NEW WORLD ORDER 🐲🐉 The Legend of Vox Machina 2x1 "RISE OF THE CHROMA CONCLAVE" | Reaction & Review

[@MeeshDeeReacts]

LFG!! Season 2! 🤪😱 Love the Critter Community! 🥹❤ Catch our full reaction to the Season 1 'Table to Screen' moments on our Patreon. 🫂 Patreon.com/meeshanddee 📸 Instagram.com/meeshanddee

[@christophercorbin9387]

The dragon in the first two episodes was a young adult. These are Ancient. It is a whole different level of death incarnate.

[@tycol322]

Literally like comparing a modern crocodile to a t Rex. You don't want to face either but one is far worse

[@MeeshDeeReacts]

That makes so much sense!

[@Starsaber222]

@@MeeshDeeReacts Brimscythe was the intern of the Chroma Conclave. He got stuck with the boring infiltration work while the rest of them were doing more important work.

[@aceofspade2120]

Facts. The first one was extremely weak compared to these

[@Dark__Thoughts]

I guess they didn't read my dragon lore comment from the first episodes... lol

[@Starsaber222]

Thordak (red/fire) was voiced by the late Lance Reddick. Umbrasyl (black/acid) was voiced by Matt Mercer (Sylas from last season). Vorugal (white/ice) was voiced by Liam O'Brien (Vax). Raishan (green/poison) was voiced by Cree Summer.

[@CoL_Drake]

voicing vorugal i guess you can take everyone who even has other roles as he mostly growls xD

[@AVJHalonen]

@@CoL_Drake Vorugal has some lines! also Mercer is really good but when it comes to monster noises and voices Liam is pretty top notch! Spoilers!!!!! ----> maybe in season 3 we'll see the Vorugal fight and see what Liam can do as a dragon!

[@dreadpiratexx]

Cree Summer is my Goddess

[@pardox28]

Note to editor after Meesh & Dee finish S2: check out the ending scene in C1E39 when Uriel abdicates followed by Vex reading lips & getting tipped off that dragons had been spotted flying to the city. The looks of shock on the faces of the cast was a thing to behold. And then the "19 misses" moment. In C1E39, it's from 3:25:34 to 3:37:10 in that Geek & Sundry video of that episode. Most compilation videos crop out different faces - so just showing the original video to M&D would be advised.

[@Mazygolucky]

Yes this thank you

[@patrickwaldeck6681]

Really shows Uriel's strength of charachter when the reason he dies is he takes literally 2 seconds to help a tripped guard up and doesn't make it inside Allura's shield in time. Then when he sees his family made it he dies with a smile on his face.

[@XOISHTAR]

A note about the eye in season 1 and the green dragon (Raishan) here, she was not asleep in Brimscythe’s horde. The stones in the rock were items similar to a palantier in LotRs… they are communication stones to the rest of the Chroma Conclave (the four dragons in this episode) and Raishan heard and saw Keyleth through her stone. That’s how they knew Brimsythe died, and why they invaded Tal Dorei when they did. In the campaign, this was one of the biggest moments because it felt like a consequence for their actions but not for anything they did wrong. And after everything with the Briarwoods, the group were more serious about setting things right and taking responsibility. And you’re right, that little girl was strangely suspicious… I wonder what is going on there…😉🤣

[@christophercorbin9387]

Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious...

[@Starsaber222]

Her name is Larkin, isn't it?

[@christophercorbin9387]

@@Starsaber222 Yes.

[@zippomage]

@@Starsaber222 who is larkin?

[@theanyktos]

​@@zippomageI'll do you one better: _where_ the hell is Larkin?

[@theanyktos]

A note on Dragons and shapeshifting in D&D: Dragons can't inherently shapeshift, it's not a natural ability of theirs. _But_ dragons _can_ learn to cast basically any kind of magic that other people can learn. So a dragon who's smart and motivated enough can absolutely learn a spell like Polymorph (which, incidentally, is also the spell Scanlan uses to turn into other creatures) to turn into, say, a human or an elf or a gnome or whatever. So not _every_ dragon can shapeshift, but _any_ dragon possibly could.

