Raphaniel's final moments / Colin steels himself | The Ravening War | Dimension 20

[@KyleRayner12]

As Brennan put it, nothing shows how well Matt Mercer understood Calorum than that he could think, "It's not a blender! It's NOT A BLENDER!" in pure horror upon the reveal.

[@logicaloverdrive8197]

2:57 Colin screaming was truly the realest reaction to any of the shit that was going down. Most of the guys they were fighting were just straight up not aware of this blender shit, two of his party has been shredded into oblivion, and he found his dad again and proceeded to kill him. This is 7 or so years of being involved with this shit finally coming to a head.

[@cdonovan4471]

Zac is perfect at playing the "straight man" character in all his campaigns. Apart from Squing and maybe skip sometimes, he just always goes for what the "normal human" reaction is and it always is so good especially when the rest of the crew is just ramping the chaos up to an 11. I immediately think of Gorgug just breaking away from the group's insane approach plan at Kipperlilly's food truck event to just grab a shrimp burrito bc he was hungry. And then immediately enacting the salsa sombrero plan.

[@mattmayhem4377]

What about PiB?

[@mrswb]

There is a major difference between knowing and experiencing the horrors of war, and watching a man who had aided you for five years be torn apart by a mass of whirring metal from beyond the world that had been summoned under the ground by an apocalypse cult. Screaming was absolutely called for in that instance. Just seeing a garbage disposal large enough to fit an entire human in it appearing from thin air would get me screaming too.

[@craftinapahantasiaartist]

I really appreciate the added context of why Colin was screaming. I saw another video that included Colin “steeling himself” without the context. This makes so much sense now!

[@vampapaiya]

I like to think it was also because in like the third or second half of the campaign, this will have some spoilers btw, Colin decided to research into something so he just kind of ended up with Raphaniel for a long time. And Raphaniel was already kinda weird but he got worse as he aged so Colin was kind of done with his shit. But then when they reunited with the other members, he tried to make Lou’s character jealous by saying Raphaniel was his best friend. So I think Raphaniel was kind of his best friend in a way so his scream was also cause of like “oh god, I’ll never be able to experience his weird habits ever again” and it’s a sad moment where he realizes he cares for Raphaniel a lot lol

[@barefootcoolboy_3264]

Like Zac said even if you can handle yourself in a fight, imagine someone you've known for years turns into pure mush in the spend of 5 seconds. You would piss you pants and scream like a dying goat.

[@Primenumber19]

They literally train soldiers how to handle this. And on top of that, the general consensus is, thank god it wasn’t me, not oh no!

[@someguyino]

​@@Primenumber19Oh dang. I was unaware the military had "Lovecraftian Psyche Defense Training" in their curriculum. I must've missed that part in their pamphlets. Gueas I can rest assured, now that I know the common soldier has "prepared to face horrors beyond human comprehension" in their portfolio.

[@Primenumber19]

@@someguyino yeah, it’s why when they have to unalive someone they celebrate and don’t have a mental breakdown and start crying.

[@blueturtle3623]

Crown of Candy spoilers below, specifically the cathedral episode. I remember Brennan making a point about how similar Raphaniel's death was to Lapin's. A grand religious revelation with no time left to tell anybody.

[@Lurklen]

I feel like that's how it is for a lot of people.

[@Spiritoftherain]

I hope Zac continues the trend of his characters comically screaming. First Gorgug, then Ricky Matsui, now Colin!

[@beemoney19]

Zac's laser accuracy is unrivaled.

[@aisnota5192]

Man, Colin went full Shinji Ikari in there.

[@callmev3531]

I’m so glad someone else was thinking the exact same thing.

[@callmev3531]

1:14, If this sequence were an anime, it would be one of the sickest yet funniest death scenes out there. 2:56, 2:58, 3:03, You could even include Colin’s Shinji Ikari scream as the cherry on top.

[@trapjohnson]

Mercer so quickly regaining composure throughout that is just *chef's kiss*

[@Crimendorsement]

So is it true that Brennan's first ever PC death was given to him by....Matthew Fucking Mercer? Cause that's pretty dope.

[@randomgeneration7781]

He also got a "How do you want to do this?". The Ravening War had it all.

[@ginsengaddict]

Matt made sure to kill off the two players who just so happen to be the main Dim20 GMs. Quite the show of dominance, really.😁

[@missra4355]

@@ginsengaddictOh shit I didn’t even clock that. I was so far into the characters themselves. Power move lmao

[@Crimendorsement]

*Edit* Finally listened to the Naddpod arc featuring Brennan's "Deadeye" character, which also died. So, not quite true, I s'pose. Spoilers or w/e.

[@Brasswatchman]

I'm sure he lost some before Dimension 20. This may be his first on-camera player death, though.

[@tysondennis1016]

Matt Mercer casually killing the other DMs

[@Higsby100]

Brennan trying not to break is beautiful

[@princesskaguya2000]

Raphs death scene was absolutely incredible.

[@jesterdude420]

nooooooooo! i should have just watched the last episode already D: D:....i just watched your other video where raphaniel came into his tent and was all blalalala ....and im like...nice ...imma chck out the page and BOOM !!!! RAPHANIELS FINAL MOMENTS!!!!!!!!! ....this is gonna be one of those episodes....... :(

[@seila-ft7fi]

nice