Belly of the Beast | Legend of Vox Machina S2 Ep 11 Reaction 

The reason Pop Pop looked so much older to Pike while Scanlon and Kayle look similar in age is because Pop Pop is Pike's great great grandfather. Gnomes in DnD can live anywhere between 350-500 years

fun fact while the animators were working on the dragon butt/intestines scene they labeled the set of frames "UmbrASSyl BOOTY TUBE"

Lupa not knowing about Dragons and Treasure has been my biggest shock watching this channel.

The age thing is pretty simple. Gnomes like pop pop, pike, scanlan, and kaylie can live a VERY long time. Like 300-500 years. Scanlan is 69 years old right now. Kaylie is in her 30's or 40's. The twins will live to be in their 200's. While grog and Percy live normal human lines. Keyleth being a druid will live for a thousand years or more which is why Osysa said "no one will live long enough to see you achieve your goals"

The burden that Kailee was talking about was her, not the sword. The knowledge that he has a daughter.

“The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings” is a line that hit me harder than I would’ve expected the first time I watched this. That entire scene with the Matron might honestly be my favorite from this season

Okay, my brain broke, when he didn't know that Dragons hoard gold, and rare items. It's like dragons 101.

The Matron of Ravens is probably one of the coolest gods in the Pantheon. She's been my favorite for a while.

Something interesting about Vax is that in the original stream/campaign he was looking into religion and faith potentially as a way to differentiate himself from his sister. He was on the path to being an acolyte of Pike goddess, The Everlight, but the incident in the Sunken Tomb happened, and now we have our raven boy.

Fun fact the voice actor for Scanlan loosely based Scanlans backstory off Eminem, he has no father figure, has mommy issues and even has a close relationship with a musical Dr. It’s slightly changed from the original depiction but the guy who wanted Scanlan’s autograph in episode 9 is called Dr Dranzel who in the original lore was the person who first discovered Scanlan’s musical talent. Scanlan refers to Dr Dranzel as Dr Dra.

In the game Scanlan used a teleport spell, this was superior in every way🤣🤣

Yeah Lupa, in the west at least dragons become notorious for hoarding treasure. Old stories like Beowulf or the story of Sigurd famously feature dragons guarding gold etc

11:31 They're in Umbrasyl's stomach now. What other part of a creature's digestive tract is that open?

11:18 I have been waiting 2 weeks for that reaction.....worth it.

When all is said and done, the Raven Queen just wants people to stop messing around with necromancy - which is fair.

Kaylie, basically: WHATS MY MOTHERS NAME *Scanlan will remember that*

I am dying from laughter, Lupa's facial expressions are the best xd! Especially when they flew into the booty xd.

Dragons "LIVE" on envy. They don't need to eat or sleep, as their form is sustained on envy. They need wealth to feed that envy. Thus, they horde treasure and just lay on it.

To explain about the age, as far as I know, gnomes/halflings can live a few centuries in D&D, but reach maturity at about the same rate we do. If I recall correctly scanlan is 69 (of course he is.) Kaylie is mid 20s, and pike's great great grandfather is like 350? not sure bout pike herself. EDIT: "he was 69 at the start of the campaign, because why wouldn't he be. But he was 70 or 71 at this point." see below

In the Campaign the Sword was actually a immovable rod and it happened while they were in the air so, when Umbrasyl was flying forward to move at the risk of his life it dragged through half of his body. Was INSANE!

4:45 Lupa, Smaug was hibernating under hundreds of tons of gold and jewels, the spaces between his scales were stated in the books to have coins and jewels in them.

Remember Scanlon is a Gnome and is 69 years old so a lot of his kids are at least 20-30 years old So now he can claim social security without paying all that child support he once owe back then! 😂

I can't believe Lupa never realized that dragons love gold.

04:27 It's a common trope for dragons in myth, literature, modern media like video games, anime, TV shows. Dragon either guard a hot sexy damsel in distress or a massive pile of gold and even in Norse myth there's Fafnir a greedy dwarf got cursed and turn into a dragon or the nameless dragon in Beowulf novel that guard it's own pile of gold too. 11:15 Leaf Village secret finger Jutsu!!! ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF DEATH!!!! SENNEN GOROSHI!!!!

In dungeons in dragons ,the way dragons level up is based on age and how big there hoard is. Right now they are as powerful as .ortal dragons can become. But with enough gold it's possible for him to become something when more poweful.

Scanlan is in his 70s and gnomes can live to the mid 400s

11:19 Scanlan must've had years of practice to master that "technique." 👉🍑😳

To add to the bit of dragons hoarding treasure, I learned a few years ago that in the case of Smaug, he laid in the treasure so long that some of it got embedded into his skin, giving him like a layer or armor. That's why arrows, swords, etc. had such a hard time piercing him aside from his weak spot.

