fun fact they come in separate cars right now because of social distancing, not sure why but they do

pixelrscore I think the legalities of two seperate employees of the company need to travel apart, their relationship to each other can’t factor into it. That’s what I gather at least. (Or Marisha is creative director and had been at the studio longer in the day than Matt)

But then imagine once Mat walks through door of their home Marisha is standing behind it saying "Was I right?! Did I get it??!?" with a manic look on her face

@@shangc2781 and Matt replying, I don't know, you'll see later I guess

Marisha: *goes full Sherlock on a plot* Matt: _n e w p l o t h o o k s_

BRUTALITY!

Take my thumbs up

"Hang on, I'm almost done!"

We get close to exploding, apparently.

We scatter across the rocks

Beau is letting her pull off the big brain moves she couldn't with Keyleth. Happy for her

Beau and Caleb's were my favorites for there worked on figuring stuff out.

I GOT BOXES FULL OF PEPE

@@deansheetsThey had buddy cop energy

critical role haters love hating on marisha for embodying her characters well, from keyleth to beau to laudna

its not just matt, it's matt in different colored vests.

@@tomaszskowronski1406 woah woah woah... two of them were the same vest.

@@lvlHivemaybe two of them are TWINS! ITS VEX AND VAX! ... I may have gone too far.

@@StormageddonTMS of course its been in front of us this whole time! Matt, and Matthew, Mercers.

@@lvlHive don’t forget Mccree

*is barely halfway done*

the cry of every ADHD person ever XD

"If your players can see the plot twist coming it's not because you're a bad DM, it means _they get it."_ - misquoting the OSP video on Plot Twists

As a Dm I can confirm. I absolutely LOVE it when my players figure out what is coming. I will be hinting at it from the start and when they put the puzzle together it shows me not only that they are invested, bus also that the story makes sense. And I love it!

It's the difference between a Scooby Doo mystery and a real one. Instead of having the twist come out of nowhere, there's always a chance you could put it together yourself.

My d&d group did this recently with conspiracy theorizing that this nobleman politician we hated was also an eladrin who served the Unseelie Court's seasons. We wound up being right and lost our minds at the reveal. Our DM was worried it being "obvious" would ruin it, but is putting the prices together only made it more rewarding.

Jonny Sims, the man who's writing The Magnus Archives podcast, said the same thing. Some people actually guessed the main twist and when he was asked about it in a later Q&A, he said you know you're doing a plot set up right when most people guess maybe 75% of it, some people guess all of it, and a few people get it totally wrong.

Yeah, I would kill for a player like Marisha. Or players like any of the whole cast, really.

Wait, people got mad over this? I know a certain group of people gets mad at Marisha for litterally every single thing she does, but what's their reasoning for this? "Oh, she spoiled everything for the rest of the group by giving away the plot" or some nonsense like that, I'm guessing?

@@thegreenassassin553 Yes, there's no doubt that a portion (maybe even the majority) of the people who were angry was just because it was Marisha, but even the next day when some people not related to CR at all asked about it on twitter there was definitely some "players like that ruins the fun for everyone" faux-anger was out there on Twitter. But if social media has taught us anything it's that no matter what happens in the world, there are always some people out there who will not only dislike it, but will also be disproportionately angry about it too.

@@andrewshandle Eh, from my experience with the CR community, it's definitely not a majority. Those people are very loud, sure, and it's a larger group than I'd likes, but they're still in the minority in the end. Also, what do you expect? That players are *not* gonna try and solve a mystery that's presented before them? That's like, the whole point of a mystery. If I'd be the DM in such a scenario, I'd be slightly disappointed that you'd miss out on that "big reveal" moment (and even then, only to a degree), sure, but that instantly gets overshadowed by seeing how excited your players get about correctly solving a mystery you set up. Either way, my point being, those people are dumb.

@@thegreenassassin553 Why do people dislike Marisha? She's wonderful.

My boy's wicked smart but my girl's wicked smarter Go Sox!

Tales in said he was making wacky faces to fuck with Travis tho lol

@@Donovarkhallumhonestly? That makes it even funnier to me.

Matt and Tal sweating actual bullets

Watching Talison the whole time loving how he keeps trying not to react but looking to Matt!

i cast manic speculation at fifth level

@@jesterssketchbook _a spectral Charlie Day comes forth with a board filled with potential suspects and clues, string connecting each piece together. His hair is messed up and his clothes wrinkled; his tired eyes fueled with caffeine and possibly 5-Hour Energy._

@@jesterssketchbook that spell has the prerequisite of casting the spell “Expert Note taking” at 8th level and waiting 2 years

@@stahpg5430 I like to think the "expert note taking" spell is a long-play version of Keen Mind

I read that in Henry Crabgrass's voice for some reason skssksksk

Idk, matt has said that it is more rewarding for the players and viewers and better story telling to actually have the clues lead up to a point instead of just throwing everything out just because someone figured it out. But im sure he will put a twist to it that they didnt see coming

I mean who wouldn’t be impressed by their wife basically becoming a detective?

