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Sam has an uncanny knack for taking a silly, goofy character and using them to EMOTIONALLY BLUDGEON US.

Sam has played a bard with family issues, a cursed goblin who was tortured in water, and now a robot with faulty programming. He’s really a master of emotions.

When your credit card declines at the therapists office:

So Sam’s emotional damage on us this time is that FCG has a personality switch that can take over which is basically the embodiment of the “aren’t you tired of being nice? Don’t you wanna go ape shit?” Meme. GG Sam.

No one can hurt you more than your therapist

"We're watching Boston Dynamics shredding ancient gnomish Paul Newman" Liam is hilarious

I love that Sam is fully committed to being kind when being kind and FULLY committed to being nasty when being nasty.

Matt through this entire scene: You all take 17 points of EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!!!

I love Travis' energy of being torn between "lol, I don't care what happens to this character. YOLO!" And "dammit, at least one of us players needs to make it to the double digit levels as a blood hunter..."

The way they were all more shocked by FCG swearing and being mean than the sudden violence

This plus Ashton subsequently piecing together what might have *actually* happened to FCG's former group was legit one of the best twists this entire campaign

I know that people might have a problem with it, but I fucking love the way Travis plays. He sees a beehive on the ground and says "this looks like a good thing to kick". You can tell Sam and Matt were ready for this moment and he instigated it in such a great, in-character way.

As always, Sam makes an incredible character and shows his excellent acting ability!

If Laudna didn’t get that nat 20, I wonder how many more deep cut insults Sam had ready to pop off within that battle.

The wise man fears only three things: the sea in a storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle robit.

Travis is so happy he got the PVP he missed out on during EXU Calamity.

"You were never alive" There is so much to unpack with that line. Is that even relevant or specific to Laudna? Or did somebody exclaim that to FCG, and it stuck with them? Sam's ambiguity with the "hitches" in FCG's programming has been absolute class

"I guess I'll just buzzsaw him :)"

The therapist having Jeckle & Hyde switch and using the group’s baggage and twisting it to hurt them most? PERFECTION. INCREDIBLE DRAMA. IT HURTS AND I LOVE IT, THANKS SAM!

The funny thing is that Sam’s crit was like 12 damage, then Marisha basically one shot him in response

I have to say Laura stuttering after reading his mind in a way that sounded like a glitch was AMAZING voice control if it was intentional. I swore the stream lagged for a moment before I realized what happened. One of the few moments that adds to the unsettling aspect of this scene

You know, the funniest thing about this is Matt knew from the start the party had a warlock with a psychopathic patron, FCG murder bot, and werewolf with lash out mechanics, without even counting the raging barbarian.

"take four points" "OF WHAT" "four points" SPLENDID

“Oh no! The consequences of my own actions!” - CEO Travis “Push The Red Button” Bailey/Willingham

“The rite of percussive maintenance should be taken seriously, one must just strike wantonly.” -random magos probably

He went Iron Giant.

It’s always “how will Sam hurt us the most this time” after making a character we just adore.

Ah yes, there's that joy in Sam's voice when he finally gets to go against the party. I missed it.

Patience is key to being a good therapist. He no longer has any to spare

Ideas: Dancer overlayed some programming to make them a helper bot and it's making his core program glitch the fuck out. Their helper programming acts like a compulsion to fix everyone's problems, but when they can't.... well, dead people don't have problems. They were originally a murder bot and the helper bot programming is making them insane. Their lack of self-knowledge means they're neglecting some robot maintenance they need. Like defragging your hard drive. Dancer treating them like property psychologically damaged them to the point of flash rage.

i remember someone at some point early on in the campaign had said in the comments that FCG was the cyclops and was the one that killed his friends. so, props to whoever said that.

The Iron Giant, Baymax, FCG. When our mechanical cinnamon buns turn violent, it's always an emotional roller coaster.

I like to think that Matt told them all to make characters with great emotional or physical trama in their backstories and they all took the opportunity to write these beautifully broken characters and slowly they will grow to be like those japanese artworks that are fixed with gold inlay to accentuate the cracks. But Travis misread the text and thought "my greatest trama in dnd is that I had to play characters other than Grog" so he just brought them back to troll the fuck out of all of them.