[@SebastianWeinberg]

5:19 - *“Grog, careful!”* This scene of Grog shattering his "favourite head-chopper" is a representation of another famous moment in CritRole history; I'm sure there must be a "table to screen" video of this one. It is the seminal "19 misses" moment, that drove home to the group just what they were facing here. As I remember it, Travis was executing a multi-attack series, rolled for the first attack, announced a 19, picked up the die to roll the next attack - and then froze when Matt answered: "19 misses." Those two words changed everything. If a 19 didn't get through, then the dragon must have an Armour Class of _at least_ 20. They'd never faced anything like this before. An AC of 20 or above meant that, if they pooled all their talents and magic, they could _maybe_ buff one or two of their group to the point where they had a chance of _occasionally_ landing a hit. In fact, Travis managed to roll _one_ result in the mid-20s as part of his attack series, which managed to slip though, thus establishing an upper limit to the dragons' AC. This moment drove home that the Chroma Conclave was not a "tough to beat" enemy, but a "literally, mathematically _impossible_ to beat" enemy. A "tough to get away from alive, with at least _some_ of your limbs attached" kind of enemy. And all of it came from a fan sending Matt a beautiful set of chromatic dragon minis (which were not very "miniature" at all), and Matt was inspired to not only use them, but use _all_ of them. At once.

[@Vypr-iy7ny]

Those two children that Keyleth sees... those are Sam (Scanlan's) kids that are doing the Voice Over work. Sam joked he killed his kids a lot as they did voices for several others too.

[@sammiebray1661]

One ancient Dragon is a problem enough, four of them at the same time is just devastating. It was crazy to watch Matt describe the destruction of the city he built from the ground up. RIP to Lance Reddick, long live the Cinderking

[@CoL_Drake]

they are level 12, the red dragon has a CR of 24 ... there is no way they could even beat him alone ... not even the white one who is the "weakest" with CR20 they could fight ... they basicly one shot them

[@sammiebray1661]

@@CoL_Drake oh I’m well aware. Wasn’t down playing it at all.

[@caffeinedelusions]

The term ‘apocalyptic’ springs to mind.

[@bludfyre]

​@@CoL_Drake"20... misses"

[@snbwz]

RIP Lance

[@qa1327]

3:35 “this is nuts” is an appropriate description. Felt that way in game too 5:20 I’m sure your editor will provide the campaign vid for the post season reaction. This moment is called 19 misses. 9:44 Meesh does a great job of remembering names 16:16 RIP Lance Reddick They did such a great job of bringing to life the helplessness the players felt in game as Matt destroyed everything with the dragons. Great reaction as usual.

[@hangman4011]

A note regarding dragons: evil dragons are typically very territorial and highly isolationist. So to have a group of ancient dragons working together is terrifying.

[@caffeinedelusions]

Keyleth isn’t shunned. She’s actually in line to be the next head of state for her people. The Ashari tribes are a loose association of settled nomadic tribes and druids that found gates into the four elemental planes, and set up shop around each gate to watch it, and prevent threats from crossing through. When a new leader is called for in one of the four splinter tribes, they’re sent out from their settlement to seek out and earn the favor of the other three Ashari tribes (a journey called an Aramente) before they can return and assume the office of leadership. Keyleth’s from the Air Ashari, so she needs to seek out the Earth, Water, and Fire Ashari (in no particular order) to complete her journey. If she can’t earn the favor of the other three tribes… well, at that point it becomes exile.

[@majormajormajortom]

(yeah, Keyleth is pretty much the Aang, the Air Ashari are Airbenders, and she is on a journey to learn the other bending schools before taking up the mantle of Avatar)

[@pyrrhicstrategos8587]

And we're off and running. Season 2, let's go! Man, hearing Thordak... R.I.P. Lance Reddick (Charon from the 'John Wick' films).

[@Vypr-iy7ny]

NOW... if you go back to the 2nd episode of the 1st season, I believe, when Vox was in the basement of the General. You will see the carpet. It had 5 Dragons on it.. Blue, Black, Red, White, and Green. The Chroma Conclave!

[@SebastianMeusel]

And there is a painting of Tiamat in the background.

[@stephenwilliams5004]

I was glad to hear that Lance Reddick recorded his season 3 lines for Thordak before he passed.

[@theanyktos]

13:48 ah, no, I think there's been a bit of a misunderstanding. Keyleth is on her Aramente. Which is a sort of test/journey that each new candidate for the position of headmaster of one of the 4 Ashari tribes has to undertake. The basic idea is to have that candidate leave their home tribe, go out into the world, learn, grow in power, then visit each of the other tribes, introduce themselves and face a challenge. Only when they've completed all three challenges set by the other headmasters of the other tribes can they go home and become the new headmaster of their tribe. (I think they can also come back if they fail a challenge, but then someone else will be sent out to attempt the Aramente)

[@EvelyntMild]

Uriel's smile when he sees his family is safe. 😭😭😭

[@mayaenglish5424]

13:50 I'm sure somebody already told you by now, but no she hasn't been shunned. She's on a quest that's kind of a big deal for her people to become wise enough to be a leader.

