The Legend of Vox Machina 2x6 Reaction | Into Rimecleft

[@caffeinedelusions]

The best thing about Scanlan's win is that it wasn't born out of malice or cruelty. He wounded Kamaljiori with EMPATHY. He found the pain Kam already had, highlighted it, and showed that he understood it.

[@Liesmith424]

I love that when Kamaljiori had a choice between saving Scanlan or Mythcarver, he chose Scanlan.

[@NilCaelum]

Not only that but Osyssa told him that no one cared for him so why should she, then in 5 minutes he became so important to Kam that he died to protect scanlan.

[@CliffSedge-nu5fv]

Bros before swo's

[@kenle2]

​@CliffSedge-nu5fv Winner of the internet.

[@gabthegreat01]

“I don’t want anything to happen to Archie,” *SLICE* “I don’t want anything to happen to the sphinx” *CHOMP* You have REALLY gotta stop saying this stuff...

[@myboatforacar]

I don't want anything bad to happen to Umbrasyl There :P

[@d.k.t.3380]

I don't want anything bad to happen to Ripley

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

"Don't hurt Pike!" _SHANK!_ XD

[@funnylilgalreacts]

I love the dragons! I hope they stay safe… ✨universe do your thing✨

[@mayaenglish5424]

10:10 Allura didn't set Thordak free, She sealed him away and she just blames herself for his escape because she's a hero and she "Should have done a better job" blah blah blah, the usual hero guilt complex. She's amazing and powerful and I shall tolerate no Allura slander, not even from Allura!

[@FulcanMal]

I never found that whole guilt complex thing to be particularly heroic. It just tells me you lack the intelligence to properly assign blame. If a bad person does a thing, you aren't a bad person for failing to stop them when you tried. They did the thing...like it isn't a hard concept to grasp.

[@brewdaly1873]

@@FulcanMal having a self guilt issue has absolutely jack shit to with intelligence level. It's an emotional, psychological thing, and fits perfectly into Alura's slightly perfectionist attitude.

[@FulcanMal]

@@brewdaly1873 Which would be fine, if it was a quality possessed by the occasional perfectionist character, and one that's addressed as an actual character flaw. But its practically the default assumption of "heroism", associated with any kind of hero character. The Arrowverse being the worst offender, to the point where the protagonists spend more time brooding over what terrible people they are than they do fighting the actual terrible people. This is not a trait to aspire to, is all I'm saying. Rarely is it ever pointed out to the characters who have this quality that this is a bad trait, nor is the psychology of it (psychology not being divorced from intelligence by the way, as it requires intelligence to objectively view your own psychological faults) ever actually approached as a psychological problem.

[@mayaenglish5424]

@@FulcanMal campaign 1 spoilers about Allura Well in the campaign there's more time to have complicated nuanced emotional takes. In the animation they have to kind of boil it down to the essential tropes because they just don't have time to be subtle very often. Guilt is just Allura's knee jerk reaction due in part because Thordak's edict was directly aimed at her and was purposefully TRYING to make her feel guilty. So the implication was that Emon was chosen directly because Allura lived there. The backstory has a bit more connective tissue to work with in the campaign. Some of her friends/party members died fighting Thordak, so you can add that to the emotional soup of badness. And she also probably feels bad about not having been strong enough to just kill Thordak back then and having to resort to sealing him away. (None of which is her fault, but emotions don't work like that).

[@FulcanMal]

@@mayaenglish5424 Oh for sure. I was mostly just expressing my feelings about the "guilty hero" trope in general.

[@LordNomad28592]

The Mighty Nein takes place 20 years after Vox Machina's story, with totally different characters set in the same world.

[@michaelmartin5623]

If Angela has a soft spot for Scanlan Shorthalt, she’s gonna absolutely love, love, love Jester Lavorre when the MN series comes out!!

[@wildbronco038]

On a different continent too

[@brendanbarry5122]

But who's on the Council of Taldori?

[@Jinxxtr]

Matt: "Annnnd another ones dead...."

[@rdp16rulez]

So was Mighty Nein vs Vox Machina non canon or... ?

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

Mercer is infamous for infuriating cliffhangers. That flavor definitely carried over to this show.

[@queenannsrevenge100]

Sam Reigel never ceases to surprise. That Damned Song! ❤️

[@-nav-398]

I remember on one of the talks some cast members did, one of them (I think Liam) said something like "I'm almost annoyed at how clever/talented you are."

[@devoncelis9613]

Even the Mythcarver incantation got me like "Ooh, Good job, Sam."

[@brewdaly1873]

I recently heard Sam described as a theatre kid who somehow accidentally stumbled into D&D and just went along with it. And I think that's beautiful.

[@jordanpeterson5140]

Y'all that song came out of left field and messed my day up in the best way.

[@ElMonoFuerte]

Somewhere, the other famous character Liam voiced is shouting into the void: "You are not prepared"

[@thecrunchyferrett6985]

You dare enter my domain? Prepare to cry!

[@bfalves780]

You notice on EP.2 , Osysa Tell the twins they are unprepared...

[@nyghtmoon]

Watching this episode... no I was not prepared.. not prepared at all.

[@markpayne8004]

FEEL THE HATRED OF 10,000 YEARS!

