It's standard behaviour for Warlocks. You're half expected to tell them to fuck off at some point.

Robert Ferreira true. Even the lawful good ones can be dicks. “Don’t kill him. He must be punished for his crimes.” “But he has killed so many and can control the weak minded without a single magic item.” “He must be punished by the laws.” “Fuck off.” *drives sword into the heart of BBEG*

real shit hex blades are the only ones who can do that without dying

@@shanerose3966 I mean technically Fjord could be turned into a Deathlock for crossing his patron, but that wouldn't be as much fun.

@@shanerose3966 he's not a hexblade. He's GOO warlock. He just has pact of the blade.

Junction He yeeted his last haw

more like YEET his last haw it say xD

Husband and wife power couple, right there

I mean, when people talk about clutch moments of critical role you get scanlans counterspell and jesters cupcake, but people forget fjords charm monster on the laughing hand and his defiance to ukatoa, both very important game changing moments

Willingblam has had the most powerful moments in this campaign full stop

Well don't forget the Caleb save with the brightqueen, that probably avoided a tpk after all the failed conversation. No one expected that one lol

@@warforged79 Ronin is going the be the world's protagonist at this point. Nerf parents

Omfg 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

👀

that is LITERALLY what happenednsksksskskksksksk

More like: when you quit your horrible job and leave your abusive boss.

i was literally JUST listening to the quadraxis theme before going to this video only to see you in the comments

It's funny. Fjord, Beau, and Caleb all have the same Strength modifier yet the monk and even the wizard carried Nott with ease yet we're supposed to believe Fjord, whose race has a natural bulk to them, can't.

@@notsomagicalmike7429 issa joke.

@@Chris_Meade I'm aware

@@notsomagicalmike7429 I think it's more played for laughs between Travis and Sam. They had the same type of think with scanlan and grog

@@notsomagicalmike7429 Sure doesnt seem like it lol

MrIronWar Chat: THROW IT Fjord: Throws the sword in the lava Chat: surprised pikachu meme

FJORDOOOOO

I was like "it wants it returned... the sword came from nothing" *looks at lava* and thats why such contracts have to be specific

*smirk* no....

And then after that during the equipment scene "AND MY AXE"

He plays the low INT high WIS character so well

hes really bringin the tea

Dont forget the "Nonsense, hes not powerless; he's just discovered a new power." That line was bomb.

@@Sliferslacker21 Then a few episodes later he drops a big one. The one about a person asking for a miracle.

Don't forget the "You out Percy'd Percy, motherfucker!" Taliesin is awesome!

So wholesome.

Was touching to me, he felt useless like he couldn’t contribute and everyone showed him that didn’t matter.

My eyes became wet on that part and I scrolled down the comments cos I was sure someone would mention it. To be honest, I didn't even understand the meaning at first. The logic reached me after the emotion. It doesn't matter where the power comes from, but who and how s/he uses it. But can't quite tell why it was so emotional. He said it casually. Words had no power. He didn't do any spectacular gestures while saying it. Yet the emotion it unleashed knocked me down.

On God I was nearly crying when they all started offering Fjord their magic items

This whole scene were they convince fjord that it doesn't matter is great, and when Travis almost cries and laughs is sooo good. And than I love how Sam is so good at carrying the anti meta game jokes through the scene and just omygosh I love this whole clip

Play of the Game: Sam Riegel as Widowmaker

Sam is the best example of how to bully like a Nerd

That burn is 2d8 fire damage to Travis's ego

Good old sam “sam reigel” reigel

Samerica rise up

Alright so he needs to dress up as Simon Belmont now

@@khurelbatbayanbat7913 Leather armor with metal bracers? Close enough, I suppose.

Dun-nah-dun-duuuun!

Holy shit I never thought if that.

Fjord really should have had the glove of blasting all along tbth.

I see. You to are a man of culture. (Love a good old mass effect reference)

Fear me.

At that point I was thinking about how when they were in the Yuan-Ti Temple and Nott got stoned off her ass and tried to cast Teleport, even though she didn't have that spell.

*asthmatic breathing intensifies*.

Nice reference. Nostalgic.

Just now?