Who else knew from day 1 that there was no way FCG was actually just a smiley healing robot and that Sam was cooking up some dark shit?

Travis's "Turn him off! Turn him off! Turn him off!!" gets me every time XD He's so happy

*video ends* Ad: "Let's talk about Betterhelp." Me: yes thank you I will need therapy after this.

"Your parents don't like you that's why they got rid of you, and yknow what they were FUCKIN RIGHT!!!" I'm taking 99 points of emotional damage cuz holy fuck dude!!!

I cannot wait till they animate this so I can see FCG tell chetney to shut his fucking mouth. It's gonna look adorable 😆

Would’ve been cool if FCG went “have a happy FUCKIN DAY”

I love Sam/FCG using his therapy skills against the party to get at their worst fears. Now all of that watching them sleep DID turn creepy after all....

Kinda crazy how quick they were ready to off FCG! It turned on a dime from “What happened to FCG?!” to “I guess we’re killing this robot!” If they didn’t have healing FCG would be done.

"We're watching Boston Dynamic totally SHRED aging gnomish Paul Newman" - that's an all time out of context line if I've ever heard one

reminds me of people I know who are genuinely sweet and carting most of the time but can be the cruelest when pushed too far. They listen to your worries and passions and turn them against you when they snap. They are the ones who can bring you down with a single word.

This is gonna be one of the moments of campaign 3 we remember for ages. :D

So Fresh Cut Grass has 2 personality modes: 1. C-3P0, Friendly communications droid! 2. HK-47, TIME TO KILL THE MEATBAGS...

Why am I emotional watching this? When Letters says all the mean things to his friends… pretty brutal Sam… lol literal tears

“4 points of what!” Sam: “alright well FCG is gonna hang his head” Everyone: *why do I hear boss music?*

I knew it all along! Since we first met FCG, I was positive that there was something deeply wrong with them. Didn't need an insight check to tell me that one! Sam loves his twist characters, and Letters was waaaay too saccharine sweet to be genuine. Once we learned that they were the sole survivor of a massacre, and that it happened while they were unconscious, it was practically written flashing neon that FCG was a killbot. Also, kind of funny they're going with stress points, like in _A Familiar Problem._

FCG goes full terminator mode.

FCG went from Baymax protocol to a Terminator A.I. in two seconds flat, and no one could have anticipated it. Very impressive, Sam Riegel.

The speak after this was amazing and something we should all listen to and live by

2:56 the quiet "I will behead you" lmaoo

I was in shock when he attacked Chet but I lost it when he started just verbally assaulting them

Travis'face when FCG tells him to shut it

Honestly, this shows FCG is more human than literally ANYONE ELSE in this campaign. We all reach this breaking point

I can imagine that whenever FCG shares the suffering of others with himself, all the pain and bad emotions they feel are bottled up deep inside

It'd be so funny if FCG got to Orym and just went "...You're fine, buddy."

Chet maybe next time don't hit someone when they're having a mental breakdown...

I guess when you try to help everyone with there problems….. Who’ll help you with your problems

You gotta love that Sam took the role/trope of healbot... literally and added a shadow to it. I would think its along the lines of fcgs OS can boot up any personality and it learns from the people around them. So when they crash/overload and defenses kick in, they use all of that trust and confidential information against their "friends", its like their inhibitors just isn't there. I'm really intrigued if the name has a scrambled meaning like Sam's other characters.

I love how Sam hit Travis with physical damage, and literally everyone else with *EMOTIONAL DAMAGE*

Part of me wonders, if the things FCG shouted at them were actually things that had been shouted at themself before but I’m not sure if it fits with the thing they shout at Fern

Travis’ toddler reaction full of excitement will always make me laugh.

I love knowing Travis was the most reluctant to play D&D at first and now seeing him like this. THAT is character development.

This ain’t anything like campaign 1, or 2 folks. Buckle up and get ready for some pvp stuff.

I like it how in Critical Role every moment, every player is "WOOOOOAAAAAHHH!" AND "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" this is how my table is too. Also Matt: Roll Initiative Everyone: *Ape sounds*

What's more frightening is there's now two pcs that can snap and turn at any point now and i love it, Laudna is a wildcard now too lol

Hey, remember that 'Sam has an uncanny knack for taking a silly, goofy character and using them to EMOTIONALLY BLUDGEON US' comment I made a year ago? IT HAPPENED AGAIN.