[@guilhermemorius]

Hell yes! Season 2 baby! Stakes only get higher from here, and the backstory is gonna get juicy this season ladies, hope you enjoy as much as we did!

[@MeeshDeeReacts]

Let’s gooo!! 🤩🤩🤩

[@hannahb5968]

So happy you guys are jumping into season 2 :D :D :D I've been getting my girlfriend into watching, so we've been watching along with you guys and now she's hooked XD

[@MeeshDeeReacts]

I love it!! We’re loving this series so much! So fun to watch with y’all 🥰

[@thedarkknight2221]

The Chroma Conclave are made of the following dragons from least to most powerful: Vorugal (Liam O’Brian) the white dragon known as the "Frigid Doom” who flash-freezes victims with his ice breath. Umbrasyl (Matt Mercer) the black dragon, known as the "Hope Devourer", with acidic breath and who can rain acid from his wings. Raishan (Cree Summer) the green dragon who spews poisonous gas. And finally the most powerful of them all, Thordak (Lance Reddick RIP) the fire breathing red dragon, and leader of the Conclave. Also known as the "Cinder King".

[@MeeshDeeReacts]

Thank you for all this info!! 🤩🙏🏼

[@Ayshir]

A side note: if memory serves me right, Matthew Mercer himself (in the cast reaction to this episod airing... or maybe the next one) was asked about the casualties caused in the capital by the Chroma Conclave attack. He replied that he thought that about eighty THOUSANDS fell, that day.

[@TarisSinclair]

GM: "About eighty thousand died that day." Veteran Player: "Oh... :( What were their names?" GM: 😡🤬😡💢💥

[@TheJerbol]

Keyleth isn't shunned by the Ashari, she's on a journey to connect with each of the tribes

[@Vypr-iy7ny]

If you haven't looked it up, the voice of Thordak is the late Lance Reddick. He's been in many shows and was fairly famous. I knew him from Fringe. They have had a lot of fun characters. David Tennant, Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd (Merry and Pippin from Lord of the Rings), Felicia Day, Will Friedle, and many more.

[@donrichards271]

Despite what it looked like, FWIW Emon wasn't totally destroyed. It's the biggest city on the continent with a population of nearly 400,000. In the post-campaign wrapup (or maybe the watch-along) they say that around a quarter (85,000) of it's people were killed so Matt seems to have no problem smashing his creations.

[@HausOfTheBat]

This moment in the campaign was epic when Matt started describing what was going on! Can’t wait for you to react to that video cause their’s faces during the whole event say everything!!

[@firecat4529]

4:54 This guy was there during or before the Briarwood dinner episode in S1 btw.

[@danielmiller2323]

Love that y'all are enjoying the series, it's one of my favorites. Also the speed and commitment you get these vids out with, keep up the good work!

[@MeeshDeeReacts]

Glad you enjoy it! Thanks for watching along 🥰🙏🏼

[@moonlit.luthor]

You are feeding us welll with the Vox Machina reactions 🙏 glad y’all are enjoying yourselves!

[@MeeshDeeReacts]

🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

[@Digivolution3]

"This started off with a bang" literally was the same feeling when this happened in the campaign! Everyone was like wtf matt!? And he said that it was such a weird thing to just destroy everything hes been building up for so long!

[@sspark_101]

Amazed by how the animation has improved since the first season

[@blackbenetavo7715]

17:38 So, the background there is that in DnD, dragons have various tiers of strength (Young/Adult/Ancient). In the CR campaign, iirc, Brimscythe (the one they faced in S1:1-2) was technically a Young Dragon, the weakest version. These others are Ancient Dragons, the strongest version.

[@chand911]

Oh yay. I'm glad you both got to this so quickly!

[@MeeshDeeReacts]

🙂‍↕️😉😉 gotta catch up for S3!

[@thisisgoodfruit1618]

I'm sooo hyped for season 3!! Ya'll are gonna love season 2, Enjoy the show!!🙌🏻✨️

[@MeeshDeeReacts]

LFG!! We’ll be ready to catch S3 with y’all when it comes next month (hopefully)!! We’re hustling our way through it 🙏🏼

[@MehrGills]

Rip to lance reddick. He did such an amazing job with thordak! Spl below And he did thankfully record all s3 lines, so we get one more season of him

[@Starsaber222]

I've heard contradictory reports on that. Fortunately, less than a month until we find out for sure.

