Travis' SON Leaves Him Crying With Laughter | Critical Moments EXU Calamity

[@CriticalMomentsu]

Travis just being an amazing dad as always, you could tell he got a real kick out of this! Checkout our Travis EXU Calamity Reaction (SUPERCUT) kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5bJZGuGqcalfKM

[@flamingmonkeyxii]

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[@notatroll4]

It is the ultimate Dad Joke/Dad Mistake that his son says "Talon TO Wingspan" and he immediately starts calling him Talon TWO

[@nursebee-vomit5058]

I didn't even catch that, thank you so much!

[@Betito1171]

Same vibe as dads calling link, Zelda by mistake

[@osflores8672]

​@@nursebee-vomit5058qi

[@joshuaheath2577]

But also fun tidbit, Travis voices a character named Talon in League, so he really is Talon #2

[@akionlizard]

​@@joshuaheath2577TRAVIS VOICES TALON?!?!?!?!?!

[@Snoozems]

I love that the rogue's son is a snitch.

[@aaronjjacques]

Snitches get stitches

[@JMSginoclave]

@@aaronjjacques It's a kid, that's brutal! Try "snitches get the itches" xD

[@ThatoneGuy-zd4rl]

And it makes perfect sense since he is the Sightwarden lol

[@SaydeDoesDnD]

@@aaronjjacques BUT they avoid prosecution

[@cyrussnow6060]

Well his father is an Investigator

[@TheKillaShow]

Thing about Brenan is, when you send him your backstory, hes gonna really really have fun with it in the best way.

[@radiobehemoth9334]

If there was ever someone I'd love to watch DM a game for Matt, it'd be him.

[@Chaosm03]

That was Travis' first mistake. And, Brenan made him pay. 😆.

[@shake3630]

There are 2 oneshots where Brennan DM's for Matt. Pirates of Leviathan and escape from the bloodkeep both are from Dimension 20.

[@nosiree7104]

Escape from the Bloodkeep is amazing and one of the few full campaigns for D20. Well worth the watch

[@ChaosMind10531]

Escape From Bloodkeep is amazing... And absolutely fun!!!

[@QuietlyDyingInside]

I love the fact that Travis's character instead of brushing his son off (because there's a dead body) he still manages to play the part with him. It paints the character to be very normal and shows that he has a life outside of his work and that breaks my heart because despite every cute/sweet moments like this it's going to get worse. It's a ticking time bomb of emotional damage.

[@AnInsaneOstrich]

it also kind of shows that he's level 14 for a reason. He is absolutely unfazed about murdering some creepy bloke for just being there and (mostly) invisible, and more than willing to jump into lighthearted RP with his son before the body's even gone cold.

[@alonosh7184]

EmOtIonAl DamAge!

[@felipeparra551]

Sharon, you--you are not wrong. Travis' character is the one I think is going to be pivotal in a veeeeery emotional way? Brennan is amazing.

[@Ajehy]

@@AnInsaneOstrich I got that feeling, too. He’s so used to this cloak-and-dagger stuff that, even when it’s seriously freaky, he’s able to take it with aplomb.

[@Danheron2]

Honestly I’m surprised this scene has never showed up in any noir that I know about, like a dude leaning over a body all serious then he gets a phone call from his kid 😂

[@IceMetalPunk]

Ten years from now, Travis is sitting in a La-Z-Boy: "And that, Ronin, is how you got your nickname. Now go play, Talon 2, I need a nap."

[@binkbonk1596]

It legit made me cry when he told his son "I love you." It felt like there was so much weight behind it given the impeding events....

[@NWolfsson]

Not gonna lie, Brennan has a talent for dropping the little crumbs of backstory that send other players going "Whaaaaaa-?"

[@ThatoneGuy-zd4rl]

This is so amazing I love that Travis says “my son is loyal” when they called him a snitch of course the Sightwarden would love that

[@johnathangray5934]

Spoiler: Coming back to this to say -- did anyone else notice that when asked where the evidence locker was, his son says that it was under his bed and quickly changed his mind and say it wasn't there and nothing was under his bed and to not worry about it. Well I guess Brennan knew what he was doing because I realized that later when Cerrit is going through his house for the last time -- he saw the replica tomahawks Cerrit used under his son's bed. LITERALLY CRYING MY EYES OUT! Brennan, you absolute genius.

[@jetvulcan2020]

Brenan is so good at creating NPC players for his players. I have never been disappointed

[@avasam06]

Non player character players?

