"are they truly evil?" "yes" "that's all we need" "well we don't even need that much you could just tell us to kill them"

He just broke a mechanical pencil Travis doesn't play Grog, Grog plays Travis

My mans snapped a mechanical pencil in one hand because another man shaved his imaginary beard. Absolute legend.

if allura saw through Percy's disguise, she also saw through grog's, so when she looked at grog, she saw him with a half charcoal beard wearing a curtain.....

"Hello, I'm Tiberius Stormwind. From Draconia. " - party says in chorus, made my day

I hear a voice of Vex in the back of my head "Cut the price! Don't pay so much!" I hear a voice of Scanlan in the back of my head "Shit on his bed!" I hear a voice of Tiberious in the back of my head. It speaks in draconian, I can't make it out.

"A toast, then. To _gracious hosts."_ God. Percy is _perfect._ Taliesin plays him so well.

3:02 During an episode of Blindspot, Ashley's character corrects her costar when she says she can go back to playing an elf in her DnD game, "Actually, I am a gnome cleric." She also has a Critical Role mug in a conference room scene.

"he's wearing a toga, made out of a tapestry" * taliesin takes notes *

I can only imagine how Percy and Tibs met: "Hello! I'm Tiberious Stormwind! From Draconia!" "Hello, I'm Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Kowalski de Rollo III. You can call me Percy."

Vax- *does anything* Party- "No! Don't!" Vax- "Too late, it's already done."

What impresses me the most is how Liam and Laura manage to actually imitate real sibling rivalry/love and it's nuts

The ride or die energy of this group is beautiful "You don't have to get involved in this-" "Percival you don't really have a choice in the matter."

I love how the fact that even though Percy always tells everyone his last name, nobody actually knows it because he says it so fast actually ends up being a major plot point

"Dagger's so sharp you could cut the sexual tension" taliesin is amazing

I scrolled down a bit and I'm surprised I haven't seen any comments about Travis' assist to Taliesin at about 3:31:43 where, a minute or two before, Percy had been cut off while about to make a remark about slaying the illithid and betrayal. He gets accidentally cut off by Matt and trails off without finishing, but Travis waits for an opening to re-insert the comment and let Percy finish his remark. That is so fucking outstanding. What a great player.

"You look delicious" miles away, Gilmore hears Kill Bill sirens

"that'll take about ten minutes to take effect" "there's a bucket of water over there" "That'll make it worse" #NoMercyPercy

Party: What disease killed them? the briarwoods: Um... Stoplivingitis?

'Do you want to build a machine gun?" Percy's face he hadn't even thought of that idea and then Sam says it and he's like "Thats brilliant"

2015 Laura: I have a GIANT bag of dice. *2020 Laura laughing manically in the distance*

Matt: *has dialogue with Tiberius in any way, shape, or form* Orion: "I'm from Draconia!"

Scanlan "We don't have 600 gold? Whose our treasurer?" Vex "I am but you bitches keep spending money." :D

For all Orion's shortcomings, Tiberius' compulsion to introduce himself the same way every time is actually hilarious.

Just putting it out there. Percy needs a minigun called 'Plan B'.

"Do you want to build a machine gun?" "Why yes I really do!" The most beautiful duet of the century...

Every. Single. Time. Scanlan breaks into song and the whole crew just kinda hops into it is just amazing and I can't stop myself from breaking into the hugest grin.

Percy saying he wasn't equipped for torture..........that broke me

Vax- "I just want to send the 'lizard' to 'dwarf-town'... do you think we can make that happen?" Gilmore *flirtatiously*- "Vax! You dog!"

"Today's our 24th episode, which is ridiculous!" -does it for 127 more sessions, then starts a second campaign.

