A few more of Matthew Mercer's reveals & plot twists shocked the cast | Critical Role 

If you missed it, Part 1 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g6VqF4sicRk.html Part 2 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NBEAMbuSMJs.html

It was soooo smart of Matt to put Vox Machina's friends in guard armor as a trap. VM had a propensity to assassinate first, and ask questions later. Such a smart move to play on that characteristic.

Laura: "Oh my god, I rolled four sixes" Everyone: *Cheers* Matt: *Knowing grin*

everyone "oh jeeze this is so fucked up, thats crazy Matt." Marisha, sounding like she regrets some of her life choices, "....I have to go home with you..."

"Omg I rolled four 6's!!" Matt's like "Haha you did" . . . *EVIL SMIRK* . . .

The last one always messes me up and I hear “is that my baby girl” over and over in my head. I’ll never be over that moment (Same goes for the sun tree cause every time they find bodies in eislecross it feels like there’s going to be another Suntree incident.)

At the end of the video: Everyone: crying Joe: This is the most fun I've ever had!! :D

what i love about the allura reveal is that the nein haven't had the most luck with npcs, so matt pulls out someone who he knows they would have no reason to distrust

God damn, Mercer..... That reveal of Gilmore and the girls is just..... savage, and an amazing lesson of look before you shoot. I was screaming out loud on the bus the first time I heard that part.

im sorry but the zoom in on matt's face- XD

16:25-18:16 To this day, when we're well into Campaign 2, I don't think I've ever seen Liam *as a player* look that tortured.

I don't think I'll ever get over how shocked and angry Liam looked when Matt revealed that he had killed Kaley and Laura had killed Cassandra.

Liam's little hand dance during the Allura reveal has added 15 years to my lifespan

Funny thing about the hanging bodies. If you've watched the campaign wrap up episode of Talks Machina, Matt has confirmed that when the Briarwoods took over, the entire De Rolo family had been displayed in the public in the same fashion, which Percy would have known.

Death Knights were epic. A DM who paid attention and had his big bad guy learn how best to fight the heroes.

"I think it's an illusion" - my last brain-cell clinging desperately to hope

The way that Laura immediately breaks down when Gilmore comes back kills me! It breaks my heart!

I was so deep in campaign two that for a moment I forgot how much Matt likes to rip peoples hearts out... not excited for when he starts succeeding in doing that now

The Artagan clip was one of the---if not THE--very first Critical Role clips I ever saw. Fast forward to now, and I cosplay the Traveler and met my partner because he cosplays Artagan and the robe he uses was the same robe I had planned to use for The Traveler. I DM'ed him a question about the pattern, we became friends, and the rest is history. (Mind you, this was over a year before we even knew that these two characters are the same , haha.) So this Artagan clip holds a special place in my heart. Who'd have thought that Artagan choking out Vax would lead to two people finding love?

The entire cast when they realize what/who the killed in the last clip: "OH MY GOD. MY SOUL. MATT YOU BASTARD. *incoherent screaming and crying*" Joe/Arkhan: :D

@10:48 "oh my god I rolled four sixes!" *Matt's face*

the sun tree reveal is always so fucking *bone chilling*

Love how you arranged them in order of light and happy to ever-increasingly dark and twisted... the look of shock on Laura's face sold the Sun Tree moment for me as she clued in to what the bodies symbolised but the sheer horror that rippled through in the party as they all cottoned on to just what Vecna made them do... Talk about scarring your party at the table.

16:24 The moment they realized they were just charmed, and not the dead walking, they collectively covered their face with their hands. It was they who had killed them, and they're ashamed and deeply saddened at that. The fact they could be revived doesn't negate the intensity of emotions felt that day, deaths of loved ones that could've been avoided. That's also 600gp and two level 3 slots burned, but the emotional damage is more of a burden.

18:11 Travis screaming and cursing Matt with this line had me laughing so hard i peed: "You Kevin Spacey from Seven Motherfucker what did you do!?"