[@MehrGills]

@@Starsaber222 sam riegel confirmed it in an interview recently (I'd link it if youtube allowed links in comments). I'd hope he knows

[@brianewing5778]

Love that you two are spitting these reactions out so quickly!!!!

[@SebastianMeusel]

"The fabled Lance Of Dragon Slaying" is a reference to Margaret Weis' and Tracy Hickman's "Dragonlance" Books. In wich those play a pivotal role. Those books pretty much started the Fantasy/Dungeons & Dragons craze in the 80s and showed many that "Fantasy Stories" could be more than just Tolkiens Lord of the Rings.

[@DisneyLover258]

It actually was because of the "handy dandy magic Lance of Dragon Slaying" Gilmore was going to sell Vax in ep 2 for 20k gold. Someone reminded the crew that Gilmore had that when they were making season 2 and they went "oh yeah...we need to get rid of that immediately."

[@tlaragihai5953]

I`m just going to say that you are *amazing* at picking clues and foreshadowing. And as a big fan of Cassandra de Rolo, it`s very nice to see her being appreciated! Percy definitely made no mistake giving a city to her. Writers and animators did so much work, bringing this feeling of ruined home and devastation to a show. I always cry at the scene when refugees come to VM`s keep - and are offered shelter (sadly Vorugal ruined everything). It was a huge moment in the campaign for me and I am very happy that they kept it here. Next episode is very good, one of the best for me.

[@sofiajohansson1438]

So glad that you guys are getting into season 2! While I love season 1 and the Briarwood arc, this is when the campaign took a big turn and it's so epic how they played it out in the show. Watching Matt describe this scene in the campaign was horrifying, especially considering how much work he has done to build this world and this city that was important to the campaign and the party. They did an amazing job portraying it and the dragons powers in the show. Welcome to DnD where dragons are very intelligent and different colors of dragons have different powers. Chromatic dragons (like the Chroma Conclave members) are evil and selfish, they don't work well with others, while metallic dragons are good and are known (at least in Exandria) to help humanoids at times. Examples of powers shown in the show (spoilers for the dragons names): Blue dragon (Brimscythe) - lightning, Red dragon (Thordak) - fire, Green dragon (Raishan) - poison, Black dragon (Umbrasyl) - acid, White dragon (Vorugal) - ice. And as you guys said (and we saw in s1), dragons can also shape shift into humanoids.

[@velinion1]

That was a crazy opening, but this season hasn't yet begun to crazy. This season has _all_ the crazy.

[@DJ_NRT]

Actually glad I got to your chnannel...Been following you guys since you started the Arcane series. which was fun to just see your reactions lol (I had watched it like 15 times before). And glad I got to start Vox Machina...As soon as I saw I knew I had seen it somewhere and just went on a Full day marathon. Damn it is so good...can't wait for Season 3 in Octoberrrr....

[@MeeshDeeReacts]

We love to hear this!! Thank you for following the journey since Arcane 🤩🫶🏼 you are a real one!! Can’t wait to finish S2 and jump into S3 coming up quick 🙏🏼

[@hadoken95]

D&D dragons are a bit different than standard fantasy in that the color of the dragon determines what kind of breath attack it has. You're seeing the chromatic (generally evil) colors this episode of Black (acid), Green (gas) and White (ice) with maybe a Red (fire) in there too. In season one we had a Blue (lightning) one.

[@mikebreaddelancey4755]

The Chroma Conclave is called that because including the Blue one they already killed, they are 5 different colors.

[@hadoken95]

@@mikebreaddelancey4755 Yea the Chromatic are typically evil, vs the Metallic good. At least that's how it was in Dragonlance at any rate.

[@josafafilho1337]

Here we go! Man you guys are moving fast, which is great! Awesome reaction again! So you understand a little bit about dragons in D&D, they are very intelligent and can speak. They can transform themselves into human form (like in the first season). They can usually cast spells and their color determines a few things about them, like if they are good or bad and what kind of element they use for their breath-weapon (like red does fire, blue does lightning, white does ice etc... although sometimes a dragon can do multiple kinds of element)

[@MeeshDeeReacts]

Let’s go!! Can’t wait to get through this season now! 🙏🏼

[@Saberrex1]

To this day, the best reaction I ever saw regarding Thordak's power was "He's a god damn nuke! He's a nuke! He's a nuke!" in progressively higher pitched sentences. The fact that he's on par with multiple kaiju ought to be enough to make anyone's jaw drop.