[@Luzarioth]

I wonder where the Player of Vax'ILDAN could have said that... sometime i just feel blind to the obvious...

[@acrefray]

One thing I didn't notice until it was pointed out to me: throughout Scanlan's song, as soon as he made an illusion of Osysa, Kamalkiori didn't take his eyes off of her until after she disappeared. It's so sweet!

[@ryanratchford2530]

I am so suprised by how much this episode made me care for Kamaljiori!

[@momqabt]

It was Scanlan (Sam Regal) who did that. He showed vulnerability, that's humane and easy to connect with. I sent the song to a specific someone and now I'll have to buy candles for when I go home from deployment😅and I ain't complaining😏

[@operative2136]

I agree! Those first few moments after the song when the tears being to trickle down his face. Pulled my heart out of my chest. Honestly, I think anyone who's had to maintain a long distance relationship can really relate.

[@nonechuks6683]

It's a quick line in the early episodes of season 1 -- I think episode 2 -- but Allura does mention she fought a red dragon "some time ago" while talking to Uriel.

[@Antenox]

Sam’s songs in Campaign One are LEGENDARY. And they’re almost all improvised on the spot (I think there are a few he pre-planned due to character beats he predicted ahead of time), but yes, Sam has a background in musical theater. He was, in fact, one of the child actors who played Gavroche in the original Broadway run of Les Miserables!

[@billberndtson]

09:21 If it helps, Liam didn't know who Larkin was, either. 😁

[@MehrGills]

Ha!

[@heatth1474]

Hi, I just want to say that I love your format. A lot of reactors just literally post 15 minutes videos of their immediate reactions and that is it, with very little, if any, commentary. The good ones have a more involved discussion at the end which, to be honest, is the main thing that actually interest me, that perspective of a different person watching the show. You don't only do that but you also have a fairly involved discussion before the episode proper, which basically no one else does (usually just quick introduction or whatever). I love it, it is very interesting to listen to.

[@kitttheabsurd]

I feel the same way, I've loved all the commentary and opinion that we are able to get in the beginning and end

[@crimsoneclipse0618]

Yep, it's also why I love reactors like Blind Wave, The Normies, and Srmblance of Sanity. They actually add their own thoughts after watching, so they're not just reacting.

[@highlander31527]

Check out AutoSave or LM Reactions for more like that. LM Reactions will talk about a previous episode for 5-10 minutes, sometimes more, watch the new episode, and holy crap, some of their Better Call Saul reaction discussions were over an hour after their edited for content part. Same with their Attack on Titan episodes. AutoSave has become quite similar in the last year. They have a fifteen minute cut of the reaction, and spend sometimes more than an hour talking.

[@melissanotthewebsbusiness7272]

@CrimsonEclipse18 Thank you! Hoping the latter two have LoVM reactions, too, I'll look them up as well!

[@crimsoneclipse0618]

@@melissanotthewebsbusiness7272 Semblance of Sanity has, Normies don't and I don't think they will since they don't have season 1. Semblance is especially delightly since they have watched campaign 1.

[@codewordbw3340]

Btw, just to let you know, Mighty Nein is about their 2nd dnd campaign (Vox Machina was 1st) with all new characters. Each sequential campaign takes place after the previous ones in the timeline, so Mighty Nein takes place after Vox Machina. And they actually decided that they would make sure to not have their Mighty Nein characters connected to Vox Machina, so it takes place on a completely different continent, i think around 20 years after Vox Machina, and there is very few spoilers about Vox Machina in it

[@MehrGills]

I can think of 2 medium spoilers thru the entire 143 episodes, and no major spoilers. SPOILERS: vilya reveal, and the meeting with Allura (which I guess they do twice, also meeting Kima)

[@codewordbw3340]

@@MehrGills yeah, exactly

[@d.k.t.3380]

@@MehrGills Pumat reading a book...

[@MehrGills]

@@d.k.t.3380 Oh right! Of course

[@bandi138138]

Glad you’re coming around on Vex! Some additional context on Vex and Keyleth for you that’s been revealed in after show talks and conventions: Keyleth, Vex, and Vax are all half-elves, but the way they were raised in their respective childhoods were night and day. Vex and Vax were born from a Elven nobleman’s fling on his travels and were raised by their human mother until they were 10. When their father found out of their existence, he took them from their mother and brought them to Syngorn to provide an elven education. But while they were in Syngorn, the twins were constantly looked down upon because they weren’t “true elves” and were a stain on Syldor’s reputation, and target of his scorn. To make things worse, when they finally left his home and returned to Byroden, they found out that their mother was killed by a dragon attack, starting Vex’s journey of picking dragons as their favored enemies. Keyleth, on the other hand, grew up among the Ashari, born from parents who were both half-elves. The Ashari people aren’t a homogenous race, but a community of different groups of people, united under the ideology and purpose of loving nature and protecting the world from Elemental forces. She was doted on by loving parents, and shielded from a cruel world in a harmonious community. When Keyleth left that and met the party in Stillben, she was an incredibly naive princess (even more so than she is now), and for someone who had to fight against the world their entire lives, she was a sore sight for the twins. In fact, even Vax was exasperated by Keyleth in the early days of the party. She was essentially everything that the twins could have had, but was denied by a heartless father, and a cruel city. But now that they’re forming bonds and becoming a family, Vex is once again learning to open her heart, and she’ll come to love Keyleth like a younger sister that she has to take under her wings. Still naive in her eyes, but Vex comes to cherish that naïveté as optimism and hope she sorely lacked in her life.