Tbh I prefer cad to molly. Molly was fun but I think Cad has much better potential to mesh well with the party as it stands currently

@@connorbarauskas6730 Potential haha Cad has been with them for 60 episodes.

@@dylanmcla Im just amazed people are STILL sad about Molly's death. Call me insensitive, but i dont miss him at all anymore. Caduceus is a great Character.

"So you're saying you're weak-er than before"

"If you make one comment about my strength I will throw you into the lava." "You couldn't, but--"

He's SO GOOD at being able to break the tension.

@@deffdefying4803 that comment made me laugh out loud and I had to explain why I was laughing at midnight.

@@RabidDogma I so agree, he was throwing Travis a bone because he was teetering on the edge of crying. No way to be sure, but I think Sam saw that, and knew Travis wouldn't like to be caught tearing up on the stream, so he gave him a verbal slap to snap him out of it.

The hat was amazing! I felt so happy for the group!

best part of this whole video in my opinion XD

“When your equipment combines, I am.... Captain Wjild Mjother!”

The fact that it was so genuine and spur of the moment is something incredible. We are used to seeing that kind of stuff in scripted kids shows and stuff that go out of their way to set that stuff up... but it's always so artificial. To see a group of adults all come together like that without realizing it... that was something truly special.

My party had something like this happen when the fighter in our group took on a rusty ooze. Dude’s armor and everything was wrecked. But the forge cleric and artificer and rogue started handing him stuff to bring him back to something close to his power. Dude was moved. He was sad for his spear but the rogue had a sword she barely used so he became a swordsman after a little practice.

You have my sword And my bow And my axe! And my dagger, My whip Here, have some drugs!

he wasn't wrong either.

@@taddad2641 in a way it makes being subservient to a powerful being easier when that being itself is in a position of weakness that you can exploit

Matt actually seems as surprised as everyone else. Like "um I didn't plan for this."

And what Laura does with the dust of deliciousness... true power gaming couple in all of DnD

@@TheJerbol Until it no longer is in that postition and now you have an elemental titan that might just be very pissed off with you

The triple 1s during the festival was the best. He really made that scene special.

Well that is partly because he is awesome at rp and commits to the character. And partly because he loves to poke the sleeping dragon just to see what happens. :P Craven edge and the deck of many things being the more notable examples. But even with smaller things Travis is always the one that says "Lets do it" :D

My absolute favorite RP for the entire gang, in either season: Fjord, the first time he lost his powers, whispering "no no no no no..." to himself, in his normal voice instead of his fake accent, and having a freak-out walk through the town. Just absolutely perfect, and understated, and completely comfortable with his decision for his character. No scenery chewing, no "pay attention to me, this is my scene" - just pure roleplaying in the moment.

@@ripl0x Absolutely. More fun than even the double 20s during the Search for Grog.

Well, haven't you heard? Fortune favours the bold.

Or taryon

Batman that can barely use all of his gadgets

Batman is not exactly a regular dude

@@Gregor1657 Haha I didn't even think of that XD I think Tary still had artificer abilities at least. Fjord is like a classless NPC pretty much. A high-level classless NPC, but still.

@@dylanperkins7939 If i was DM that would be mad inspiration points and a free Actor feat and probably an extra 2 charisma points holy shit that was the wildest shit ive ever seen in DND period!

I I think he almost did

@@thenosieyartist6924 nope, at least some crits, nothing is going to happen... It's a god for fucks sake... He barely came as far as any mortal whould... Not even close.

@@williamebel4763 you can see that as well when Matt says "You can roll intimidation if you want"

@@pantelisrrasoulis2007 pretty much yeah.

@@pantelisrrasoulis2007 Except that's not what he says. He initially tells Fjord, verbatim, to "make an intimidation check." Only once Fjord pushes the sword in another inch and steps directly up to the lava, a move which you can tell Matt finds dangerous and ballsy, does Matt say "you can make another intimidation check if you'd like." Matt's look and response to Travis could very well have meant "good luck" or "you're crazy; he's going to kill you" or simply "shit, I wasnt expecting this." Now, I'm not saying you're wrong or that he was close to success; I'm just pointing out that we don't know what Matt Mercer could, would, will or won't do, what Fjord's patron might do, or what piece of lore or backstory involving Fjord and his link to Uka-Toejam & Earl might still be hidden from the audience's view.