[@saraislfe14]

SEASON 2 LETS GOOOOOO!!!🔥🔥

[@MeeshDeeReacts]

LFG!!!

[@testfire3000]

This was such a gut punch in the live role play!

[@iamcage187]

Vex's class has a feature that allows her to pick the creature she likes to hunt and it gives her buffs and stuff ch associated. Vex choose dragon so she has a 6th sense that allows her to detect them more easily than others. That's why she gets headaches when you me is near

[@doug3691]

Great reactions, ladies! Season 2 here we go! Matt, as DM, really got into destroying the city in that gaming session, but afterwards also sad because something he'd worked on for so long was destroyed.

[@robling1937]

Matt (Dungeon Master) revealed that he had planned on killing Gilmore during the dragon attack. He expected Vox to just GTFO of the city, but because they took the time to go check on Gilmour, they had the opportunity to save him. These are the kinds of twists that make DnD so much superior to any video game.

[@mayaenglish5424]

Well kind of, he didn't plan to kill Gilmore definitively, it was up to the players (unknowing) choice. The players could have either gone to get the gold and supplies they were told was stashed in a specific location, or to find Gilmore. If they had gone to find the gold first, they would have showed up to the shop to find Gilmore dead. Instead, they found injured Gilmore and no gold, Which I think is a great trade! I'd take Gilmore over a Dragon's horde any day, and Vox Machina would agree with me!

[@ElvisBrown]

It's so sad that Lance Riddick died. His voice is pretty unique and was perfect for Thordak. Ever since i saw him on that tv show Fringe i thought he had a cool voice. So fucking awesome. Sadly we will not have that anymore. RIP.

[@xyr3s]

the fire dragon is voiced by lance reddick, he was in fringe, he's zavala from destiny 2, the concierge in john wick and you should definitely check out toys are me to see him really go nuts lol.

[@JRDickens20]

Percy pointed out that Brimsythe, the dragon from the first couple of episodes, was posing a General Krieg, under his command he took the greatest military on the continent of Tal’dorei and decimated it. By leading it unprepared and un-equipped to fight an adult blue dragon. This was in the works before Vox Machina showed up. In fact it wouldn’t surprise me if Thordak allowed the only adult dragon among a group of ancient’s the position of infiltrator because he suspected that dragon would run up against heroes/mercenaries and he didn’t want to tip his hand that their were ancients involved.

[@ryanschramm8147]

In the campaign they spent a LOT of time coming up with various reasons why this was all their fault (like, the players themselves seemed desperate to make it their fault for dramatic tension) and when one thing got explained away they came up with another way it COULD be their fault. Like, Matt kept having Alura (who was present during this time in the campaign) basically explain over and over that it's not their fault. I like how they summarized it here with Keyleth going "is this our fault for killing Kreig?" and Percy swiftly shutting it down going "no, Brimscythe was already dismantling Emon's army before we showed up, this was always the plan."

[@mayaenglish5424]

@@ryanschramm8147 Lol, to be fair, I don't think it was because of dramatic tension, I think they were super stressed out and it felt wrong to "take the out" that Allura was offering them about not sharing any responsibility. Plus anxiety.

[@carlotacosta9193]

This first episode is so intense by the end of it I feel like I've been holding my breath for 20 minutes lol

[@warriorwitchwillow]

The Chroma Conclave: Brimscythe: blue - lightning Umbrasyl: black - acid Vorugal: white - ice Raishan: green - poison Thordak: red - fire

[@adowens0004]

Ahhh season 2 as well!!! So excited!

[@aichwood1051]

Love the enthusiasm, fun reactions!

[@Angatyr34]

The YourName wallpaper in the background! Yay!

[@Umbradomo]

Vex is basically a ranger. Rangers have a Racial Enemy, which in this case is Dragons. So when they are near, or one is chasing after them, they often get a dangerous sense of likeability. As well as pluses to attack and defense. If I remember my olde D%D basics. And as far as Dragons being mighty, yes, they are. And they get even more powerful the older they get. And they can be very, very olde. >; >

[@jaymoonrise2743]

Yay!! Voxmachina Time ❤

[@aceofspade2120]

Yeah the biggest issue about this is that dragons are extremely territorial and isolationist. They do not work together at all, ever. So the Croma Conclave was shocking because it shouldn't happen at all, ever. Each Ancient dragon could have wrecked the city alone, let alone together. It's like the Avengers jumping a regular guy that was robbing a gas station. It's way overkill

[@Julini89]

you are somewhat correct most dragon have a natural ability to take a humanoid form (sometimes the form the inherit color schemes from the dragonform) but they cant shapeshifting into anything they want there are some that can through the use of magic. Also bonus info these are all ancient the oldest and most powerful version of the standard dragons from the monsters manual(Challenge rating 20,21,22 and 24 a CR above 20 is rare and extremely powerful in comparision Brimscythe was 16 CR).

