,” Vax gets healed 2:33:03 - They tell the cleric about Pike 2:36:10 - Vax tells them what happened and apologizes 2:37:25 - Keyleth “They said your family is still there,” Percy “They’re liars” 2:39:20 - Percy thanks Vax 2:39:33 - Grog tells Vax he’s glad he didn’t die, then smacks him. “No one kills you but me” at 2:40:15 2:41:25 - The Broker shows up and a fight starts 2:47:30 - Lillith “You tell my sister I hope her face still festers” 2:50:30 - The first Trinket cannonball 2:57:58 - Scanlan puts old woman to sleep, then inspires Lillith with a sexy dance 3:06:20 - Percy starts shooting at the Broker, gets HDYWTDT at 3:08:10, “Your soul is forfeit” at 3:08:54 3:12:25 - Keyleth in shock at Percy, skips her action 3:21:05 - Tiberius chainsaws the old woman 3:23:15 - Scanlan can’t just shit on command 3:24:45 - Lillith questions reanimated Broker and sends him back to her family 3:31:00 - More Lillith backstory with her sisters 3:33:20 - Little Vax and Vex moment, Scanlan licks Tiberius 3:33:42 - Game ends Bonus 3:36:20 - Liam thinks his character will die first

[@diamondjoe4697]

Bump

[@YelloDuzzit]

Too late to up this, huh?

[@PattPlays]

first off bless you for being in the club of people with _the list_ and second off THAT LAST FUCKING TIMESTAMP AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@kohakuaiko]

Bump

[@kohakuaiko]

Bump

[@LannasMissingLink]

I love that scanlan tried to save against eagle Keyleth! That's perfect RP!!

[@UrbanJackal]

Reminiscent of Grog and earth elemental Keyleth. "Ahhh!" "Grog it's me, Keyleth!" (In unintelligible rock language.) "AAAHHH!"

[@stevenweller9413]

Sam think a usually comic relief up to this part in the series. That fight he did so many inspiration deserving moves it was insane. Having caught up on campaign 3 before resuming here I wondered when Sam upped his role playing. I may have seen it.

[@cassandragidney7682]

Was anyone else reminded of Pippin in the Lord Of The Rings when they handed that extra large stein to Sam? "It comes in pints!?"

[@DDAwesome13]

That was my first thought

[@UrbanJackal]

@@DDAwesome13 me too!

[@BlizzardWizard99]

Brilliant minds think alike, even two years apart

[@SnowFox-gv2rn]

I like how Vex refused to haggle with the clerics to save her brother. It just shows how she doesn’t even care about the costs to save him

[@thestoopidiot870]

Broker: hey that complete stranger you just met owes me money- Percy: I CHOOSE VIOLENCE.

[@levantdiggerus3473]

I have had, THE WORST POSSIBLE DAY. Politely F*** OFF- five shots

[@outtenmaru]

Can we talk about how Marisha is looking at Matt with so much love when hes role playing with the kids during the break. My heart!

[@rickrack4325]

I was thinking the same thing omg I can't even

[@samuelstensgaard4828]

"I am going to marry that man."

[@PoetaRossa]

I thought exactly the same thing!

[@TwilightxKnight13]

They are almost always so happy and jovial, but it is jarring how quickly the very air seems to get sucked out of the room whenever a PC goes down. They immediately go into serious panic mode and you can tell they are on the verge of sobbing. And then Liam stabs them in the heart with his dying imagery.

[@thedarknightnicht]

Sam is a great player. He only does what his character knows

[@jamesgarlick4573]

And any BS he comes up with is more for comedy than trying to metagame/cheat

[@azarinevil]

Plus he really knows how to RP for keeping the game light with the underlying group tension. The few times you catch him get upset, during Orion's turn of course, he immediately goes right back to Scanlan mode with solid jokes that crack everyone else up.