@@nonblondified Yeah, GRRM once said it best; If you write a crime thriller and make the butler the killer, with all the clues leading to the Butler, but then change it to the Gardener because someone figured it out beforehand, that reveal and change will be extremely cheap.

@@Hunterfalke that was more well put than I managed and what Matt was referring to, thank you!

no, clues hidden around, someone figures out, means it is so coherent and well made story that you can hear it out without it explicitly being told, just subtly hinted at. If you then just change it at the last minute just to force out "Suprise" You are a shitty writer. No offence. Game of thrones last season if you want a great example of this Of course you could be joking making me just being r/woosh But to what level or extent or even if, Who the hell knows?

ALSO THE MUSIC IN THIS VID IS 👌

IIRC Marisha did mention in the recent Talks that she wanted Beau to have that note-taking trait *because* Marisha enjoys this sort of thing. This also permits her to bring all these ideas to the table without sounding like she's metagaming

Marisha Ray was a private investigator in a former life 🕵️‍♀️ Like in the 20's she was totally one of those nior detectives that said shit like "Be seeing you around dollface" while putting on a badass trench coat and fedora while smoking a cigar and drinking whiskey.

Is this a joke? Is this the usual upside-down SJW fantasy world? Marisha is an airhead with absolutely no attention to anything, let alone details.

@@staceygram5555 why are you replying to every comment??? Are you that obsessed with a woman on the internet? Go outside

She doesn't ask the DM much other than to argue his calls lol

Matt rarely gives them information they already should know unless it's super obvious. There's been many times that the players go back through their notes. It encourages them to keep notes in the first place. While the players would be perfectly justified to ask the DM since (or if) their character would know it, the players actually knowing these things keeps the story flowing and interesting and immensely helps the players keep interest in the game.

@@bowserbrowser6559 ikr? She is such a good player she doesn't need to engage with the DM directly and can piece it together with her incredible intelligence.

​@@fellith4295 thank you

@@OneWolfPup ✌🏻

He talked about this moment in talks machina He basically said he vaguelly knew about 20% of what marisha said, but he was making all those faces because he was messing with travis

@@imkabochan As the true God of mischief would

Does Tal even know? I thought he just made a character with amnesia and made up the tattoos and the bleeding to go with the blood hunter thing. I thought he gave Matt free reign to do his back story.

timestamp?

She didn't put anything together. She was just stating the painfully obvious.

Marisha is a lore goblin and a puzzler for sure

Well keyleth is the opposite of beau. While keyleth is naive and acts rash, beau is a strategist and think things through to better understand the situation.

she was also the one who put together thatthe woman without the hand was Ripley in the cell! She was always very good at this but Beau finally gave her a chance to amp it up in-character.

In the first campaign I wasn’t a massive fan of Keyleth, and that being my first experience of Marisha Ray I thought that I didn’t really like her… come campaign 2 and Beau is crazy strategic and full of incredible plans and just an absolute badass, which retroactively made me love how well she acted Keyleth in the first campaign purely by the wild juxtaposition between these two characters. Truly incredible

@@_____2219 ik I'm very late but still: I like how you still see parts of this side in Keyleth though, like how in the 'tree moment' with the Briarwoods, you see her frantically flipping through her notes and being the first to express a recognition of what was happening

And don't forget the Yasha bit lol

Boy! I didn't remember this being SO accurate! Talesin's reactions were specially interesting bc he knew absolutely zero of that. (sorry im a bit 2 years late. I've watched the Mighty Nein and ended up never watching this vid.)

​@@Ribula1Same, don't worry about it ^^ (But I'm catching up with Bells Hells :D)

is he okay? like that must have took a long time? How's your sanity?

@@rafaelfreire3490well it only took me 48 hours in Premiere nothing major.

@@hoboodinson boy you dont give yourself enough credit you gotta look that shit up lucky flando marks stuff right?

@@SPACEHARICE this community helps each other in strange and wonderful ways, friend

@@hoboodinson MAD RESPECT

13:55 is a very drunk history moment

My favorite edit in this! I had to back up to savor it again.

"But she was, in fact, not done at all".