[@mayaenglish5424]

Yeah, and Keyleth was more annoying and more of a disaster with her powers in the campaign so Vex's exasperation comes off as less harsh than in the animation. They made Keyleth more adorkable and cute, but kept Vex the same level of annoyed about it, which seems more unfair. (Similar to what's going on with Scanlan actually, he was more of a horndog and had a much sharper tongue in the campaign, so everyone's sharpness and exasperation in return was more equal).

[@yiklongtay6029]

39:23 I actually liked that they frequently get separated. Most conversations can only comfortably fit 3 or 4 members with everyone managing to give significant contributions to the convo. If they want to do character-developing dialogue, we wont get it from a party of 7 with 2 sentence each. Critters are aware of how intense the Fey Realm arc and the back end of the Craven Edge arc is. So these smaller groups are very much appreciated.

[@elykphant1910]

I absolutely love that everyone new to Critical Role loves Keyleth in TLOVM. She was loathed during the stream and Marisha went through A LOT because of people sending that hate to her.

[@timmyMFturner]

i have convinced myself any hate that made its way to Marisha was for being too good at playing a role well, kinda like Lena Headey playing Cersei Lannister. i get people want a party full of chaos and murders but shes the heart that keeps the party level. her and pike

[@bandi138138]

Patrick Rothfuss’s letter and gift was meta in that it was a gift not only to Keyleth, but for Marisha, who had to go through the fires of internet hate culture.

[@Thurrak]

Yea and I'm ashamed to admit that I never really liked her that much early on when I originally watched the campaign, I never expressed that dislike outwardly though, that's just a dick move. But now I see that she was just new to D&D and was trying to find her character as well. She really turned her noobness in D&D into a cool character arc that really ends with her character having the best story over the entirety of the campaign.

[@SupergeekMike]

@@Thurrak That’s not quite it - she had played a few campaigns already, some of them with Matt. But she was new to the friend group. Besides Taliesin, she only knew the rest of them through Matt and the game. But I do believe she has said that those feelings did lead to the creation of Keyleth as someone who has a lot of insecurity and imposter syndrome. (They were all new to 5e, of course, and jumping into the role of an 8th level druid in a brand new system was probably stressful enough without the eyes of the internet being on you.)

[@tycol322]

@@bandi138138 I forgot about Kaer Bear lol wonder if he's gonna make an appearance in the series

[@Mattdovah]

Kiki's face when Percy gives Vex his coat is everything.

[@sybariticcupboardrat3763]

A thing that they didn't really translate to the series is that the primary feature of a bard is that they can give their party members 'inspiration'. That means that they make their allies more likely to succeed in whatever they're doing. Sam has a background in acapella singing, so he started coming up with songs to inspire the other characters with. A lot of time he'd make them up on the spot.

[@beastnino]

Man, I totally didn't expect the song to hit me as hard as it did. Specially because I sympathize with Scanlan with what he said about love. Love your reactions so much, keep up the great work!

[@phoenixdzk]

For a Critter watching the show after the stream, losing Kamaljiori might've been the biggest gut punch in the series so far. I didn't feel much for him back then but I bawled like crazy after this

[@AnxietyRat]

I think it's partially because he doesn't die in the campaign. But he does in the show...he was also significantly more aggressive in the campaign. 🤷‍♀️

[@mattdrahos2662]

Sam has won an Emmy for daytime animated direction, and he did a LOT of songs in C1 as Scanlan. He often does musical bits, fun intro's for Critical Role with the whole cast belting it out, random adverts for whoever is support CR that week. His pre "game" advertisements are LEGEND, and while not all are musical, they are hilarious and completely irreverent. Honestly, I don't know how he gets away with it, in the best possible way.

[@noraaltemeier8364]

Fun fact Sam Reigel the voice of Scanlan was in Le Miserable the broadway traveling show as a kid.

[@VexAndTrinket]

Genuinely you are one of my favourite reactors to Vox Machina. Love the real emotion and the fact you take time to analyse the characters so well ♥️

[@Lngbrdninjamasta]

Duke Venmire from the first season was also a half giant like Grog, just really intelligent

[@Lngbrdninjamasta]

10:18 When Allura was asked in eps 2 of the first season if she has any tips of defeating a dragon. She says she fought one long ago but that was a red dragon

[@bandi138138]

One more note: When Allura said they’re the reason Thordak escaped, she doesn’t mean they’re responsible for freeing Thordak. She means Thordak escaped and attacked Emon to get revenge on Allura and Kima. Thordak was roaming Exandria, wreaking havoc on various cities of Tal’Dorei before Allura’s group decided to take it down, ultimately trapping him in the fire plane, earning his grudge. She’s also mentioned in episode 2 that she fought a red dragon years ago, when Sovereign Uriel asks her about it.

[@tycol322]

There's also more to Thordak than we know so far but... spoilers

[@PrinceIMC]

@@tycol322 can be connected through dots but hasn’t been officially stated yet anyway.

[@mikeym9146]

Sam Reigel breaks into song all the time in Campaign 1. He is too funny, clever, and has a lot of heart. I think my favorite bit of his comes from Exandria Unlimited: Calamity. SO FREAKING GOOD!!

