The Legend of Vox Machina 3x2 BLIND Reaction | Prisoners of Ank'Harel

[@coreozurn4950]

Quote from Percy in the campaign "I'm sorry my issues have guns"

[@theunfamousone2818]

one of the best

[@DavidSmith1234-v3d]

@@theunfamousone2818 hi

[@DavidSmith1234-v3d]

@@coreozurn4950 hi

[@HtimsdrofA7X]

Fun fact: the little boy Grog spoke to to find Ripley was voiced by Travis and Laura's son, Ronin. Also, Laura voiced the little girl he was playing with. They told the story of how difficult it was to get Ronin to record those lines because he wanted to play a dragon instead.

[@seansilence2697]

Just based on what I have seen of Ronin, this tracks lmao little man is gonna be a DM.

[@stephencoppins9467]

Sounded like Ronin has a character sheet for that dragon character too (sorry, can’t remember the name Laura and Travis mentioned it). It will be fun when Ronin is old enough to join the table with that character at the CR table.

[@chand911]

I don't see why that would mean anything. She doesn't know these people.

[@leonielson7138]

@@stephencoppins9467 Now I'm imagining Sam Reigel running a game for his son, Liam's daughter, and Ronin.

[@frenchynoob]

​@@chand911 it's just a fun fact, dude, chill

[@hazarozgen6508]

Percy going through his Oppenheimer arc.

[@bludfyre]

The Hells are a plane of existence in D&D cosmology, like the Fire Plane and the Fey Realm, where devils reside. There is also the Abyss, which is where demons come from. Because devils and demons are different (and hate each other).

[@nyghtmoon]

​@caffeinedelusions No, clarification of aspects of D&D are not spoilers. Demons and Devils are used interchangeably by most people in reality, but they are different in the game. The 9 Hells are not the same as the Abyss. Giving Angela a general framework to ground herself in the world is good. Foreshadowing events, pointing out connections to later parts of the campaign or the other campaigns, explaining backstories, etc are spoilers.

[@wcookiv]

​@@caffeinedelusions Explaining basics of how the world works isn't a spoiler. There are situations and contexts where it could be part of one, but this isn't at all like one of those cases.

[@DrLipkin]

Except that LoVM changes continuity and breaks from DnD norms. A character that is canonically a devil in the streamed games is described as a demon in the cartoon, so presumably the cartoon is not following the same rules as DnD.

[@chipsalom]

