Arcade Ambush (Ep. 14) | Fantasy High 

"You are filled with this strange intrusive thought, you always gave gorgug crap for it, but maybe, just maybe, his father is in the prize pool."

@@FatalHog "Excuse me, is there a father of Gorgug there? He's my friend, you see."

The stuffed teddy bear could be Fabian's second dad.

Time stamp?

@@joosepher9435 It isn't a thing that actually happened, it's just a fun thought

Im just imagining this set is like 2 rooms away from like real office cubicals and ppl doing work, then out of nowhere ALL THE YELLING and nobody bats an eye haha.

Yes. Yes you do.

Also when the DM asks for more die lol

@@The_Only_Baba_Yaga I never even thought about where this room is lmao; man I sincerely hope that you’re correct in your description

@@rubenmichaels6722 there a behind the scenes videos from this series, and it looks like they're pretty close.

That was hilarious, but Lous got one too and Brennans rolled up sleeve pole shirt isn't much better lol

I think brennan’s worn them in the past too but I could be wrong. I died at the t-shirts with references on them but because that’s all I wore as a nerdy high schooler 😂

Anyone have the time stamp for that?

zach, brennan, and lou all have short-sleeved button-ups on

or how bizz and rizz sounds identical and he emphatically does a familiar voice for him lmao

Don’t forget emotionally helping them be a substantially better person overall

Consistently... They may need some time with Jawbone.

Biz had it coming though, what a creep

@@SeanLaMontagne nahhhhh they good

@@thelastcube. he is the personafication of all of r/niceguys

i mean, gorgug and fig at most are the hot topic nerds, fabian and adaine are rich kids, and like, kristen isn't exactly hot topic, neither is riz.

The two genders

@@willnelson9906 kristen doesnt match the aesthetic but collects funkos like they’re religious idols, riz is 100% a gamer/anime hot topic nerd

Having been both I can confirm this is true

They're natural enemies, like Englishman and Scots!

while i agree you have set the bar so low

@@absolutcabbagery3661 HE WAS WILLING TO COMMIT MURDER, WHAT DO YOU MEAN A LOW BAR

@@festivepybro he's an adventurer, its been clearly established the goal of the augefort academy was to produce violent lunatics who recklessly deal out justice and seek gold and glory with no regard for the law. Besides this creep kidnapped 7 women and at the end of his control over them was going to sacrifice them to start a new age of darkness over the land. In addition to justified murder you could also probably call it a form of self defense. Also biz hurt Penny, his good friend, and was about to hurt/kill his only other friends. What I'm saying is that while he took the shot in part because biz is a creep I'm like 60% sure that he would take the shot anyways if biz hadn't been an incel creep about it.

@@Limepopsicle07 a lot of the suprise in the moment for me was that Riz pulled the gun came from how intense and immediate the action was rather than how it was simply the right thing to do. I'm unsure what bearing your anecdote about all men has on what Riz did, are you saying that an amount of moral behavior out of a man should given special attention rather than be what is at minimum expected from any member of a given society?

@@Limepopsicle07 also you act like this is about Biz being creepy like this is about his vibes or something, he was explicitly expressing intent to kidnap Adaine

He mentions a couple of times in the series there's a lot of work the dm puts in that either doesn't get recognized or just doesn't end up being relevant- glad you caught this, good eye

I knew instantly it was Plato, such a cool little easter egg by Brennan

Brennan mentioned he studied philosophy right? He probably knew this just as general knowledge XD

I also caught this and I chuckled

I didn't know that, so when I read your comment I was like... "That's... a joke, right? No way freaking Plato was a wrestler... right?" And then I looked it up and boy, oh boy was I surprised. That's a pretty funny bit of trivia.

the contrast between him outside of combat and him inside of it is amazing and i love it

Also "I'M GONNA CUT YOUR HEAD OFF!!" Gorgug really doesn't like Biz.

Well, yeah, he zapped Zelda away and almost Rizz too

1:03:30 - Preamble

I love how, if you're just looking at Gorgug in this fight - he's just marching through the arcade to chop Biz's head off, music blasting through his headphones, smashing through every obstacle as they come. At no point does he get turned around or completely derailed like the others did - he's just on a mission to save Zelda and not letting anything stop him.

