Liveblog: Critical Role C1 E77 - E79
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CR1E77: Clash At Daxio
3:19:16: Oh man, I haven't watched this in months but I know I left in the middle-ish of this episode because Percy was annoying me so much laskjdfh. Even just getting back into it, when they're trying to use Speak With Dead on Xanthas, and Percy's like "I can make him talk... I can make him talk," like you absolute edgelord, could you have some chill for two wholeass seconds please, oh my god,,, Percy was initially one of my faves bc he was cool in the background and No Mercy Percy Hell Yeah and then we had his arc which was MAGNIFICENT and he was like big fave for a while until he became like,,, too edgelord??? like he never shuts up during negotiations (that's why I petered out during this arc, every time he and raishan were in the same space i had to keep pausing and walking away from the screen bc I would get so irritated LMAO) and he's convinced he's the Most intesen and Evil thing on the pLane~t and i just Ughghghkjfsgdfghb i know that's part of his char and like he's meant to be a dick but dicks who take pride in being dicks are so exhausting, like pls, irl has enough ppl like this,,, EUGH
3:28:30: i missed marisha so much ;w; she's such a good player and keyleth has truly grown to be my absolute favourite pc to watch and she really, like,, when she's not trying (keyleth, i mean) she comes out with such wise lines lol
3:33:18: not really a specific timestamp but i'm remembering how confused i was about their plan lmao gkjsdgh it reminds me of my own games where all the players are like "yes we have spent four sessions planning we have a Plan" and then any npc goes "what's ur plan" and everyone starts saying smth different at once lmao
3:35:43: i find it so funny when travis starts planning bc he gets exasperated, it's like grog channels a past life where he was a strategic genius. his suggestions are always very sensible too LOL generally it feels like most of vm are unconsciously trying to put off the fight with thordak and matt is trying to nudge them forward skljdfd
3:36:26: HHHH THE MINUTE THEY SAY RAISHAN I HAD TO PAUSE, idk why vm and raishan's interactions cringe me out so hard but they dooo ooo oo o... they all just get so clueless, like the planning around this poor green dragon is so nonsensical gskjldgh. they sent her on a fetch mission and then were like "OKAY we need to Talk to her where the fuck Is She" like u guys sent her away!!! she didnt wanna go!!
3:37:52: vex is me watching them trying to plan anth lmao (but also i'm in love with keyleth--)
3:45:09: this entire exchange made me grin, vex is perfect. i rly enjoy how willing cr is to be utterly ridiculous and serious at the same time :') "They have like... Angel Blood :D" also percy being like "we will put them to work they will be useful" and scanlan being liek "HSGKJLHD MAYBE IN A BIT YK let them have a day's recovery from being devil slaves,,," i'm losing my mind
3:48:17: same @ keyleth
3:50:39: cassandra i love u. also god percy is the worst, "i wouldn't say significant damage", vex: "wiped out a large percentage of the force." there were like 75% casualties or smth percy why are u the worrrrst. (I know he's talking ab the fort itself i just like to shit on him kjsldf) also GKJSLDGH SO CUTE "grog? Grog? Grog??" "uhh i mean whatever those words mean" CUTEEE
4:10:29: travis has my entire heart. also the entire voting part is so funny, like even the npcs are laughing, i love it
CR1E78: The Siege of Emon
Three of my timestamps wiped and I don't want to rewatch just to find them, but basically I was talking about Zahra being Big Sexy and how much Scanlan made me laugh with his quest for drugs.
1:16:09: thank god for Kashaw. Also, me getting my petty pleasure from Percy being one-upped plan-wise.