Devils are lawful evil beings and hell (the nine hells, very inspired by Dante)is the plane of the afterlife lawful evil beings are sent to. Demons are chaotic evil and are from the plane called the "Abyss", where chaotic evil beings are sent to after death.. Devils and demons are actually at war in something called b the "blood war". Even though devils are evil, they represent order and are at war against the attempt by chaotic evil demons to gain greater influence of chaos which expands The growth of the abyss and the influence of chaos. Devils are all about attemots to entrap corruptible mortals into infernal contracts, selling their souls for promises of power, vanity, etc. that give devils souls of mortals they've corrupted to use as draftees into their army in the blood war vs chaotic demons. Demons are pure chaotic senseless evil and gain the souls of mortals who were pure chaotic senseless evil they use in THEIR army for the blood war. There the lower outer planes of the afterlife (there is also neutral evil, primarily selfish, stkf serving type evil that is more about personal evilness than lawful corruptive evil temptation and senseless chaotic evil of the more purely chaotic, senseless paychotic type that sinoly loves spreading suffering for the enjoyment of seeing suffering, rather than a more ordered, manipulative corruptive lawful evil type. Lawful evil would be like a dictator who uses totalitarian means to enforce order through avarice l, and fascistic type personalities. The use of laws to exercise unrighteous dominion. chaotic evil would be like a swrial killer or purely psychopathic burting of others senselessly without even a pretense of law and order and claims of laws for use to control others. Their opposite would be the higher outer plains of chaotic good, lawful good, and neutral good. In between would be the plane of true neutrality that believes there is a necessary balance that must be maintained, light creates shadow, shadow is dispelled with might, its kinda more just less of a deity type existence, and more of a belief if a balance of nature itself. You might find MrRhexx's lore videos that explain the DnD cosmology of the planes of fire, water, earth and air, the outet planes where souls go in the afterlife based on the deity they aerved or how they lived v their life, the positive and negative mayerial planes, the prime material planes (mortal planes), the plane of the fey wild where elves and other cfey creatures originate from, the shadowfell (the feyeild and shadowfell are kinda parallel morror dimensions of the prime material plane... The shadowed is sorta like the upside down in stranger things a dark mirror dinension of reality, wheras it's counterpart, the feywild or fey realm is a whimsical, mercurial mirror dimension of reality, then the astral sea/astral plane that is sorta the space in between it all that is a realm of dreaming, imagination, where your own thoughts can manifest into something real, you float and move putely through thought or, desire, or wishes, the deep astral,v which is the border of the far planes, where beings from dimensions beyond our understand reside and sometimes invade from... Think like old gods like crhulu, mind flayers, beholders and creatures of pure aberration from anything we can understand. The far realms are kinda Lovecraftian inspired , realms so alien that to peer into them results in madness, populated by creatures of cosmic horror, elder god type creatures, lanacapes our minds cant begin to comprehend, but from where there are often incursions of beings of abberation that seek to dominate more of the universe, who don't operate through magic but rather the power of pure thought so foreign to our understanding it literally is a paychic force. Beings of complete nightmare, pure thought driven by madness etc cone from. It's a truly deeply fascinating take on cosmology. there's also the ethersl plane, the plane of limbo, all with their role they play in existence. My favorite lore of dnd is the lore of the planes (google planescaoe, DnD). It explains the realms of nirvana, elysium, mt Celestia, the abyss, pandemonium, Limbo, the nine hells, the evil , neutral, and good deities, it's quite a fun rabbit hole greatly inspired by mythology, great authors, the Divine Comedy of Dante, explains angelic beings as well as devils and demons, planar beings, the fascinating city called Sigil which is basically the central hub of the entire cosmology of the planes, creatures that ride the dnd equivalent of spaceships called spelljammers that are used to traverse the astral sea, conplete with astral pirate type critters, beings that seek mortals astral projecting to cut their tether back to reality leaving their body essentially catatonic on the prime material because their astral projection has become severed, trapping their awareness from finding it's way back to the mortal body of the astral projection, etc. I know i once again just gave you a HUGE lore dump but with you've seemed to find interesting and entertaining, i think itd be right up your ally, and the way DnD cosmology and pplz talk of different plabes and realms will suddenly make waaaay more sense, including how magic works, etc. Ok, i again really overwhelmed ya I'm sure lol.

[@DocEonChannel]

@@DrLipkin Exactly. They can still use Dis, since that isn't original to D&D (it's from Dante), but they change most other names.

[@majormajormajortom]

Just realized that Percy didn't actually need or use the (fake) vestige to blow up the lab because he was using Diplomacy, his electric hand thing that he made at the end of S1. "I'll need my hands to help you with this".

[@lipsum42]

CR revealed that they hired linguists to make a Marquesian language. I hope they'll publish it.

[@taly_slayer]

23:35 - "In order for you to speak your truth you do not need [alcohol], you just need courage". That is the most fortunate accidental foreshadow Angela ever did. Looking forward to episode 3 reaction!

[@tlaragihai5953]

i almost started to comment on that then realized it`s episode 2 not 3, thus spoilers :DDDD

[@Delphi_star]

Yay. Glad you are doing them all in one go because some comments for ep 1 were spoilers. (Reminder to other commenters that people who haven't seen the campaign don't need you to explain every detail. Fun facts are one thing, but info that is just not revealed yet is over the line.)

[@Kasino80]

Can't emphasize this enough! People really shouldn't spoil.

[@CoL_Drake]

Zerxus Ilerez UIUIUIUIUI thats a nice crossover xD i rly wonder if calamity could be done as a movie as they have a movie first rights deal with amazon

[@Angelderbat]

I would LOVE for Calamity to be made into a movie! That would be so cool!!!