[@xEvilRaptorx]

Sam really opens up more in the later episodes. It could be about getting more comfortable, maybe its cause of the seating >.>

[@zwordsman]

He is honestly the best one. Sam and Travis are my favs

[@KevlarMrnStr]

8:15 - Sam gets the mug! 13:00 - Game starts (but for real at 14:15) 20:20 - Vax to the Briarwoods trying to talk his way out “Gosh you guys are good looking” 27:20 - Sylas bites Vax 28:45 - Vax says Jenga and jumps out the window (They hear his shout for help and start looking for Vax, Keyleth poops on a servant, fight starts) 40:00 - Vax’s thoughts as he goes unconscious :( 48:38 - Kit Buss joins the game 59:00, 1:00:55 - Laura’s 2 natural 20s to save Vax 1:04:00 - Vex takes 66 points of damage from Delilah’s Finger of Death 1:10:00 - Scanlan heals Vax ♪ 1:11:50 - Scanlan ♪ Hey there Delilah ♪ and suggests she to make out with Silas, but it fails 1:13:10 - Liam “She doesn’t even feel a little bit horny?” and “She has a headache” 1:15:35 - Lillith is revealed to be a tiefling/Not the time to be hitting on her Tiberius 1:16:40 - Percy “SYLAS!!” 1:19:05 - Sylas recognizes Percy, “The pup yet lives” 1:22:00 - Scanlan distracts Sylas ♪ 1:30:15 - Tiberius cursed, feeble mind? 1:38:55 - “SYLAS” part 2 1:49:35 - Briarwoods teleport to carriage, Percy shoots out the wheel, it topples over 1:53:05 - Delilah taunts Percy about visiting his home and family 1:54:55 - Briarwoods disappear for real this time 1:55:38 - Percy shoots off 3 of the carriage driver’s fingers, interrogation, Percy asks about his family and says all of their names (except for Cassandra’s) 1:57:20 - Break starts 2:09:10 - Break ends (Percy knocks driver unconscious, guards try to arrest Lillith and Keyleth gets them to back off) 2:14:20 - Tiberius tries to get help from Allura 2:15:10 - Vex & Keyleth help Vax, who thinks he’s dangerous, while Percy searches carriage 2:16:30 - Vox Machina questions Lillith 2:19:35 - Lillith explains the glowing mark on her chest 2:20:40 - Ailing Vax/Liam headdesk, Uriel arrives right after 2:22:00 - Percy tells Uriel the Briarwoods killed his family 2:22:53 - Lillith frantically tells Uriel what happened - “heaving bosoms” and thinks she’s “getting the vapors” 2:24:10 - Scanlan “(Tibs) seems normal to me”, they go to a temple to get Tibs and Vax healed 2:27:25 - Tiberius healed 2:28:40 - Vax “You didn’t shit yourself so you’re a winner,” Vax gets healed 2:33:03 - They tell the cleric about Pike 2:36:10 - Vax tells them what happened and apologizes 2:37:25 - Keyleth “They said your family is still there,” Percy “They’re liars” 2:39:20 - Percy thanks Vax 2:39:33 - Grog tells Vax he’s glad he didn’t die, then smacks him. “No one kills you but me” at 2:40:15 2:41:25 - The Broker shows up and a fight starts 2:47:30 - Lillith “You tell my sister I hope her face still festers” 2:50:30 - The first Trinket cannonball 2:57:58 - Scanlan puts old woman to sleep, then inspires Lillith with a sexy dance 3:06:20 - Percy starts shooting at the Broker, gets HDYWTDT at 3:08:10, “Your soul is forfeit” at 3:08:54 3:12:25 - Keyleth in shock at Percy, skips her action 3:21:05 - Tiberius chainsaws the old woman 3:23:15 - Scanlan can’t just shit on command 3:24:45 - Lillith questions reanimated Broker and sends him back to her family 3:31:00 - More Lillith backstory with her sisters 3:33:20 - Little Vax and Vex moment, Scanlan licks Tiberius 3:33:42 - Game ends Bonus 3:36:20 - Liam thinks his character will die first

[@LyssaLynette]

Ty you for the time stamps!

[@matteograssadonia7536]

What is love? This kind of comments surely it is!

[@emmab3122]

Boost boost boost!

[@brooklynstott5242]

Boost!! Let’s get this back up towards the top!

[@min181094]

Ohh I was looking for this! Thank you so much

[@wafflethesnek2877]

Vax: " OH, I'M ALIVE!" Me: "OH, and I'm wearing headphones!"

