"Emily is one of the best roleplayers, endlessly creative, always fun to play with. She was also sent from hell to kill me."

The way Brennan kept trying to trip her up by constantly saying ''so you found this at your house??'' with emily replying ''no the POLICE house'' very time killed me

"You can roll high enough to convince anyone of anything, but I will NOT let you get off that easily." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

Emily's alignment is Chaotic Chaotic

"YOUR NAME IS HILDA HILDA, AND YOU LIVE IN 22 HILDA STREET, AND 22 HILDA BOULEVARD, WHICH ADDRESS WAS THE NOTE LEFT ON!?!? "

"no no you're in this now" Lmaoo Brennen going through with this and forcing Emily to role play this fully is the fucking best!

Notice that Brennan did not ask for *a single dice roll* through this whole exchange, he's raking Emily over the coals, but Fig pulls off all of this with 0 issues

I love the characters’ creativity when they need to lie on the spot. After all, what could be better then: -Baron from the Baronies -Hilda Hilda who lives on 22 Hilda Street and 22 Hilda Boulevard. Totally inconspicuous.

Lou saying to Emily "I GET IT. i get the vision" is the most perfect introduction to them two years later playing the absolutely chaotic cousins in the Court Of Fey And Flowers

You left out the part where Fig threw her phone into the river leaving the commissioner to think that Decker had killed herself or something

Brennan has occasionally described an aikido-style of DMing of redirecting/deflecting the chaotic energy of the players rather than just stopping it. Usually, it's done to point towards a more productive result but, it can also be used to unleash a devastating counterattack of chaos at the player. This is such a masterful demonstration of that technique. Hands down, one of the best DMs.

the way Brennan says "you mean the PRECINCT" kills me every time

Brennan, after hours and hours of allowing Em to run wild, gets his revenge. Absolutely whomped. You love to see it.

“Is that Boulevard or Street. We’ve got two in this city.” The ultimate “no no. You made your bed. I’m gonna make you lie in it.”

to watch murph play with his ring, looking at his wife with disbelief and amusement while she runs buckwild with this side quest, is a joy

Brennan has the same energy as "you told me Id be conducting the interview when I entered. Now exactly how much pot have you smoked?" In this scene

I love how just as Emily says "I just wanted to leave a note" EVERYONE on the table is already like "oh shit here it comes"

Always watch Murph watch his wife cause chaos. ALWAYS.

My favorite element is the other players trying to help by asking if they're nearby, and Brennan completely shutting that down like, "No, Emily is going to deal with this by herself. This is what she gets." Incredible. Easy 2nd favorite: "Well, this all checks out."

I am convinced that after this session Brennan went home and created the character of Ayda to deal with Fig romantically once and for all. You can see something inside him break during Hilda Hilda

I like to come here when I'm sad. It's impossible to keep crying when Brennan says "your name is Hilda Hilda and you live at 22 Hilda Street AND 22 HILDA BOULEVARD"

When the chaotic force Emily meets the Unmovable force BrenDad a female detectives whole life goes up in flames over wanting kisses. Ya hate to see it :P

How nobody here is talking about Ally's one singular bark is beyond me. The moment they do that sends me every single time

I think "hold on, we're in this now" were brennan's true thoughts in that moment

There better be fanart of Hilda Hilda living her life, just casually walking her dog from 22 Hilda Street to 22 Hilda Boulevard.

"No no we're in this now, hang on a second"

I love the way Murph looks at Emily when she’s being absolutely chaotic. There’s so much love, amusement, and pure confusion on his face.

A different DM might say, "Emily, make a Deception Check." No need. This is perfection.

spoilers: now you need to add the moment from leviathan rock city where a dwarf is racist to riz and she runs up and goes “i disguise myself AS HIM” and the nonsense that happens after including the other kids convincing him he has died and been eaten leaving him to spread eagle dive into the ocean

zac and murph both holding their head in their hands as they realize what emily's planning is gold

People when ExU Calamity was announced: "A new DM? Oh, boy, he's not ready for Sam's chaos." D20 fans when ExU Calamity was announced: "Hilda Hilda says hi, Sam."

Really love Brennan's attitude as a DM of "You wanna do that? Okay let's *do* that!" You don't get away with your bullshit, he drags you through it with him and it's beautiful.

I like how everyone starts rubbing their eyes in anticipation _well_ before shit actually hits the fan. It's that glint in her eyes.

To be fair, if my name was Hilda Hilda and I lived in a city with a Hilda Street and a Hilda Boulevard, I'd want to have houses at #22 on both of them.

I think this is the moment that absolutely broke Brennan

How Brennan doesn’t even *blink* when Emily says her last name is Hilda is beyond me. I was dying by then.

I love that brennan lets them just be as chaotic as possible but is likie NO NO NO YOU CHOSE THIS YOU HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT!

THE POLICE HOUSE?

Every DM, especially in D&D, has this one player... And we love and hate them so so much

as someone who also wears glasses, siobhan removing hers to wipe the tears from her eyes was such a mood

Brennan’s extremely aggressive “yes and”ing with POINTED eye contact is really what makes this

“No no we’re in this now” it’s like a murder victim trying to crawl away to safety only to be dragged right back in to the slaughter.

brennan just fucking "yes, and"ing emily's chaotic bullshit is comedy fucking gold

I love how Brennan gets progressively more frustrated. “Your name is Hilda Hilda, and you live at 22 Hilda St _AND_ 22 Hilda Blvd… _WHICH ADDRESS WAS THE NOTE LEFT ON?!?!?”_

murph playing with his wedding ring at 1:34 took me OUT

"I'm going to leave and come back as detective Decker." Absolutely bananas. I have no idea how she thought that was going to work out

Sometimes, deciding to NOT have players roll during dialogue is 1000% the right move. Just letting it happen can lead to magic like this 😂

Nothing is every going to beat Brennan's "thE POLICE *HOUSE* ???"

i love the glasses removal murph does when stressed like "maybe if i can't See the table, the situation will become less bad"

This is one of the funniest fuck around and find out things out there. No danger just the DM going "OK I'm locking us both in the most insane RP conversation and whenever you do something Goofy I will ask for follow up"

I always love Emily and her chaotic bullshit that Brennan tries his best to grapple with.