[@nyghtmoon]

Let's not reference things in other campaigns ok?

[@nightingale8178]

Pls mark it as a spoiler. Talking about this is very cool but not if it spoiling things for those who have not watched the campaigns

[@ProperlyGaming]

@nightingale8178 saying a character is from another campaign, but not going into anymore detail isn't a spoiler.

[@CoL_Drake]

@@nyghtmoon its a NAME of a SPINOFF its nothing that will be in a main series anways also i said literally NOTHING not this backstory race class NOTHN ... so chill

[@sybariticcupboardrat3763]

Orthax is able to make deals with people who already want vengeance. Yes, they can influence Ripley (and Percy), but they can't completely control how someone thinks/acts. Not unless they go full possession mode.

[@SCUBAguypnw]

Lot of C3 Easter Eggs next to that Taste of Tal'Dorei goblet.

[@brandonokeeffe1193]

Also the song Dr Dranzel sings/end credit song is a C2 easter egg

[@smashbrandiscootch719]

The entire concept of Percy's character is Taleisin wondering what horrible thing happened that encouraged the first person to create a gun. And then after that, what happened to the person after he saw what he had unleashed upon the world after guns started spreading world-wide. The kind of immeasurable guilt that would weigh on them. And thats Percy.

[@dehro]

kind of like Alfred Nobel inventing dynamite and then instituting the Nobel price out of guilt.

[@noodleboot17]

interesting concept, but since the advent of guns, there has actually been a relatively steady decline in battlefield casualties. ancient battlefields would have tens of thousands of soldiers fighting at the same time. roman armies would typically march with up to 20 thousand troops against similar numbers. as weapons and armour technology advanced, the need for such large armies dropped. a good example would be the man who invented the gatling gun. he was a battlefield surgeon in the american civil war, and as you said, the horrible things he saw led him into creating a weapon that could replace 100 men from the firing line with a single machine gun. it worked. not to mention the sheer shock and awe effect. if you immediately frighten your enemy into retreat with overwhelming firepower, there will be fewer losses on both sides

[@smashbrandiscootch719]

@@noodleboot17 We aren't talking about the battlefield. We're talking suburbia. We're talking columbine. Get off of your right wing high horse. Guns are tools made for killing and are evil by design. Talk to some of the parkland kids about your "reduced battlefield casualties".

[@griechland]

@@noodleboot17 Yeah, machine guns certainly helped make World War 1 a relatively harmless little event.

[@patrickwaldeck6681]

@@noodleboot17 Considering the past century has been the bloodiest in human history I don't quite think that theory holds water anymore.

[@TenebrousFilms]

Demons and devils do not die when you defeat them on the material plane. Demons return to the Abyss, devils to the Hells. The only way to *end* them is to defeat them on their home plane. Their only way to gain a foothold on the material plane is by making deals with the mortals that live there. Percy's vengeance was a call, and a demon of vengeance answered. The original pepperbox was Orthax's last connection to Percy, until Scanlan destroyed it; but there was Ripley, who has her own List of names. The perfect vessel to get back at Percival for breaking the pact.

[@idontknowmyname...]

so percys still doing that ✨thing✨ where he ✨needs therapy✨

[@patrickwaldeck6681]

They made J'mon hot as hell and I'm here for it.

[@seansilence2697]

Honestly, they already were lmao if you go look at their og art on the critical role wiki

[@DavidSmith1234-v3d]

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[@DavidSmith1234-v3d]

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[@DavidSmith1234-v3d]

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[@jordanwright1061]

I love these uploads coming out so quick! Once again, I'm going to shamelessly ask for an EXU Calamity reaction!! I think you would love it!! I know the length can be intimidating especially when consuming a new type of media, but you could watch in parts and you'll be invested pretty quick. It's also so cool to see a story happening improvisationally at the table. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the rest of the reactions, this season is gonna be good!

[@MehrGills]

The length is comparable to avatar the last Airbender by the total length. It really isn't that long, and dnd actual play has a lot more fluff than a TV series (and combat takes forever, but can be sped up)

[@jonathanhibberd9983]

Plus Calamity is going to come into play in the next episode. So watching that before, even without a reaction, would help.