30:27 Vex sees Grog pocket shiny thing from Percy's workshop Taliesin, crying 10 seconds earlier: No, this could be funny, let this happen. ... That'll take about 10 minutes to take effect. *Sip of drink* ... 38:00 "There's a bucket of water in the corner, you can try that." *Grog sticks hands in the water* It'll make it worse. "Now you've learned not to touch things if you don't know what they are." I love Taliesin throughout this, and Matt doesn't even make him roll to see if the tongs have sulfuric acid on them, he just says 'Yes'.

Liam: I would like to shave half of Grogs beard off Travis (breaking mechanical pencil): I WOULD LIKE TO RAGE!!!

I love how ominous Matt sounded in this. "you know I deduct points for metagaming". brilliant

Tiberius: "Perhaps you and I and Grog and Kima can go on a double date" Allura: "Oh you and Grog are dating too?"

When Vex said "Darling" and Taliesin asked immediately if they were alone

I just realized that since this is 20 years before C2 over in Wildemount 13 year old Bren is just meeting Trent and like 11 year old orphan Fjord Stone is somewhere watching ships go in and out of dock in Port Damali

"Percy, thats amazing! What do you call it?" "Widowgast's shocking diplomacy"

jesus christ he broke a mechanical pencil with two fingers. _RUN_

14:30 - Game starts, they pay their staff at Greyskull 17:20 - They go to find Percy in his workshop 20:45 - Percy tells them about Briarwoods and what they did to his family 26:50 - Percy shows them the five names on his gun 28:45 - Percy “You don’t have to get involved”/Vex “Oh we are so involved” 30:26 - Grog steals from a crying man (They talk about doing research on the Briarwoods and getting their money from Kraghammer, Keyleth and Scanlan get nominated to go and he’s turned on by how long she can stay polymorphed) 38:00 - Grog hands start itching (Tiberius shenanigans that don’t go well for him) 54:25 - Gilmore arrives 59:15 - Keyleth tries to buy books but Marisha rolls a 1 1:05:30 - Scanlan sings a song to Gilmore’s assistant ♪ (Sherry baby) (Vax and Gilmore conversation continues, Taliesin “A dagger so sharp it could cut the sexual tension at about 1:14:00. Most of the party flies back to Lyceum to take a sigil to Vasselheim but Tiberius doesn’t have the spell so they have to go home.) 1:30:40 - Scanlan grows himself a long white beard since Tiberius has left them waiting for so long 1:38:25 - Vax goes looking for Kynan, who has taken off, and meets his dad instead 1:40:40 - Break starts 1:56:20 - Break ends 1:57:40 - Grog shows off his beard to VM and asks Scanlan if he knows water burns (Tiberius, Vex, Scanlan, and Grog go to Vasselheim to visit House Thunderbrand, and then to get their money) 2:07:50 - They learn the carpet would be very expensive to fix 2:12:00 - They try to get Greyspine to believe half the party died 2:13:55 - Liam “What circumstance would a testicle advantage come into play?” Sam “At Gilmore’s” 2:14:40 - Scanlan casts suggestion on Greyspine to get the full amount they’re owed, it works! 2:16:05 - Grog gives a thumbs up with severed duergar arm 2:18:30 - Vax and Keyleth braid Trinkets hair with flowers and bows, Percy disapproves (They plan for a while on what to do for the dinner with the Briarwoods in six days, Scanlan comes up with Percy disguising himself as Vax while Vax goes invisible) 2:32:00 - ‘Jenga’ is born, Keyleth asks Percy what he wants, Vax asks if Briarwoods are pure evil, Scanlan thinks they’d kill them anyway even if they weren’t evil 2:34:25 - Grog grows a really nice beard, Vax shaves half of it off, Travis breaks mechanical pencil in anger at 2:35:28 2:38:28 - Scanlan and Percy sing a version of “Do you want to build a snowman” 2:41:00 - Percy tries his new glove invention on Tiberius 2:42:30 - Diplomacy 2:45:35 - Grog makes himself a toga out of curtains/he’s still scared of water 2:49:50 - They start off toward the palace for the dinner and get their disguises ready 2:51:35 - Vex pats Vaxcy’s hand, Asum tells them about the Briarwoods & figures out Percy is pretending to be Vax 2:59:40 - Enter the Briarwoods 3:05:00 - Tiberius suggests a double date to Allura with Grog & Kima, Allura suggests it be just the two of them 3:09:40 - Vex can sense invisible Vax 3:14:40 - Vox Machina gets introductions 3:20:15 - Vex asks Delilah questions about Whitestone, then they all get questions in 3:44:22 - Vax sneaks into the Briarwoods’ room and they immediately see him, gets captured 3:47:20 - Game ends