[@jessmarr4042]

read this literally 2 seconds before it happened! thanks for the warning lol

[@silenamoon844]

My ears both and hate Liam for that

[@jaykay2084]

I absolutely love how anti meta sam plays

[@MayhemPenguin]

'Would I know that?' Best question ever xD

[@shadowscall7758]

One issue with doing that is you actually end up metagaming by trying not to metagame. You basically go too far and act like your character doesn’t know things that they actually would.

[@fofolacosa123]

Shadowscall775 he asks the dm if his character knows something that they may not know, abandoning any advantage that it could give him. I think you got the definition of metagaming wrong

[@shadowscall7758]

@@fofolacosa123 No, actually, I didn't. Metagaming is using knowledge outside of your character for good or bad. Yes, asking the DM kind of does eliminate most of the other one. But, I have seen cases where someone assumed they wouldn't know something (they were worried about an enemy with their weaknesses), but then later when we saw their background, they would have known them. The player was so concerned about metagaming that they ended up metagaming.

[@scottshaw8864]

Agree completely. This is partly why Sam is my favorite player. He was literally the only one playing that right or questioning that they all might not know exactly where Vax was at that moment. But Vax is a solid #2 because even though that was a really dumb thing to do, his RP is top notch. That goodbye thought was amazing.

[@magiv4205]

This episode is awesome, but it breaks my heart. The entire second half of this episode I was getting more and more agitated because they kept joking around in the temple and Percy just sat there with a 1000 yard stare and a face of absolute defeat. Ffs, Vox Machina, your friend just confronted the people that murdered his entire family and first they got away and then he shot a helpless boy's fingers off in anger. He is clearly not feeling too great, so GO HUG HIM RIGHT NOW! Also, major props to Taliesin of course, he is as always an absolute delight to watch. He is one of the few that keeps me glued to the screen even when he doesn't say a word for 20 minutes, because he ALWAYS reacts to everything in character. In the temple scene and after, he didn't smile ONCE, not even when Scanlan shamelessly plugged Gilmore and everyone else was laughing. When everyone cheered and lost their shit at his HDYWDT with the Broker, he was the only one who didn't. And that's not because he's not enjoying the scene, but because in that situation, Percy would have absolutely nothing to smile about. That dedication to his character is definitely part of what makes Percy/Taliesin by far my favorite of the bunch.

[@NinjaDeathSlap]

Percy: *descending into an abyss of pure rage* VM: Do you guys hear something? Teifling who they've just met: I must leave! Do not trouble yourself with me! VM: First of all we will absolutely fight to the death for you right now and second of all come to dinner and tell us EVERYTHING.

[@jgamer2228]

Hugs don’t fix trauma

[@dull_demon4717]

hugs dont always help, especially when the person grew up in a non-touchy family like percy did.

[@magonus195]

They do the same shit in Campaign 2, when they go to rescue Caduceus' (Taliesin's) family.

[@marsmars2851]

I`ve been looking for comment like that, cause that`s exactly what I`ve been thinking during this video. He doesn`t try to drag attention, he`s almost hiding behind the table with "my world just broke again" face. Very indicative level of support from VM who are excited about fighting vampires. Hope Persy doesn`d drink himself to death in the next epidode.

[@greggb.]

3:08:51 - I just have to come back here after watching Episode 3 of The Legend of Vox Machina No Mercy Percy is so ICONIC!

[@richardhealy]

You too? Well I guess that makes this a party.

[@natashawylie7555]

SAMEEEE

[@devileanblack]

Yeyep that's why i got here as well -

[@krisares6396]

Oh he so is. I love it so much

[@darklorddysart]

Ditto

[@January_Silence]

If I were Percy after this whole fiasco, I'd be making a Hellboy Special- aka, bullets with glass tips containing holy water, clover leaves, white oak splinters, silver shavings, and garlic ("... The works").

[@Raptor052]

I feel like Taliesan would lean more towards 13mm Mercury Tipped Explosive bullets, or 454 Casull rounds made from a melted down cross.

[@January_Silence]

Raptor052 Both would also be good, though even with the insane supernatural mumbo jumbo he has a pact with in his system, I doubt he'd have the strength to deal with the kickback of the latter. Something as powerful as the Jackal would outright obliterate his arm from the recoil alone, hence why it was made solely for someone of Alucard's strength level.

[@Raptor052]

Major Shirow I know, I was just making the obvious "He was Hellsing's Voice Director, get him the gun from it" reference.

