Bloodlines and Lifelines [Full Episode] | Escape From the Bloodkeep Episode 5 

thank youu for posting i love this series especially during quarantine omggggg

I like did you episode into the blood key we get to see the eye known better for that child like baby Anna definitely girl like that episode six it into the light keep it today you’ll ever do the quest for cleaning the crown candy or are you ever going to do that for the ventures into the tiny house with the toys same thing you’re doing any more😎🤩🥰💕💕💕😈

Im so happy about this, these games are keeping me sane and I've watched all the other episodes and shows so I'm very thankful for these

we can only hope for more posting of other seasons to get us through this quarantine!

5 hours at least!!!

Leiland: My life has no meaning. I'm okay with this. *Sees the filthy halfling* Leiland: Revenge is a very good motivator.

Spite. Spite will do.

24:08

This is the advantage of an evil campaign.

Why are we still here.... just to suffer...? Oh, yes, vengeance!

Especially when he notices that Maggie is going into labor. Reminds me of Klaus from Season one/1 of Umbrella Academy. Edit: 5:58.

"This is the end...my only friend...the End..."

Did Matt get his dice from Murph??

So very on brand for him.

@@markjohnson598 or Caldwell 😂

@@markjohnson598 I told a co-worker it was like watching Will Wheaten play.... He flinched....

@@Kfaircloth13457 before the first crit role campaign bossfight they had wil pat matt's back, shake his hand, etc. i don't know if matt ever recovered

Brennan wanted Murder-Hobos, they gave him the Addams Family *snap snap*

It’s cause every villain was the “I may be evil but I’m not a monster” trope XD like, they do evil shit but they have their boundaries and they will not tolerate assholes lol

Only way to kill god

Love is love, magic is magic. Get that right

😂🤣

Hey, give her a break - I don't think the Aguefort Adventuring Academy even exists in this world

Solid callback

The best characters

I would die for John Feathers

I would hunt all the forces of good for John.

The best characters are the ones that weren’t supposed to be

Every campaign has that one character that the DM had to give a name and personality on the spot that becomes the party’s favorite and just hangs around forever.

IT IS THO HAHAHA

Oh, how genocide unites us all!

@@Baalslegion07 SIRI, play “I’m Dreaming (Of a Pink Slaaneshmas)”.

@@Baalslegion07oh god, this aged like fine milk

You know I like that I mean you are evil and spreading chaos but atlest not being a ass about it 😃

Brennan had thought that the party would all turn on eachother and vie too become the new dark lord but instead they're all super supportive and wholesome

"Just because you are badguy, doesn't mean you are bad guy." *alignment changed to lawful evil

I mean, he is the lord of evil

Leiland went through a somewhat hilariously similar, yet evil version of the arc of Kristen applebees, and I love that

@@YeetSpace Leiland had Riz’s rolls with Kristen’s arc

That’s a perfect description!

@@yourlocaldemon2195 Efink has Kristen's crisis of belief, too.. and both are clerics!

"Group hug!"

"We can do it together" fiery rainbows from hell appear

*proceeds to befriend their enemies*

lol fiery rainbows from hell is called Prismatic Spray and it's legit af 👌

I know that feeling. You plan failsaves, and the players manage to fail anyway.

"THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE EVIL GAME" - Brennan

I'm in this comment, and I don't like it.

Maggie spittin them FACTS! Preach girl! ❤

Don't you know that DnD is just cheaper therapy? Hahaha

Same... also the part about trying to change your not so healthy relationship partner... when you are the one who has to change...

Glanced down to comments and dound this massive spoiker. Sigh.

Sorry about the spelling

@@greatauntlizbethg9137 that's why we watch the video before we read comments. Sigh...

BaneRain This comment shows under the video. You don’t really have a choice.

@@Hate-Crime you could just not look towards the comments? Click the video and go full screen. It takes effort to actually read something...

the words an experienced DM who just knows the smell of bullshit when another DM says "oh yeah, SUPER dead"

I LOVE

The scent of Ham wafts through the air

The S.S.Getalong if you will

The bloodkeep has given one friendship to your cause

@@bearbones7913 HEY I UNDERSTOOD THAT REFERENCE

@@aratathekingx1401 You know its been so long, i actually forgot where i got that from. lol

@@bearbones7913 I got it from Fate Stay night abridged. But maybe you got it from somewhere else

"Maggie, look at me....You're about to lay an egg.".....I can't handle Jonathan's nonsense. haha

@@dakotamcdaniels2382 he's great :D

The choice to recruit John feathers to the cause was the most important decision in this entire campaign.

This is natural, proceeds to survive this hellhole...yeah...natural.

“Kneel before me” 😂

And the answer to both of them could/should have been animal handling

That’s exactly what I was thinking!

@@debran940 yes!

Haha my husband lets me handle all births in our game since I've actually given birth to 3 surviving children, lost 2. So I do a set of repeated rolls for the baby, the mom, the cleric/midwife, and severity for nat 1s. Nat 20s move that shit along fast, mom's got this. But anyways, it's a lot of CON and WIS rolls, then medicine checks for anyone in the room as well as CON for the dad. We've had a few fainters lol

@@MegaKat I know this is mega late, but how long would you say those interactions typically take? Does it depend on the rolls?

Brendad ftw

okay hold on huhuhu im new to all of this, who are the intrepid heroes huhuhu

@@jadeyu7197 the main cast from Fantasy High and Unsleeping City. Absolutely watch those if you haven’t! Fantasy High was the first campaign.