After this trip to Gilmore's I'm convinced Vax is a sugar baby. I respect him for it, and I would kill to see the pre-stream interactions that lead to it.

"The Byerwoods are coming to town for a banquet!" Percy internally: All the other kids with the pumped up kicks-

"A toast... to gracious hosts." Goddamn. Percy is cold as ice.

"High roles startle him." Oh, sweet, naive Taliesin from 5 years ago. Soon, you'll be able to summon Natural 20s on command.

Taliesin jaffe is a God damn treasure. "5 of the 6 barrels have names on them and the briarwood a are two of them." The chills and goosebumps from that one line, and that insane performance, all the emotion in the voice. Amazing!

Percy: Don't worry, all i will use is- *puts on shades* Diplomacy YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BUM DUN DUN

I'm beginning to suspect that Tiberius' full name is actually "Tiberius Stormwind Frumdraconia".

Percy: "You don't have to get involved in this" Vex: "Oh we are so getting involved with this" Vax: "We are one" Grog: "Yeah we do you said you wanted them dead" Vex: "We got your back brother" Vax: "Percival you don't really have a choice in the matter" This is the kind of squad I want

-see's through percy's disguise (either that or see's vax while invisible) -notices vax on a 25 stealth roll -paralyzing magic -"you look delicious" yup. they're totally vampires.

Matt conversing with himself as different characters with individual personalities and voices just blows my mind.

"Of the six barrels, five of them have names." THAT WAS SO BADASS

3:32:33 The way Taliesin reaches over to squeeze Marisha’s arm when she says “The entire family. All of them?” and her answer squeeze to his hand in reassurance had me 🥺 I love seeing these two interact- the dynamic they have is so sweet

2:36:30 "Why did he trip me and make me eat shit 2 months ago?". The absurdity of that statement had me burst out in obnoxious laughter.

So upon reading the comments, I checked the stats of the pseudo dragon, and yeah. When he reaches maturity, Lockheed will have a higher intelligence than Grog, and a much higher wisdom than Tiberius. That just feels weird.

The moment Vax asked where the local butcher was, I knew *exactly* what he was planning and I swear I felt my heart swell. Only to sink when he didn't find Kynan there. Vax is such a great character and I am so invested in all of these guys.

Vax letting Trinket give him bear kisses while tying bows in his fur just makes me love his character so much more 😍

You know, it's a real treasure to have friends like that. "They hurt you? Then we must MURDER THEM!!"

I love how Matt is trying so hard to let Grog keep his precious beard, everyone's begging him not to, but Liam just won't leave it alone! For that moment, Vax was truly Chaotic Evil.

Anyone else come back here after watching the animated series? It's so nostalgic

Synopsis, 12:20. Game starts at 14:30. Break from 1:40:39 to 1:56:20, game ends at 3:47:17. [I've been doing this for every episode. If you find them useful, or think others might, please leave a comment so they stay near the top where they can be found. Thank you.]

I love how Matt pulled the rug out from under them with "I don't think at any time during your adventure in the underdark did you ever say you were scalping a creature."

The Gunpowder seller was good, but my favorite npc it's still Gilmore.

Watching this, living in Alaska, and hearing Taliesin say he would be at Senshi Con. I got so excited for a second until I remembered this is from seven years ago.