IKR, for example: 1:35:04

Except fire him for making the 274 beeps so damn loud for no reason.

@@grantdixson1442" oh yeah because next time the *BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*-en work anymore."

Ikr

I'm not sure. The beeps hurt my ears

I love how invested he is. He has made this series great. But I love how Zac has been as well. Love how they are playing their characters. But I love them all. It's been a fun DnD series

Especially when his wife’s rolls are consistently amazing

@@danieljp9694 Wife?

Baby Dragon yeah, Murph and Emily are married

@@danieljp9694 Which kinda blows my mind, because everyone except maybe Murph looks like they could be high schoolers. Maybe it's the clothing though.

Kristen being the healer and constantly being impaired in some way is just so so funnt

Would be sick if it counteracted the trippy room effect and it was just normal for her

@@zakmartin718 Any Discworld fans here? This would be a full Dried Frog Pill effect.

and she was the one unscathed in this fight. I think they should all do drugs more.

@@thelastcube. wait until this square watches starstruck odyssey

The ball^2

Balls on balls. Balls for days. Ball is life.

His luck keeps absolutely failing him, I feel so bad for him!

😮🤯

You talking about THE ball?

Me too! But, to be fair, it’s probably been a couple months real-time since they heard about Mr. Gibbons. They’re not binge playing like we’re all binge watching.

Brennan has to spell out SO much shit for his players, it's ridiculous!

@@stormcloudsabound at least it makes an enjoyable experience for everyone.

@@stormcloudsabound looks like they're first time though, it's understandable

@@iambuttdix9692 : Ally and Lou I think are the only newbie players. Brian Murphy DMs a great campaign called 'Not Another D&D Podcast' in which plays Emily Axford (his wife). Zac Oyama and Siobhan Thompson and Brennan Lee Mulligan have all been guest star players on that podcast as well, though I don't think they play very often. NADDPOD is really worth a listen, it's excellent. The other players in it are also former Collegehumor actors.

Hell yeah

Take a shot everytime you hear awesome

Hell yeah!

"This guy.. _might_ be your dad"

Lydia you forgot about “Rad!”

Watching this series for the first time. I See Your Comment. I agree

I saw your comment

Hey! :D

I saw

hello

Gorgug as well

Fig had dad stuff for a while, tbf. She just met her real dad and accepted her stepdad

Gorgug has infinite dads, and he's just working his way down the list whittling it down

had no idea which nat 20 you were talking about and then i Got to it and fucking screamed

@@joeysnowy4110 same. I read this just as it happened

1:28:28

I screen recorded it. It was way too epic to ever forget

I legitimately screeched into a pillow

do you have the time stamp for that?

@Malik Barker I mean, not with Fabian’s mom being an alcoholic

@@mickey567 and riz’ mom is out of the house a lot,,,

@@detectivepigeon8699 I’d say that Riz’s relationship with his mom is definitely positive in a weird way. They don’t interact much day-to-day I’d imagine but when they do interact it’s a good thing for the both of them

i KNOW i thought exactly the same thing. murph really did bury riz's reaction under glee

Best part about that? Earlier that episode Riz found out that his father acted as a spy, infiltrating the armies of evil people because everyone assumed that of course the goblin would be evil. Riz did almost exactly that by pretending to be on board with Biz, thus following in his badass father's footsteps.

I loved that whole bit. I was excited to see how it played out. I loved the Box of Doom roll for a surprise round too! Unfortunately though Murph's poor luck with rolls ended up making the whole moment a real dud,

@@turnerthekilledgamer6995 that so true and cute

Shouldn’t he have gotten advantage on the attack roll since it was a surprise? Also, how are everyone’s hit points so high, or is it just Gorgug?

Maybe Drawfee could get involved.

@@lavalampoondesign Omg yes

Or, even better, a high budget series.

@@hmulford3851 That's what I was thinking - like an awesome adult animated show.

@@hmulford3851 I’ve been thinking for months that this would make the BEST adult cartoon

Good Guy Gorgug

I just want to know what he said after “a Bebe, like on the internet”

@@JH-md1tu "GOD DAMMIT."

