that damn oversized fish polodio

Thank YOU!

"when a wee fish asks you to a tea party, you dinna say 'no'!"

@@lottesghost "I feel like you heard tea party and focused on that"

Thank you so much for making this! Watching your edits to relive d20 moments after a long day at work is such a high point in my day lol

It's funny because from what I understand, he DID read the Fragmentation device, but just kinda glossed over it. Also funny, is that she never used those Thermal detonators. They were a shit load of money paid to distract Brennan.

She rolled a nat20 deception and Brennan got a 5.

What made it so much better was when Brennan nixed their plans to let Reva body hop. You can almost see him relax, thinking he stopped shenanigans, only for them to STILL bamboozle him 🤣

Emily and Brennan have this chaotic energy between them that makes literally everything they do work for me. They should play as PCs in some one off so that their chaos can work with each other instead of fighting against each other.

@@HazyPixel what does that stand for?

@@LoudAngryJerk not another dnd podcast. It's Emily and Murphs dnd show.

@@HazyPixel and and that's also the thing that Handy Annie is a reference to

@@Amelia7o9 Moonshine and Deadeye's arc is hands-down one of the series highlights of NADDPOD campaign 1 the combination of heartfelt roleplay and busted-ass mechanics abuse are truly a beauty to behold.

Holy shit you’re right

not sure if they actually meant to misdirect brennan with it but it turned out beautifully 😅

Oo I wonder if they planned to use that more in their scheme 😂 Honestly as a lover of cool stuff I would have loved to see Riva do that! Maybe her hit points are 1/3 and she’s disadvantaged to make it work

He thought too much about slippery and not enough about puppet

and him getting increasingly turned on by how clever his wife is

@@thegnome73 what did i just read

@@SageShadows facts No, but seriously between CR and D20 there are actually several married couples, including Murph and Emily

@@micahnewby7964 that wasn't the part I was referring to 😭

i love that they live together and he had no clue she was gonna do this

Barry is a beef boy, dont worry

😂😂😂

But they needed Barry for Brutus. That might be one of the greatest d20 fights ever with how creative they all were and how fun it was. They gotta go back to Starstruck 😭😭😭

​@@Leemasterflex I think more Starstruck is almost guaranteed

@@Miglow yeah the final Adventuring Party had the gears turning for Brennan already.

I once turned myself into a bomb and made that the entire plan. And it one shot a BBEG. One of my favorite moments.

I did this one time in a D&D campaign back in the day. It's my single favorite D&D triumph. :3 So, in the climax of our campaign, our party had to descend into a dungeon at the center of a world ending dimensional vortex to destroy its core before it doomed the world to extinction. Waiting at the very bottom level there was *Orcus* himself in all his overpowered, 'I always hit and all my hits are one-shot kills against level 20 PC's' glory. The DM himself had clearly realized his mistake in using him about two rounds into the fight, like head in his hands "oh god I've TPK'd them, what have I done, they can't win" -- but by that point he was committed to seeing it through to the bitter end. Before we went into the dungeon we were all given an item we could use to summon/create any magical item we could think of under a certain level of power. A few floors into the dungeon I had chosen to create a portable hole, which proved useful in circumventing a few of the traps on the way. Well, seeing his fellow party members start to fall, Gilzean the Bard, Master of Masks, removed the folded up portable hole from the mundane hip pouch he kept it in, turned to the rest of the party, and bid them a tearful goodbye in a lovely speech I set to prose that I had to write up on the fly the turn before as I saw the writing on the wall. You see, he kept the hole in a hip pouch because by that point in the campaign everybody's backpack was a Bag of Holding. So Gil delivered his final speech, bowed, strode straight up to Orcus's face, removed his bag from his back... and put a portable hole into a bag of holding. This, by the way, was before the rule regarding this had changed - so it created a Sphere of Annihilation, killing them both instantly. I lost a character, but saved my party and the world. That was the last session we ever played together. :')

OK but seriously how'd they know?

@@user-lv7xy8bp8g I think they didn't, I think it was for a just in case moment if her droid drop in a group of the enemies.

Honestly, I think Emily deduced that a structure would be important in this fight. Mostly because, out of everything in their wide arsenal, high damage to structures is the ONE THING they did not have. Even then, its 20d4 damage. That is a free fire ball right there.

My guess is that it was safe to assume a large droid of some sort (maybe a Vercadian Protector Droid) would be an enemy, so they prepped that to destroy any construct they may face.