39:50 I love Marisha and Taliesins platonic relationship ^.^ and that death glare she gives Orion when he tells them to shush haha

I think literally everyone's flirted with Mercer IC by this point.

*Percy:* I call it Diplomacy. *Me:* Ha, nice! *sees title of next episode* *Also Me:* ...OH.

!!Just dropping this here for myself so I don't have to keep scrolling!! 14:30 - Game starts, they pay their staff at Greyskull 17:20 - They go to find Percy in his workshop 20:45 - Percy tells them about Briarwoods and what they did to his family 26:50 - Percy shows them the five names on his gun 28:45 - Percy “You don’t have to get involved”/Vex “Oh we are so involved” 30:26 - Grog steals from a crying man (They talk about doing research on the Briarwoods and getting their money from Kraghammer, Keyleth and Scanlan get nominated to go and he’s turned on by how long she can stay polymorphed) 38:00 - Grog hands start itching (Tiberius shenanigans that don’t go well for him) 54:25 - Gilmore arrives 59:15 - Keyleth tries to buy books but Marisha rolls a 1 1:05:30 - Scanlan sings a song to Gilmore’s assistant ♪ (Sherry baby) (Vax and Gilmore conversation continues, Taliesin “A dagger so sharp it could cut the sexual tension at about 1:14:00. Most of the party flies back to Lyceum to take a sigil to Vasselheim but Tiberius doesn’t have the spell so they have to go home.) 1:30:40 - Scanlan grows himself a long white beard since Tiberius has left them waiting for so long 1:38:25 - Vax goes looking for Kynan, who has taken off, and meets his dad instead 1:40:40 - Break starts 1:56:20 - Break ends 1:57:40 - Grog shows off his beard to VM and asks Scanlan if he knows water burns (Tiberius, Vex, Scanlan, and Grog go to Vasselheim to visit House Thunderbrand, and then to get their money) 2:07:50 - They learn the carpet would be very expensive to fix 2:12:00 - They try to get Greyspine to believe half the party died 2:13:55 - Liam “What circumstance would a testicle advantage come into play?” Sam “At Gilmore’s” 2:14:40 - Scanlan casts suggestion on Greyspine to get the full amount they’re owed, it works! 2:16:05 - Grog gives a thumbs up with severed duergar arm 2:18:30 - Vax and Keyleth braid Trinkets hair with flowers and bows, Percy disapproves (They plan for a while on what to do for the dinner with the Briarwoods in six days, Scanlan comes up with Percy disguising himself as Vax while Vax goes invisible) 2:32:00 - ‘Jenga’ is born, Keyleth asks Percy what he wants, Vax asks if Briarwoods are pure evil, Scanlan thinks they’d kill them anyway even if they weren’t evil 2:34:25 - Grog grows a really nice beard, Vax shaves half of it off, Travis breaks mechanical pencil in anger at 2:35:28 2:38:28 - Scanlan and Percy sing a version of “Do you want to build a snowman” 2:41:00 - Percy tries his new glove invention on Tiberius 2:42:30 - Diplomacy 2:45:35 - Grog makes himself a toga out of curtains/he’s still scared of water 2:49:50 - They start off toward the palace for the dinner and get their disguises ready 2:51:35 - Vex pats Vaxcy’s hand, Asum tells them about the Briarwoods & figures out Percy is pretending to be Vax 2:59:40 - Enter the Briarwoods 3:05:00 - Tiberius suggests a double date to Allura with Grog & Kima, Allura suggests it be just the two of them 3:09:40 - Vex can sense invisible Vax 3:14:40 - Vox Machina gets introductions 3:20:15 - Vex asks Delilah questions about Whitestone, then they all get questions in 3:44:22 - Vax sneaks into the Briarwoods’ room and they immediately see him, gets captured 3:47:20 - Game ends

Sam's fucking smile when he kneeled down to rp his height and started to look around like a child in a candy store made me smile so hard, it was adorable TvT And Vax's prank on Grog made my day lmfao

"Don't cause a scene at dinner." Haha, do you know these people at all??