Meanwhile, when Percy’s weapon was thrown in a pit, his only reaction was “it was so expensive”

@@ladaboy3507 it had two enchantments on it. Of course it was expensive.

Taliesin is the evil entity

Good to know I wasn't the only one thinking of Lord of th Rings during that part!

What do you think "Your love of the halflings leaf has clearly slowed your mind" alludes to, though? It's called 'pipe-weed'. Need one say more?

@@TjerkMuller Yes, because they aren't actually smoking marijuana, dumbass. They call it tabac in certain sections of the book. Language changes over time and that book was written a very long time ago. They didn't consider weed to mean marijuana back then. They smoke tobacco like everyone else.

@@noneofyourbusiness2437 errrr yeah it still was. Drugs were pretty fucking everywhere in the 50s and then RAMPANT in the 60s and 70s. Its a really easy fact check. "According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term first appeared in print in 1932" Took less than 10 seconds. LOTR was written between 1937 and 1949.

@@IceWraith101 It could have been coca leaf...

If he stays RP British it should be more of “Jestuhh”. “Jestah” is more Australian IMO

No joke, easily one of my favorite parts of this is watching how Laura reacts as her hubby's character development is happening. The face when she realizes that he's dropping the fake accent is PRICELESS.

Jeff B he should, however now that Travis is speaking for longer stretches in his British accent, I’ve noticed that he can’t always keep the RP accent consistent and sometimes slides into something a little less formal, much the same way as Liam did with Vax, so it wouldn’t surprise me if he went slightly cockney on some words. The slight variation in accents worked well for Vax’s character though (and seemed to be a conscious choice, from what I can tell) and it could be that it works well for Fjord too, particularly as he’s spent to long around people with completely different accents, it’s natural he’d be subconsciously affected. (Also I’m not meaning to criticise either Travis or Liam by saying their British accents vary sometimes, obviously they’re both super talented and way better at voices than I could ever hope to be, it’s just an observation).

Suzy Lightning Good point, Cockney is WAY closer to home and would use the harsher non-rhotic “ahr” kinda sound. Speaking as a filthy colonial who has never been to the UK it can be tough to avoid slipping between accents (even though RP and Cockney have pretty pronounced differences). I guess it’s probably like a British person trying to sound like a Southern US accent and slipping into Western US.

@@JB-xl2jc jester is our word, but you can say Jesta

That deer in the headlights look gives me breath

lmao Matt's evil chuckle at the beginning as Travis said "Noooo" was perfect

Wellll Hayullll

there's a yee haw in his heart

@@larkrogers3690 As a Texan, I can verify that it's the yeehaw on the inside that counts.

I saw someone else say it best "he's yee'd his last haw"

No but now we can make british jokes about Fjord now

Fjord would like to CHANGE--

He just opened the menu and changed a few settings of his character XP

Scorching Ray but that’s splitting hairs

It seems to me like Liam played out Caleb clocking that comment, as well. I wonder if Caleb is reevaluating what he's doing with himself and why.

@@kootiepatra im a little late to the discussion, but I'd say he definitely is. In refjored, Caleb and Fjord share a moment before beginning the heist to steal the ring and reminisce about the time Fjord put his place to calebs throat. Fjord apologizes but Caleb quickly dismisses it as if he knows what fjord did was deserved. When Molly died Caleb was only beginning to realize he kind of enjoyed this new thing he had going, but the stress of putting his life on the line to get it back was a little much for him. Now though, that bond is even deeper, Caleb no doubt views them as a family and I think if another Lorenzo situation had happened, there would be no inner struggle whatsoever, just blazing fireballs of revenge.

Caleb is also refjordging himself :)

I love to see the progression of these characters. They were so well thought out

Sometimes, if you have no backstory you just need to make one :P

You can make it up as you go tbh. We always give away small details during RP in my group and sometimes we just thought of them on the spot. If you say its canon and it makes sense then it’s real.

We started to play DSA (the black eye) and I as a nooby was searching for plants, as the dm asked what I was looking for my brain invented double stinging stinging nettles... and they are a thing now in our campaing

@@BlackDragonWitheHawk Oooh, a fellow DSA player! We're pretty much an endangered species in the english-dominated ttrpg scene lol.

