Mishka Mushka Baron from the Baronies

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This is how one should always DM, after all, the players write the story.

gotta make the therapy payments worth it after all, brennan is just being a good friend

Smash cut to ExU: Calamity.

My guy, some of the shit Brennan says really qualifies as historically quotable.

My guy’s really flexing that Philosophy major

‘This is what happens when you fuck around at my table, fuckers’ 😂

Signs of a great DM.

Yeah, I wonder how much of it was planned out or how much they planned each pc’s arc at first for it all to line up so well. I know Riz and Fig getting kidnapped was scripted since Brian and Emily were going on vacation and wouldn’t be there that week for filming. But it did work out pretty seamlessly and actually played a big part in the plot

@@k80_ not much, Brennan’s on the fly storytelling is basically superhuman

Unless Riz was in no danger at all, it wasn't a demon guide, it was trying to magnify his insecurities to break him down.

That was low-key, so savage

The treasure is a fucking Boggart mate.

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The treasure is a mimic.

dragon madness fr 😔

Literally rewatched that part 11 times

"Fathetheirioael" has echoed in my mind every day.

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Faithretheaeaeaeal

I was listening to this while driving and nearly crashed when he said Fathethriel

Started watching fantasy high when my therapist went on a vacation and boy was it helpful

Oh man Riz and I share a lot of the same fears, and if Brennan had looked in my eyes and said that to me, I would have straight up started crying. Struck way too deep for a D&D campaign about highschool.

Like it's a bad thing to be the second most important person to 5 different people.

I’m not sure if I believe in fate in the traditional sense but I do believe we all have a purpose in life. Things we’re supposed to do that help us and other people grow

@@DrZaius3141 That's great logic. Emotions are not very logical, however.

Also, one of my favorite horror tropes tropes, “a genuinely threatening being talks to you in potentially one of the silliest voices your little ears will ever hear.”

“People do it, people hook up, it’s normal” “People have SEX, DAD” Riz is a national treasure

agreed

@@jayn0tja3 I wouldn’t say that was what she wanted. It was more like not letting her get away with lazy lying. Lol Just because you are good at lying doesn’t mean you can just completely stop trying. No one is falling for Hilda Hilda from Hildaville on Hilda St AND Hilda Ave. or whatever she said. Not even on a natural 20 should any decent DM allow that. Lol

It really shows how much of a talented dm Brennan is. He can let his players go in any direction they want, but those actions are definitely not gonna go without consequences

@@lordoftheducks332 Absolutely. He is a master.

@@PhillipUtterback zi

He took that joy and ran with it for The Nightmare Forest

It’s funny cause normally I play a lawful chaotic character but instead I’m chaotic neutral and my DM is flip flopping my character where one moment he’s like the evil in human skin and next he’s just a habitual liar and kleptomaniac. My character is such a liar he portrays himself as a Wizard even tho he’s actually a rouge, a Mastermind Rouge mind you.

Right?? I think I noticed a blush when he was saying that too! 🥰

That's the challenging thing about it. You can't make horror, it just happens.

im glad baron didnt target fabian though because then we never would've gotten all the Chungledown Bim content

"I'M GONNA SHIT IN THAT MOUTH!" is a truly iconic quote

It has Peter lorrie vibes It's quite creepy and it's that sort of inflexion at the end of what he says that just is so unsettling to me personally and if you've ever played the jump start grade for haunted math's game I know it's a weird title from a very obscure game but the bat in that game does a cheesy Peter lorry which has the sort a same sort of lilt and inflexion as bārön

I don’t know if it’s the same game you’re talking about, but Jump start 4th grade’s scary stories gave me legit nightmares, in addition to reading comprehension skills.

@@beefpelican if its the one where the witch teacher turned all her students into monster versions of themselves and you have to go around saving them all, then it is. The name sounds about right

Honestly gives me Mr. Teatime vibes a little

I feel like Brennan already knew that someone from the Baronies would have that accent, and Murph just happened to choose there off a map lmao

"He made his bed, now he's gonna f***ing _lie_ in it!"

Lol I love that there’s an option to “Translate to English”

What quote?

@@snazzyfeathers "Tell me, Riz Gukgak... your close friend, Penny Luckstone who you searched for so much... did you spend much time together, or did you like her more when she was a mystery and not a person?" Riz dropped Penny like a bad habit after that story arc was done. I don't think they interact _once_ after she's saved at the end of Season 1. Doesn't ask her to hang out, doesn't even check in to see how she's feeling after being kidnapped for a prolonged period of time. _I'd_ definitely be second guessing myself after creating a backstory and being called out for not following up on it.