[@jordanpeterson5140]

"And remember the Market of Wonders...."

[@Statue_00]

Craven edge, mechanically in the game, basically lowers the strength score of an enemy you hit, and adds some of that to your own strength score. After your strength score gets high enough, then you do more damage. The drawback is that Craven Edge can force you keep using it, even when you don't want to. If you have good mental resistances, you can resist Craven Edge... but this is Grog we're talking about. It's portrayed very well in the show. And in regards to Kamaljiori's death. They never addressed it in the campaign-Him and Osysa were separated because the Knowing Mistress (God of knowledge) is weakened from an injury she took during the Calamity, so to safeguard what knowledge remains, she had it all scattered and hidden away, until she recovers. This is why Kamaljiori and Osysa were separated. What makes it even sadder, the injury on the Knowing Mistress can never be healed, so the two sphynxes would never have reunited and would have spent the rest of eternity apart, knowing they can never be together.

[@eveninglion137]

Sam absolutely did sing in the campaign, he committed to doing small jingles and parodies basically every time he healed or inspired (giving an extra D4 to) one of his friends. There are compilation videos on youtube!

[@benyblancofrbx]

Little late to the party....but glad to make it... I also get to watch your season 1 reactions... yeah.. I'm so backwards...

[@kitttheabsurd]

Been binge watching all of your VM reactions and I think you're my new favorite reactor. My personal fav is Keyleth and I think Scanlan has one of the best stories in the entire world we've seen so far.

[@caffeinedelusions]

You asked about how Craven Edge works. Its stats are up on the Critrolestats blog, but since KZbin won't let me put up links, I'll boil them down for you Craven Edge is a Legendary greatsword that can only be attuned to by creatures of non-good alignment (Grog is Chaotic Neutral, so he squeaks by). It grants +2 to attack and damage rolls made with it, simply as a baseline and has the following unique traits. *Sentience: Craven Edge is a thinking being with a Chaotic Evil alignment, an Intelligence of 16 (SIGNIFICANTLY higher than Grog's), a wisdom of 12, and a Charisma of 18. It has hearing and Darkvision out to a range of 60 feet, can understand Abyssal (the language of demons), Common, and any language spoken by a person attuned to it, and can communicate telepathically with anyone wielding it (whether they're attuned or not, in the campaign it had a brief exchange with Percy before being handed off to Grog). *Personality: Craven Edge is cold, cruel, and bloodthirsty, and seeks to drive its wielder into battle where it can experience new heights of violence every chance it gets. It wishes to be wielded by the merciless yet pliable, who will feed it on demand. * Dark Aura: when wielded unsheathed, Craven Edge grants an attuned wielder a palpable air of menace that gives them Advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks (they roll twice on the check, and use the higher of the two results). *Devour the Weak: Once attuned, whenever Craven Edge deals damage to a living creature, that creature must make a Constitution save (dc 12). If they succeed, nothing happens and the attack damages normally. If they fail, they lose a point of strength, which is transferred temporarily to Craven Edge's wielder, increasing the wielder's strength by 1 up to a maximum of 25 until they take a Short Rest. Creatures brought to 0 strength by this die outright, lacking the life force to keep their body running. (In the campaign, Grog was voluntarily avoiding rests to keep his strength from resetting, up to the point of taking points of Exhaustion from failing to sleep and relying entirely on magical healing for hitpoint recovery. This would arguably be an optimal strategy if it weren't for the NEXT trait on Craven Edge's sheet.) *Gluttonous Evolution: If Craven Edge devours enough strength to bring its attuned wielder's strength to 25, it changes its shape, becoming larger, jagged, and serrated, and it begins emitting a shadowy aura until its wielder resets their strength to baseline by taking a Short Rest. While in this enhanced form, Craven Edge deals an additional 2d6 Necrotic damage with each successful attack. When the attuned wielder finally takes a Short Rest after Craven Edge has reached this state, they must make a Constitution save (dc 16). If they fail, their soul is devoured by the now-empty weapon, killing them instantly. (I believe Silas was able to make use of this effect fairly casually by simply saving one of his Legendary Resistances for the end of each combat, which allowed him to simply CHOOSE TO SUCCEED on that Constitution save even if he failed the roll.)

[@edwinvanooijen7749]

If they are doing what I think they are doing with the next 3 episodes, we are going to get a epic mic drop by Percy. Which I cannot wait to see and see your reaction towards.

[@JackOfBlackPhoenix]

If I remember well they did cast voice actors for a certain elven family so I think it's safe to say THAT Percy/Vex moment is coming. Though I don't think we'll be seeing the hat and threshold crest shenanigans on the show, which is a bit of a shame :/

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

we've been set on that path since Vax got the armor. the mic drop is simply a pass-through station.

[@JirkaKunst]

My hopes are set low. I just wish to hear Percy's most remembered scientific quote and I wish to see Percy flirt with grass again.

[@adiboobruh6453]

The reaction to pike - is everyone's reaction to pike. She's so lovable dude it is HEARTBREAKING/GUTWRENCHING seeing our little cleric in pain 😭

[@ryanratchford2530]

Yeah Goliaths shouldn't have hair but i guess they changed that for the show because it's easier to distinguish different characters from each other if they have more ways to personalise & style their look

[@SCUBAguypnw]

I am wondering if the ones with hair are not full goliaths like Grog.