@@JH-md1tu - You can play the audio uncensored on spotify while playing the video through youtube. Use the youtube keyboard shortcuts for seek and speedup / slowdown to get them synced up, then mute youtube.

@@Peter_Cordes omg you’re awesome thanks, hate the constant censor bleeps

Was still mad about those bad rolls. :P

Same he should have gotten nat 20s at the beginning that would have made my day

But I also totally got the idea that Kirsten had - alternating between healing and hitting him, over and over, I'm willing to take bets that that's what she was planning to do before she reproached

Yeah, he went Percival De Rolo on Biz, and Biz deserved it.

Espionage is a brutal world to live in.

I'm a fellow DM and longtime dungeon delver and it's crazy how people can have such different opinions. I don't think someone who doesn't offer up AC's is by any means a bad DM for instance. Doing so doesn't make you against the PCs nor does it mean you're being mysterious and intentionally concealing information. I adore Brennan, no dm i've ever seen has as much gusto and just raw passion as he does (including great DMs like Matt Mercer and Chris Perkins) but his constant quoting of what DC's need to be met, quoting what attack rolls need to be, what armor classes are to hit and various other meta stats is hard to look past sometime. I think it's a really bad DM habit/trap that a lot of folks fall into thinking it's good. Constantly referring to those kinds of info yanks people way outa the moment. It shatters the flow of gameplay and makes it about just the dice and #'s instead of a roleplay experience. If Zac wailed on those wires, delivered it a solid chop with his 17 and saw no visible effect I think it'd be even COOLER if as a PC he stuck to his guns/gut read and kept swinging outa desperation to save their friends. Or maybe if he gave up on that course of action he coulda tried something different like taking out Bizz. The moment DMs go, oh dont worry you just got a 17 it's got AC 19 you can try again, you got a 9 on that attack so you just need an 11 or higher it's just a huge red flag for a lot of players and DMs.

@@henrymcculloch I think it depends on the group. This group definitely could've spent the whole episode trying to figure out the wires, just think of all the times they focused on something completely unimportant, so I think he does that just to save time. You have to remember that this isn't just a campaign, but a show, so he can't really just let them dilly dally on things as much as he might otherwise, because it makes the video harder to edit and longer to put out.

@@henrymcculloch I think it really depends! If narrative immersion is super important at your table, you could still convey the info Brennan does here, phrasing it like "you swing at the wires and your axe is tilted /just/ the wrong way, it slides along them without really doing damage, but you think you could damage them if you hit them at the right angle." That's something that this group does less of, they have a lighter feel to the game overall, so it's fine and more expedient for Brennan to just tell them the AC. But the point stands I think--it's an important DM skill to realize when the players are interpreting something incorrectly and guide them a little bit rather than letting them get super frustrated.

At the level they were at an ac of 17 is not a huge deal, that probably only about a 45% miss chance. It shouldn't be a surprise.

@@henrymcculloch DC, AC, that sort of thing is stuff that the characters would roughly know, and specifying stuff after the attack for enemies or before trying something difficult to get a feel for how hard it looks makes sense. you should know when it's really hard to figure out a spell or something. Though of course it's up to the indvidals involved, and the situation.

truly, a match made in heaven

especially since both of them are the ones rolling like, insane bs. rogues and bards y'all, rogues and bards

Emily is Fig, is Murpe Gorgug? I know Siobhan is Adaine and Ally is Kristen

no Zac is Gorgug Murphe is Riz

@@snowleopard064 And they’re married in real life!

all of this is happening the same day the an elven strike force broke a 14-15 year old elf girl with diplomatic immunity out of jail. which caused a war.

This is all like a month after they defeated fantasy doomsday kkk

No it’s been months like 4 months would be my estimate

@@pokeman-jl8wi also add that their second fight was a car chase.

*Vomits*

shush

tiefling bards, am I right?

at that line, i was wondering if ally was genuinely high on something

​@@Astralixewell i mean kristen was

CGOL Chris WASH 😢

We shall call it... This Land. I THINK WE SHOULD CALL IT YOUR GRAVE!

I know!!! So funny and kinda sad. Brennan has such amazing detail

I was like “HOW YALL DIDNT CATCH THAT?!?”