@@sph3re Oh...yeah. It's a chilling line. I don't think it's meant to go after Murph for not following up with Penny or anything like that. I think its just pointing out Riz's obsession with solving mysteries so much so that once its solved its onto the next mystery without any time to take breaks (like taking some time out of his day to talk to Penny). Riz is a workaholic and even when his friends are being teenagers he's almost always fully focused on the mission or mystery. There's only been a few exceptions like when he got drunk and got the tatoos, and the whole shrimp party thing lol

​@@sph3reThat is so wrong, cause in Season 1's epilogue, Riz mentions that he and Penny do still hangout and remain close friends. The only reason they don't interact much is because of his PI work, the crown of the Nightmare King case, and Penny's work with her own adventuring party. In fact, Murph even mentions that Riz's attraction to Penny was nothing more than an adolencent crush and Riz is fine with that because he's not looking for romantic involvement.

Brennan, smiling as he continues: It should be illegal to enjoy others' discomfort this much.

‘no no no…not like this’

light of my LIFE

Riz and Liam (crown of candy) are our ace boys and we love them

Riz brings new meaning to Ace Detective

REPRESENTATIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

@@samrust4366 now we need an ace attorney! :')

Same! I kept seeing these shorts, and finally got dropout and watched all these amazing campaigns

"YAER ROMANCE PAERTNAR DESAERVES BETTER TRAET MEANT!" Gets me every single time. So much intensity

That’s an amazing way to find D20 😂

@@vilkarmooringstead5346 For real! That line is simultaneously kind of funny and absolutely terrifying. Brennan is a master at his craft taking a throwaway “Canadian girlfriend” joke and turning it into one of the scariest encounters anyone in the group has to face. Total chef’s kiss.

hilda hilda who lives at both 22 hilda street and 22 hilda boulevard :,)

Emily: "we all wanted it." Lou: "I did *not* want it!"

I was watching him like, "this man is negative stimming, he is _that_ uncomfortable."

Paranoia. This crew of folks would be awesome at paranoia

@@ezrawyrd9275 "Say hello, communist comrades." "Hello, communist comrades!". "Amazing. All of you are dropped into a citizen confession resolution chamber. and your next clones are activated."

A horror campaign is coming out November 30th and I'm super stoked to see how it's handled and the crazy creepy situations that happen

Mannn I haven’t watched the sophomore year on Fantasy High. Did Kristen died? Hooow

@@greenvampbun6332 SPOILER: she died a few scenes prior to this which is why there's an absence this episode. But her story develops and she comes back after this next episode.

@@redredsweater1026 ohmy! atleast she came back! I really love her character! Thank you for the info!

@@redredsweater1026 Spoilers too I guess but as a meme “I thought you died?” “I got better!”

@@redredsweater1026 SPOILER: So, uh, how many deaths total does that put her at, between the two series? Three? Four?

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People have different relationships, that doesn't make anyone second most important. What your wellbeing depends on is meeting your social and connection needs and you can do that. And you can have close friendships and queerplatonic relationships.

No really!! Brennan bringing Baron back to torment Riz over his apparent asexuality is such a cool choice to lure out the small cues that Murph has dropped in his portrayal like it is a genuine fear that a lot of aspec people have that Brennan was smart enough to acknowledge and make into a point on Riz’s character sheet idk I just really love the realness to subtle ace portrayal

As an Asexual watching this season I was shocked by how on the nose Brennan was talking about the fear of being different from everyone you love and being left behind as they all get into serious relationships. Shit is real

@@musiclikerperson except the problem is, when people get into serious relationships and get married you Will be less important. you Will be less of a priority. those fears are very real and could easily come true.

to all you aro/ace people, a word of solidarity, if not comfort, from someone who is neither of those things. the truth is, there is no escape from loneliness. romantic relationships and sex will certainly not save you. that's because loneliness comes from within, not without. sure, there's a lot of joy in having a romaence paertnaer, but most of you who don't have one will never have to experience the crushing existential horror of looking into the eyes of the person who pledged their life and body to you, someone who loves you more than anyone else, and realizing, "this person is physically incapable of understanding me and what I'm going through, and their attempts at trying to are bringing me greater pain." you also won't be plagued by constant fear of their mortality or the fact that you're not good enough for them. yes, those moments aren't frequent for everyone, and they're usually balanced out by the moments when you DO connect, but they shouldn't be discounted. relationships are painful. finally, it's propaganda by normative society, imo, that romantic relationships are necessarily the higher tier over platonic ones. some of the most beautiful, long-lasting, and meaningful relationships I've ever seen have been between fellow priests/nuns/monks who have not a shred of romantic intimacy to fuel their closeness. I'm not aware of what secular analogs to these religious vocational paths exist, but I hope the secular aro/ace community can start looking to these religious groups for inspiration if there aren't any at the moment. Finally, I wish you all the best, and I hope that you all find the friends you deserve to put you in place of first importance. hell, my wife and I would love to know some of you and to be your friends into old age, and our kids could always use more people who love them just as they are - I can guarantee they'll love you back.