[@jasonmarbach]

There were some maaaaaassive references to other huge critical role stuff in this ep, and I’m SO excited about it 🥰

[@LordDarque]

Darrington!!!!

[@IceMetalPunk]

​@@LordDarque Zerxus!

[@gollumandeowyn]

Ugh god it hurts so much that Vex told Scanlan "no one gives a shit!" Osysa the Sphinx told him the same thing last season.

[@Eaglefellow1]

Yeah, I get the feeling they may lament that but the end of the season.

[@JustZy]

They're building up for THAT scene. My fav Scanlan RP moment of C1 😭

[@DungeonDragon18]

There's some fun references to campaign 3 in Shubad's shop: the Taste of Tal'dorei mug and the birdhouse signed "Pock O'Pea." Also, the end credits song is about a side character from the upcoming Mighty Nein series.

[@billberndtson]

You talking about Ripley makes me recall when my gf asked me who CR's best villain is and my instant blue-screen. So many, Ripley included.

[@DHS60521]

“And then that damn moment with the sunset behind them and then nothing? Nothing!” Patience, young Skywalker.

[@user-jt1js5mr3f]

Yup, she’s gonna SWEAT

[@AAAndrew]

Emperex (gender-neutral Emperor/ess.

[@easterslice]

I do love that detail.

[@Skrimshady]

Woke bullshit

[@PolarBearon]

I find it hilarious that Orthax is basically a gunrunner. He's helped 2 different people make guns now. The guy is an arms dealer xD

[@leonielson7138]

"They say that God made man ... Sam Colt made them equal." - Matthew Quigley ("Quigley Downunder")

[@Angelderbat]

AHHH!!! Two videos in 6 hours?! Do we get all three episodes today?! I’m so excited. This series is how I found your channel, and I’m loving so many of your reaction series now. You are my favorite reactor for tv series, and I am so excited to watch the rest of this series with you!

[@xenosaga8436]

Sam Riegel the voice of Scanlan also voices Phoenix Wright in those games. Objection! is a catchphrase from that series.

[@brilobox2]

Pretty sure the editor knew.

[@elinatural2058]

A little fun fact is that one of the kids that grog got the information about RIpley from, is voiced by Ronin, Travis and Laura's son ! It's his first ever voice role, and what's even more crazy is that when they first announce the kickstarter for S1, they recorded an intro with a song called "your turn to roll". Laura did vocals for it and at the time Ronin was still a baby and they litteraly ended up using a take where she was breastfeeding him at the same time ahah so it's truly crazy that he grew so much time is a weird soup

[@CrownofMischief]

Apparently it took a few tries to get him to actually do his lines because he kept wanting to do dragon noises

[@ShyyGaladriel]

I confess one of my favorite things after seeing the show is seeing my favorite reactors see it. This is so fun.

[@EugGenie]

loving that critical role theme'd FLG intro screen you had made

[@johnniequinn3215]

My guess is The plate would have to be a very good forgery to pass as the real vestige. It would still be powerfully magical even without god slaying power.

[@easterslice]

That's my guess as well. I'm thinking that Percy did create a current that allowed the magical energy between the two items to flow, and then used some kind of trigger (possibly Diplomacy) to detonate Ripley's contraption. If that had been the real Plate of the Dawnmartyr, it might have caused a much larger explosion. If so, he might not have survived the blast. But, knowing Percy, he might have considered that the best outcome -- as long as Ripley died with him.

[@novissstatic]

You should absolutely do a reaction to the Critical Role miniseries Calamity. It's a D&D 4 part series run by Brennan Lee Mulligan and is genuinely up there as some of Critical Role's best content. You'd love it

[@Vipre-]

Ripley was an opportunistic scumbag BEFORE the demon, don't forget she's the one who tortured Percy and his sister for information. No, she'd be just the same Orthax or no.