[@PrinceIMC]

I think female Goliaths have always had hair, at least on their heads if not elsewhere on their bodies. But yeah the males were supposed to all be hairless.

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

Probably half-half-giants, maybe mated with orc.

[@PrinceIMC]

@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself yeah rewatching it the ones with facial hair looked more like humans and half orcs.

[@AlephSharp]

@@PrinceIMC Trans Xanroar! Trans Xanroar!

[@Fairburne69]

I love your reactions. I watch many a dozen or more including the guys from P'reviewed. But you are my favorite. I love your commentary. Intelligent and insightful. Your reactions are full of emotion and passion. I've personally never met anyone like you before IRL. I definitely look forward to your reactions each day. On a bad day you can make me smile. On a good day your reactions are the icing on a cake. Please keep doing what you do. I see this channel growing immensely.

[@AAAndrew]

It's that mixture of humor, action, beautiful moments, terror, and then the tremendous emotional damage that makes it such a complete package that brings us back for more and more. Such an amazing group of story tellers. There is a very good reason people will sit through hundreds of hours of content. Loving your reactions. Thank you for sharing your authentic self as we all watch this amazing story unfold.

[@AAAndrew]

I found this short clip with minimal spoilers. There's a moment in Campaign three where Marisha's character, Laudna, and Liam's character, Orym, are both dead dead. Ashley's character can only resurrect one of them. While Ashley is painfully trying to decide who to save, Marisha puts on a sweatshirt in the background. Dealing emotional damage in real-time. kzbin.infomb3Mjv3WCF0

[@jasonmkc7797]

I’m with you on Kiki’s struggle with confidence. Love her. In the stream the pace of her struggle with confidence and whatever annoyance some found in it was elongated and enhanced. Also, some seemed to think every big challenge overcome and confidence boost should have “fixed” her insecurities. So, when they weren’t put to rest, some fans struggled with Keyleth. I love what they’re doing with her in LoVM and loved Kiki in stream and love Marisha. And I dig your reactions. Thank you for them.

[@stephenniehaus8635]

You care so much and it warms me watching your feels

[@ryanratchford2530]

yes, Syngorn is the elven city that disappeared at the start of the continent-wide dragon attack.

[@janiekramer2344]

Also-there is something that stream-wise happened in the Fey realm that I’m hoping happens in the show. Really hoping!!!

[@jordanpeterson5140]

Spoilers Is it their little sister? Cuz I hope they meet her.

[@MetronV]

You hit 40k subscribers at the time you posted this, and today while I'm tearing through your VM playlist, late to the party (as always), you're sittin at 102k subscribers. :D

[@cmikedeli2962]

The algorithm worked! I'm so glad one of your reaction videos was recommended to me, I have been watching these as they come out since, thank you! 😊

[@deranged_dragon9471]

Mighty Nein does not contain Allura as one of their members. Mighty nein is a completely separate campaign with new characters set 20 years after Campaign 1

[@Logan_Baron]

Sam as Scanlan does sing at the table game, but it's very short parodies of modern real world songs that fit the moment. Not the original creations he does here, but still very cool and funny. And speaking of emotional damage here in this episode, he also has an ability to inflict damage and even death through insults. And that's also fun to see the things he comes up with on the fly. Don't know if they will ever have that in the animated show.

[@thecrimsonwrath1337]

You have no idea how many times I’ve listened to the song scanlan sung in this episode

[@eoftar3192]

29:24 "You could certainly try" Heh, now you get it 😉

[@Meister_Dwight]

That last scene hit so damn hard... made me double over in pain 😭💔

[@Stefan-xt5sk]

Just as I wanted to go to bed, this popped up. I guess sleep can wait xD

[@blackyellowcat]

love how you see through the jokes with scanlan, he truly is much deeper than that and I can't wait for the show to explore that side of him

[@Ironoclasty]

By the way, that thing that Grog and Pike bust through in the opening credits is a remorhaz (or ice worm), they hunt on the frozen tundra and heat up when they get mad. They can get hot enough to melt steel (but obviously not gnomes or barbarians).

[@iManticore]

You're hitting Scanlan pretty well on the head. You have quite a bit to look forward to :) They've already re-written the sequence of the campaign in pretty significant ways but the original cast of the campaign have said they're enjoying being able to tidy up the timeline and somewhat re-imagine things. There is one thing for Scanlan that I do not see them re-writing though, and I look forward to your reaction of it.

[@shadowecdysis]

I am not ever gonna be emotionally prepared to see the foreshadowing payoff for Scanlan.

[@mikephillips1043]

@@lokithecat7225 can you edit out that 2nd part major spoilers friend not cool if she reads that!!!

[@blackfoxx-wz5nq]

I feel the same as Scanlan. 29 years old & I don’t have anyone either. I have family but I want to experience that what my folks & other couples out there have. To meet Ms Right, whose hopefully waiting for me.