1:57:35: Vex really is perfect for Percy, she just.. sjdgklsdglsh this was too perfect
CR1E79: Thordak
14:52: the fear of the DM smirk is so visceral and also Hell Yeah, Eff You Thordak - also i do NOT like how Thordak refers to himself as a we, that is very scary and crazy sounding and I'm so here for it
15:32: "you better get your shit in gear" me @ myself constantly, spellcasters have so much to keep tabs on aghghgh, also travis and laura rly made me giggle here
16:52: LAURA AND TRAVIS HAVE NO CHILL I'M LAUGHIGNFGN HDFKJL, also the concept of grabbing ur own tiddy when ur nervous is hilarious and that is why i'm going to make every character i ever write do it
17:25: jkgrshflkjghsldk Travis wholeass just announced his, they're all so in their head, their nervousness is making me nervous stop i LVOE IT IM SO EXCITED AND NERVOUS RHGHGH
22:38: lmfao Taliesin i love you
25:44: ah this sucks :( i feel bad for Marisha, and also gdljksgh Matt screwed up, he didn't read the whole spell I think, bc it still does damage on the turn it's cast, and (i'm not sure abt this one tbf) he'd still have to strength check to move. aghghh
LMAO MARISHA RLY LIKE GOD MAD AT HIM ITGKJDSLGH THEYRE SO FUNNY jghlskdhg matt being careful w his wording after. i love
OOH YAY HE REREAD IT PHEW ur doing great sweetie
27:15: IM LAUGHIGN
30:08: "[chuckle] he's dead"
32:08: characters breaking the 4th wall (dm screen?) is never not funny
33:32: where is Kima?
33:53: oh
34:51: Matt's reaction face to this is priceless + "I like to think of all of Vox Machina all nervously laughing"
39:45: 21 misses.... o_o
54:14: beautiful
56:59: sam makes me wanna do improv training lmao this is so funny
1:17:52: boi if i didn't know about the ending and have big spoilers for like the whole way through then i'd really start thinking grog might die lmao
1:27:42: ofc Vax would choose to be a vengeance paladin. Glorious edgelord. I also likr how it ties in with Vex (Hunter's Mark) - the twins growing off each other mechanically as well as in rp is very cute.
1:37:53: ouch
1:39:36: oof. kudos to them for simply saying 'it's in the rules', i think at my table this would have been like a "oh i don't do that then" moment and the dm would probably let it go bc sjkfdlsdf its the sort of mistake u make cause ur a player playing imagination, not smth ur char would actually do. Not that I think Matt's in the wrong or anth - his table, his rules. I'd like to become a player who doesn't get butthurt over these things gjksldgh
1:56:13: Travis telling ppl off for not being excited is the funniest thing
2:01:42: TRAVIS' REACTION ASDGFJFHJ
2:03:38: god Travis makes me laugh, his entire turn is just kdlsjdgh so good. "the cone of fuck everything" + "ReCkLeSs" is sending me
2:13:22: not a very specific timestamp, but this got me thinking again for the bazzilionth time while watching this recent arc that Vax is,,, making Grog irrelevant mechanically :( being able to fly plus have a teleporting dagger is just? very powerful? I feel like his rogues have a limited range for a reason, the same way barbarians do - bc they're incredibly powerful up close but they need to be up close to actually impact. and Vax has been given a ton of options with regards to that whereas pretty much every major fight i can think of other than Kevdak's (which, thank God) has had Grog sat on the floor throwing his axe left right and centre. I remember in the Feywild when he spent half his time trying to swing across on a vine like Tarzan just so he could do smth lmao. idk, it's not that I think it's Liam's fault or anything, and it's hard to predict these things, but Matt has done a Lot to mitigate the weaker aspects of the non-magic classes - Vex is a damage-output machine bc of her bows and special arrows, Taliesin is a ranged not-so-much-glass cannon, Vax is a flying angel of death lmao, and poor Grog really just. Sat there chillin. A little bigger, but chilling. Frustrating :(
2:16:57: aw it's like Scanlan heard me lol
2:19:11: Laura is so good at playing support! She'd be a great cleric :^D
2:21:04: Laura and Scanlan crack me up so hard omg
3:15:10: poor Travis
3:46:03: aklsjdfhl "you haven't heard what he says yet" "oh"
3:56:04: "nah fuck that"