[@rey4191]

The Briarwoods showed us what evil was. The Chroma Conclave shows us what terror is

[@andrewroberts7788]

absolutely love watching reactions to Vox. Ive be watching Critical Role since campaign 1.

[@edwardfrench9368]

So theres two major branches pf dragons on crotical role/d&d; Mettalic dragons and Chromatoc dragons. The metallic were created good dragon god Bahamut, while the chromatic were created by the evil dragon goddess Tiamet.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

12:27 Truesight I think. :) 13:49 She's not shunned. She has to do her aramenté, but she keeps shoving / ignoring it, causing her to be too ashamed to ever return to her family and face their expectations. 16:16 RIP Lance Reddick... :( Dude was one of the most recognizable actors / voice actors out there. 18:20 Fire, Ice, Acid, Gas.

[@jbearclowater]

Season 2 of this show is a wild ride.

[@Wiwcharizard]

RIP to Lance Reddick the goat, voice of Umbrasyl.

[@RookCM]

would have liked it if the sun tree spoke to Kiki, they had some really fun chats in the game

[@largemarge857]

When they’re discussing how this could be revenge for them killing the blue dragon Brimsythe, Percy points out that Brimscythe had been dismantling Emon’s army from the inside so this means this plan has been in the works for some time. Vox Machina happened to interfere a bit, but the dragons would have carried out this attack regardless. Their goal is to dismantle civilization and let dragons rule. At this point in the campaign the players thought they had beaten all the bad guys but then Matt throws 4 ancient dragons at them lol

[@martingerlach8285]

The dragons are all different types of dragons.! They already killed the Blue/Electric dragon in s1e02. Now we have the rest.! Red/Fire Black/Acid Green/Poision White/Ice All chromatic dragons - Hench their name. The Chroma Conclave..!

[@dannyholy8]

season 2 let's go!!!!

[@dquanissavage6287]

Meesh & Dee Awesome Video Episode Today!!🔥🐐🐐💎

[@AVJHalonen]

I know you girls have had people telling you how D&D works, but 15:48 is a great example of someone casting Banishment but your Charisma Saving Throw succeeded.

[@TehCapsE]

Told you you weren't ready for season two 😁

[@PatheticApathetic]

There were 4 dragons: the red dragon, Thordak (fire), the black dragon, Umbrasyl (acid), the green dragon, Raishan (poison), and the white dragon, Vorugal (ice). Brimscythe, the blue dragon (lightning) from season 1 was a member of the Chroma Conclave, and he was much younger than the rest. Dragons get way more powerful as they age. And, yeah, typically chromatic dragons (red, blue, white, black, and green) are way too greedy and egotistical to cooperate. So the idea that these ones are is troubling

[@brianbutzen6703]

No Scanlan recap song? You should definitely check that out even just on your own.

[@CoL_Drake]

The dragon they fought in episode one was a young adult dragon maybe 100 years old and "level" (challenge rating) "9" same as the players was. These dragons are ancient so they are 1000 years old and with "levels" between 20-24 with the red one being 24. The players after the briarwood arc are around level 12. So while the flight vs the blue dragon was hard, this is impossible. They could not even beat the lowest one alone. These are some of the stronger enemies in DND only gods are worse

[@CoL_Drake]

normaly dragons are not shapeshifters in dnd i think only the metallic ones, but this is critical roles world so i think matt made some of them have the ability

[@brutalchicken]

You two didn't waste any time!

[@michaelshigetani433]

just so you know, D&D dragons are seriously dangerous. You don't solo a dragon in D&D (and live) When they get older, their shapeshifting gets bETTER.

[@Vypr-iy7ny]

Hey Meesh and Dee... Since you've been enjoying the Vox Machina show, would you two be interested in actually playing a DnD? I would love to run you and and some of your friends a One-Shot game if you would be interested. This can be done 100% virtually... so could even be done by some lucky Patreons/fans if you want!