@@dasnurk The fact that you have radiated raw Morgan Freeman through nothing but word choice is flabbergasting

@@TheDangerNoodle lmfao

i can imagine Beau throwing a book at him

I just want to imagine him with a checklist behind his dm screen checking off each plot point she is hitting and looking more and more disappointed and so proud of his wife

I don't think he was tearing them up, I think he was "borrowing" her notes and saying "this is better than what I wrote, STOLEN!"

With the benefit of hindsight and how close to being right she was, I would be so proud if that was in his position.

They deffo boinked harder than ever that night.

Get you someone who looks at you the way Matt looks at Marissa: love, awe, and most importantly FEAR.....I mean respect.

It's literally the entire plot. The Astral sea not the abyss but close enough

​@Aidan Hall Dude, I don't get it either, it baffles me to no end. Marisha is my fav of the cast (love all the cast obviously) and shit like this is why...

@Aidan Hall I'm gonna go ahead and admit that for like the first twenty episodes I REALLY hated her character, but as episodes have progressed she has easily slid into my top four favorite characters out of both campaigns. I feel that the "bro I'm a teen rebel bro fuck authority bro" facade that she puts up for the first twenty or so episodes really puts people off. Some of those people, unfortunately, obviously don't have enough mental acuity to see beyond their initial knee-jerk reaction to a character. Which sucks, because she really grew into an amazing character.

@@ZazzilasArden agreed. It's the same reason why Ebenezer Scrooge is most well known for hating Christmas

I used to run a game for a mixture of friends and work colleagues. One of them had NEVER played an RPG before and found videogames incredibly stressful, she was literally the best detective in the whole group. Ironically, also playing a Monk.

@Aidan Hall true, but I often find that it also depends on how the player weaves that element of management into their character. Ie: Don't just let it be the player that spends all that time micromanaging materials and spells, let it be the character. The way Liam plays Caleb is a good example to me.

I don’t really watch critical role could you explain what you mean by this?

@@invisiblog as smart as Travis is, he tends to take plot points and what people say at face value often while in the game. Also I don't think he takes that good of notes lol.

Yeah he plays the game to shut off his brain and goes along for the ride, he is a really awesome player, but he and his character aren’t the type to work through the story and plot like this. Beau and Marisha are, simple as that XD

@@aliakhatib4907 I think it's great that even though each of the players is so different in what they enjoy / how they play yet they can still all come together and have a great time. The way you described the differences here was very good.

@@forshor1998 exactly! Travis does pay attention enough and interacts with the story (just like everyone at the table does) but like I said, he enjoys it in a different way, and that is what makes this group so great. If we had a bunch of Marisha- Notetakers it would likely be a vastly different campaign.

Do it 😊

There is hope. The Mighty Nein animated series might deliver.

Someone do this please, this looks adorable with Jester tongue out rushing to draw from memory all the people Beau mentions

They better animate this part

DO IT!! i promise so many people will subscribe if you do i don't care if this was 3 years ago

Sam really is a genius of comedic timing. He can shut up for hours in tense combat or serious roleplay, but if he feels like it gets too heavy or too boring, he just blurts out a genius one-liner as punctiuation. He plays his meta role of comedic relief to perfection.

You don't have to be creative to follow the narrative that Matt laid out, just intelligent enough to pay attention to the important things and to put the puzzle together only missing a few obvious pieces. I'll admit, the cast has a rougher time as a whole due to the multitasking involved in playing the game, acting in character, and producing a show, but that doesn't make the plot that much harder to follow. I would just say that Marisha probably puts forth the most effort in note taking and thinking about the story in the off time than the rest of the cast, or maybe that she's just the first one to lay out her theory wholly. Her investment makes a normal amount of sense when you consider that she's married to the worldbuilder and is always engaged. That's all, nothing any more stellar about this than what's come to be expected.

@@eliezeririzarry247 Hey.......can you not rain on someone's parade and just let this person admire Marisha without making a comment that undermines them? Jesus

@@QueenPandanimaniac Nah I don't respect the slide into hyperbolic language that is so common now. Michael Jordan achieved greatness; not every little accomplishment should receive the same word for praise, for example

@@eliezeririzarry247 Who hurt you lmao Just don't yuck someone's yum! It's that easy! Don't go out of your way to invalidate someone's praise, as hyperbolic as it may be! It literally hurts you in NO way!