4:04:39: not a specific timestamp but it occurred to me here why Sam might have been holding off on the flute. They did actually manage to beat Thordak handily (due in large part to their effective preparation insofar as recruiting allies), and they didn't /need/ the flute yet. I think Sam's thinking they'll probably need it afterwards with Raishan if shit hits the fan. :o
4:06:53: they're going to remember how much they hate her in like ten minutes and then everyone's gonna be like "yeah obviously we're gonna attack her" i bet. I was hoping Laura would remember to cast Hunter's Mark on her so at last they wouldn't lose her though >.<
AAAAAA I HOPE THEY FIGHT HER NEXT EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm so glad we don't have to wait five more episodes of preparation eeeeeeee
CR1E77: Clash At Daxio
3:19:16: Oh man, I haven't watched this in months but I know I left in the middle-ish of this episode because Percy was annoying me so much laskjdfh. Even just getting back into it, when they're trying to use Speak With Dead on Xanthas, and Percy's like "I can make him talk... I can make him talk," like you absolute edgelord, could you have some chill for two wholeass seconds please, oh my god,,, Percy was initially one of my faves bc he was cool in the background and No Mercy Percy Hell Yeah and then we had his arc which was MAGNIFICENT and he was like big fave for a while until he became like,,, too edgelord??? like he never shuts up during negotiations (that's why I petered out during this arc, every time he and raishan were in the same space i had to keep pausing and walking away from the screen bc I would get so irritated LMAO) and he's convinced he's the Most intesen and Evil thing on the pLane~t and i just Ughghghkjfsgdfghb i know that's part of his char and like he's meant to be a dick but dicks who take pride in being dicks are so exhausting, like pls, irl has enough ppl like this,,, EUGH
3:28:30: i missed marisha so much ;w; she's such a good player and keyleth has truly grown to be my absolute favourite pc to watch and she really, like,, when she's not trying (keyleth, i mean) she comes out with such wise lines lol
3:33:18: not really a specific timestamp but i'm remembering how confused i was about their plan lmao gkjsdgh it reminds me of my own games where all the players are like "yes we have spent four sessions planning we have a Plan" and then any npc goes "what's ur plan" and everyone starts saying smth different at once lmao
3:35:43: i find it so funny when travis starts planning bc he gets exasperated, it's like grog channels a past life where he was a strategic genius. his suggestions are always very sensible too LOL generally it feels like most of vm are unconsciously trying to put off the fight with thordak and matt is trying to nudge them forward skljdfd
3:36:26: HHHH THE MINUTE THEY SAY RAISHAN I HAD TO PAUSE, idk why vm and raishan's interactions cringe me out so hard but they dooo ooo oo o... they all just get so clueless, like the planning around this poor green dragon is so nonsensical gskjldgh. they sent her on a fetch mission and then were like "OKAY we need to Talk to her where the fuck Is She" like u guys sent her away!!! she didnt wanna go!!
3:37:52: vex is me watching them trying to plan anth lmao (but also i'm in love with keyleth--)
3:45:09: this entire exchange made me grin, vex is perfect. i rly enjoy how willing cr is to be utterly ridiculous and serious at the same time :') "They have like... Angel Blood :D" also percy being like "we will put them to work they will be useful" and scanlan being liek "HSGKJLHD MAYBE IN A BIT YK let them have a day's recovery from being devil slaves,,," i'm losing my mind
3:48:17: same @ keyleth
3:50:39: cassandra i love u. also god percy is the worst, "i wouldn't say significant damage", vex: "wiped out a large percentage of the force." there were like 75% casualties or smth percy why are u the worrrrst. (I know he's talking ab the fort itself i just like to shit on him kjsldf) also GKJSLDGH SO CUTE "grog? Grog? Grog??" "uhh i mean whatever those words mean" CUTEEE
4:10:29: travis has my entire heart. also the entire voting part is so funny, like even the npcs are laughing, i love it
CR1E78: The Siege of Emon
Three of my timestamps wiped and I don't want to rewatch just to find them, but basically I was talking about Zahra being Big Sexy and how much Scanlan made me laugh with his quest for drugs.
1:16:09: thank god for Kashaw. Also, me getting my petty pleasure from Percy being one-upped plan-wise.