"im your father luke" hits kinda different nowadays

Critical Role normally ended it's normal live game with cliff hangers. But, real talk, ya'll would be a hillarious DnD group

I've never seen a Dragon look so surprised!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

I needed season 3 like yesterday lol. On another note, it would be so dope for you guys to react to Monster. Love the reactions guys!

It's weird seeing that broom be able to hold grog lmao

A bit of trivia. Liam and Sam are both fathers in real life, which is why their characters had that father line during the fight.

2:06 funny you should say that as one of the campaign's most powerful moments was when Scanlan was confronting the group about him just being a joker to them and yelling at them "what's my mother's name." Everybody's backstory was to play at that point but Scanlan was still the same. So Sam, the player, decided to spice things up. Quite literally, too.

Gnomes can live up to be like 500, pop pop is like 345 years old I'm pretty sure

Fun fact: Dragons will burn through anything they sleep on so they have to layon precious metals and gold is the softest. So hence a dragon feather bed

"I'll leave you with this burden" "Is it a cursed sword" Bruh really 😂😂

DND dragons hoard different things depending on color, Red dragons like Thordak hoard gold and jewels, black dragons like Umbrasyl hoard treasures of fallen civilizations(hence his obsession with the vestiges). But not all dragons are evil, they’re generally separated into two groups: evil chromatic dragons, and good metallic dragons

fun fact that temple that vax enter was destroyed. So the tweaking scenario is quite possible

These got me rolling. The mirror comment.. love Critical Roll and the show. Happy to know they are liking it. Can't wait for the next

Another great reaction! Thank you guys for all the laughs!!

Scanlan is about 69 years old at this point. Which is young in Gnome years FYI Pike is like 40

Also for dragons to ascend to be a great wyrm their horde as to have a specific gold amount in terms of game mechanics

Dragons’ butts and, well, literally everything, is called a “cloaca” The more ye know

The THUD as soon as they entered made me laugh so hard I was out of breath. Honestly someone needs to cut in audio of Johnny Knoxville shouting “HELLO I’M JOHNNY KNOXVILLE WELCOME TO JACKASS!!!” and then play the music!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

We all have really been sleeping on this man scanlan's intelligence this whole show. That idea with the sword is 3000 IQ.

pikes pup was easily 500 years old and was loke a grand grand dad, skanlan is just 69 for a race that lives that long

I can’t remember myself but hiding traps and stuff would also go off a role of some kind and it was probably a little bit over average lol

Scanlan is canonically 69 years old. He is the oldest member of Vox Machina.

2:20 damn your kids gonna have crazy powers I swear

Can’t wait for the last episode, it’s so good!

Man, watching some of these scenes knowing the future hurts. If I could agree to them changing 1 thing, it would be Sam getting his wish granted.

gnomes age very slowly and live to about 500 or so years normally in the terms of D&D. Scanlan himself is actually 69 years old when he finds out he has a daughter. while pop-pop I believe was somewhere in his later hundreds nowhere close to death's door, but getting on in age for certain.

Vax'ildan: Champion of The Matron of Ravens and Penetrator of Dragons.

This channel is underrated. I could see you all having millions of subs.

also to give some context, this fight pretty much went about exactly as it was animated except for the way Vax and Scanlan got in the dragon. but this was a bit more of a funny/gross way of doing it.

One thing to keep in mind is that all of these crazy scenarios are what played out from decisions by the players in the game. They actually made the decision to make the back-end sneak attack to end up inside the dragon and then tried to anchor him with the sword from the inside.

Dragons are no joke. I wouldn't be laughing after getting ripped apart by two guys inside me while the bigger guy rides me. George Takei: OHMYYYY!!!

This show is fucking amazing

It's great to see people enjoying LOVM and their story for the first time.

Percy why would you make an actual functioning trap from silverware

Seems like Scanlan is a fan of Tousand Years of Pain technique ;)

That sword is how you get fissures. Never push that hard for a turd, just leave it be and let it come out in it's own time.

We will all have a place in the music industry. Speak it into reality!

I’m glad that for once the “death” in this world isn’t some complete a-hole that goes on and on about the end of things. But “life being beautiful because it’s fleeting?” That’s the biggest joke I’ve ever heard. And I’ve heard it so many times that it pisses me off. 🌋🤦🏾‍♂️ But know that I do not crave immortality nor wish it. Nor do I believe things should be immortal. But I’m not gonna keel over to death willingly. You stick it out as long as you can, because there are others who need you, others who are waiting for you, others you can help. I do not fear death but I will never serve or praise it. “Death can have me when it has earned me” And if it has earned others in my life, then I know that they will be in a place of peace eternally. Because not even death is eternal, because it’s just as much a choice as life is.