[@Raptor052]

***** Yes they do, and I'm gonna go on record saying that Seras' VA has said that quote,

[@DrHokeyPokey]

But where is the tip on a musket ball?

[@ThoseWhiteWhales]

vax's moment before he went unconcious on the grass brought a lil tear to my eye, not gonna lie.

[@Palladum12]

I think it also brought a tear to Marisha and Laura's too! And you know... Mine >.>

[@Second_UNIT]

I started fucking crying

[@guy31978]

Same here, Liam just broke my heart in that scene

[@psychocomytic9778]

i just felt dread. liam knew full well that it was increadibly likely that he would die then and there and the way he chose to spend possibly his last moments was amazing.

[@catfeldman3614]

3/4 of the reason i cry watching critical role is because of liam o'brian

[@henrycarson3023]

"we had a code word" "yes" "jumanji" "no, Jenga" "oh, yeah, right"

[@wrenwynter9336]

Vex: "We're very strong right now, and full of health" Vax: face plants

[@LawloGaming]

"Hello. What a lovely dinner we-LIGHTNING!" Possibly my favourite moment of the entire series so far. Fucking died laughing.

[@Deathven1482]

I dunno, that was pretty damn good. But the scene where scanlan banishes the duragar General is fucking hilarious!

[@M4rifleguy]

+iAmTheTot I had to re watch that part like 10 times. I laughed so hard it made me cry.

[@CasseyMayhle]

+iAmTheTot kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6PVc5KnYrtrfZIh34m30s

[@cloudstone123]

+iAmTheTot Technically the spell should have been immediately cancelled by the counterspell since both are the same level. There was no need for Matt to roll. Either he forgot it or he had a house rule because counter spell is a rather powerful spell that every mage should have. Although I do think it worked out better this way because it was way funnier.

[@mordiveer5957]

+iAmTheTot I agree! I spewed coffee from my nose i laughed so hard, brilliant moment.

[@Logan_Baron]

49:10 I've got this image of Trinket sitting in a chair at the formal dining chamber. Perhaps wearing a nice tie.

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

Or just Bosco from Avatar! i.pinimg.com/originals/30/d3/08/30d30842e501ee66a796c4c71501a96e.jpg

[@aflyingfynn]

Legit though Vampire Vax would have been the most OP unstoppable rogue ever. Not saying I'm sad he's okay, but imagine how much of an interesting dynamic it would have created for the party!

[@acespades5722]

aflyingfynn seriously tho he that would be awesome

[@toryfox4580]

And it would put a lot of hindrances and stresses into the party, back to having the story restricted by one thing or another, and the 'I forgot it was daylight' incendiary moment

[@the0other]

Also, legit thought in 2020: If his hair turned white he'd probs look like the witcher.

[@alexraynn2050]

There is something to consider, though. Vax is a Rogue. A big part of their job is getting into where they don't belong. His intro specifically mentions him "inviting himself through your door." But vampires literally DO NOT get that option. 😂😂😂

[@PowerHouseProdigy]

He would have likely turned into a vampire spawn, not a full vampire. I don't remember everything about vampire spawn, but I don't think their will is their own.

[@ProBreaker]

Matt: *turns Tiberius into a basic lizard with no speech or magic power* Orion: "You underestimate my power to disrupt"

[@RoninXDarknight]

That annoyed the shit out of me. Matt even gave him a hint a couple of times to let him know that he could still go help his group out and instead he decided to run away...again. Great example of how heroes do not act that one is.

[@the_tactician9858]

@@RoninXDarknight Alongside all of the things that people already have mentioned, he had a serious case of Glass Cannon Syndrome. His AC and HP are not even that bad; in fact, they are among the high side of Vox Machina, but something in him had told him that magic casters are weak in melee, and as such he never gets closer than 10ft to his enemies. At least he was consistent with it, unlike all of the other things he did that disrupted the experience.

[@ragundash]

To be fair, the fact he ran away immediately was funny to me. It's my first time going through this campaign and while Orion is an incredibly disruptive player this episode I thought he behaved fine. Also,he's a combat focussed player too and as a DM I feel it's part of our responsibility to play into what the players enjoy the most, that being said, it was a little shitty to throw the curse at him and not the others who'd attacked that round already.