[@Stefan-xt5sk]

I'm so glad that you mentioned the fake-out deaths. Cassandra and Keyleth in season 1, Vex and Pike in season 2. You could even count all the falling rocks to the list which look like they crushed people, although those fake-outs weren't at the ends of episodes (s1e1 when vox machina is buried by a cliff face which Keyleth blocked with roots, or Kima and Allura in s2e1). While the moments are shocking and emotional, they do get weird and frustrating in that frequency. About Scanlan singing: Sam Riegel does often sing in the campaign. He doesn't sing these originals however and instead covers segments of pop songs with adjusted lyrics to fit the situation. The rest of the cast joins in quite often :)

[@troikas3353]

A lot of those moments really happened and are big points from the campaign so I get why they are keeping them in. But I think they may need to start taking more liberties with the story to avoid that repetition. In this one they probably should have made it visually clear Pikes alive but badly hurt. They've established their relationship well enough that just watching Grog injure her is strong enough on its own to be the gut punch you want without needing to add another possible fakeout. People familiar with the game and the source material know there is absolutely no plot armor protecting any character, but people only watching the show may start feeling like there is.

[@hawkname1234]

Vex wasn't a fake out death. It was a real one, with real consequences.

[@crimsoneclipse0618]

I think it's because of the nature of this being adapted from a game, where death isn't as set in stone as a tv series first work.

[@UrydiceO]

@@troikas3353 They kind of did show that Pike wasn't dead... it was subtle, but I thought I could see her moving slightly, and she never went limp but stayed curled up in pain while Grog was holding her.

[@martophrenia]

@@troikas3353 you can clearly see, that Pike is just heavily wounded

[@robinator18ps3]

I love your "FUCK!" with such emotion at the end every single time

[@Logan_Baron]

Larkin is the friends we made along the way.

[@janiekramer2344]

This episode wrecked me more than ep 3-and I knew that one was coming. Sam does do singing in the stream (but couldn’t do the songs from the stream because they were Weird-Al-esque parodies of popular songs). Mighty Nein is not Allura’s story. I’m just going to say there is a character in thr Mighty Nein that you are going to adore! The Osysa part of the song that Sam sang was sung by Ashley (Pike).

[@pdyepes]

you're in for a ride with Sacanlan's story in the next batch, believe me. FYI he sung as Scanlan while playing, as one of his character's features as a bard was "inspiration" that allowed a boon to other players, he would come with some improvised lyrics for a top 40 song that alluded to the moment during play; it was the best.

[@ticozayas6430]

the Mighty Nein campaign is set in the same world but with new characters in a different part of the world 20 or so years after the events of the Vox Machina story

[@CoL_Drake]

umbrasyl is voiced by matt mercer himself (who also voiced silas) the white dragon Vorugal is liam (vax)

[@exriel]

Short answer is that we don't know if we're going to get more of Alura's backstory. The party's relationship with her was developed in the pre-stream portion of the game, so we never actually got to see much of that development. They've already changed their history somewhat, as in the original stream Alura was the one who set the group on the hunt for the Vestiges, but we'll have to wait to see if there are any more. She's basically the McGonagall of this world (the Maggie Smith version).

[@patrickwaldeck6681]

I appreciate how enthusiastic you are about Gorgons.

[@novissstatic]

If you go back and rewatch the beginning of Season 1 Episode 2 Uriel asks Allura how to deal with dragons as she's dealt with them before. Allura says that "that was a red dragon, but that was years ago." Really clever of them to sneak that in as foreshadowing to Allura's backstory. As for Sam singing in in the Campaign? Oh yeah. Many times. He mostly ripped on tunes from the top 40s from when the campaign was airing. But he did come up with his own lyrics to the melodies all the time, to the applause of the rest of the cast. This episode in particular was a pretty stark departure from what happened in the Campaign! And I am here for it. I love their retelling of this story.

[@codybarnes1531]

GAME VS SHOW DIFFERENCES SEASON TWO 1. They went to Vasselheim to get Kima 2. Kima is with them in the Raven Tomb 3. They fight the beholder first (Zahra gets the kill not Vax) 4. Beholder droped Kima down a hole and Vax went to get her(why he wasnt looking for booby traps) 5.Purvan had the Amulet of Raven Slumber in his tomb that held his animal a pet wolf named Gauldrick(not given by Zahra) 6. Keyleths aramente and the closing of the fire plane at Pyrah are two separate events 7. Vox has been to Vasselheim befor during there Slayers Take arc. People there were helpful both times. 8. Vex loves flying. She had a flying carpet (lost in the slayers take arc) a potion of flying (taken from Ripley) and a flying Broom (stolen from a IRL guest, Chris Hardwick) 9. The Deathwalkers Ward Armor may have originally been for Vex but Matt said it could work for either Vax or Vex 10. More Vestiges were reveald earlier, and they were closer to home. 11. Kamaljiori test was to figure out his name, not to wound him.(Also Scanlan didn't sing that amazing song in game) 12. There is no Dragon on Sphynx fight 13. Kamaljiori is in Tal'dorei near the city of Westruun the city Pike and Grog are from. And other stuff I left out because spoilers

[@ryanratchford2530]

These three episodes are probably the most different from the campaign out of the entire show so far--but in my oppinion some of the best. Especially 2x6! Good to see they can make great adaptation and not just great copies from the stream--we knew that already from the rest of the show but I think 2x5 & 2x6 have been the biggest changes & streamlining & my personal favourites. This is promising for when they adapt the Might Nein as there is a lot I think they will need to trim down

[@tacitakoe5004]

Minor correction - they did go to Vasselheim to seek aid from the temples, and High Bearer Vord offered to send one of their best champions with them as aid, only for the guy to get unceremoniously knocked aside by Kima who declared she would be the one to go instead.