10:12 I keep revisiting it.

To be fair, he did not go out like a chump. That was a hard fought and well earned victory, and devious to boot.

Beardsley was like. "Okay Brennan keep talking shit. I'll see you in the Dome Next Week."

Elaine was only in studio for the finale, I think. She said during the finale that she *hadn't* seen the previous episodes yet, so I think she wasn't there for most of them, just the finale, and would have to wait for them to be released to see the earlier ones. Unless she was there for a few other random episodes?

@@Peter_Cordes I think she was there for the first taping day too

and knowing that you defeated the DM in front of his mom _who is also the creator of the world you just defeated him in?_ unparalleled

@@Peter_Cordes Infinitely more funny to say they did him dirty in front of his mom

@@dialog_boxwhile still fully adhering to the rules of the game as well

Same energy as Reva saying "Didn't think about birds, did'ja Brennan" from that seven maidens vid a while back.

My heart melts everytime I hear Emily laugh.

and then she literally did the 🤪face

I mean you know that challenging the DM puts a target on your character so it's definitely a power move.

In the movie adaptation of this he'd be the audience surrogate

pLinTH

​@@Rylee_G when ally whispers "plinth?" as it dies, it got me

@@danielsos9824 honestly every time any of them says it it just sounds funny but esp "get FUCKED, PLintH!"

Kelmp.

similar but opposite energy to “kelmp.” “kelmp” sounds like someone shoved a leaf in your mouth and “plinth” sounds like your trying to spit it back out

Siobhan’s sense of humor is amazing; she’s my favorite “add on” joker of the bunch. Like, “Reddit is going to eat your ass, Brennan” is pretty funny, but Siobhan adding “your whole ass; cheeks and all” is the cherry on top

I had to gif it for a personal reaction meme

@@romxxii please send it to me, I NEED IT

It feels like a very Riva thing to do.

It’s extra funny because she’s already wearing regular glasses

He is DM of naddpod, so she's probably used to not talking to him about the shit she plans.

I won't be able to find this comment again from my main channel so hi yes i love them

I feel like Murph not reading the text chain is perfectly in character for Barry. Everyone else is making these complex plans, meanwhile Barry's in the corner going "My 'plan' is this and this" as he shows off his two massive guns.

I don't think that was misdirection, I think they were genuinely hoping Brennan would let Siobhan drone hop, with letting her go down as a backup plan.

absolutely. I agree. But us as the audience in the moment (well..at least me lol) believed "ooh operation slippery puppet was to get her to teleport around." We were misdirected even though it was a genuine attempt.

@@kevlar427 Everyone might be on the same page here, but just in case, it seems the teleportation was meant to allow for the drone exploding without Riva's consciousness in it (which is probably why they named it that), but then they had to let Riva die to transfer drones instead.

To be fair to us, that teleportation was part of their original plan but when Brennan said you can’t teleport at will they did what they did best and improvised.

@@PoemJunkie it may not have been _intended_ or _purposed_ as misdirection, but it did in fact misdirect most of the audience and, more importantly, Brennan. So I propose calling it misdirection is accurate

This whole season was astounding

this episode should be put upon a plinth

What’s funny is that now that I know what was coming Siobhan’s little laugh when the Plinth shows up sounds almost like an mischievous cackle instead of just a laugh

The entire battle was spectacular. Its exactly what you want in an arena fight. Every character gets a moment to shine.

Even the enemies get a moment

The rest of watching this was - utter delight - shit talking Plinth for being a basic villain

Honestly Plinth’s endgame is more ethical and normal than Connie art lady’s causality engine

12:37 this is my favorite Ally face That’s like a hallmark movie “dad showed up at my baseball game” energy

@@Lucifersfursona Right? Who benefits from the utter randomization of everything. Seeking the natural conclusion of the universe due to the peak of entropy is pretty neutral (borderline benign, really), as far as villainous motivation goes, but robbing every creature in the universe of free will and agency by tearing apart cause and effect is just evil for no other reason that just wanting to see what happens.

@@LidellFrasier peak libertarian engine

It reminded me of the "Philly Special" trick play the eagles ran in the superbowl. Totally unexpected, brilliant movement of the players on the field.

And even better on the replay 👌🏻👌🏻

Thanks!! It was a lot of work, I'm really proud of this one:)

They did say, "You should read the texts, man!"