@@QueenPandanimaniac Hey fair enough. To me its a big enough deal to spend a minute correcting somebody who just uses any word they want without putting critical thought behind it, but I'm not going to change the world doing it, either. If a couple of people read this, pissed or not, and start thinking a bit more before they speak, well shit they're doing that much better. You sound like a positive person though and I don't want to drag this on, so thanks I guess for at least speaking your mind. Cheers Maleny

This isn’t just expertise, this is reliable talent

This is literally a feat!

you thought orym with alert + perception skill expert was busted? wait till you see marishas loadout

@@Wendeta-hq2cp Marisha took Keen Mind IRL

​@@birubu For real!

Welcome to Critical Role, where we fail to success every day

The way they say it constantly nags me. The name comes from "Schatten", the german word for shadow -Why there's a "c" missing I do not know.- but they prononce it like "Schaden" which is "harm" or "damage" in german. The nail in the coffin was that Liam instructed her to say it like that.

@@voidjockey82 probably on purpose lol

@@voidjockey82 it's probably a double-entendre

I do this but in the shower. I run shit through my head and shower thoughts help me piece the puzzle together.

I used to take amazing notes plus I remember things very well (I used to have a study group in college and when someone missed a lecture I would recount the important parts and the others would be like omg that is like word for word, and I'd be like well that's what was said so that's how I remember it, I didn't know that was unusual, but I do not have photographic memory, I forget things all the time). Anyway our group voted to move the games from noon to 9 am, now I try to stay awake and my notes are like a name and a species and I keep looking at them like huh?

I'm the galliard and chronist. It's fun, but I have trouble when recounting it. I slip into details, that shouldn't be in summaries. And tipps here? But overall the view and ability to puzzle with the DMs stuff is awesome.

Same! It's such a great feeling and this is pretty much exactly what happens when you lay it all out for the party lmao

@@MommyOfZoeAndLiam A 9 am campaign is just evil. We have someone who lives in England in our campaign and we routinely keep him up till like 5 am - I have no idea how he does it.

🤣🤣🤣

Imagine if there was like a live action movie of the Mighty Nine, and they had an info dealer, but it was played by the actor who played Luis.

Imagine the Mighty Nein’s story is just… Luis in Wildemount explaining this to children and adults.

Are they guessing the exact detail of his lore or is he quietly rewriting the lore to match their theories? Both would be dope.

So, how does it feel now that it's over and done?

iam not a DM, but it must be kinda great when your players unknowingly write parts of the story for you.

I truly believe all the best DMs steal little bits from things players speculate. It makes it more fun when it seems like they have been leaving breadcrumbs the whole time.

ive not really had the oppourtunity to do much of this, but i did have a party who started checking a room for traps, so i just quickly went "mm, yes, a trap, but you rolled crap so im not going to tell you about it" and just hit them with a fireball landmine when they thought they were safe. there werent going to be any traps until you reminded me that traps are cool

DM: "That's exactly what I planned" Life: "Roll for Deception"

@@MommyOfZoeAndLiam Yeah I mean, Matt even said (at the end of campaign wrap-up I believe) that he had already planned some kind of enemy with the eyes of nine before Tal even had said his character had 9 eye tattoos, so he just took that and wove it together, because it was coincidentally so perfect. I can barely read through half the "novels" of backstory that a few of my players give me but I really try to make an effort so that I can include it in the campaign in order to reward their participation in the game. Most of my players just play for the escapism once a week, which is fine, but it really makes all the preparation you do as a DM feel like a waste. So I like to give little nuggets for the players that put in more effort.

Its kinda creepy.

i wonder how much was planned and how much was matt playing into it

There's a lot of back and forth DMing a campaign where you just sit back, listen to your players jabber on...and steal their ideas/thoughts/fears/wants to implant into the campaign later on. And the M9 was a play on words...Nein means "no" so...they're the Mighty No...as in the Mighty...not. LOL

ah we have the Nine Members of the Mighty Nine.

You bet Matt saw all the coincidental 9’s, then when they named themselves the Mighty Nein, he definitely started making the 9 symbolism more of a thing.

I'm surprised if half of my notes make it 6 months

People disrespect her for being somewhat of an airhead in the moment! Little do they know is that she's always thinking outside of the game, connecting the dots. She is what I would call a "lucid thinker", someone who delves deeper than the rest, taking notes to solidify her string of thoughts into a cohesive conclusion. Sometimes she overthinks things and comes out as the dumb one, but really she is a slow, methodical thinker who may get overloaded with too many possibilities and outcomes unless she splurges those thoughts onto paper. While others may be quick to think/act like a grasshopper, Marisha does the thinking in retrospect.

That is very insightful. As a person on the Autism spectrum I see similar things portrayed in Marisha. It's true that many people on the spectrum think outside the box, in my case it's because all of the things on the box are confusing. It's just a guess but I think that Marisha may be on the spectrum, which helps her follow these threads of plot that pass the other players by.