Grog: "Maybe I dont know...Lets say I assume" - Great moment, I love how you can see true anger in Travis's eyes, lets just hope Grog isn't Vax's only hope next episode.

The whole interaction between Liam, Laura and Travis during the shaving incident is just gold. Travis breaking the mechanical pencil, Laura trying to stop Liam an Liam's giddiness about the whole thing. So great!!

Shoutout to all the people that are gonna be coming here because of the animated series

"You look delicious" is the only thing a person could say that would make you RELIEVED to find out they are a vampire

Looks like Vax is quite the blacksmith, judging by that Axe he's been grinding for 20 episodes.

I know this has been mentioned, but coming from campaign 2, Matt's ability to say things like "Tal'dorei Council," "quiver," and "make your way" with impunity is so startling to me.

Taliesin's ultimate act of kindness. Orion makes a snide remark about his stuff being "less important", and Taliesin reaches across to reassure him.

Vax’ildan [throwing his hands through Shaun’s bead curtain]: GILMORE, PERCIVAL NEEDS A _MAKEOVER_

Tiberius: “I flirt with Allura” Me: *eating popcorn* “Oh boi, you don’t even know what’s coming”

Travis breaking his mechanical pencil after Liam shaved half his beard was perfect....I could just see Grog waking up...feeling half that beard that so desired....and then out in Vasselheim, everyone just stops as a loud "VAAAAAAX!" is heard through the skies

Laura actually hitting Liam is such sibling energy I love it

"No additional funds as no scalps were collected." The whole time they were down there in the Underdark, I kept thinking, "Aren't they going to take the scalps? They were promised extra for the scalps!"

Man, can we all just give a huge hand to Matthew? I was amazed not just at his incredible worldbuilding and ability to work with his own player's made up stories, but his way of juggling the party when it was split up so that each player got to do what he or she wanted to do without giving them too much wait time. Unbelievable.

Just started Critical Role recently, 2022, and never been so in love so quickly. Did a couple episodes then watched the show and I am insanely excited to witness Percy's storyline from the original campaign. Percy was by far my favorite character in season 1!

Say what you want, but when Orion said that Percy’s moment was more important than his “secondary” thing, making Taliesin tear up and mouth thank you to him, I felt that in my soul.

Dude I love Vax. Like, that doesn’t get said enough. He’s such a badass, but he’s so soft at heart and I really love those characters.

Here lies Vax'ildan his last words were " I thought I was stealthed!"

The Scream that came out of me at Vax's betrayal was INTENSE. Grog's poor beard...

I know I'm late to this but... Liam? Is it? Vax basically when searching for the butcher, he does his little thing, and as he doesn't get an immediate answer he let's his mates continue doing their own thing, as to not slow down their pace so much. A lot of good players at this table. Can't wait to watch the next few years worth of content.

"Very strict 5 minute break" 20 minutes later... "Welcome back!"

They're very attractive, they arrive after dusk, they're wearing dark, with high collar... I'm calling Vampires!

Random Parallel of Taliesin's characters roasting bad guys: Percy: A toast to gracious hosts! Campaign 2: I wish for you in the future to find someone who would mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.

A dark thought occured to me that the 6th unnamed bullet was actually for percy himself… damn

"aAAah!" "..." "high rolls startle him."

3:20:00 I absolutely adore that Sam commits to sitting on the floor during the dinner. It paints such a great picture of the seating arrangement.