It sounds like Murph didn’t pay attention to the group chat

@@potatopockets4980 Wouldn't be surprised if Murph saw Emily doing all the research and saw the text chain blowing up and decided it would be funnier if he stayed out of it, or if Em purposefully asked him to not be involved so that it would help bamboozle Brennan.

Is there a Plinth in the original Odyssey?

@@TheNo1pencil No, but there is in 2001: a Space Odyssey.

The best part to me is that it sounds like it could refer to Emily switching bodies, e.g. "slipping" between "puppets." It's just an extra level of misdirection. Very well schemed!

"Folks, a priceless artifact and a real son of a bitch is no more!"

I love Brennan's announcer voice.

If that’s not a season 2 hook, i don’t know what is

Amazing, isn't it? And all this power... in the hands of A GIRL SCOUT TROOP. 😆 Edit: Okay, a really HARDCORE girl scout troop! But all the same!

Ah, but don't you see? That was *deliberate misdirection* on the team's part! It made him think "Slippery Puppet" was just Emily "slipping" between "puppet" bodies, letting him believe he'd put the kibosh on that. Only to catch him completely off guard! It's genius!

no, it's that she's smart AND a chaos gremlin. she knows the rules and uses them creatively, like when she effectively made a scrying spell using unseen servant and gaze of two minds

it's not pulling it out of her ass if it's premeditated, no? cause it means spontaneous improvising, right?

I have no doubt

Now that Ive rewatched it a few times...its definitely the "I can't believe this is going to work yes yes yes" maniacal laughter

One of the best parts of the best campaign 💖

​@@Rylee_G omg you think this is the best campaign too??? Hell yeah. Idk if it's just that it's a sci-fi setting or what but I loved it so much. Also, incredible job on the editing, this really connected the dots in a way that the full two-hour fight doesn't

That scene ruined me

that shit was fucked, brennan could’ve easily TPK’d them in that scene, it was SO hopeless both from a battle standpoint and an emotional one. he made the saddest peppermint bark of all time that day :(

@@sarahbearbabygirl in rememberance 🦀

God... That fight was bad. Could someone point me int the right direction? I forgot which episode it was.

@@lianneye5061 episode 6 is when the battle starts. it's called Chaos in the Cathedral if you're looking for the episode title

and yet in the next episode, "there's no laws about dogs in Mas Vegas" 😅

Okay I'm very curious, what does this mean?

When I saw this I thought the same thing. Great planning, understanding the mechanics and just really good rolls.

@@aeronoctem103 Big Critical Role moment. Involved tricking a powerful fey that had heavy involvement in several character backstories in a way that entirely shocked the DM

@@aeronoctem103 Just imagine using a moldy old baked good to trick a very powerful Fey Being into doing the exact opposite of what they basically do as a life mission to make others miserable.

Almost even more impressive I'd say, considering critical role has 100+ episodes a season to do incredible slowburn and set up and d20 is only 18 episodes a season.

😭❤️

How dare you make me cry like this!?!

It was a distraction from her buying the fragmentation charge that killed plinth

Honestly it might been referencing the prophecy of the slugs and the plinth could’ve been made to help stop the prophecy

@@fuzenakuhei8223 Maybe, but it would be fun if Brennan ever brings that back somehow, maybe if they do a spinoff season from this.

You're very welcome!🥰 what does osp stand for?

@@Rylee_G operation slippery puppet

@@batsybatsybats_ ohhh

aw ^-^ im glad you like it!!

Well, thing is, they knew Riva herself was fine. It's just her remote body that was destroyed. Which isn't to say that isn't fine advice for all budding villains. I just think Brennan had a very good reason not to read too much into the players' (lack of) reactions.

​@@Brasswatchman It made her the perfect trojan horse

And who could blame him?

yw!:) I didn't get it the first time either lol

@@Rylee_G wish it had the purchase from Plug's, but still love this cut yea!

Somebody once said on tumblr that Ally rolls dice like they’re ripping a beyblade and it’s literally SO accurate

Careful you may have more narrative dice rolls but with the chance of pulling an Ally

I felt that way after watching the Cathedral battle in ACoC. And then again here. Both ending at like 1am. It was that happy, satisfied tired.

Knowing now that this wasn’t even the end of the fight and they had basically a whole other half with gigachad Brutus that was just as scary too. 😂

I can't exaggerate how much comments like this make my day