Yes, but also booooooooo. With nothing but love, fellow Critter.

Still too soon.

It's not like she had the scientific know-how to see it...

No, go away.

CSI Miami YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH

Definitely not her first kill... IfyouknowwhatImean...

@@gnomesaiyan1680 "Hey Ash, Whatcha Writing?"))

Great actor and great writer!

Such an under rated writer. Hope she lends a voice here and there

@@steelangel9039 Oh just a little something for Bunkers and Badasses!!!! I mean Dungeons n’ Dragons.

OMG YES. For those that haven't seen Campaign 1 don't worry about Pike. Her return was so WORTH IT. 😱

Yes but I think they'll include Pike with maybe a side story while she's away from the main group. No way they leave ash out for extended periods (for either campaign) if she's available.

I believe in an interview when asked if they were going to include moments when Pike wasn't around, Matt said that they were, but they weren't just going to write her off. They were going to show where she had gone and what she'd been up to in that time.

@@OneWingedAngelsBand cant wait till next week. SPIRIT GUARDIANS BABYYYY

During the stream I kept thinking how much easier of a time they may have had during the briarwood arc if only the cleric was around.

In the Q&A, Sam mentioned that the animators needed to be convinced to really hurt the party. As you can see, they eventually got the hint, lol

@@devinspencer1678 Yeah. Looking back at the Brimscythe fight, which was still very well animated, you can see the party getting hit without really taking visual damage. This is a big improvement in the attacks looking VERY damaging.

yeah the first two episodes were very much the weak part of the show for me, it felt extremely rushed, specially without all the arcs that actually made them the defenders of emon, but now that we finally kicked the briarwood arc open its looking pretty good. but at least if the next episode tells us anything is that all those arcs are canon in the show, but maybe they happened off screen.

@@danielvanpatten5815 I was actually taken aback at how bad Vox Machina got hurt this fight. The moment Kiki casts Daylight and they turn the tide, it still feels desperate, like they're terrified the light will die out and they'll be dead. Percy screaming in terror and rage as he wrestles with then curb-stomps the wraith is amazing.

Pike/Grog scene #2 in this episode is such a fuckin tear jerker, they nailed Grogs facial expressions to the wall

@@restfulori212 Percy just having a full on melt down while curb stomping a ghoul was the comedic highlight of this episode for me, I cried I was laughing so hard

And then you get to episode 5... Had me bawling like a baby

Grog is the perfect example of a low intelligence but high wisdom RP character. He doesn't have the best understanding of nuance, but he's really good at picking up on emotional cues. It's what makes so many of the things he says feel so visceral.

@@TidalShadow Even in game, when everyone was improvising their lines and thinking about combat abilities and stuff, Travis still always did a phenomenal job roleplaying Grog. It's very easy to fall into the trap of turning a dumb character into a caricature. But Travis gave him depth in so many ways. SPOILER BELOW about a Pike/Grog moment from C1E75. When Grog asked Pike to teach him how to read, I cried. It's a complex emotion expressed in such a simple way, like he's really saying, "I know I'm not as smart as everyone else, and that feels bad so I want to be smarter." I was always the smart one, and my brother was always the athletic one, so I remember seeing that same pain in his eyes before he found and harnessed his own intellectual strengths. Brilliantly expressed, all while being a hilarious scene that follows the Show, Don't Tell rule.

We haven't gotten to "Fix him!" yet.

@@kherubim1 I hope we get to see it! Given the length of the Conclave Arc, that should probably be three seasons

True, but a DM who wants to make a challenge but not a TPK might fudge the rules.

Absolutely true! A DM can over-ride any and all rules. I just thought it was cool when you watch it back that the light doesnt actually hurt them. The other fighters are able to hit them and kill them because of the light. It was a great way to show the game mechanic of advantage/disadvantage in a visual way.

The spell is actually called 'Dawn' I believe

@@mallerman7515 not in 5e. Not sure if it was in a different edition or not.

@@mathsalot8099 No they're right, there is no "Sunlight" spell. There's Dawn, Sunbeam and Sunburst. Keyleth would be using Sunbeam, or rather beginning to learn how to use it.

Does that make Wyrmwood canon?

@@Juice1984 in the dragons den there was a wyrmwood dice tray :D

He was their guard at Greyskull Keep right?

Jarrett was the og hotboi

We get more show, we'll probably get more Jarrett. Here's hoping.

They already have a season 2, and if it is what I think it is, Jarrett plays a pretty big role early on. I'm positive he's coming back.

@@mathsalot8099 Oh, yeah, I'm sure we'll get plenty later on, just wanted more now. XD

It's a lot to start and sink hours into, but it's available in audio form if you can't watch. I personally watched all of campaign 2 and am currently watching 3. 2 is my bias (it's very good), but I'll watch 1 eventually after this show.

Well you're a critter now. Welcome to the community. Enjoy your journey

Welcome to the fans!

Thannk you for the sub! Welcome =)

The group went full Muderhobo in an episode of the livestream and Mercer had to reign them in. This was also around the period that Orion broke with the group so things were tense and weird for a few episodes. But the Briarwood arch is amazing, only thing better in the first campaign made up by Mercer is a certain conclave later on.

@@erikrungemadsen2081 No, her symbol breaking happened earlier in the underdark arc. It was another murder hobo episode, but not the one right before Orion left. The one you're thinking of is when Kit Buss guested as Lilith and they smoked the Broker and one of the other two sent to abduct her. I think they're playing fast and loose with the timeline of when things happened.

If I’m not mistaken this is something that happened in the Kraighammer arc.

I'm pretty sure pike caved in the skull of a duregar in the kraghammer arc in a very brutal way, in which matt made pike unknown to Ashley switch in alignment. Because if I remember correctly the duregar was already defeated or surrendered. So a murder hobo act that Matt took and expanded on and made way more impactful. He's a genius.