@@Just_Tyree To them it’s been weeks since Mr Gibbons

@@DeathnoteBB i mean it has been almost an entire school year since Mr Gibbons died

Oh, I just got it!

Timestamp?

@@skyfox5010 1:27:32

The Hangman has been such an essential character this season and we have Brennan to thank for it

I love that Brennan seems to have made it a “Hangman arrives 3 rounds after Fabian calls for it” kind of thing, so it almost always shows up “in the nick of time”

After I noticed the regular calling for the Hangman, I was worried that it would start to interfere with things and I wondered if reasons would be contrived to keep it away. But it has definitely turned out just fine.

@@BradTheAmerican I think it would definitely be problematic if the party were powergaming but it's just such a nice flavourful artifact to have for a party doing their first campaign and getting a taste for fantasy RP. I'm glad it stuck around because the character in the bike is such a gem.

He rolls for rounds I think. Before the hangman can come. But I do love the hangman, because it’s a good way for crazy things to happen

i was so sad he took damage but then immediately imagined it and was like “fuckin metal, honesty wins again”

Who tf is zac?

@@ThriftStoreTalent Zac is playing Gorgug

@@ThriftStoreTalent the guy who plays gorgug

OH

So dope!

RAD

Brennan is such a wordsmith! Even without the (absolutely amazing) minis and terrain, I’d still be able to picture it perfectly

LITERALLY im in tears abt it rn

Yes

My hope has been that the teddy bear gives the holder immunity to fear. Imagine Fabian and Gorgug tossing it back and forth at the ends of each of their turns to stay brave and fighting.

Brang

Brang

Brang

Brang

Brang

A lot of feelings

That's a lot of strong feelings, yeah.

And they didn't get it... Boof

@@handfulmousefly Remember that they have to keep track of tons and tons of things, and that there's a lot of time between each episode where they aren't playing. We can only see this from our point of view, and then it's more obvious.

@@bettievw on top of that, they take a while between when they play. They still have jobs a college humor to do.

NOT CRUSIFEXS! GET YOU A RELIGIOUS SCHOLARLY JOURNAL

You forgot Zayn as well as the appellbees were both kinda bad and even though the party didn't fight them it was still kinda a betrayal

@@jakobdeakin142 I still think zayn was cool Like he got out of the foster care system only to get caught up in a cult and the darkness of the world. The happiness he had was probably limited to his pet rat

To this day, I still don't get why they didn't kill Adaine's sister after getting information out of her. You know, casualy push her off the roof, tied up and with a sock in her mouth. She can't talk, so she is useless... I would have killed her XD

more like a cornifix

I know! (I’m late sorry) makes me sad they never used a Greater Restoration spell on him.

plus he was being protective of adaine. it's so sweet (in a dark way) 😭😭

Yeah, a lot of people forget that Plato was fucking shredded.

Honestly 'Plato' is just a nickname that means 'broad' so it could have very well been that he had a broad forhead.

*it means 'the broad'

@@248Name He got the name as a wrestler because he was notably wide

I can’t believe I’m not the only person who saw the “are u my dad” compilation and then binged the entire series

Wait, i dont remember, what was Biz doing/trying to do?

@@ragglerock2682 well, he was asked by these guys to get the girls out of the palempsests, BUT his memories were altered by Aluein to download the girls from the crystals and into their bodies in the A.V. club. She might have gotten to him the day he got beat up with Penelope etc.

@@jhubeJELLO actually he changed his memories on purpose to not give up info on their "mysterious benefactor"

The nasal breathy “My Lady.” Lol

Forgive me if I'm remembering the line incorrectly. "Calm down incel Icarus, you're flying to close to the light in your mother's basement"

And fabian

No concentration checks on spirit guardians makes her a walking storm of radiant damage

Clerics are banned from a lot of tables for a reason

@@unexardiximarion1920no concentration checks AND no concentration limits. She is running bless, spirit guardians and beacon of hope at the same time here.