[@jetvulcan2020]

@@avasam06 just a typo

[@avasam06]

@@jetvulcan2020 ah ok. A "rip in piece" moment :P

[@callumroberts6917]

I often think about Kingston brown's parents in my day to day life as if they were real people

[@kalipassion04]

It felt like Travis was talking to Ronin as a older child for the first time and it gave him goosebumps.

[@SmallLab129]

Don't do that. Don't make this feel even more real.

[@nicholashext474]

I love and hate these cute moments; it's wonderful RPG, but every moment of cuteness is going to be a new needle for Brennan to twist into our souls when doom finally falls upon Avalir...

[@Galaxy613]

Yeah - moments like these almost get you to forget what happened at the beginning of the first episode and all the other warning signs...

[@HenriqueErzinger]

Brennan has talked more than once about the relationship between being a great DM and sadism. backstory NPCs are tools meant to hurt the players with.

[@TheJeff91]

jup... Can´t wait for the tears :/

[@foolslayer9416]

Not really, everyone else has shown that they had it coming. I just hope that Cerrit and his family get out of dodge.

[@wallaceavin7490]

Travis is absolutely going to sacrifice the city to save his family

[@alisadavies8943]

When the end is clear, Cerrit won't be fighting to save the world or even the city, he'll be fighting to get to Kir to save him. Its also tragic that this has set up that his family aren't in one place so he can't get to all of them at once.

[@NSBWS]

Damn your right and that decision will be heartbreaking

[@brentage5000]

Oh, Christ, if he only has time to save one and he has to go either home or the lab where his wife is or some unknown third location, I will fucking die

[@GodzEvar66]

oh god i didn't think about that my heart

[@bencebotye3904]

This is that makes me really like Brennan's DMing style. Beyond wacky comedy, always put the character's emotional core to the centre of the story. I love that.

[@Dinodudematt]

Travis switching between birdman David Caruso and uncontrolled laughter is my favourite part of this series.

[@sahugani]

As good as Matt is (one of the greatest worldbuilders in the industry), this is Brennan playing in his own wheelhouse to deliver quite possibly the most adorable (and given the context of ExU:C, tragic) moment in the history of Critical Role though the sudden tone shift to catch audience and player off-guard

[@AFLoneWolf]

You missed the best part: "Your son is officially cooler than mine."

[@caseypayne5138]

my favorite thing here is that Travis follows correct radio protocol by saying "say again" instead of "repeat" 🤣🤣

[@valory13]

Such a good father/son relationship to bad his son won't live long enough to be in his sister's shoes

[@katnetic]

No, don’t say that 😭🔫

[@mac_sour]

as far as we know..... meeting the son in campaign 3?????? 👀

[@TheOffkilter]

@@mac_sour how would they do that exactly? I mean do you know how far back in the past this is?

[@bigsiskrishere]

@@TheOffkilter They might have stasis bubbles like Aeor did

[@sixofone8663]

@@bigsiskrishere yup HB opens up some magic pod thing and out pops this deranged orphan bird kid

[@boywunderkind]

Wasn't expecting Riz Gukgak as an NPC in this campaign, but here we go.

[@JTGwozdz]

Surely this is Biz Glitterdew.

[@techcamisado4058]

@@JTGwozdz biz voice, riz personality

[@robs.1868]

Travis! He’s right! Over means “done with my part of this conversation” and out means “I’m done with this whole conversation.”

[@guybuckridge7326]

No, 'over' means the end of a specific message, giving pause for the other person to respond. It's to avoid cutting each other off with held-switch devices like C.B.s and Walkie-Talkies. When the conversation is done you're supposed to say 'over and out' though it does get shortened sometimes.

[@robs.1868]

@@guybuckridge7326 not in the military which Travis is a big supporter of. Not to mention he comes from a military family.

[@guybuckridge7326]

@@robs.1868 In the military? Where did you get that? It certainly wasn't that way for me, my brother or my dad.

[@robs.1868]

@@guybuckridge7326 I served 2010-2015. That was the way we did it.

[@gavinmcnaughton5560]

Travis knowing proper voice procedure just blew my mind

[@moninunya1705]

Travis’ son is actually so crucial to the story and so impressive travis’ character has no magic and his character has no npcs or pcs that are inherently tied to the story his son forces him to have something substantial that he can have an attachment too

[@NatBash]

now that I'm rewatching this scene i just realized... when shit hits the fan he won't know where in the city his kids are.

[@honeysuckel1351]

It's super cute that travis' fantasy sons primary trait is loyalty

[@virgiljericho664]

I love hearing some of Brennans voices from Fantasy High or The Unsleeping city. This Biz Glitterdew voice was hilarious.