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I've been coming to terms with being ace for a while now, and I'd never heard my vague anxieties and fears just put into a sentence like that before.

@@ezrawyrd9275 I spent years after highschool coming to terms with the fact that I am so introverted I can't cohabitate with someone longer than a few days at max. This rang a lot of old bells for me too.

In college I learned a weird thing about myself where with a strict schedule and shows/books I can replace people with parasocial relationships to characters. Now after the first year I no longer needed that adaption but I also never really forgot its value. So now, while I'm certain my high standards, conservative outlook, and wet blanket nature garuntee my eventual death in isolation (save for cats)? A little part of me almost enjoys when a friend moves on out of happiness or difference of opinion.Its like the old joke about how great canceling plans are, but multiplied by the rest of a friendship. Plus you get to know they're happier. That adaption takes a lot of the venom from being alone. (Granted, like any adaption or tool, overusing it to excuse driving people away regularly probably signals a need for therapy)

@@soltaire4775 Separate rooms helps a lot

If it helps, someone will find you to be the person that matters more than someone else. For each person that leaves, another will join

Critical Role and D20 both have pretty ravenous and eager fan bases, so I would not be surprised by D20 pulling off a similarly successful crowdfunding campaign for an animated Fantasy High.

what does that even mean i never understood that line

@@amelooloo making something up "wholecloth" means inventing it from scratch. You didn't use anything as a baseline. Baron is implying that Riz made them up completely from his own brain, not basing Baron on anyone in particular.

How appropriate for someone who has only the roughest semblance of existence.

baron is terrifying...i've watched the whole story twice and he scares me :D

you did read it correctly, he is ace! and yeah, i adore baron, theyre such a good character and plot device in one!

@@day2139 I don’t know if I would fully call him ace just because Murph hasn’t stated that (I don’t think) and Siobhan was asked if Adaine was ace or aro and she said that Adaine is too young to make that decision and she’ll see what happens naturally. I would assume it’s he same with Riz, might be ace or aro, but best to wait until it’s confirmed

@@rosemacqueen5172 murph literally says "it [romance] just isn't happening yet... me wanting to do that is not happening" in the scene where riz is talking to his dad, and as an aroace, that entire conversation 110% read as a very ace experience, id say thats evidence enough for people to call riz ace! saying "well, hes just a teen, that doesnt mean anything" invalidates his (and many other ace people's) experiences, please dont do so. even if he changes his identity later in life, while we see him, riz is ace. (also, murph + brennan made a VERY ace story in s2, this compilation is proof of that)

@@day2139 No you’re totally right, I’m not gonna lie I completely forgot that happened in the convo with his dad, that’s my bad, it’s a real long show

SAME

He genuinely loves terrifying the players in such an Uncanny Valley way

He sounds like a cassette tape with some warping on the tape, it’s wild

I kept wondering that throughout this season with almost everything.

Probably the moment Riz made Baron up. Watching Murph, it's not hard to tell Riz is trying to get out of an uncomfortable situation. Brennan be like "!!! .... 😈!"

Ally did that as well in another episode. When SandraLynn was fighting I think in the pirate brawl, Ally said “huh I should play a ranger next time” which made Emily laugh

I think you mean 'Did Emily leek ACOC...'

I _know,_ he's practically melting. "You guys think I'm scary? :DDDD" Such a cinnamon roll of a man for someone who just made an eldritch horror.

Have you seen his Calamity run on Critical Role? I've yet to really approach the huge CR backlog but I watch Calamity because Brennan was Dming and it was a prequel. More than half of that miniseries is Brennan throwing some wild curveballs at the players.

Okay, so I looked up stark and it has several meanings, and one of them happens to be 'Barren/desolate' (Ignoring that it could also mean 'rigid', so could also just mean a strict/dead? father)

yeah stark usually means barren. like you'd think of a desert as stark. :)

in this context it would mean strict or unfriendly

My assumption was that it was referring to the Nightmare King. Baron was born of the Nightmare King personifying Riz's lies and fears.

@@levtokol8649 I'm pretty sure this is the correct interpretation