[@myTERAexperience]

NGL. Matt Mercer voicing the dragons in the campaign was great, more terrifying. These voice actors did good but Matt just brought passion. Probably because they're his creations, his babies. I recall finding out Matt was not going to voice all the other roles and was a bit let down. 😅 I understand it though, supporting other voice actors. Especially since role after role is taken by someone like Chris Pratt (Mario, 😂🤦‍♂️). It goes to show that Matt, Sam, Laura, Travis, Marisha, Taliesin, and Liam support their art and aren't all about themselves. Some great voice actors joined the campaigns here and there and livened up the crew a bit. Was like watching the cast react to a new toy. 😂

[@mikebreaddelancey4755]

Liam (Vex) and Sam (Scanlan) are also voice directors. Sam has won 2 Emmys doing animated shows for Disney. They know everyone so they invite their voice actor friends to do the show. For instance, David Tennant (Dr Who, Azrael on Bad Omens, Mr. Purple on Jessica Jones) agreed to be Brimscythe because Sam directed him playing Scrooge McDuck on DuckTales. They became friends so he did the dragon for scale.

[@DannyPotato]

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[@KaraOni13]

Also the big name Screen Actors that are casted are mainly minor npcs and major villains with fewer voicelines and dont live or arent seen past a few episodes, David Tennant (Doctor Who) plays Brimscythe who dies in ep 2, Tony Hale as Fince (TV series Arrested Development & Veep), Dominic Monaghan (Lord of the Rings Merry) plays Archie who dies in ep 9, Rory McCann (Game of Thrones The Hound) played Duke Vedmire who dies in ep 9, but a major Exception would be Delilah Briarwoods’ VA Grey Delisle aka Azula from ATLA. But frequent minor npcs are played by fellow Voice Actors that people who dont keep track of VAs wouldn’t know immediately like Sunil Malhotra as Gilmore, Esme Creedmiles as Cassandra de Rolo, Gina Torres as Keeper Yennen, with the Exception of Allura’s VA Indira Varma who was in Game of Thrones as Ellaria Sand, and other HUGE tv shows and Lady Kima’s VA Stephanie Beatriz from Brooklyn 99, In the Heights, and Encanto.

[@JoshTate-sx7ux]

Rip Lance Reddick

[@KestralWolfe]

Something interesting about the scene where they rescue Gillmore. They almost let him die without knowing. They started picking up magical things to help, but Liam was bound and determined to find him, so he got the rest to stop looting, and find him. He was down to close to dead when they found him and others with him.

[@paulalexandredumasseauvan2357]

oh great! SCARIER, GROSSER dragons ...that can THINK and PLAN! 😖 enjoyed your reaction ladies! 👍☺

[@blueroninstudios]

Emon is in ruins, and the rest of Tal-Doei is next unless our bunch of idiots can help it. Welcome to Season 2 where things get worse before they get better, but they sure do get more humorous and emotional, too! Be ready to laugh .... but also, tissues. This one hits!

[@AVJHalonen]

Keep it up!

[@619Slipk]

We're rushing through these huh? Good thing there's more fresh episodes comming

[@allocat586]

things getting reeeeeaaal

[@cameronvanderpool9633]

YASS

[@PolesitterPictures]

Wonderful job, ladies! 1) This episode is great at replicating the utter confusion, tragedy, and the general "WILL THE PARTY SURVIVE?!?!" feeling of the attack on Emon from the game. 2) RIP Lance Reddick. I'll have some good news to share at the end of the season. 3) DnD Lore (my favorite kind of Lore): So, in DnD, the pattern is that all chromatic dragons (like white, blue, green, red, black) are all evil and all metallic dragons (bronze, silver, gold) are good. It's also in DnD lore that most dragons of any scale color rarely team up with each other. So, that's what the Chroma Conclave should tell you, that they're evil and they're together, which should make people terrified and super confused, which just fuels the fear even more. Wonderful naming by Matt.

[@PolesitterPictures]

Also, you're looking for a group now? Good! Might I throw my hat in the ring do DM a game for you two, plus a few of my friends, if so?

[@erictighe1683]

There was some tiny foreshadowing in Season one, in Brimsythe's basement he had a rug on the floor showing all five colors Red, White, Black, Green & Blue, now you know why. There are soo many hidden details, if you have already watched the original campaigns. That is one thing that make this so great for newbies and existing Critters alike. I've watched campaign three times now, Nearing the end of my third watch through of Campaign Two. While current watching campaign Three, once I finish campaign two again, I start on my first re-watch of campaign three.