[@wildwikedwanderer1208]

That was funny and adorable….hurts to know that they’ll all prolly die in the end

[@minionofgruumsh]

Not trying to assert definitively one way or another, but so far as I've seen there is some threading that indicates it's *possible* that instead of full-blown Pompei-style everyone dies, what's going to happen is that the entire city of crowns is going to be plane-shifted completely to a different plane of existence. The groundwork has been lain by the second episode, and it's not without precedent. Matt has a pattern of that kind of thing. The Elven city that is anchored in the Feywild, Aeor ending up in the Astral Sea. And it's a good Forgotten Realms homage with how important Netheril (an ancient empire of unprecedented and unrivaled magic) is to that setting's lore and how the Netherese flying enclave of Thultanthar "escaped" their apocalypse event (triggered by a mortal trying to take the place of the goddess of magic, thus destroying The Weave) by shifting to the Shadowplane.

[@foolslayer9416]

It's hundreds of years ago, so it tracks.

[@paolobera]

@@minionofgruumsh In Pompei the mortality was around 10%, the majority of the people left via ship or by foot the week before the big eruption.

[@minionofgruumsh]

@@paolobera Interesting tidbit! I like it! Thanks for pointing it out. :) Though, the comparison still holds in the aspect that I was thinking of it; where bad thing happens, the city is still there, and the people that were still there were got by the bad thing. Not quite the same timeline of events, now that I know, but still same effect. :D

[@paolobera]

@@minionofgruumsh Of course, and i think that the mortality in a city full of mages would be less than 10% even in a Titanic scenario in which the city fell unexpectedly. So of course the culture is gone, but like the ancient romans when the empire fell, people survived anyway.

[@ToeTag1968]

This had my eyes watering with laughter watching it "live". This was an adorable moment. I could just imagine Travis having a moment like this in the future with his own son.

[@hunterfowler8322]

This is the calm before the storm, straight up.

[@Punz18]

Genuinely wonder what Laura was thinking or what her reaction is to this. Travis is such a great dad even in a D&D campaign

[@MasterFlarg89]

Oh boy, I can't wait to listen to Brennan describing Talon 2's corpse to Wingspan in the next episode.

[@thatsimonpeter]

One of the best "yes, and.." moments in the whole show

[@Eggs_hatching]

Brutal setups. He has 2 kids he loves + a wife and none of them are going to be in one place (or even just a place he knows) when shit hits the fan. HORROR MOVIE SETUP right there

[@FoxGamer39618]

Why do I get the feeling that Ronin and Travis would absolutely do this if the parents ever have a daughter?

[@JustVibing4now]

It would just be about Laura hoading dice/ buying dice.

[@FoxGamer39618]

That too for sure.

[@Direwolf181]

​@@JustVibing4now yeah pretty sure Laura is a late stage dice addict XD

[@dualwieldroxas358]

Travis fears the first set of dice Ronin buys, knowing that his wife will fully enable the addiction xD

[@FoxGamer39618]

@@dualwieldroxas358 He’s right to fear the inevitable.

[@Zelmel]

Travis' character in Calamity is the only one from CR to make me full on cry. I hope we hear more stuff from that line in later campaigns.

[@charlesvattimo4674]

I really appreciated this scene. It was a sudden break from the misery and dread of the mystery that the party had been unfolding. Every action film needs scenes of rest, and every tragedy needs a sprinkling of comedy.

[@joegoulet7299]

I wonder how hard Travis will try to save these new characters.

[@Direwolf181]

Spoiler given how Cerrit basically dropped the others like a sack of potatoes to get to them very hard and I hope ge succeeds Because he's literally the ONLY person here who doesn't deserve what they are about to get

[@eroseland]

Missed the chance to say 'Egghead flew the coop'.

[@mistamemewide]

Ah yes, the “Only in DnD” moment.

[@Xiatter]

One of my favorite exchanges so far in Critical Role. Granted I have a lot of favorite exchanges, but this is definitely one of them.

[@taliesinbreen]

The cuteness now is just fuel for the horror later when all these people die horribly, kids included. 😱😰

[@ashishgohil_]

This was the best moment in critical role history

[@Max_McGamer]

Take "with laughter" out lmao

[@bellehatespapayas]

The only thing Matt Mercer has on Brenan is his never ending supply of voices he can pull from. Other than that one thing, story wise Matt has some competition for best dm. Brenan is killing it HARD

[@limeymcfrog1]

Brennan’s not too shabby on the voices either. I actually think they are both in a league of their own - no other DMs I’ve seen have the mix of writing, acting,humor, worldbuilding, and encounter creation. There are plenty of great DMs out there, but those two are tops.