[@nosliwec]

Considering Ripley was voluntarily helping Umbrasyl in Season 2 and voluntarily helped the Briarwoods pre-Season 1, I don't think Orthax is corrupting her but rather feeding into her innate personality. Also, notice how she was able to coax Orthax into doing things her way, but in season 1 Percy wasn't able to. Orthax-Ripley have a cohesive relationship where he knows he is getting fed and is willing to let Ripley get what she needs even if he isn't getting his wants immediately.

[@brilobox2]

Ripley is manipulative in the extreme, if anything she’s controlling Orthax. She had no reason to make a pact with it beyond gaining more power.

[@seansilence2697]

I only just noticed that J'mon is as tall as Grog

[@wildbronco038]

I thought Scanlan was drinking because he kept needing to dive into pubs to avoid the guards moreso than "drinking so he could talk to Kayleigh."

[@thetankgarage]

Dranzel's song at the end being about the Ruby of the Sea is a big easter egg. Zerxus Ilerez is impossible to say anything about, just that it was not who had the Plate of the Dawnmartyr in the campaign. I think we're just going to have to accept that they are going to start playing around with the lore. That we can only avoid spoilers so much when they keep putting these big things in our way. Hopefully this is vague enough.

[@KBTibbs]

"Your girl is saving you, Perc." I'm, uh, pretty sure that works for him.

[@peterdaggs5957]

I predict that the Dawn martyr will go to Pike. The way it seems to be used is something that Pike would do. She is the Healer and the Shield of the group and that vestiege seems to act like a shield. Just my guess. Luv ya CR!

[@DisneyLover258]

Given Pike's plate armor she conjures and Percy's cloth and leather ensemble...kinda doubt it could be worn by him anyways

[@JustZy]

I mean they showed her wearing it in the intro so...

[@AnxietyRat]

​@@DisneyLover258 if I remember correctly I'm pretty sure that Percy technically COULD wear heavy armor...he just never did in the campaign.

[@OculusObscurum]

"That's equality" reminds me of the old saying "God created men. Samuel Colt made them equal". Same concept, same fundamental misunderstanding.

[@kenle2]

And governments always want to make sure the peasants STAY unequal to their power. "For your own good", of course. No misunderstanding there.

[@MrPingn]

It's not so much guns that are the problem. It's a major advancement in tech that throws chaos into the mix. As well as who gets to pick the winners and losers. Ripley doesn't want to make everyone equal.

[@nickbutler4095]

It looked to me like Scanlan's "pub crawl" was an excuse to check in on Vox Machina while also trying to keep Kayleigh along with him.

[@ZeFraank]

You should watch (either on your own or as a reaction) the Exandria Unlimited: Calamity. It'll give you a taste of Brennen Lee Mulligan, some of the Critical Role lore, and an example of how some of the players behind our friends can act at the table. It is set far in the past compared to the show and any campaign so it doesn't spoil anything for the show and it is comparably short at 4 episodes.

[@Balkoth07]

22:20 if I remember correctly Marisha actually thought about taking a level in Barbarian, because of Keyleth whole rage phase here.

[@zippomage]

imagine keteor raging into a group from above!

[@AnxietyRat]

You are absolutely remembering correctly!

[@TPBurrow]

5:46 What was that? That was Protomolecule:)

[@nobleknight7472]

Doors & corners kid

[@ms-literary6320]

I normally have a rule about not commenting on reactor’s appearances, but the hair is just glorious here. I’m filled with envy.

[@deathm3lon642]

In my dnd game i made a store called simons sorcoreous sundries

[@wildbronco038]

Ripley willingly worked for the Briarwoods and tortured children _before_ meeting Orthax. Something tells me she'd be a manipulative, conniving b-word regardless.

[@mayaenglish5424]

I love Scanlan, and I do care about his problems (and so do the rest of VM) but wow do we not have time for his personal crap right now lol. Dude, pull it together, dragons are attacking, you being a meh father is a later problem. Spoilers for c1----------------------------------------------------------------- I'm sure that won't come back and hurt us later

[@brilobox2]

Yeah gonna be honest, his inadequacy complex and emotional stunting should take a back seat. What good is knowing his daughter doesn’t think he’s a PoS if everyone is dead?