[@Thurrak]

Although it's different, its actually better. Suits TV much better with how they did it here, more streamlined and easier to follow. Also adds a bit more conflict in the show by having Zahra acting as an enemy and gives their friendship more of an arc of redeeming.

[@codybarnes1531]

@@tacitakoe5004 yeah thats correct. I thought I covered that under #7 the people in Vasselhiem were helpful unlike in the show where they were not. It was just alot to type. I have been looking forward to this reaction all day. I really like her perspective, not watching the game and all.

[@JSkinnerish]

Sam Riegal/Scanlan is a musical and comedy genius with a dirty mind and the voice of an angel. That fight between the Sphinx and the dragon was probably one of the best parts of the series for me so far. Great episode.

[@GeenoGab]

This episode was a tearjerker. THis show is going to he up there among all the other masterpieces.

[@DaDunge]

36:00 Sphinxes in DnD standnoutside of time. The male sphinx felt the way he did of the song because he knew he would never meet his mate again. He even wrote on the stone pillars that they should beware of what comes from above. That was the dragon.

[@hyperfox9553]

you titling the first section "Keyleth is a God" is very very interesting for absolutely no reason at all...

[@funnylilgalreacts]

Mostly just making it known how I feel 😬

[@hawkthorn33]

@@funnylilgalreacts "we are basically gods" is an infamous quote from the game. I do not think it will make it into the show.

[@hyperfox9553]

@@funnylilgalreacts honestly, one of my favorite parts of TLOVM is how much love Keyleth is getting from the audiences. It's a whole thing I won't get into but Keyleth (and Marisha) got a ton of hate during the campaign, and she's always been awesome and it's great that people are finally figuring that out lol also I love that you call Grog Groggles. I have a thing where sometimes I feel like peoples' names are too short and I need to add another syllable so I will definitely be stealing Groggles from you :)

[@codybarnes1531]

No shes not(praise Jesus)/Hubris/GOLDFISH! Proverbs 16:18-19...a thousand foot one

[@jasjotparmar4719]

@@hawkthorn33 what makes you say that? it got another season

[@edwindrood2816]

Yeah, that Thank you was rough. Also loved the animation for that song

[@wildbronco038]

Yes, Sam sang during the campaign as Scanlan. He would usually improv Top 40 songs or other famous songs into relevant situations. Obviously for the adaptation, they couldn't do that lol. He actually has a Broadway background, even playing Gavroche in Les Miserables as a kid (there's actually a clip out there on KZbin).

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

Starting the video: "Those people who want Scanlan to change... screw them! Scanlan should never change!" During the video, at every single thing Scanlan says: *EYEROLL HELICOPTER!* 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@jscire__872]

In fact Allura did mention that she has fought a dragon before. In the 2nd ep of season 1 I think there’s a scene where the council asks Allura what she knows about blue dragons when her history and she says ”that was a red dragon years ago”. I also love that they’ve also mentioned the city of Syngorn several times already but only in passing. Even the fact that Syngorn had disappeared after the dragon attack was mentioned in ep 5 of season 2.

[@1ucky02]

Vex's ability to sense the dragon's is actually based on an in-game mechanic that her class, rangers, have. Basically they pick a favored enemy and it makes it easier to track and hunt them as well as for them to recall info on the enemy when a roll is needed. As it has been told before, part of Vex and Vax's backstory is that a dragon killed their mother so Laura chose dragons as her favored enemy for Vex.

[@leonielson7138]

From what I understand, the Herd of Storms (Grog's former tribe) is a combination of goliaths and half-orcs, especially after teaming up with the dragon - they became such a powerful tribe that they absorbed other tribes.

[@crimsoneclipse0618]

I really love that Pike is always the first one to notice when a party member is cursed or has something dark, first with Percy, now with Grog.

[@SciManDjin]

Sam Riegel is a Broadway actor and a cappella singer. There are only a handful of places more treacherous than the Fey realm

[@edwardthegiant]

Much Love to y’all !!!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@pandemoniumeris]

The irony of Kamaljori calling Scanlan wise is the bard's wisdom is his dump stat. I think it was close to Grog's intelligence stat.

[@MsSneekyNinja]

I just remember Grog's hit points were so so low and Kraven Edge just kept influencing him into attacking. It was such a scary fight.

[@mtxtwo3735]

Scanlan got to me with that moment, I can't stop re-watching it because it makes me wish I had someone to live. It wound's my lonely heart.

[@matthewenokson4251]

Was looking forward to your reaction to Scanlans song. Your face lit up!

[@funnylilgalreacts]

I thought they’d have to hurt Kami’s feelings, but Scanlan made him feel love he missed… god I love Scanlan

[@matthewenokson4251]

@@funnylilgalreacts There should be some great scanlan moments to come in the last 3 episodes of this season.

[@ZeFraank]

You hit the nail on the head about what the sphinx's were saying, it wasn't that they were speaking truths they were saying their deepest doubts no matter if there is truth there.

[@AbrielMcPierce]

Damn you Sam, give us a full length version already!