[@patrickmcisaac3142]

We can analyze their differences without putting a "better" tag on either of them

[@Xiatter]

I love them both and kind of really want them to find a way to dual-DM a session.

[@patrickmcisaac3142]

@@Xiatter honestly, exu is the best way for this to happen. Brennan Dming an in cannon version of Matt's world with members of CR and D20? I knew it would be epic and it is totally delivering already. I'm not prepared for what's coming in 10 days

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@patrickmcisaac3142 Indeed. Both are excellent DM's and both have different strengths but no weaknesses.

[@HumanAki]

Brennan is so damn good at creating these Human Moments for his players that allow them to go from super-powered characters to fully-fledged people!

[@Rylee_G]

Thanks for clipping these

[@Folder]

I swear! Cerrits children better make it out of this alive!!!! Dont do this to me Matt/Travis/Brennan!!!

[@emilyackland2911]

3:27 Lou looks so endeared :')

[@sandrapandalesque8903]

cutest is that the dads sam and travis are taking notes of all the codenames :D

[@xazz]

this is like the only part I missed last night so I'm glad its posted here

[@journeymanic9605]

Campaign 4, Brennan DMs, and Matt gets to be at the table full time?

[@kuldana413]

This was one of my absolute favorite moments in EXUC, Brennan's nasally voice is so genuinely perfect it had me rolling ^w^

[@GrimGoblinLives]

I hope once this series is over someone compiles clips from this series and two times Matt, second time with Marisha, were guests on Dimension 20, I think it's gonna be comedy gold to see how CR members react to first time (on-screen at least) playing under Brennan

[@chichiriz]

sam looks kinda fabulous with the cheetah print long sleeved shirt lol miss q def must have a kink at this point

[@madtophatter1020]

I love that travel immediately matches Brennan's energy 😂

[@EldurThePaladin]

Imagine if Ronin does end up being as hilariously dorky as that, which is highly likely, since his parents are Travis and Laura 🤣 I love their stuff so much

[@journeymanic9605]

It's 20 years from now, Campaign 7. Exandria has reached a late 1880s industrial age. Matt describes a badass gunslinger/samurai sitting alone in a train car. The group sit next to him and Matt says, "Ronin could you introduce your character?"

[@Direwolf181]

​@@journeymanic9605 it'd be amazing if Ronin joined in on his parents passion. but who knows he might rebel and be completely normal lol

[@journeymanic9605]

@@Direwolf181 Oh, don't jinx it. He can be anything he wishes to be, but normal is the most boring. lol

[@aro_ger_]

Ngl, this was so fucking Wholesome. And it fits so well because, well Travis Is a Dad! ... But It makes this all even sadder knowing It's Avalir..

[@Jacules]

It's kind of funny that he chose "Talon", because Travis voiced a character in League of Legends named Talon.

[@lumberluc]

Oh... Brenan... why did you have to do that!? Now we're going to get devastated by how Cerret may never see his son and daughter again, or his wife.

[@majorzipf8947]

Gods this is just the most whole moment and it still makes me 🥹 every time 😊

[@nolanmejia5510]

God this whole mini series is the PEAK of critical role by a long shot I love it so much!

[@riyanagpal3824]

the naddpod sweater im weeping

[@SamyD23]

didnt he say his kids were 7 and 5, or am i remembering that wrong? what 7 year old is sneaking out to a party and taking swigs of alcohol? didn't remember this during the show, its too good of a clip anyway

[@livinglavidageeky2114]

I think that was Elieth. He was five when bad things happened, seven when Zerxus last saw him in person

[@anathem9982]

Eisfuura/Aarakocra have a lifespan of about 30 years, and reach maturity by around 3. Since Eisfuura aren't *officially* the same as Aarakocra, they may have a slightly longer lifespan, meaning that the 7 year old is just reaching maturity and sneaking out

[@vladimirmunteanu3384]

Aarakocra age very quickly, in fact both the kids would be young adults at that age, they reach maturity at 3yo

[@barefootcoolboy_3264]

In DnD canon Aarakocra reach maturity at 3 so if Matt went the same way with his Eisfuura, they may mature very quick, like one year they are children the next they are teenagers.

[@SamyD23]

ooh they age faster, ok thanks guys, i didn't know this

[@kaydecena]

Brennan wearing Moonstone Jamboree! I love it!