"I guess I'll just buzzsaw him" This is how I'll handle all my problems from now on

Sam over here pulling out Percy’s “you were never mothers favorite!”

Travis ADHD emotional peak of joy is such a delight

I love how Travis can occasionally play Chaotic Stupid in a fun way

I love that "You take 4 points" "4 points" without specification

I love how excited Travis gets when shit goes left 😭😭

This was the first episode of cc that I watched in its entirety and... I was such an exhausted emotional wreck after this. It was played out so intensely and the discussion afterwards was so honest and about trust and accountability. Just masterful.

I wonder if chet hadn't hit them, if fcg would have gone murderbot mode anyway

So all that negative emotion, just locked up in there, with no way of getting out. Yeah, entities made from those are a giant pain to deal with. I.E Remember Me's antagonist.

Travis is SO good at the table, reacting to the story and RP.

i recoiled so fucking hard from the screen when fgc said “shut up” and then fully stood out of my chair and scuttled back in horror when he continued with “why don’t you shut your fuckin mouth!” sam literally how dare you do this to us

This was such an episode, one of my favourites of the campaign so far. Many thanks for the clip!

Travis' expression as he's about to be sawed in half is priceless.

*Buzzsaws through a door* "HEEERE'S THERAPY!"

THE ABSOLUTE ANXIETY AND FEAR THIS CAUSED ME, THE ACTUAL TEARS THAT I JUST SHED

I love this whole "WHo helps the therapist heal?" Idea

Who else thinks what FCG said is going to comeback into play with their backstory. Like Dancer or someone else was saying something similar to them.

"You have to pull out before, you're afraid, it's going to pierce your mind, too." "It's like their brain became a bit... a-a-a-a-a-overloaded-"

God, I remember when my shrink glitched out and try to buzzsaw me.

👏👏👏 This was so friggin awesome! Probably my favorite part of this campaign so far. 😄

Such an amazing moment!

Only Sam could say "I will 'behead' you.", and make it funny af. XD

i freakin LOVE laura's lil static/lag in her speech when she goes into FCG's head

Let’s also not forget that based on that “Hunger of Shadows” spell the reaction Marisha had when Matt said HDYWTDT, was a look of absolute shock and fear. So chances are the effect of that spell is similar to finger of death in that when a creature reaches 0 hit points they die.

Was expecting more unfair mean sentiments from fcg. Maybe to orym he’d say something like: You should be grateful to the assassins so He wouldn’t have to see you fail Him like this.

I haven’t gotten this far (just finished the episode dorian left) but seeing ppl theories I like the idea that the stuff he yells at the hells bells were things dancer told him in anger (referencing the “you were never alive” thing) but I also think all the other yelling is what made him snap at the first group. But I also can see the two programs fight each other idea. But this is Sam we’re talking about!!! Either way I’m fucking ecstatic to see where this goes!!! XD

Emmy award winner Sam Riegel ladies and gentlemen 👏👏

I love Travis’s reaction

1:25 mercers visualization, the freaking music, sam twisting his character all the way around like sam does once in a peaktime, just like when scanlan left vox machina. this is a greatgreat clip from all angles :)

It's striking how the hurtful stuff FCG says comes out of a profound empathy FCG has for the others. He has a lot in common with the other members, and I bet they also empathize with him in return.... spoilers ahead? FCG and Lauda both doubt whether they are alive or not, and share an existential dread. Both try to be chipper although everyone treats them like weirdos and makes them feel out of place. FCG and Chetney both have inner demons that could burst out anytime and hurt the others around them. PRevious comments note how Chet really kinds of understands FCG's outburst. FCG and Ferne, and Ashton, all feel abandoned by their makers. They all havebsome sort of anger and regret when it comes to those people. FCG easily could have been projecting when he lashed out at Ferne. FCG and Imogen are both kind of empathetic/telekinetic. They pick up on other people's emotions and thoughts respectively, and it is overwhelming and sometimes hurts them. And FCG and Orym (bit of a stretch) kind of struggle to be good people that are conscientious and helpful, despite having deep wounds and anger that could send them over the edge at any point. Also, more superficially, they are both the ones that try to corralle the chaotic neutrality of their friend group.

literally made me cry😢