Doesn't Matt help set up their backstories somehow, or at least tease bits and pieces of their backstory for them to reveal? Like in whispers/private texts and such?

Flashbacks to Percy's gun getting thrown into the acid.

What, like Sam's Eldermancy drink?

@@noahbaden90 right?

@@noahbaden90 Yup! I love how Taliesin celebrated! And you know he was thinking "Fjord just did what Percy didn't have the strength to do!"

_"And my drugs!"_

he out-percied percy

I live for this comment

The pride Talison shows in his formerly newbie RPG friends as they spread their wings with strength in this campaign brightens my heart so much!

Sorry. But i didnt understand the comment.

@@euapatroaeospets947 SPOILERS FOR CAMPAIGN ONE. Taliesin's character in Campaign one named Percival Frederickstein Klossowski de Rolo III or simply just "Percy" had a weapon that is cursed and was controlling him. Percy was able to destroy for a long time but didn't as he considers the weapon priceless. It was only destroyed because one of the PC's destroyed it, ending the curse for percy. The original comment is about how Fjord made a decision the Percy couldn't. Because of it, Taliesin is very happy that someone could make a decision that Percy couldn't

BadSkeelz Underated Comment.

No one: Literally no one: Fjord: fuck out of here I don't need you

“THIS BITCH EMPTY, AYEET”

@@mistamemewide I can't believe how appropriate that meme is here.

I like to think of it as a brutal critical

Rachael Poulin i think it was laughing at the reference “and my ax”

@@USful Or the panic of "Shit now I need to know how all of this works"

@@Idofphoenix Nah. Fjord's got this. As a Hexblade, he's got proficiencies with Martial Weapons and Shields. He knows how to use all that stuff. And as a Warlock, he'd be proficient with "point hand shoot fire." Of course, without his Patron, he's lost his Sword Specialization. But he'd still be able to use any sword he picks up, just not as well as he would be able to if he had the power of his patron coursing through his veins.

I was crying here oh my god. It's such an amazing scene

Omg i love you for this

You are my hero, this needs to happen!

the amount of layers to this joke would make an onion jealous

Nice one

I don`t remember to have been here...

Was that Uka'toa or the Wildmother soothing him?

I don't think that was Uk'atoa.

@@MichaelNelson1965 I mean taking into account the other god that the Kiln was built for could have intervened. So we have Uko'toa, Melora the Wildmother, and possibly the Allhammer contending for Fjord's services....

@@Jebjeb it could have been either. I think Fjord AND Travis realized at that moment it didn't matter, he didn't want to be a tool anymore. I love it.

I'm sure self-sacrificing your blood into a holy brazier shows the owner of that temple you mean business. My money is on Melora starting the switch over

My thoughts exactly!

How DnD players see it.

Then for a cinematic scene, make it go around fjord when he holds the sword over the lava. Then make the music stop as he feels the comfort, a small window through the smoke will be seen as he pull the blade back. The scene follows the sword with fjord in the back.

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I keep imagining that just before the falchion sinks it's last couple inches into the lava it gives a thumbs up just before going under. *Waits to see if anyone gets that reference*

Now he just needed 2 gloves of blasting.

Well damn

Tiny Miniskirts!!

Holy crap I never put that together but I love it! What a neat coincidence!

Now that you say that I can hear especially when he fights lust and envy never realized that’s awesome

F**king same man

I could barely freaking breathe man, this was insane!

KryptiiK: Wow, way to ruin it dude. Just because you did not have a similar reaction to us, doesn't mean you have to say we're idiots.

@KryptiiK you must be fun at parties

@KryptiiK mega douche alert.

Sounds like an additional line that Cad would say in the new animated series

Fjord as Fjord

@@notjarek237 *RapedBacon as Fjord. Yeah, that was Travis's username, I'm not joking.

@@thatonepsycho5157 kinda wanna know the origin of that username, but I also kinda dont

POG

Casual reminder that Beau is the only one of the entire Nein that doesn't have magic, or at least the magic one uses to cast spells. She might've been talking as an outsider's perspective on all the amazing shit the others can do, while she can basically just punch good.