[@SilverMichi]

That was so flipping adorable!!! Aaaahhh!!! ❤❤❤

[@ladyeclectic]

Those kids were the best part of this amazing miniseries, and given how excellent it was that’s saying a LOT. ❤❤❤

[@pseudocide.]

With Brennan getting these reactions out if Travis, I wanna see Travis guest on D20 😂

[@Noon3rs]

Imagine Travis being there during episode 2 of Fantasy High. You know the moment.

[@spacegremlin9972]

Dude Travis and Laura's kid is going to have the most fucking fun growing up

[@darthbiscuit]

Shows with a whole team of writers couldn't come close to how great a moment this was. Incredible storytelling

[@oroboris8764]

just noticed after seeing this a bunch of times that hes wearing a naddpod sweater!

[@aimymidgard5418]

Travis is so red on the face 🤣🤣🤣

[@Leytier]

Not travis living his full PI fantasy

[@richardlamarre3610]

that reached me just enough for a like, nicely done

[@ThisiSaDeadgame]

Dm while playing Travis’ son, sounds like that one snot nosed kid off that cartoon “home movies” lol

[@RashaundaSpears]

This made me want to cry.

[@benjaminZ20]

Can we talk about how nice zercus was with asmodeus? Wtf was that about?

[@Pistonrager]

Hes a good person.

[@echo7234]

Honestly. He saw someone in pain and to me he just seems like a good person.

[@nosiree7104]

He's a master of deceit preying on a very pure, emotionally damaged, godless paladin

[@Pistonrager]

@@nosiree7104 whike being choked he thought ill spend my last energy to mess with this one guy instead of fighting back?

[@bmusic4213]

​​@@Pistonrager He's probably not the only one Asmo's preying on, but even if he was, Zerxus isn't a nobody. He's level 14 with friends in high places and the first knight of a powerful magocracy city. This seems to be Asmo's *way* of fighting back, as he can't actually interact with the material world.

[@hunterbrown2001]

This breaks my heart it's so cute 🥺

[@paulwilson2204]

Brennen nailed this whole damn campaign. They were all awesome but holy hell was Brennen on point.

[@TheEricBooth]

This is so freaking brilliant

[@sad_gremlin7656]

He's even a great when he's playing a dad

[@galev3955]

Honestly ExU Calamity was the pinnacle of online actual play.

[@jennycomelately]

I can’t believe that Travis’s son is Riz Gukgak.

[@CMelon-xe1qc]

You can’t do this to me, again

[@MisterFister612]

you know if matt ever gets tired of dming he could always hire brenna full time.

[@chechema1010]

of course brennan 'the bird facts guy' has cool bird-related codenames to use, lol XD

[@coldheartedreaper]

Why does Cerrit sound like a mix between Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones

[@hunter559]

Moments like this are why Brennan is amazing

[@feitocomfruta]

Then contrast this with episode 4 with Maya, Kyr, Cerritt, and ClearEye (totally blanking on the wife’s name)… Asmodeus isn’t the only horrifying monster in this series. 😢

[@vh7634]

this is my favorite thing ever

[@RagnarokMaster]

Funny thing is... This could very well be a real conversation for Travis in a few years. Makes it even funnier.

[@davidparkes7741]

I've said it before but i'll say it again, these moments (especially the climax of this series) are where we see Travis the dad rather than Travis the voice actor.

[@freedomcat]

Travis got a glimpse into his future with his IRL son Ronin.

[@jessh2528]

I'm getting into D&D right now and I JUST realized there was a crossover episode!

[@ippo_1702]

Son's voices reminds me of the "hacker" character from fantasy high (dimension 20) hahaa

[@jago1996]

That's... that's Paeden. The voice is 100 percent Paeden from dungeons and daddies.

[@KilSoIdier]

Clear-eye behind the calamity? change my mind

[@KilSoIdier]

I was wrong :(

[@MrVidau]

This is us watching the journey of Travis's character's story with his kids through interpretive emoji dance: 😀😃😄😆🤣🥰🙂😐😕😟😮😢😭😩😓🥺😭😨😕😵‍💫😮‍💨🥲

[@Jermbot15]

Nice, and that scene is going to be soooo very present in the front of our minds when things start going to hell.

[@chaoticwhenever1457]

Talon 2 where would this evidence locker be located

[@P0rk_Sinigang]

Oh my god, Cerret's son is Riz!

[@wuftchan8299]

i thought they meant his actual son XD