Still so proud of Ashley for not listening to Talisen and Travis and doing what Pike would have done. You could tell she was 100% set on revivifying the girls. Ashley was true to her character ❤

I read "Matthew are you okay?..." and a few seconds later it dawned on me what clip it was and now i cant stop laughing at the caption lmao

"It mite not be her" "How old is she?" "About her mid fifties" "It checks out!" Quickest back round check ever lol

“WHAT DID YOU DO?!?” One of the greatest lines in Campaign one! Loved this reveal so much. You could feel the tension...

Laura really sounds in pain at the end of death knight game. Her scream and follow up “how could you do that Matthew” is the pain, sadness, and emotion every game should aspire towards

The last reveal is just tremendous. All would-be DMs would do well to take notes.

When they attack the “three figures in dark armor” broke me when I first saw it

Wait does this mean vox machina is responsible for jester having a God

i’d forgotten abt the sudden zoom at 3:37 into matt’s face during artagan’s proposal to vax lfkdkdjdhdgg

"IT CHECKS OUT!" Incredibly excited and loud Marisha is my favorite Marisha. Always makes me smile ear to ear.

Looking back on The dark knight scene, it was a first glimpse we got of that calculating, darker Travis. He was, at least for a moment, fully opposed to using revivify on Kaylie and Cassandra because he knew they would probably need those spells for the fight. It reminds me of when Fjord sent the rangers against the Tomb Takers knowing fully they wouldn't survive near the end of campaign 2, a sacrifice most of the party was against.

I forgot about the mind-controlled friends, Arkon almost chopped gilmores head off

The amount of internal pain I get when at 13:52 it's Travis who tries to calm down Laura when she's thinking the worst, but I'm sure he only does it to make her feel better, he knows

I always feel sick to my stomach listening them count the damage, knowing who it is behind the helmets. Matt is so evil, it was perfectly executed!

(16:00-18:00) I really hope when they animate this the scanlan/pike moment where scanlan says “heal her, now,” and pike instantly snaps into action to bring back Kaylie makes it in. It really breaks me and I feel like it tends to go unnoticed with everything else going on.

7:01 - "Percy's family tree" from chat killed me 💀💀💀

matt's face when they're all critting on the three "death knights"

The greatest zoom in CR history!

Let's shed a tear for all the critters who skipped over C1 because it was too unpolished

@18:43 "This is a great game" - Liam Still gets me in the feels to this day, time and time again.

I'm afraid Marisha's gotten too used to having so much room to move around because of social distancing... Liam and Travis (but mainly Liam) are so dead when it finally ends. :(

16:50 god Liam and Laura's reaction to that reveal broke my heart honestly

Here is a comment I made about the Allura reveal: This moment in C2 is so powerful to me. Not only did the players get to meet an old friend (just watch Laura Freaking Bailey's face light up!), but this interaction was _needed._ The players, who had found out the hard way that the "Happy Fun Ball" was not at all what it seemed, were downtrodden, after everything that had transpired. And at this point in time, they needed to know that everything was okay, that they had not failed. It was truly a master stroke of genius for Matt to bring in Allura Vysoren and give M9 the strength of resolve they needed to keep going. And I attribute that to Matt knowing his players so, so well. He knew they weren't feeling the greatest, that their endeavors, their trials, their tribulations was mentally taxing. Mentally exhausting. And here, you get to see how much an NPC means, to a table, that they, the players, care about. How much they care about an old friend and ally. This clip is almost as good as when Gilmore gets introduced in C1.

I just have this image of Matt Mercer tied to a chair in a dark room, being smacked while someone shouts over and over "WHO IS ON THE COUNCIL!?"

I was half expecting the Tiberius death reveal in episode 64, but I understand that Matthew has done so many crazy things😂

Love this! I remember that Allura moment being so incredible because it was coming off the back of some really tough losses for the party. Lost Yasha and then lost the battle with Obann and The Laughing Hand in Lotusden. You could tell they were so down on themselves and burnt out. It amplified the joy so much.

nothing quite beats Liam's Mr Mime hands when the realization hits edit: the snap zoom on Mercer's expression is a close second

Oooh I rmb the last reveal, before that I didn’t care if Vecna live or die, but after that oh my gods, i was thinking if he didn’t die I will personally make sure he does.

However many times I see it, I still shake when they realize who they've just killed and are panicking before being able to revive them.

"That is a new experience entirely." never blinks, just smiles....