[@dennysoto1236]

​@@ragundash Would it have been less shitty to target one of the others? If so, why?

[@forresthartman2431]

@@the_tactician9858 I thought it was hilarious that Orion was trying to get Marisha and Sam to meta game and they were turning him down hard. But he just looks annoyed instead of ashamed. Seems like there was a big talk about meta gaming at some point and everybody else is trying to keep him accountable.

[@pyrosianheir]

Oof... Jeez Liam, don't you need to get a permission slip to take us on a Feels trip like that. T_T

[@cyakcn627]

Ikr I wasn't prepared

[@N7AslansHobbit_Ry]

"feels trip" I love it 😂

[@UrbanJackal]

@@N7AslansHobbit_Ry this is my new favorite term now.

[@johnjohnsin3762]

I'm honestly feeling an emotional attachment to these characters. This episode, I laughed, I cried, I pooped on a bed, it was great.

[@Zeppathy]

Was it blue and glowing?

[@johnjohnsin3762]

@@Zeppathy *rolls D20* Now that you mention it, it did have a slight glow to it.

[@VictorianVice]

Try to scry through it

[@Matthias5283]

No Mercy Percy timestamps 1:16:39 -- SILAS!!! ((1:18:46 -- Paupiette)) 1:38:45 -- 2nd Shot 1:55:10 -- Need a hand? 3:06:14 -- Death of a Broker

[@Bee-yg6yk]

you're a saint fam, I needed the NMP stamps

[@SilasSermersheim]

Seeing my name in a comment is weird

[@Darksnakemrniceguy]

need a hand* percy tortures his subject*

[@andrewlinnen7896]

Delilah Briarwood calling out to Percy, saying he's always welcome back home... sounds sooo chilling knowing that that's Grey DeLisle-Griffin (the voice of Azula) doing it in the animated series.

[@megankrempasanka1426]

HOW AM I JUST LEARNING THIS NOW

[@spenceroneil4747]

She is an incredible voice actress.

[@JoULove]

Whaaat *mind blown*

[@Finn-wc8nq]

I gasped so loudly reading this

[@JnEricsonx]

So happy I met her a few years ago! But I know her as Viconia from Baldurs Gate 2, and Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, the Voermann twins!

[@FinalDestroyer95]

And so begins Sams quest to stick every sticker to the bottom of his stein

[@arkell7763]

Posting because I can't find it anywhere else. 9:30 game starts 2:09:10 Break ends

[@DamianoZucco]

Thank you ♡

[@the.EDENBRIDGE]

Thanks pal! 👍

[@squid1712]

Thank you! Here, have a tank

[@bradenc.3512]

@@whiteamericanmale7392 wtf

[@thoronbar]

Commenting to boost

[@w00tistgames]

"Matt's like, damn you and your counterspell, you're ruining my plans" Tidings, tidings of what is to come, far in their future but in their future nonetheless.

[@blackie126]

Fire spells and counterspells go together like peas in a pod

[@CadillacDeVilledElegance]

I got into this show by watching clips before actually watching it, vod or live. Let's just say I saw the 'nine' thing before I saw any other part.. Knowing what happens... your comment makes me sad. :(

[@majorzipf8947]

Oof that hurts

[@Abelhawk]

*For those of you like me back to relive the Briarwood Arc, here are some TIMESTAMPS:* 5:51 - Title sequence 9:28 - Recap 14:11 - Vax and the Briarwoods have a "conversation" 24:37 - Battle! 40:03 - Vax's last thoughts 48:22 - Lilith has entered the battle! 1:54:54 - The enemy has fled! 1:57:49 - First ever fan art break? 2:09:10 - >>═══════BREAK ENDS═══════

[@anonymousfellow8879]

Bump

[@undeadkingftg5549]

thank you friend

[@OrangeRangerVideos]

Comment and a thumbs up, this is pretty buried.

[@michaelj.mccall6530]

Here after watching the Amazon show. But yeah. Thank you for the time stamps!

[@phluphfy69]

Thanks so much!!

[@stupidhead_2812]

What a lovely dinner we had-LIGHTNING!!!!!!

[@youshallnotpass567]

lol scanlan left alone in front of a vampire and a high level necromancer, I guess it was a fair fight then

[@krawr2187]

Pyke would have curb stomped these vampy fools

[@rozgavthunderscale3428]

Shit, she’d have flat out incinerated them on sight 😂😂😂😂

[@Zeppathy]

BY THE LIGHT OF ALUUN!