[@wcookiv]

You know, if you got in touch with the Critical Role people you might be able to get screeners for the whole season instead of having to wait like the rest of us. They're really supportive of the reaction community and I know at least one other reactor has them, you should give it a shot!

[@Lngbrdninjamasta]

18:44 I gotta say. I really like the new background set up. Including that leaf pillow? I must aquire one

[@Dunybrook]

This is already playing out differently from the live campaign so what happens could be anybody's guess.

[@TheMcMatey]

OMG two reactions in one day..... what's the over/under that we'll get the three episodes tonight...?

[@merlin5603]

My read is that Ripley is 100% herself. She is a psychopath that considers herself better than other people because of her intelligence. Without Orthax, she would be doing exactly the same thing that she is doing. That's also why she has an obsession with Percy--he's the only one she considers an equal. I think she is using Orthax like she uses everyone. Orthax is less in-control with Ripley than they were with Percy. Percy was easily overcome with feelings of vengence that Orthax could manipulate to influence Percy's actions and ultimately take full control. Ripley doesn't have the same kind of human emotion, so Orthax can't manipulate her in the same way. All said, I LOVE how they are developing her in the animated show. She's such an interesting villain, and an excellent mirror to Percy.

[@Heritage367]

It seems like Ripley has a similar motivation as Amon and the Equalists from S1 of Korra: using technology as a way to take back power from those who abuse it. I don't know how sincere those beliefs are, of course.

[@zippomage]

that look on her face seemed sincere

[@testfire3000]

Loving your content as always!

[@BLynn]

Imposter Syndrome is Percy's biggest enemy.

[@funnylilgalreacts]

💯

[@DudemitnemHut]

i don't know what problem people have with Ripley. She just wants to give the world some Freedom!

[@gomor2]

Does no one wonder that the little girl meeting Grog is a blue Tiefling with a green eyed boy?

[@tlaragihai5953]

19:33 I think the forgery that J'mon has created is also magical and also can work as a power source, it`s just not as powerful as an actual vestige. I am kind of upset that season 1 spoiled Orthax`s name for the viewers, could`ve at least call him "demon". 21:46 "the damn moment with a sunset behind and then nothing?!" - hehehhehehhe!!! Scanlan fell so low, i wonder how he will fix this relationship.

[@chrisidornigie]

10:57 Scanlan didn’t know about his daughter… She doesn’t have any right to bitch about it🤣

[@chipsalom]

Ripley definitely gives off wannabe arms dealer vibes, lol

[@Balkoth07]

Percy did introduce firearms into this world. And we know how well that goes...

[@brilobox2]

You can’t ever put an idea back in the box once its out there. Being afraid of guns does nothing but make you a slave to people who aren’t.

[@Necro616]

My current theory is that they're a metallic dragon, and the small one is probably their offspring. I'm probably wrong though XD

[@brianbortner5962]

Perspective from a Tabletop RPG-er with no specific advance knowledge of this series: when a player's character is shown a vision of the future, it is *always* only 1 potential future, since the DM can only control so much of how things turn out. (Luck and the roll of the dice) There's a reason they say some players are role-playing and some are roll-playing...

[@rhylin26]

Get it buddies. 😅

[@Danne1886]

So hold up did Ripely just invent a magazine fed semi auto in this version? They didn't have anything that good in the campaign as far as I remember.

[@beriliumsphere107]

I cant wait until you do the next one

[@MrPingn]

It's not so much guns that are the problem. It's a major advancement in tech that throws chaos into the mix. That and who gets to decide who gets the new tech? I don't think Ripley actually wants equality. She was just trying to touch on Percy's better side to manipulate him.

[@brianbortner5962]

regarding Scanlan and Kayleigh: I think the best thing he can do to impress her is to develop a serious relationship with Pyke, and put in the work. Time needs to pass and progress needs to be made to prove he has changed,

[@jamesbaird128]

Since you asked twice and so far there hasn't been context about why Keyleth was crying at the grave of her friends I'm going to say SETTING BASED SPOILERS IN THIS REPLY.