Lmao, why do I find them so adorable, particularly in C2 when they come across an NPC that they (the voice actors) "know" but also "don't know" in the context of C2, especially since they're literally all just voices & personalities living in Matt's head?

That last segment is in a manual somewhere under 'how to emotionally devastate three quarters of your players'

Omg Matt's smile when Laura says she rolled all 6s 🤣🤣

For the final highlight Matt takes it from crazy plot twists strait to emotional terrorism

Travis’s laughter @ 3:04 & 18:30 gives me life!

The way I'm hyped and scared at the same time to see the Sun Tree scene animated.

Oof, I never realized it, but if ever they make it to this in the animated series, and Matt can't voice Artagan, Tom Hiddelston(guy from Loki) should voice him.

I've seen the 3 Death Knights clip before, and every time I re-watch it, my stomach is in a knot the entire way through, especially before the players realize

If Taliesin hadn't said 5:28, then we would not have had such an impactful moment in CR history...we also would not have had Laudna

1:09 Liam's happy dance! 😄

Sun Tree: earliest reveal of new PC Crit Role ever had. 7:15

Thanks for compiling this!

I felt So Many emotions during this video. Bravo!

sam’s reaction to Allura makes me so happy 🥺

Thanks a lot for those 3 videos. I really enjoyed watching them and reliving some of the key moments of Campaign one. Thank you a lot :)

We got the Sun Tree moment in the show. Damn. I love Critical Role.

Thanks for posting this again! Love this series

I'll never get over how clever Matt was with Vecna's trick. Not because of the trick itself, but because he planted an opportunity before then to both telegraph to the players the possibility and most importantly provide them the opportunity to reasonably stop the most likely person from doing it. That was the point of the Nothic (I think that was what it was called) that Vax shanked earlier in the dungeon. Matt knew of Liam's view of Vax being kill first question later. This laid out and obvious missed opportunity which could have caused the players and most importantly the characters to have Vax hold back. This made Vecna's trick no only clever... but fair play.

These are my favorite moments and I am so grateful they're in one video so I can laugh/cry

for the last one you can see mad hold his breath and tighten up to avoid spilling the beans

the liam head tilt at the artigan stuff will never not be hilarious to me. "the fuck you say!? 'scuse me!?"

Oh my god does the last one get me every damn time

Love these videos!!

Part 4 definitely needs to include the reveal of Pumat reading "The Daring Trials and Tribulations of Sir Taryon Darrington"

0:51 - Best reaction from Travis I've ever seen!!!

Matt's smile at Vex's damage in the Three Death Knights is... diabolical. That should have been their first clue. :-) When Matt is happy about you, the player. doing damage to his creations in a game... you should know by now you're in trouble. 😂

The Sun Tree is pure goooold. The best

HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PART 3 WUUUUUTTTTTTT Thanks for uploading part 3/100 :)

6:15 seeing this moment in the animated series was such a gut punch

Sun Tree: earliest reveal of new PC Crit Role ever had. 7:15 Hi Matilda.

7:18 laudna's first appearance

The theater of the mind is a wonderful thing, all Matt did was barely explain its appearance and shift his voice a little and we all knew who it was

Thanks @SpekoGirl for helping us get through the break....i really miss them all.

Still have to wait 1 more week for C2 to return. I can't wait much longer, but these videos help

missing my crit role fix right meow.... but they be back this WEEK!!!! heck ya!

them finding their friends and killing them before they knew is one of the most fucked up things, i remember watching that and being like ?????? excuse me what

The zoom in on Matt's evil grin, lol.

Ive seen all of these clips before but I still had a pit in my stomach the entire time

0:31 I am just so in love with the fact that it only took half the phrase "Human Woman" for Laura to think it was Allura. They miss Their Wizard Mom so much!

"I have to go home with you". Lol.

I just realised Arty was the one Vax asked about time travel (specifically with the objective of going backwards) and Arty said no, but now in C2 he’s there with Caleb and Essek discovering that it’s potentially possible

That zoom always gets me ahahahahahah

I love the zoom in on matt while he is artagan

I love it when Matt is doing his evil smile. hehehe

4:55 rewatching this clip after LOVM has come out is so jarring. Especially since I forgot about it in general so my reaction to the animated scene was so genuine