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

@NilCaelum

Жыл бұрын

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

8 ай бұрын

Bros before swo's

@kenle2

7 ай бұрын

​@CliffSedge-nu5fv Winner of the internet.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@thecrunchyferrett6985

Жыл бұрын

You dare enter my domain? Prepare to cry!

@bfalves780

Жыл бұрын

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

@nyghtmoon

Жыл бұрын

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

@markpayne8004

Жыл бұрын

FEEL THE HATRED OF 10,000 YEARS!

@Luzarioth

Жыл бұрын

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

“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

Жыл бұрын

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

@d.k.t.3380

Жыл бұрын

I don't want anything bad to happen to Ripley

@bcn1gh7h4wk

Жыл бұрын

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

@funnylilgalreacts

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@michaelmartin5623

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

On a different continent too

@brendanbarry5122

Жыл бұрын

But who's on the Council of Taldori?

@Jinxxtr

Жыл бұрын

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

@rdp16rulez

Жыл бұрын

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

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!

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.

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

@momqabt

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

@-nav-398

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@brewdaly1873

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@MehrGills

Жыл бұрын

Ha!

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!

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.

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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).

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@crimsoneclipse0618

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@MehrGills yeah, exactly

@d.k.t.3380

Жыл бұрын

@@MehrGills Pumat reading a book...

@MehrGills

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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. 🤷‍♀️

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!

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

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.

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 😭

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 ♥️

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@PrinceIMC

Жыл бұрын

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@PrinceIMC

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@PrinceIMC

Жыл бұрын

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

@AlephSharp

Жыл бұрын

@@PrinceIMC Trans Xanroar! Trans Xanroar!

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!

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@JirkaKunst

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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. kzread.infomb3Mjv3WCF0

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.

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

@jordanpeterson5140

Жыл бұрын

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

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.

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

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! 😊

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.

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

You care so much and it warms me watching your feels

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@mikephillips1043

Жыл бұрын

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

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).

Larkin is the friends we made along the way.

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

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

@funnylilgalreacts

Жыл бұрын

Mostly just making it known how I feel 😬

@hawkthorn33

Жыл бұрын

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

@hyperfox9553

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

@jasjotparmar4719

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Love your reactions!

Much Love to y’all !!!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

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

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

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

You asked about how Craven Edge works. Its stats are up on the Critrolestats blog, but since KZread 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.)

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).

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).

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

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.

love your vidja's ma'am. I say feed me seymour too, you're the 3rd person I've seen do that!

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.

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

@funnylilgalreacts

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

@matthewenokson4251

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

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

I appreciate how enthusiastic you are about Gorgons.

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Yep, that was Ripley, believe it or not! 🤣

An enjoyable time with you Angela through these reactions (and other ones too) and even though we are strangers in this world i'll at the very least send some love to you because we need more love then hate in this world 💕

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.

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

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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!!

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.

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.

Pike jumped into Grog's Blindspot.

Seeing your reactions makes me emotional 🥹

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!* 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

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.

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

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.

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

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

Don't worry lil gal you will find your love

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.

I believe the dragons name is pronounced like the beginning of umbrella, then sill like windowsill. Umbre-sill. I believe thats how matt pronounced it. Someone correct me if im wrong.

I think you will enjoy the faewilde 39:51 It is a very strange place, full of weird shit. Its also home to some epic backstory lore and some new friends who will have a lasting impact on things to come.

Just gotta say the fact you keep triping over Vex & Vax endlessly amuses me, welcome to Matt Mercer's hell!! XD

Goliaths can't grow facial hair, but they can grow hair on top of their heads.

Yes, Sam is amazingly creative and has been performing all his life (he was a child actor in the musical les miserables for instance). First he started doing funny improvised parody-versions of popular songs live on stream during the Vox Machina campaign to use Scanlan’s powers (the parodies are fantastic and the cast had so much fun with them) but by campaign 2 they had to cut those partly to avoid copyright claims and also Sam was no longer a bard. The C1 Scanlan song compilations on YT may contain slight spoilers, but this DND beyond sponsorship ad he did during C2 doesn’t contain Vox Machina spoilers: kzread.info/dash/bejne/kZ152NKbYLPNo6g.html It does feature some of the character designs for C2 (Mighty Nein) characters, but no spoilers for either campaign 😊 This was also the inspiration for them to start going in for animation. You can hear Laura say “we’re an 80s cartoon you guys” 😂 and after this animated ad they did an official animated intro to Mighty Nein campaign and then begun working on to see if they could do just one animated special episode for Vox Machina with kickstarter funding. Aaand then their a few hundred thousand $ goal was exceeded by 11 million by their fans and here we are with the LoVM series 🎉 Important moment

The Mighty Nein, a party of seven adventurers, in their travels across the continent of Wildemount. It occurs at a time of very high tensions between the Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn Dynasty-two of Wildemount's major powers. This takes place 20 years after Vox Machina.

Got me good this episode. Wounded my heart as well.

there's only 2 things that can undo a pact with a god... the god changing their mind, and ... another thing.

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

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

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.

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 ^^

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

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)

For the record, during the Livestream Percy knew that Craven Edge was an evil sentient sword and gave it to Grog on purpose. All because Taliesin is a chaos goblin and wanted to see what happened.