[@jamesbaird128]

. . . . . So, elves live a very long time. 700 to 800 years in the setting they played their original game in. Half elves, like Keyleth, inherit some of this and can reach 150+ years of age. Combined with druids that reach the hight of their power have their lifespans multiplied by a factor of ten. Keyleth will outlive her friends by at least a thousand years.

[@juandemarko8348]

Vex loves Percy

[@LordDarque]

yay Zerxus Ilerez!!!!! They really need to animate EXU: Calamity!

[@FreyaofCerberus]

I have to say while completely understandable Keyleth's behaviour is beginning to grate. Refusing to even consider working with the dragon, complaining the whole time during the plan then complaining harder when the plan didn't work. And this might just be a personal gripe of mine but demanding your significant other blindly support you even when you aren't making sense is shitty behaviour. Expecting support from your parnter is normal and reasonable, expecting someone to disregard their own opinions, go against their own best interests just out of blind loyalty is not. Maybe im just projecting but i loved Keyleth in s1&2 and now shes annoying me a lot.

[@brilobox2]

Considering what happens later, she was absolutely right to not trust Raishan at all. And Vax isn’t even her partner, he shirked that role. Vax is being far more annoying than Keyleth.

[@janiekramer2344]

I know you have already reviewed episodes 4-6. But please...to help the episodes make sense...watch Calamity! With tissues and lots of wine. That is where you meet Xerxus.

[@troikas3353]

Eh.. Percy deserves some of it. He's a pretty machiavellian character that had a tendency to easily make cruel or callous choices in the name of pragmatism with little concern for their cost. Taliesin was frequently pretty aghast by the number of characters in the campaign, and people in the fandom, that seemed to like so many of the things Percy said and did.

[@kenle2]

Since we know he gained his perspective on life from watching almost his whole family slaughtered in front of him, being ruthlessly tortured AS A CHILD along with his LITTLE SISTER and then ending up a homeless, starving refugee; people tend to cut him some slack with the "pragmatism" thing. He's also objectively doing a lot of "good" personally for his team and society in general by taking out some truly evil actors in the world. "I reckon every man ever had a statue made of him was one kind of sunvbitch or another." "Mal" Reynolds, Firefly "Jaynestown".

[@Chaosm03]

Shout out to all the C-Poppers out there and the C-Pop industries easter egg.

[@queenannsrevenge100]

To rip off Samuel Colt and coin a phrase, "The gods made men, but Percy de Rolo made them equal." Ripley apparently wants to take that to heart, but like you said, Percy either regrets his invention, or is being particularly Noble and snobbish about it, and figuring that only certain people have the qualities needed to possess such a thing. I'm never quite sure which. It is also particularly telling about Percy and his early years that he was bound to and used Orthax for his inspirations for YEARS, andnever bothered to know his name. 😂

[@kenle2]

First, Percy didn't realize Orthax was "helping" him until it took full possession of his body under Whitestone. He thought it was just his human desire for vengeance pushing him into a very dark inspiration on a new way to kill stuff - hence the Pepperbox. He did know he was building something that could cause an endless cycle of death, but he wanted revenge on his "list" so much, he only cared in his most introspective moments. Now that he's face-to-face with his "Frankenstein's Monster" of gun's proliferation, he feels the guilt more acutely and he tries to stop Ripley from initiating the cycle, even if he knows he can only delay it. Second, Percy does have a sense of noble "responsiblity" AND privilege, since that's the ethos he learned as a boy. But it's less that "privilege" that drives him, than his realization that his original desire for vengence is about to unleash carnage on the world. He doesn't want ANYONE else to use his weapons, even though he knows that's pretty much impossible to prevent. He's caught. He needs his weapons to try and do "good" and help his friends, and he does take guilty "pride" in his inventive skill, but he hates it makes him "accessory" to all the murders to come from his inspiration.