Yeah I'm honestly annoyed by Kristen stacking concentration and never do any checks to remain concentrated... guess they decided to cut her some slack due to her being a first time player but damn, she's gotta learn

I don't think him not questioning his "new plan" should reflect on his character. The spell is extremely potent it seems, especially as it's shown in sophomore year. It's way more insidious than being dominated or charmed, because how often does one question their own memories without them being challenged first? Adaine telling off Biz for being cringy (which was as far as it went until he was memory spelled) was mostly warranted, but ultimately unhelpful for correcting that behavior. You can't tell someone that they are awful and unappealing and leave it at that if you want them to change, because without direction they'll fall into their old behavior or become even worse out of bitterness. In the end it came off as her just being mean to him instead of actually trying to help him (which I'm sure is what she wanted). Somewhere there's a world where they got Biz to talk to Jawbone and improve his attitude.

@@Cmbtsnpr Well said. I also sympathized with Adaine, but the way she approached him didn't seem constructive. (Although, that was very in character for her.) I hope they find Biz the help he needs.

@@Cmbtsnpr I mean you can't exactly expect a 14yo girl with an anxiety disorder being creeped on by a 17-18yo (he's a senior at the school) fedora tipping proto-incel to constructively be his therapist and deradicalise him. Would someone constructively being his therapist have helped him? yes. can adaine be reasonably faulted fro not doing it? no. Also when she was like "actually you dont have much to offer" she was cancelling the team's tentative plan to exploit his crush on her to manipulate him, and that plan would have been much worse for his ability to trust people and have positive relationships in the long run

@@voidify3 exactly, why is it adaine's responsibility????? i get so annoyed at these takes. yes, we can feel bad for biz in this situation, but that doesn't mean we have to blame adaine (who has done nothing wrong), or even the gang's more extreme actions as they were UNDERSTANDABLY horrified given the information they had

I mean, i doubt most people know biz was fucking 18, i just learned that listening to this messages😮😮😮😮​@@hinasakukimi

*s e x p o k e m o n*

Dude thinks he's Ash Fuckem.

so like Gardevoir?

@@Kamirasu I hate that I know exactly which pokemon that is.

​@@Kamirasuactually (and don't worry, I hate myself for saying this too) more accurately Vaporeon

2 of them!!!

@UCqxuHSvkDtUbtbnNHBwIAgw Oh haha I didn’t see the word tie

Nat 1: “You believe the video game is your dad, even though you saw otherwise in a previous session, such is the power of a Nat 1.”

Capitalism

I think Goregug's "Sup nerd?" Is the best part of this episode

THANK YOU!!!!

Beautiful, thank you.

Hot Topic nerds HATE A.v club nerds

49:07 Plato beats up some ghost nerds

Well, most things are

@@TalosAcephalos Taking the mouths out of my words.

@@ginoclaves great minds think alike

@@TalosAcephalos i mean, the movie was bad but the book was AMAZING

@@taitava9822 you are false

Mostly I's because concentration spells is pretty powerfull.

@@veterOKK93 yeah like spirit guardians is fucking powerful but it's sonmewhat balanced by being a concentration spell. But cleric get some good non concentration spells nonetheless

@@liminalsoup also some concentration spells can stuck very dangerous on top of eachother and break the game.

I was starting to notice this and wondering if anyone else did. Cleric gets away with so much overlapping concentration

@@kuldros457 I think they just didn’t read or didn’t understand the concentration rules, and Brennan is too busy running the game to manage that aspect. He caught it once, but then everyone went back to ignoring it.

find a DM to set u up

Its pretty dope

I kind of want to do a short game of it for my group.

Fury of The Ball!

He wasn't, he was manipulated.

@@lordbuss there are multiple ways to be a bad guy

He is amazing! He keeps me invested! And I can lose interest quickly!! Brennan is amazing, love his characters and his voices

He's the reason I started watching this series. What an amazing dm

I'll be honest. Brennan kind of makes me sad. Not because of anything in particular that he does, but because I know I'm never gonna find a DM as good as him to play with. He really is someone I would consider to be the gold standard.

Emm_er i love an interaction between my fave chaotic duo lmao. THEY WANT HIM DEAD

In my experience as noth player & DM there is 1 thing more terrifying to hear/say: "(name) I need you & only you to roll initiative" whilst the rest of the group are JUST far enough away to cause panik.