0:12:25 - Game starts, recap of last episode begins 0:12:37 - Grog sings he's the champion during Matt's recap of when he won the fight against Kern 0:13:00 - Vex is still disappointed in how Vax treated their fanboy. Percy describes Vax's tough love 13:30 0:13:56 - Percy's face at the mentioning of the Briarwoods 0:14:29 - Recap ends 0:14:32 - Part 1 begins. 0:14:56 - Lana meekly asks to be paid [I think they should form a union!] 0:15:40 - We are told how much the staff cost the party 0:16:15 - Vex covers the cost of the staff from her person purse 0:16:42 - Vex assures the staff that they will always be paid by the party (or fired, adds Grogg). 0:20:28 - Scanlan tells Percy "it gets better" 0:20:48 - Percy tells his backstory in regards to the Briarwoods 0:26:52 - Five of the barrels in Percy's gun have names; two of these are researved for The Briarwoods 0:28:47 - The group has Percy's back 0:29:19 - Scanlan breaks the tension 0:29:58 - Scanlan advocates for the bushy moustache disguise-school-of-thought 0:30:14 - Klepto Grog 0:30:53 - Grogg is stealing from a crying Percy but will Vex let him get away with it? Consequences start at 38:03 0:33:32 - Orion acknowledges that Percy's backstory was more important than what Tiberious is doing 0:34:01 - Matt's stance on meta-gaming 0:37:59 - Grog Gets Taught a Lesson 0:39:56 - Tiberius trying to get a sigil of teleportation. 0:41:46 - Tiberius's adventure pt.2 0:44:18 - Tiberius's adventure pt.3 0:51:08 - A Visit to Gilmore's 0:54:36 - GILMORE! 0:58:02 - Keyleth vs Sherry 0:59:16 - Keyleth tries to barter like Vex but rolls a one at 59:35 which is perfect for her character 1:04:46 - Scanlan Serenades Sherry 1:05:07 - Scanlan causes Gilmore's assistant to crack a smile for the first time in however long the group has known her 1:05:32 - Scanlan sings a song to Gilmore's assistant 1:10:58 - Gilmore reminds Vax that he's owed 25,000 gold by the party 1:17:02 - Grog's belt for dwarven-kind is inscribed with the word 'bad-ass' 1:19:41 - Tiberius casts fly on some of the part members but at 1:19:57 the spell starts to fade 1:40:53 -" We're going to take a five minute break. Strictly 5 mins as we have a lot to get through." 1:48:54 - Travis Takes a Peak 1:55:14 - "Welcome back." 1:56:56 - Grog's Scruff & Fear of Water 2:11:36 - Scanlan Persuasion 2:15:10 - Grog Give a Thumbs Up 2:18:30 - Pretty Pretty Bear 2:34:25 - Beard Wars: Revenge of the Trip 2:38:29 - Scanlan sings "Do you want to build a machine gun" [based on Frozen's Do you want to build a snowman] 2:41:00 - Percy's new handshake 2:42:30 - Diplomacy 2:46:25 - Grog's Fear of Water Pt.2 2:52:20 - Keyleth sings "Hey There Delilah" by the Plain White T's 3:09:29 - Vex Scenes 3:38:18 - Scanlan plays the Cantina Theme music from Star Wars 3:40:33 - Cliffhanger

Liam:“What circumstance would a testicle advantage come into play?” Sam: “At Gilmore’s” I cried 😂 2:13:51

Taliesin's role playing is flawless. So far (usually when exploring someone's backstory) the cast has usually had an awkward time, like pike when she was explaining what she was doing before she joined the groupe in the beginning, keyleth with the ashari and even vex and vax just sometimes say things about their family that are ridiculous in a really unrealistic way, but percy is totally real, I totally feel like it actually happened to him. (because it did) Thank you Taliesin.

"IM FROM DRACONIA!" xD he is basically a Pokemon at this point

I love the fact that they abused the flying carpet, Matt destroyed it, and they have spent big chunks of time trying to get it back and failing.

If Orion doesn't remember what his circlet does in YET ANOTHER episode after this I will lose it. Matt has explained it so many times now.

"do you want to build a machine guuuuuun~" "why yes I really doooo~"