[@johnobrien7562]

when we were watching the campaign, we were all wondering how Matt planned to top the Briarwoods arc. he had a couple episodes of low stakes, touching on player's backstories, and even had them visit General Krieg's house to remind the players of the scene with the Orb referenced here and originally depicted in S1E2. and then at Uriel's speech, he pulled this, and it was just as devastating then. at the end of the sessioin, Matt looked up at his shell-shocked players "I just destroyed something that I built. It's a really weird feeling", even though he'd been planning this for a couple years at that point.

[@ryanschramm8147]

And without getting too spoilery, Matt had planned to end the campaign after the Chroma Conclave, but Vex/Laura's maintained interest in a particular plot point throughout the rest of the campaign basically made him go "....you know what, not yet"

[@VegetaLF7]

Welcome to the Chroma Conclave arc. Four *Ancient* dragons uniting to bring down the mortal realm. Their members are Thordak the Cinder King (Red dragon, fire breath), Raishan the Diseased Deceiver (Green dragon, poison breath, the only female of the group), Vorugal the Frigid Doom (White dragon, ice breath) and Umbrasyl the Hope Devourer (Black dragon, acid breath, voiced by Matt Mercer who is the game's DM and voiced Sylas Briarwood in season 1). Along with Brimscythe the Iron Storm (blue dragon, lightning breath, slain in the first two episodes), they form the Chroma Conclave. They are Chromatic dragons (Red, Green, Blue, White, Black, all parts of the chromatic color scale) as opposed to Metallic Dragons (Gold, Silver, Bronze, Steel, Platinum). Chromatics are generally the evil dragons, Metallics are the good or neutral ones. The terrifying part is Chromatics NEVER work together, they're solitary hunters and hate each other as much as they do mortals. So for five of them to form an alliance, it's unheard of. Add to that these four are *Ancients*, i.3. about 800+ years old with Thordak pushing 1,000. In comparison, Brimscythe was a young adult, about 100. Dragons grow stronger the older they get. An adult dragon needs a good sized party of higher level fighters to take. A single Ancient needs *armies*. Four ancients are apocalyptic. Any one of these would be the main villain at the end of any other fantasy story like the Hobbit with Smaug. But these four are working together, something never seen before. In the game's version of these events, Matt was terrifying in his descriptions. He had built up this world for about 3 or 4 years by that point between the private home game and the year of Critical Role itself. In a single session he destroyed Emon, the city they had spent so much time exploring and getting to know. None of the players had ever really faced one of these before, not like this. Dragons, sure, but almost never a single Ancient, much less four. Travis (Grog's player) had the best reaction when he went to attack Raishan. He rolled to attack and got a 19 (rolling a 20-sided die to see if he hit, adding his assorted bonuses from his weapon and gear). A 19 is really good in low to mid tier D&D combat as most things you're fighting against isn't going to be that tough. But here it missed. Grog, swinging with all his might, the heavy hitter of the group, couldn't scratch this dragon. When Matt told him he didn't hit, Travis had this look of utter shock and horror as it dawned on him "oh, we're in way over our heads here". This was not a fight you could win. This was a cataclysm you would be lucky to survive.

[@Just_a-guy]

Small correction. Main 5 of metallic dragon are gold, silver, bronze, copper and brass. Platinum dragon in lore is just one and it is semi god IIRC and the rest are similar to purple dragon. Technically metalic, but not main five. Also they are just good dragon, neutral ones are gem dragons.

[@cloudstone123]

In case no one has explained it to you, in the D&D Lore there are many colors of dragons. Chromatic color dragons are an evil type. Metallic colored dragons are good aligned. Black Dragons breathe Acid, Green dragons breathe poison gas, Red dragons breathe Fire, Blue dragons breathe lightning, White dragons breathe cold.

[@alexie5201]

Ngl I enjoyed this season much more than the first one. I feel like in S2 everyone gets to shine, and the story is richer, whereas S1 was more of Percy's personal vendetta (and if you're not the biggest Percy fan, it gets a little boring till the end).

[@CeltiesSin]

Spoilers: “Wait weren’t there 4(shapeshifting) dragons?” “Yea, and then there was this suspicious child with green eyes” “Yea…. Must be related to the briarwoods” -facepalm- so close, yet so far…

[@JamesSerapio]

Season 2, Episode 1 really throws you into the deep end immediately. It was also every D&D player's payoff. Finally seeing dragons (great wyrms) as immensely powerful and intelligent, capable of magic, all with different breath weapons depending on their breed. Enjoy the ride! 🫰

[@MeeshDeeReacts]

Thanks for watching along!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@MarkJoseph4]

5:23 "19 misses" 😉