In d&d gnomes live for a very long time like hundreds of years but they seem to age regularly from infancy into early adulthood

Oh Percy is not dumb. He is very inteligent. In DnD there is inteligence and wisdom. Percy has high Intelect but low wisdom. That means he is smart enaugh to make a dope trap out of silverware, but not wise enaugh to understand not to demonstrate it on himself like that :D

Gnomes can live upwards of 500 years. Scanlan is 69 years old (yes, that was an intentional joke of the player who created Scanlan) IIRC, Kaylie is ~20-30 years old

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Pop pop is not Pike’s father he is her great great grandfather

Didn't know gold hoarding gold was a thing.. so I googled it lol it means status, just like humans

Although it is technically Percy's fault that Vex died in the game it happened a little different. Taliesin Jaffe (Percy) did start to ask to check for traps, but was interrupted. By the time all the side things were done TJ just went to pick the lock.

Great reaction!

Gnomes mature at the same rate as humans, and most are expected to settle into adult life around the age of 40. They can live to 350 years on average, but it's not too uncommon for them to reach 500 years of age.

Hell yeah!

Iirc dragons in older editions of dnd don't horde gold just because. They need it because they use it as a conduit for magic. It's how they can hibernate for decades without eating and it's also how they grow stronger as they get older. (tougher scales and more spells) Not only dragons though. Dwarves are generally without magic and resistant to it. Yet they can imbue magic into things they create with the stuff.

One more till end of a banger show until season 3

The Booty Hole Strategem gets me every time.

They gave the dragon the two finger assault

Vox Machina ain't afraid to went with the Ant-man up Thanos bum plan, either that or Vox Machina is classless😂🤣🤣

You should react to Vivy is an 12 episode anime and it’s really good! Keep up with the good work! 🤍

Some races in d&d are considered children/teen until their 30s and some races are old af when their 16. It makes for some awkward situations☠☠

The raven eyes are at the end of the opening

Me reading the comments that are shocked that Lupa didn't know dragons hoard gold......making me feel really outta the loop bc I also didn't know that Dragons are known to hoard gold until this video lol

Dragons horde treasure because lots of different mythologies used dragons to represent greed and arrogance, and therefore depicted them collecting gold purely for their own self fulfillment. Basically, dragons are greed personified, and the heroes who slay them are those "pure" enough to overcome greed.

Oh yeah Dragons are OBESSED with gold and treasure its the most common thing associated with them in fantasy stories Speaking of dragons I don't Umbrasyl was ready for today....like at all I mean that reaction says it all

this show is so good wtf

hey guys you should watch the eminence in shadow it's good definitely recommend it and it's also getting a s2

Originally, Kaylie named her mother first. She did intend to kill Scanlan, but Sam rolled persuasion in the 30s, and Matt rolled a natural 1 for Kaylie's attack. The gods can't speak directly to anyone on the material plane, hence the visions. They have to meet in the middle, so to speak, for an actual conversation. For some gods, meditation can suffice; the god of death needs you to drown enough to be between. I don't know about the betrayer gods, they probably need something nastier. Originally, they teleported into the dragon and used an Immovable Rod (in his stomach, btw)... but you have to admit, this was far more entertaining! I didn't remember Umbrasyl having Greater Invisibility, but it turns out, he didn't use it until the events of the next episode... assuming it was the actual spell, not a lair-specific thing. Every dragon's lair has its little tricks...

Pyke's pop is probably a couple hundred years old. 226 isn't the oldest gnome in fantasy worlds.

we saw Pikes Great Great grandpa, not her dads dad

Have you heard of Scanlan the Bard/ Or 'Burt Reynolds' if you looked at his card/ Always tries to get laid/ Sometimes with ladies he made/ But we still love him because rhyming is hard.

ahh yes I remember in the campaign. Scanlan saying I'd like to finger the wound, then proceeded to do so.

Not sure how old kaylee is (like 20 something maybe?) But scanlan is 69 years old at this point

To explain age issues with the gnomes. D&D gnomes live somewhere between 300-500 years but hit puberty at the same age as humans. A rough estimate would be that every 5 gnome years after age 15 is equivalent to 1 human year (in terms of maturity). Pop pop is Great Great Grandpa, so there's 4 generations of difference between him and Pike. With gnomes, he could be anywhere from 80-200+ years older than Pike (likely the latter). Kayle is around 30 years old, making her roughly 18 by human standards. Scanlan at the start of the adventure was 69 (because of course he was), making him about 26 by human standards. They look similar in age because in terms of physique and maturity, there's only about 8 human years between them. Pike is about 40, so the rough equivalent of a 20 year old human. The reason she looks older is because her hair changed color. Originally it was dark like you see in the flashback with Grog, but it turned pure white after the stress of being resurrected (before show, which will likely be shown next season in a flashback). Percy's hair turned pure white for a similar reason after surviving the trauma of the Briarwoods.

This episode was gruesome.

12:30 say hello to Arifureta

Matron interaction was cool af

Can you guys react to "Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement" The story of the anime tells the mc has the ability to travel between Earth and the fantasy world to save 80,000 gold by selling modern products from Earth.