I lose it every time I watch this and she decides to start RUNNING and the guy at the station chases after her

Zac's "oh god" perfectly marks the moment for me where i full on lose it every time

I feel like so much of Fantasy High, especially with Fig, is "Let me act on the first thought that comes to my head" followed up by "Oh god, what have I gotten myself into?" and this moment exemplifies that to a T.

Now put up the clip with Riz's romance partner

i love that everybody starts laughing literally the second emily says "i just wanted to leave a note." they knew what was coming

This video took about seven left turns, which is the most convoluted way I’ve ever seen anything go right

“No, no, you’re in this now.” Perfect DM sentence to keep a player around for the consequences of their nonsense

Emily Axford is a creature of pure chaos and I, for one, am HERE👏🏼FOR👏🏼IT👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I love how Brennen rarely says no to anyone's decisions (especially Emily's) but makes sure they have to deal with the consequences of those actions.

Oh dudes, coming back to this always feels like balm for the soul. And let's not forget that Hilda Hilda returned with a vengeance during the final episodes of the season. Sort of a lesser version of the Baron from the Baronies haunting.

Emily Axeford for Critical Role guest appearance

"We're in this now" and "Well this all checks out." Perfectly describes my experience in DnD.

Size of a Clydesdale kills me... I used to play a paladin with a find steed that reskined a war horse as a pomeranian and always explained it as "imagine a pomeranian the size of a Clydesdale"

ally barking as the dog is so fucking funny

Axford is a national dang treasure.

"i just never know what angle you're coming from" is even funnier having listened to naddpod

the amount of times i’ve come back to this specific video is ridiculous.

Her throwing in an extra lie that her dog is as big as a clydesdale for absolutely no reason is why I love Emily

Everytime I walk passed my local 22 Hilda st I giggle like a child

Four years later (next school year) Agent Clark is still looking for Hilda Hilda

And then the unexpected callback to this later toward the end of the season is amazing. 😄

The way Brennan handled this had me crying laughing. He is a genius GM, and consistently brilliant every single episode.

This is the only moment when a local policeman had more than 1 in INT.

My girlfriend plays very similarly to Emily, and I honestly just wish I could roll with her shenanigans as well as Brennan does with Emilys. Edit: So the second week of January 2023 we had our second session of the year and I shit you not, my girlfriend pulled a Hilda Hilda by giving literally giving no indication whatsoever of what she was gonna do without missing a beat when asked a certain question. She's playing a Tiefling named Excellence and it's also a school setting with the principal also being a Tiefling, and her ans the principal butt heads a bit due to her character being a danger to the other students when they go out to do missions involving the school. Well, this session I don't remember why it came up, but the Principal asked what her middle name was and she just looked me dead in the eyes and said, "Excellence." And I started losing it along with three of the other party members. I asked her to clarify that her characters name was Excellence Excellence and we ran with it from there. Funny thing is, one of the other PCs has the same mom as her making them siblings, and she's saying her mom named her that, so uh, Zak Zak Dyer the Rouge Gnome has a question he needs to ask. Best part? She doesn't even know what Dimension 20 is so she's not just copying Hilda Hilda, it's literally just a random occurrence and that makes it so much funnier.

I want to see Emily axford, Sam riegel, Laura Bailey, and Aimee Carrera at the same table one day That might require more than one DM

You can see the worry creep up on the rest of the party, first Murph, then Zach, Ally and Lou.

at “the police house” I started crying

EMILY! Pump the breaks, think about what you're going to say before you say it. "NEVER!"

I paid for dropout and it's one of the best choice I have made in my life. Totally worth to watch the whole thing

Emily is perfect. Every time she does something crazy, she blesses the world.

"No, no, you're in this now."

"Well this all checks out."

Emily Axford is an agent of chaos and I love every minute of it

The energy of this is just so, so different from the energy in the most recent episode. It's like two different shows, with seven different people.

As a DM, after watching this, I will now NEVER let my players just make a throwaway joke or gag like this without making them walk it all the way out like Brennan did here 😂! He could’ve just let it die with Emily handing over the note, but he didn’t and it’s one of the best moments of the campaign!

when yes and-ing goes too far

Murph's reaction to 4:12 is so flipping good XD

"Okay, this all checks out."

There is a Hilda St in the neighborhood where I walk my dog and this plays in my brain every time we pass the sign.

Man this was just as funny as when as I first saw it.

This lives in my head rent free.

"When people say that actual plays are nothing like home games, this is what they're talking about." ~Brennan Lee Mulligan, Roll20 Chaos

god brennan is so good-looking with that beard woof

you know it's an emily axford-scheme the moment murph takes his glasses off - like he can just sense that chaos is about to ensue

Brennan's strategy to manage Emily is to "yes, and" her until she breaks

"The Police HOUSE?!" and "22 HILDA?" are maybe the funniest moment of any Dimension 20 campaign

I had forgotten how much Hilda Hilda murdered Zac, and it’s, you love to see it

Spoilers: I'm glad that Fig and Ayda found each other, I think that they bring out the best in each other. ...And hopefully fig will stop catfishing older men.

Siobhan having to take off her glasses to wipe off tears is so priceless