I aspire to be DM so good that my game allows players to be like Marisha. Or at least have a DM like that so I can be that player :D

@@wanabeguitarguy The majority of humanity is on the spectrum, so that's not much of a guess.

@@benjoe1993 A common theme you see from a lot of DMs is basically cultivating the table and game you want by being communicative with your players. Sometime what you want to do and what your players want doesnt match up. It isnt bad or a reflection of character. That's why it can take 10+ years to get a super solid group. (And then they have kids lol)

Better yet, they ask "Where did we go for lunch?" And no one remembers. They take it too far and start looking into their patterns and asking restaurants where they were. Suddenly a whole conspiracy slowly starts to crack open

​@@ihavekalashnikovyoudomath9275 I'd watch both of these

Least desperate lesbian lmao

Yeah and now people are complaining that her Cobalt Soul Investigation based character pieced together a storyline from plotpoints they encountered over the last couple weeks, because it "spoiled" it for the other characters.

@@sonofaquiche6717 You can please all of the people some of the time..... or my own personal line "My mind is already made up, do not try to change it with the truth!"

She is dumb, in that low Wisdom, high Intelligence sense

@@sonofaquiche6717 people will always complain in the end, those people who keep complaining about such trivial things can only be called idiots and should not be part of the CR community

*Flashbacks to the cliff dive*

Three in one night, eh? Remember to stay hydrated!

@@GrassPokeKing K I N K Y

you son of a bitch im in

Persona 5 should cover you for a spell

It's more of an Oceans 11 thing isn't it?

Exposition Bongo's... I'll never refer to it in any other way than that ever again.

@@Spaceman2921 While that's probably the OG for it. it's been a few years since i watched oceans. for sure it's become more popular and way more connected to Ant Man. and the Man, the Myth, the Legend...Luis. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ppOiZtCZ0a-umWQ.html

Mission Impossible, kittens. Also, lots of 1970’s procedurals.

Expositor bongos, in this case.

Ahhhh The permaa..... THE hand.... Hallas The Purma heart was apart of the city And it spit of in the astrel sea

My note taker takes better notes than me when I run lol

molaesmyr = mollymog

Isn't it malaismere?

@@amalofoto It's molaesmyr

@@amalofoto criticalrole.fandom.com/wiki/Molaesmyr?mobile-app=false

@@morganmae8396 thank you!

...it takes place in a vacuum world where nearly every npc encountered is dumping exposition or hints in some way or another towards the plot and the story is on rails lol would be like saying the student is a genius for copying what the teacher wrote on the board.

@@bowserbrowser6559 Wow, someone is butthurt, get well soon

@@cookiescrazy494 yah totally butt hurt just deconstructing your stupid praise lol marisha is a moron, im sure you think college students are brilliant for copying notes too

Fast bongo make brain go fast

@@Wingingit.us15 sometimes your brain needs the mood to be set

Almost like delivery is key to catching the attention of the listener, who else uses good delivery to immerse his players in a world where nearly every npc met dumps exposition in some way? Hmm lol would certainly be a good dm if they exist..seriously tho idk why ppl think this is big brain of Marisha its just maybe the first case of her paying attention lol

Conspiracy bongos 😂💙

Make a video my dude

Tell me the story, what diabolical masteminded operations did they uncover?

I realize three years of info is hard to summarize but can you at least tell us the session 1 shit?

thanks! I did a new one in the style of this one too!

I do color coding now bc of this video. I want this minute

@@ferrous719 wait- wut? You mean my video inspired you?

Polar opposites too. Jester/Laura fooling the Hag was a flash of creativity leveraging the Hag's emotional need for sadism that she improvised on the spot. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Beau/Marisha pieced together her theory using all the bits of knowledge she had gathered over the course of two years in a careful, measured and logical manner, yet equally as brilliant as the Cupcake incident.

13:55

Aw man, this needs to be animated.

Put a bit of Vodka in the History Teacher's mug and I'm pretty sure you will get something similar to this(?

@@calebmcurby8580 exactly

Marisha has said she has a specific notebook for Beau's notes.

I heard she mentioned she does drawings of monsters/landmarks and things like that beside information she finds important to be able to sift through quickly while playing and has big handwriting

I know she color codes it too, she has different color tags for npcs, places, objects, etc.

@reno that is interesting. I will have to think about how to use that myself

I think she uses something called Bullet Journal notes.

How right was she?

I KNEW I RECOGNIZED IT!!!! I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure it out!