[@ilmari1452]

I feel the "what if the oppressed become the opressors" line was a bit of a misfire. It's a popular cliché, but one perpetuated by ingrained elites who want to scare people out of trying to change things. Far better argument is that more guns means more guns in the hands of authorities, helping them monopolise force even more. And for an argument against revolution, much better to point to the possibility of creating a power vacuum _without_ a new authority: usually a far bloodier prospect than any tyrrany.

[@brilobox2]

Its not that ‘oppressed become the oppressors’, thats a slogan for pearl clutchers. Its that chaos allows the most vicious oppressed the opportunity rise to the top and become the next line of oppressors, essentially just making things worse. You get chaos and usually worse oppressors. And realistically a better means of violence always ends up in the hands of those with the means of production before anyone else.

[@kingofheavymetal]

Sadly it did happened to a lot of good cause that backfired torwards people they actually helped at first.

[@JoeThornhill]

Sorry, I only watch your Doctor Who reactions, so what makes this a blind reaction compared to all the others?

[@XanderWhat]

It’s because it’s her first time watching the show AND she hasn’t seen the Critical Role episodes that it’s based on.

[@JoeThornhill]

@@XanderWhat The Critical Role episodes that this one episode is based on? Or the whole show is based on? Because if it's the latter, my question still stands. She hasn't put 'blind' on any other reaction. I thought she was going to wear a blindfold this whole episode for some reason.

[@stevencavanagh7990]

My question is. WHAT the Hell does Kaylie want? Scanlan didn't even know she existed till about a week ago. so him fucking up is a given, is she wanting him to go from 0 -100 in 0.1 seconds, cut the guy some slack, he's never been in this position before and has no clue how to act, at least he's trying

[@funnylilgalreacts]

She wants to be left alone and HE is pursuing her.

[@stevencavanagh7990]

@@funnylilgalreacts Oh, I get it, I'm just meaning, that she flipped his world on its head, and yes he should respect her and leave her alone, she must realize he's going to have questions.

[@PensandoRPG]

Drunk Scanlan still the MVP

[@brilobox2]

Probably wouldn’t have been necessary if he wasn’t trying to convince his daughter he’s not a PoS by…abandoning his friends and getting drunk trying to say anything remotely meaningful.

[@PensandoRPG]

@@brilobox2, he was actually trying to talk to his daughter and find his friends at the same time. That is the point of this episode; he could not do both. He literally cried about it while talking to Pike. He literally said he was trying to do both things and failed. Still, the comment is a joke because of many things that happened in the campaign that I do not want to spoil here.

[@Vaillle]

This episode seems to handle the gun topic in an odd way. Percy saying the oppressed will become oppressors is bizarre. The argument that guns level the playing field when it comes to force and power is true and that’s why it’s actually so important for people not to be taught to fear them but instead taught responsible gun ownership. Bad people who use their natural strength against others will always exist. Giving the weak feasible defenses keeps bad people from giving in to the temptation to harm them because they know there could be dangerous consequences for their actions. I actually think it’s manipulation that’s been going on for decades to message to the masses that guns should be feared and not used as deterrents, as a means to eventually disarm the populace and pave the way for more authoritarian rule. People need to be more skeptical of politicians with armed guards wanting to remove effective weaponry from the law abiding population they “serve”.

[@LeeCarlson]

Ripley is manipulating Percy but cannot recognize Orthax manipulating her.

[@stephendrap4519]

Don't take the second screen off every time you talk..

[@funnylilgalreacts]

That’s how reactions work my dude

[@CoL_Drake]

how can a metal plate be for a fast running gunner, its a god damn plate armor

[@nyghtmoon]

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[@j_clarkson]

Yeah, he'd want something much lighter, like maybe a cloak or something.

[@brilobox2]

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[@michaelmartin5623]

J'mon Sa Ord is a brass dragon (chaotic good alignment) in human form.

[@majormajormajortom]

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[@ProbieKnox]

You just had to give that spoiler and fuck up not only her experience watching the show but our experience watching her reactions huh? good fucking job you asshole. While you are at it why don't you tell her the entire main plot of C3?

[@Angelderbat]

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[@nyghtmoon]

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[@brilobox2]

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[@j_clarkson]

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