@@deffdefying4803 Ki is amazing and you can do some magical ass shit, she really shouldn't be jealous

deffdefying I still think this is a weird line of thought. Sure everyone can cast spells (though fjord and nott only barely), but the amount of ridiculous and powerful stuff monks can do shouldn’t lead to thinking of the monk as lesser. I mean, she literally ran up a 300 foot tall tree, stunned enemies at extremely crucial moments, done insane amounts of damage, and so much more over the campaign. Its like making it to the olympics but not getting a medal placement. You aren’t the best of the best, but you made it to the olympics for god’s sake. That alone is a crazy achievement.

@@deffdefying4803 She can literally use ki to be super human fast, stun enemies, run up walls, ignore gravity to an extent and more. I like Beau, but I really never believed that whole “insecure in my power and worth” idea Marisha flirts with at times, simply because of the amount of obvious utility that Beau displays in and out of combat. I feel like Fjord is a better exploration of this idea, mainly because it’s more integral to Fjord’s story. Not a Marisha hater or anything, I’m fully aware she is amazing, just don’t like this and one or two other aspects of Beau. Edited for typo.

Third time the same thing has been said, just in different flavours. I understood the first time.

So, a Paladin or Druid then? We have 2 Clerics already in the party

@@TheDisquietingNight Probably Oath of Ancients Paladin.

I suppose that Uk'otoa is not something that you can just say goodbye without consequences... Expecially if the last orb is still in your chest, though inactive, as I suspect. The other possibility is that now the orb is under the molten lava, as the sword melt, but I think it is unlikely. Next few episodes we will see what kind of ordeal Fjord will have to endure to sigil this change, and it will be an ordeal to pass without powers...

Ended my friendship with UK'otoa, Wild Mother is my new best friend

Probably archfey patron or something? I know she’s not technically fae but it works imo

Lol vjore

Doesn't have the strength score. He could become a Hexblade of the Ancient One, which would allow him to be a warlock of the Wildmother.

​@@mjr8888 Dex-based Paladins are a thing: heck, in the last campaign, Liam's character Vex was a Rogue/Paladin build.

But Paladins use Charisma as a spellcasting skill, ain't it? Could work...

@@matheusbravo3758 Yes they do, unfortunately though in 5e you need to have at least a 13 in stength to multiclass into a paladin

@@tomveenstra7757 Yep, Vax put some points in strength when he leveled so he'd meet the requirements

Oh, hey Kit. didn't expect to see you here XD.

@@jumper4038 HEY! Fancy seeing you here 😆

Yeah, Caleb basically spurred on a small collective movement on Fjords behalf. "Here take this.. and where's that whip?" He was determined to reassure him he did the right thing.

I'll never forget the chain of people yelling "YEET IT INTO THE LAVA!" After he started holding it over the lava.

Then they were surprised when he actually did

@@JB-xl2jc Chat: YEET IT INTO THE LAVA! Travis : *Actually yeets the sword towards the lava* Chat : *Surprised pikachu face*

Yeah I could see the comments, they were out of control.

I missed that! >XD

What makes this even better is that Fjord originally owned the glove and traded it to Caleb for that special water armor at Caleb's request, because fire. I love how he just gave it back without a moment's hesitation.

Interestingly the character the class is based off of in part, Elric of Melnibone, once did this with his sword Stormbringer, except it was into the ocean. No more than five seconds later he dived in after it. Elric had a hard life, and it both was and wasnt his fault.

@@zeterzero4356 awe man.. I havent read the Elric Saga in YEARS!!!!

@@stevenstine6854 Still have to read that last book one of these days. Then I suppose I'll have to read the Corum and Hawkmoon ones as well.

@@zeterzero4356 Just saw this comment and WTH I've not read the Eternal Champion books since I was a kid (started with Corum coz my dad had it lying around, then Hawkmoon).

My warlock actually may end up doubling down on her pact. Her sister was being used in a necromancy spell and they got to her as she was being sacrificed. When they saved her I quietly mummbled, "she will live. I will double down and give anything." So we will see how my DM takes that.

Great catch!

Well she would still be a rogue. Just no fury of the small

I loved this too!! At first glance, it seems like a burn... but you can feel the hurt and wonder behind the question

@@BisexualWrath Maybe, maybe not. RAW Polymorph won't let her keep her skills and stats, and can be dispelled so is temporary. Reincarnate RAW also causes the resultant race to be randomly picked, but she would keep her Rogue stuff.