[@Bloodanna]

I am kind of amazed that Matt didn't say that Vex's first two arrows were guided by Sarenrae (?). Two amazing rolls right after a faithless man prays.... She is definitely on Vax's side IG.

[@MeonLights]

Bloodanna but Vex isn't really a follower of her and describing it as divine intervention would have kinda taken away from Vex' revenge and hope to save her brother. I think it's nice that he described this one coming from within.

[@omnishangout747]

MeonProductions why not both

[@robertellis6853]

@@MeonLights I took it as the prayer to Sarenrae activating the link between the siblings, giving her the warning she needed to put her in overdrive.

[@klaatuNaatu]

Maybe it's left in the viewer's hands in this case.

[@drumkommandr9779]

Five years later, Sam Riegel's enormous drinks become everything from a meme to a message of hope. This is how you *really* change the world, folks. Tell stories and have fun.

[@marias5685]

percy: they’ll find us sam: how? well, they were told where and when to come to greyskull

[@azarinevil]

Damn Liam.. delivering the feels. Almost had Laura in tears with that speech, that is the kind of RP that a DM and a party live for!!!!

[@TallulahGray]

"I don't know that. No. I'm not metagaming... like other people we may know." oooof. 33:22

[@mikebytheway]

They all meta game fairly often though.

[@pauld9730]

@@mikebytheway I disagree with that. Sam and Travis often go out of their way and handicap their actions to make sure they aren't metagaming. Whenever a player does border on metagaming, they will immediately back down if any one brings it up or they will approach it in a silly, joking way where they know they can't do it, but they wish they could. Orion is the only one who actively and consistently tried to metagame.

[@xg1559]

@@mikebytheway they really don't... taliesin i would say does second after orion but it's a distant second

[@sigurdgram]

@@mikebytheway orion's metagaming is so bad that they have consistently had to tell him that he is not present. he keeps trying to be in scenes that he thinks would make tiberius shine even after deciding what he's doing during those scenes.

[@Mch00005]

I was in a D&D group where this person would constantly get attached with EVERYTHING we were about to fight like "oh what if we can TALK to it, what if its freindly" so bad to the point where It became a game of Dungeons & Negotiations instead of fighting. One time we captured a goblin in one of our quests, and this girl decided to name it like a pet and made it her goal to make this goblin good.......🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️.....then when time came where we trying to figure out a way to the goblins boss (who we needed to find and kill). I suggested to a NPC that my DM was playing that maybe we could use our captured goblin as bait to find where the boss was. To set the scene My D&D character was alone discussing this, but when I made that suggestion this other player started freaking out saying we were to not hurt her goblin! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️. I kept saying "well you're characterc is not here to say that, and this seems pretty logical" but no she was allowed to meta game every suggestion I made despite her not being situationslly there in the game. I got so frustrated, so with my character being a Bard I just told the DM I just go out and start playing music since I can't seem to make any suggestions. Most frustrating D&D session ever

[@annaliese6230]

can I just say I love Marisha and Laura and Taliesin being so emotionally invested but I also really love Travis and Sam, somber, but hiding smiles at just how goddamn good Liam is at this game and creating moments you can be so emotionally invested in

[@MinecraftMogul17]

I love how every time people get emotional Travis is trying not to laugh lmao

[@MrRickyRAW]

The first episode I didn’t think I’d like Travis but he is hilarious.

[@Deiwos0]

He's said since that he used to find the emotional moments in these earlier episodes really awkward, he only really came around after his own arc later on.

[@tarnum1111]

@@Deiwos0 FIX HIM!

[@TheFuryHasCome]

Holy shit. This is the best episode yet. And credit to Matt the Magnificent Mercer, he took Percy being a gunslinger fighter and made his worst enemies into vampires. He practically turned him into Van Helsing. What a fucking amazing DM.

[@lir207]

In the original Dracula, Van Helsing was an old man of lore but not any great martial strength. Just a fun fact.

[@asexypotato2280]

@lir207 Buzzkill

[@Darksnakemrniceguy]

van helsing is a hero for coin, but wouldnt do terrible things to undeserving humans... so absolutely nothing like percy.