1:57:35: Vex really is perfect for Percy, she just.. sjdgklsdglsh this was too perfect
CR1E79: Thordak
14:52: the fear of the DM smirk is so visceral and also Hell Yeah, Eff You Thordak - also i do NOT like how Thordak refers to himself as a we, that is very scary and crazy sounding and I'm so here for it
15:32: "you better get your shit in gear" me @ myself constantly, spellcasters have so much to keep tabs on aghghgh, also travis and laura rly made me giggle here
16:52: LAURA AND TRAVIS HAVE NO CHILL I'M LAUGHIGNFGN HDFKJL, also the concept of grabbing ur own tiddy when ur nervous is hilarious and that is why i'm going to make every character i ever write do it
17:25: jkgrshflkjghsldk Travis wholeass just announced his, they're all so in their head, their nervousness is making me nervous stop i LVOE IT IM SO EXCITED AND NERVOUS RHGHGH
22:38: lmfao Taliesin i love you
25:44: ah this sucks :( i feel bad for Marisha, and also gdljksgh Matt screwed up, he didn't read the whole spell I think, bc it still does damage on the turn it's cast, and (i'm not sure abt this one tbf) he'd still have to strength check to move. aghghh
LMAO MARISHA RLY LIKE GOD MAD AT HIM ITGKJDSLGH THEYRE SO FUNNY jghlskdhg matt being careful w his wording after. i love
OOH YAY HE REREAD IT PHEW ur doing great sweetie
27:15: IM LAUGHIGN
30:08: "[chuckle] he's dead"
32:08: characters breaking the 4th wall (dm screen?) is never not funny
33:32: where is Kima?
33:53: oh
34:51: Matt's reaction face to this is priceless + "I like to think of all of Vox Machina all nervously laughing"
39:45: 21 misses.... o_o
54:14: beautiful
56:59: sam makes me wanna do improv training lmao this is so funny
1:17:52: boi if i didn't know about the ending and have big spoilers for like the whole way through then i'd really start thinking grog might die lmao
1:27:42: ofc Vax would choose to be a vengeance paladin. Glorious edgelord. I also likr how it ties in with Vex (Hunter's Mark) - the twins growing off each other mechanically as well as in rp is very cute.
1:37:53: ouch
1:39:36: oof. kudos to them for simply saying 'it's in the rules', i think at my table this would have been like a "oh i don't do that then" moment and the dm would probably let it go bc sjkfdlsdf its the sort of mistake u make cause ur a player playing imagination, not smth ur char would actually do. Not that I think Matt's in the wrong or anth - his table, his rules. I'd like to become a player who doesn't get butthurt over these things gjksldgh
1:56:13: Travis telling ppl off for not being excited is the funniest thing
2:01:42: TRAVIS' REACTION ASDGFJFHJ
2:03:38: god Travis makes me laugh, his entire turn is just kdlsjdgh so good. "the cone of fuck everything" + "ReCkLeSs" is sending me
2:13:22: not a very specific timestamp, but this got me thinking again for the bazzilionth time while watching this recent arc that Vax is,,, making Grog irrelevant mechanically :( being able to fly plus have a teleporting dagger is just? very powerful? I feel like his rogues have a limited range for a reason, the same way barbarians do - bc they're incredibly powerful up close but they need to be up close to actually impact. and Vax has been given a ton of options with regards to that whereas pretty much every major fight i can think of other than Kevdak's (which, thank God) has had Grog sat on the floor throwing his axe left right and centre. I remember in the Feywild when he spent half his time trying to swing across on a vine like Tarzan just so he could do smth lmao. idk, it's not that I think it's Liam's fault or anything, and it's hard to predict these things, but Matt has done a Lot to mitigate the weaker aspects of the non-magic classes - Vex is a damage-output machine bc of her bows and special arrows, Taliesin is a ranged not-so-much-glass cannon, Vax is a flying angel of death lmao, and poor Grog really just. Sat there chillin. A little bigger, but chilling. Frustrating :(
2:16:57: aw it's like Scanlan heard me lol
2:19:11: Laura is so good at playing support! She'd be a great cleric :^D
2:21:04: Laura and Scanlan crack me up so hard omg
3:15:10: poor Travis
3:46:03: aklsjdfhl "you haven't heard what he says yet" "oh"
3:56:04: "nah fuck that"
4:04:39: not a specific timestamp but it occurred to me here why Sam might have been holding off on the flute. They did actually manage to beat Thordak handily (due in large part to their effective preparation insofar as recruiting allies), and they didn't /need/ the flute yet. I think Sam's thinking they'll probably need it afterwards with Raishan if shit hits the fan. :o
4:06:53: they're going to remember how much they hate her in like ten minutes and then everyone's gonna be like "yeah obviously we're gonna attack her" i bet. I was hoping Laura would remember to cast Hunter's Mark on her so at last they wouldn't lose her though >.<
AAAAAA I HOPE THEY FIGHT HER NEXT EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm so glad we don't have to wait five more episodes of preparation eeeeeeee