I remember being bewildered how much they got upset at Tibs for killing the unconscious woman after Grog killed several unarmed prisoners earlier in the campaign. Turned out to be mostly OOC.

Oh my god, I forgot he used to say that regularly

@@mythomagic1771 another Mercer-ism is at 2:02 "go ahead and check out Episode 4", with the formula being "go ahead and [action]" 😅

That was instantly my first thought lol

Mighty *Nein*. And it you think these were creepy, you're in for a world of You-ain't-seen-nothin'-yet!

@@JulianCommodus I knew I spelled it wrong. Thanks sweetie😘💕 oh yes I've scene up to episode 6 and now I'm scared to sleep with my lights off😱 but man the story is getting SO GOOD😆💕💕💕

Makes me want to go and rewatch the original, full length versions...but I'm still working my through the rest of the series, only up to episode 45 😆

@@hhylobates4098Happy to be retired on my 3rd viewing of campaign 1. All caught up with Critical Role.

Crossing my fingers that Pike rides him back.

That's quite a feat. Not even Trent Ikithon was expelled for a long time...

Matt and Laura actually saw these flaws too and Vex was a modified beast master and only had to use a bonus action to command Trinket.

@@ttajohnson15 was she from the beginning? Because i might be wrong but i'm pretty sure i remember her having to choose between her attack and trinkets. But it's been a while.

@@Olochgu yeah I think they changed that lattter, not sure when though

Yeah, I winced when it got smashed :D

I think they were Shadows.

@@lisagaughan7154 seemed more like wraiths

@@nathanielranney9163 the daylight seemed to be hurting them though, because I'm pretty sure Shadows die in sunlight and Wraiths are disorientated by it.

@@lisagaughan7154 ya but they really don't look like shadows and wraith seems to fit their appearence and abilities better due to their more physical looking form, aversion to light, draining attacks, and flight(shadows cannot fly last i checked)

@@nathanielranney9163 fair enough

definitely :)

I didn’t even realize it was Jarrett.

i feel like jarett as he is here was an adjustment made for new viewers. what everyone else would have seen would have been as uriel described, as shady as the briarwoods are. so imo it makes sense for jarett to be professional around them. and even then, after the events in this episode, he's already friendly with scanlan at the end of this episode. so, briarwood fiasco notwithstanding, his friendliness would likely show through later on.

Even the accent change, its so different and makes him sound stiff and uptight rather than laid black. With the change to the timeline of only just getting their keep I suppose there's just no time to properly introduce a full household of staff.

@@nox_tech_ .... Jarett was Vox Machina's employee. It was a completely different relationship. He was a badass guard they hired to protect their keep. They never even said whether or not Jarett had heard about Vox Machina being in legal trouble due to the Briarwoods incident.

@@sybariticcupboardrat3763 i know that. vox machina was the only campaign i caught up on so far. it's a different relationship because it's different circumstances. the angle they're working with in the show is that they're earning their way up. originally it was pre-stream that they had auditions for guardsmen, and then he's the chad bro guard. here, he's introduced taking their weapons away, saying they'll get returned if vox machina is exonerated. he knows they're in legal trouble, and he's the one informing them of it, and enforcing what's necessary as the situation requires. if you want a dynamic similar to what they had in-stream, you'd need a similar context to what they had before. though the critters who donated to the kickstarter gave a fuckton, the end result is that we've got 12 episodes for this season. so do you have an actual suggestion for - within these 12 episodes they have - how the episodes should've been paced to include a guard audition segment? they're in this series as a group earning their respect while at the bottom of the barrel, banned from every bar and supposedly incapable of simple missions. in the context of the animated series, again, how should Vox Machina's Badass Friendly Guard be presented? what the animation gives us is that this dude's a guardsman on behalf of emon and tasked with keeping vox machina under house arrest. and now he's the last among his guardsmen, and he didn't even get grabbed the entire night, like vox machina did, and he lit a torch, which helped vox machina realize the wraiths' weakness. his men were crying out for him, as if to hope he could save them in their last moments, so clearly the guardsmen look up to him. part of the mess he's stuck with is that he's gonna be the one questioned for failing to keep vox machina under house arrest and losing all his own men. chances are that he'd be cleared of possible troubles offscreen after the briarwood arc concludes, and he'd just vaguely end up their guard with a throwaway line to explain as much. lukewarm way of tying things up, but it's a grounded enough possibility. on the flip side, the city might fire him from being part of the arms of emon, and then he'd be a guard without a job, with the story giving some logic to it. then, vox machina, vindicated of the vampiric mess, and probably with some more coin claimed, would have their messy keep and no more house arrest. so theeeeen vox machina can hire some guards on their own terms. and theeeeen there's some logic in the context of the animated series as to how this band of misfits gets staff for their keep.

Lol

SPOILERS if you want it: Sylas is a vampire, but Delilah is human. She is, however, an extremely powerful necromancer.

Not undead at least in the original show if you dont mind spoilers I can explain...

Like, I would count her as undead even if her undeadness is not the NORMAL kind that people think of but spoilers for (hopefully) season 3 or 4 with (hopefully) Mark Hamill voicing him as the cast has fan cast since their VM days

@@isaac5625 don’t. I’ve seen the campaign thanks

@@DisneyLover258 I would say its a very strong possibility even for the end of this season as he was mentioned and whispered in the end of the Briarwoods arc in the show and Mark Hamill can be a suprise voice they kept from telling In their cast revealing and I would say his participation in TLOVM is strengthed by the fact he already voicing in another Amazon Prime animated show so he has all the tie ins for that

@@KaraOni13 so you know shes not. So why saying that ?

No he didn't?