[@sunsetsynth]

First of all, Vax. Totally hit me with a sucker punch in the feels with that little speech. Liam: How dare you, and also, Vax, /how dare you/. Second, Mercer's old lady run is the funniest thing I've ever seen him do LMAO

[@stormapparition]

33:20 Marisha really calls out orion “..I don’t know that. I’m not metagaming like other people we might know” I think i lived for that moment

[@Javid_74]

I'm glad him and tiberius were cut. Really dampened the entire feel of the show.

[@deleria010]

And she's was serious. I half think her loud tone was to key in Matt.

[@godspeedhero3671]

As annoyed as I have been with Orion, I don't feel like he metagames as much as people claim he does. K'varn fight was a perfect example. What kind of moron goes and fights a dangerous monster on their OWN turf?

[@dannykent6190]

@@godspeedhero3671 literally every other character in the game. I actually tend to agree with you that Orion's game play is judged way too harshly, but as a player myself, his objections to the beholder lair screamed metagaming to me. That is one of the few examples where I think the complaints are entirely justified... but that's just my perspective on it. I'm not in his brain.

[@chrish4439]

@@godspeedhero3671 When they first learn it's a beholder he instantly goes "they're some seriously bad news!" and then later says "No matter what I'm not going in its liar!". He had not done any checks or anything so Tiberius had no way of knowing what a beholder or its abilities were or that it gained bonuses for being in its liar. He used out of game knowledge of a beholder. That shit was all 110% meta gaming.

[@eltharion55]

Nothing can describe how tense the first part of this episode was live. Seemed like Vax could die at any moment. Even now i get chills at parts.

[@user-fj2qt9uv3g]

wow, i just caught up with the meighty nein, and came to this. holy shit Percy is completely different from Caduceus and its amazing! SO much more appreciation for Taliesin just wow.

[@CalaisShore]

That's what i did! I love seeing them play completely different characters.

[@JosePerez-jl9bu]

Though all of them pale in comparison to the The Owlbear!

[@CalaisShore]

@@JosePerez-jl9bu We cant even compare, The Owlbear is a god among all creatures

[@samuelstensgaard4828]

@@CalaisShore Of course, he has the keen Owlsight of a Bear after all

[@ScorchHellfire]

1:25:53 Awww... Vax starting to realize his feelings for Keyleth after thinking about her before passing out. x)

[@isaac8734]

Actually he realized it before: you dont gonna full on swan dive into a pool of lava (after you already almost died in one) just for anyone and he did for her..

[@RoninXDarknight]

@@isaac8734 Yup, it was about when she freaked out against Kema in the underdark that he started to have feelings for her I think.

[@NinjaGidget]

Matt as the Broker: "Sweet Lillith, you've been a very bad girl." Marisha offscreen: "Ooh." Same, girl. Same.

[@annabush430]

Rewatching Purposes 7:25 - BRING IN THE GNOME! 8:15 - A Gift For Sam 14:03 - In The Clutches of The Briarwoods 23:22 - Vax vs The Briarwoods 31:06 - Get Shit On! 40:00 - Vax's Inner Monologue 48:22 - A Special Guest 58:48 - The Wrath of Vex'ahlia 1:09:58 - Scanlan Healing Song 1:11:44 - Scanlan Suggestion Song 1:16:38 - Percy Has Bad News For Silas 1:21:58 - Scanlan Cutting Words 1:28:50 - A Duel of Spells 1:34:25 - Scanlan vs The Briarwoods 1:50:17 - Get Away Carriage 1:55:10 - No Mercy Percy 2:10:20 - Grog's Ideal Torture 2:22:36 - Lilith Gets The Vapors 2:36:09 - Vax Explains His Actions 2:39:33 - Grog Offers Vax A Hand 3:06:15 - Percy SNAPS 3:11:17 - Matt's Old Lady Run

[@GlitchxxxSlapshock]

oh bless you!!!

[@annabush430]

Don't bless me! Bless Phalinx! I copied and pasted so I could find it easier, but he's the one who takes the time to timestamp everything.

[@Malvisk]

2:08:21 back from break

[@AshleyLewis_g]

All hail! blessed Anna! Queen of timestamps!

[@bongibot1104]

Ashley Lewis she even said it's not her's my guy