@@_zurr that would involve them kill nott a lot

welcome to high level warlock, where eventually the warlock has had enough.

I broke my pact with The Raven Queen in a campaign. Out of the story I was tired of warlock and wasn't having fun. I RP'ed it as my Tabaxi deciding he couldn't rely on supernatural powers to fix his shortcomings. She took all my memories and I made him an Artificer.

There are some deep hidden depths to Travis.

Rolls in the low 20's appear to still have failed

Yep, I think a 25 was the DC

I'm pretty sure it was like with Caleb and Avantika's journal. It is theoretically possible, but you would need a nat 20 and maxed out stats

In 20 years of D&D... I have never once seen a man who would attempt to intimidate a primordial Slow Clap

@@Gray963 But in this case it made perfect sense; sure Uky can find others, but Fjord and the crew had knowledge of where what when why and how to release him. Losing Fjord is a BIG loss, UKY has time for sure, but it is still a stinging blow and Fjord knew that.

Who was your favorite before??

Fjast Fjavourite indeed.

He always was for me

@@KalonOrdona2 God same

I thought the same thing.

Yet he doesn’t want to hurt his friends because of it, he’d rather have the pain of losing that than hurting and/or losing his friends

@@calliecalamity8787 It's a real testimony of his character that the moment uko'toa (spelled that wrong) threatened him to consume his freinds to grow in strength he was ready to throw away what he thought was his identity, Travis's characters have always been my favorite (not being bias because of my last name)

Caleb should've rolled a Wisdom save after that

FATALITY with cutting words

it truly brought tears to my eyes .. just awesome eh? to have friends like that?

I'm pretty certain Travis reaction (something along the line of 'o shit') was because he (the player) was close to tears.

Sort of like the end of 'It's A Wonderful Life': "Remember no man is a failure who has friends!"

The Powah of Freindship!.....(also ... freindship is magic.... i had to it was such a easy opening)

SharkShocker I don’t think this is the last we’ve seen of the blade, its an ancient and sentient magical artifact with the key to a demigod on it... i think we’ll see it again

@@juanpablomontalvo4715 30 episodes later, they've run into the sword again, wielded by Mollymauk, calling himself Lucian. *DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUN*

The Great Goblin Wizard Kazamaraz No Yasha uses Mollys body and has Obam uses it but really it was a double double cross and mollys soul locks oban in place so yasha can kill him for real

@@KazumiKiguma not gonna lie , an undead molly/lucien wielding the blade sounds awesome on paper

That episode sent the entire world into a different realm and honestly I'm not even mad about it

Unpopular opinion, but I can’t get past episode one of campaign one… I just find the characters less interesting

@@ryanorusio1056 The First Arc in C1 is... Not the best. But It picks up at Arc 3 or known as Briarwood arc

@@lordm2972 yeah bit what episode is that

@@shambhvilokre episode 24 is the official start of the Briarwood arc

Travis is still Texan I believe.

TWYHGR isn't based on Fjord, it's based on Travis. Travis is Texan.

Exactly, dude, called it the whole time.

Powermove is his middle name. Fjord Powermove... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

He wasn't bluffing

If they go the full class swap then it could, but he would need to play a defensive or supportive Oath playstyle. Since his attack stats are garbage.

I suspect that it will be an opportunity for Matt and Travis to sit down together and explore their creativity. Its an opportunity to investigate the idea of `redeemed`. IDK if we ever really knew if the warlock pact with Uggutoa? was agreed to by Fjord or simply `there` after the shipwreck. I kind of like the idea of a class based around the conscious choice to sacrifice a power rooted in evil that takes a little bit from Paladin, but is more rooted in divine spell based protection/damage reduction and attack rather than the Martial Path.

Ya that's basically what happened as of e76, _Refjorged._

Yeah paladin is tricky with low strength and dex. Their spells aren’t really good enough to carry the class on their own. Honestly I’m hoping for sorcerer! He’s got the charisma for it, and sorcerers sometimes come into to their powers through crazy events that happen to them, so it’d be fairly easy to weave it into the story.

Tenets. Beliefs of a faith or organization are tenets.