[@wasitum]

29:25 I don't know if you realize, but you actually uttered one of Matt Mercer's infamous catchphrases : "You can certainly try", could not have said it better ^^

[@funnylilgalreacts]

Someone sent me that clip! I left, but I also thought I brought me much closer to Matt Mercer lol

[@Vipre-]

It just dawned on me what the visions meant. It was not only the location of the items but was foreshadowing where they'd all end up. The main four ended up in the Fey Realm which means Grog and the others got transported to the city.

[@ndaemendotchinda]

Seeing your reactions makes me emotional 🥹

[@doug3691]

Congratulations on 40k! Love your reactions, and your commentary -- before and after -- is some of the best around. (Maybe the best.) Hope you're having a great day.

[@neighborlyfiend1484]

Most of the information from the flashbacks have some bits and pieces from the campaign. Like we knew her mom went missing but it was only touched on a few times never role played, so getting those are a nice treat and build the characters along with their flaws even more. I watched every episode of campaign one and two. From day one of campaign one I was a fan. At one point people would send them food while they streamed their game. Pizza orders, donuts candy etc. It feels like I was there and felt every dice fail/success, every death.

[@tacitakoe5004]

Pike did get stabbed by Craven Edge in the campaign, but the details were a bit different. There had been dimensional portals the players had to jump in and out of for Kamaljiori's trial, and when Grog went into one, he got back out by throwing Craven Edge through first while connected to him by a chain. When Grog climbed out of the portal, he found Craven Edge had accidentally stabbed into Pike.

[@mikephillips1043]

I completely forgot about that!! Was it because a roll it hit her I honestly cant remember. It was my first episode I saw live!!

[@MrSmile078]

yeah Reigel does and writes a lot of Scanlan songs not surprising when you realize he has a musical background, he was on broadway as Gavroche when he was very young (i believ you can find the clip on youtube actually)

[@Genbor]

I watched these episodes so many times now, and Scanlan's song just makes me cry every time. It's so beautiful and sad

[@matthewsteinmetz729]

Surely they're going to drop a single on Spotify of Scanlan's Sphinx song so keep an eye out

[@bladehoth]

jeez, I had this same reaction to Scanlan's song. I thought maybe I was fricken broken, then after seeing you have the same reaction.. perhaps I'm not.

[@mayaenglish5424]

Scanlan causes a lot of his own problems which is part of what's so simultaneously relatable and deeply frustrating about him. Sometimes I just want to shake him and say, "I know exactly what you're doing, listen to me" lol.

[@Espinozaize]

2:07 Fun fact. Matt never intended Vex/Laura to have a flying broom, at all. The actor/comedian Chris Hardwick was a guest star on the show in one episode. His character were a Dragon born named Gern Blanston & he had given himself a flying broom. When Vex/Laura saw that...There was no mercy. She got hand of the broom & then pretended to drop it in a pool of lava, so that it was disolved. When in actual fact she put it in her magic Back of Holding. Both she & Chris had to role to see how that whent. Chris an insight check(To test if some one is lying to you) she a Deception chek(To see if you can fool some one else). Laura won by a small amount & thus she got the flying broom in the game & Chris could go home on his feet... After that though. Vex/Laura did not know the command word to make the broom fly. So it is in fact true that she had to go ask Sam/Scanlan if he could find it among the runes on the broom. He could find said rune & point it out to Vex. Yet he could not read it. Since it was in Draconic. However Vex whom hates Dragons beyond all else. She knew the launguage. So in the game Sam hands over a magical stolen broom to Laura & says there is the Word. I don´t know what the hell it means...In a split second Laura has to invent the command word by her self. What she came up with was awful: Hrrutt hraa. It sounds like some one clearing their throut. Immidiately after stating that she said: Damn!! I whish I had thought of something cooler to say. She got that now I guess

[@funnylilgalreacts]

Hardwick! I can totally see that 🤣 Scanlans word is much better 😜

[@stevencavanagh7990]

Garanteed Umbercil never expected that much of a fight from mortals, even after the Spinx died. but now he know how strong they are and will remember.

[@pardox28]

Re: Pike getting impaled by Craven Edge: It did happen in that episode but in a different manner. In the 2nd sphinx scene in the campaign, Ashley wasn't there (shooting for "Blindspot") but her character was & was piloted/controlled by Matt. The test the sphinx had VM do was quite different & involved portals. Grog jumped into a portal to see letters at the entrance but he didn't tether himself to a rope so he was floating in what I think was the Astral Sea. In the campaign Grog has something called the "Chain of Returning" which basically allows him to yank his great ax back to him after throwing it at an enemy. In this episode it was attached to Craven Edge. He threw it through the portal in the hopes it would stick into a wall & he'd be able to pull himself back into the chamber. When he got back to the chamber, Grog saw that instead of it being inbedded into a wall, it was stuck into Pike. Pike was still awake & was grin & bearing it because she knew she was helping Grog get back into the chamber. But the lines were said by Matt, not Ashley.

[@jebus7679]

Yes, Sam does quite a lot of singing when they are playing. Especially as Scanlan when, as a Bard, he has tons of opportunities to do so. Sam is a talented songwriter on his own, but his brother-in-law(?) is also a music producer so if he gets a musical idea he can really just go for it and make it happen.