"I would follow you, Brendad. Into the very fires of the Scary Volcano."

*Villains

it helps that they realized the guy they were in love with is actually a massive piece of shit who doesnt deserve them, so now they can bond over they hatred of that douche and laughing at his stupidity

I know! I started crying the moment she name him Leiland Jr.

Knowing that Brennan had intended for this to all end in an all-out PvP boss fight, seeing him try to give them subtle prompts to get them to go in that direction, and then watching as they completely misinterpret that and find the heart in each other as friends is simultaneously hilarious and heartwarming

​@@MetaNiteFMI completely missed that. What prompts did he give?

@@MrDifsh I assume they’re talking about the moment’s of introspection each character got while falling out of the ship, about how everything is the fault of Zaul’nazh being a fuckup. Brennan was maybe hoping they would come away from that with a feeling of “Yeah, FUCK that guy, I would do a much better job if I had the crown!” but instead they all went “Yeah FUCK that crown, I have more important things in life to look after!”

I am just there. I. Am. Crying.

Erik Jelle it takes true skill to play two different characters (king of the Vinguri, warrior of darkness/Leiland the disaster gay) and I’m so happy matt got the chance to do so.

Matt, when a player, is ALWAYS a failfest... but watch his face when it happens.. he loves it as much, or more, than succeeding

Just wanna point out her name is "Efink, as in Knife backwards".

@@spikertaker That makes her name eve cooler

Maggie: I'm naming my son... Leiland: John! Maggie: Leiland Leiland: are you sure?

That is where I was too😂

You are not alone

"BABY" INDEED

Dimension 20 hell yeah, in the words of our Dungeon Master Brennan

@@explolsivecake2045 I mean "baby" is very very important in this ep

‘It’s dimension 20, baby time’

It's Baby Time, Dimension 20.

"Evil Is One Big Happy Family" is a trope

Robes with hoods is parliamentary work clothes.

Speaking of, how did she go from basically day 1 player to THIS? It's incredible

Timestamp?

DAMN!! How did I miss that!

Exactly the same moment I thought off when he said that 😂😂

The evil was inside you all along, in the form of a demonic infernal baby!

Bless your gut.

What was your first clue? His obvious jealousy of Maggie or when he told Efink that she wasn't his "type"?

Also Leiland was sneaking a few peaks at a shirtless Markus

Real Brian Murphy energy.

Double king is a deeply confusing video

double king! double king! double king!

I thought he was going to say something when the camera turned to him 😂

I 100% agree!

He is super detailed oriented and his observational humor is so on point.

(Sorry for being late) Matt never actually really failed. Sure, he had a short burst of bad moments during the whole falling debacle. But he dominated the first fight early and kept busy a halfling that has proven annoying to ALL party members involved, not just him. He also used darkness to great effect and kept the Orc guy stuck and busy (even if it was at the gracious fudging of rolls by Brennan). The whole failure was more just how he was written, being this joke of a stupid Gardner and a feeble halfling somehow evading all attempts at murder and capture. Brennan really leaned into this all as well, with The Beige really... only being the one that seems to be the brains of the operation. Emotionless elves, incompetent soldiers, hillbilly true king, deus ex machina of an army of souls, birds that are treated like tools despite being supposedly intelligent creatures. It's just poking fun at how ridiculous it all really is when you take an outward look. And how easily the entire quest could've been if they just fucking flew the eagles to the mountain of doom.

@@matthewhass1384 Also, important extra context that came after the campaign ended: Brennan didnt want the party to kill all of the "heroes" quickly so he literally gave Galfast Hamhead the statblock of a storm giant to try an make them unkillable. Meaning yea Leland was seemingly losing or only able to barely keep up when they fought, but it wasnt cause Matt rolled particularly bad, he was just literally soloing a storm giant every interaction while everyone else fought reasonable opponents💀

⁠@@JubioHDXyeah, like nobody else really had to have a prolonged fight with galfast so it was legit the image of a scary evil general losing to a random halfing with a pan XD like, of course they’re gonna be like “are you okay?” And it makes it all the more humiliating for him, when in reality that halfling is way too op lol XD

It’s like if let’s say the big strong bully character decided to pick on the nerdy and weak looking new kid, but then turns out the new kid is actually insanely strong despite his looks and completely bodies the bully. Then, let’s say a friend of that bully is later like “wait… you got beat up by THAT guy??” And jokes about him being weak, cause how strong could this seemingly nerdy and weak guy be lol Like, the bully is definitely strong, but the nerdy weak guy is like insanely strong despite his appearance and it’s the funniest thing the way this trope was in played in this campaign lol

@Yashvardhan SINGH jup, and funny thing is earthbracker Groon is a monk of Kord aka the stormlord, if I am not mistaken

StruggleOn I don’t think he even had to do homework, I feel like he would just do that in his free time

This is part of D&D canon. It's why Bards are able to cast spells.

By homework you mean, read the books, right?

Truly the most wonderful twist that their wholesome group friendship completely and utterly derailed all of Brennan's plans

what was the original plan? where can i watch / read about it?

Vicky Likes This I’m not sure about the later episodes but I know the first one was supposed to end in a pvp for all the villains

@@ero5392 really? woah. thanks! if anyone else have more info, i appreciate it.

@@vickylikesthis I believe that there two episodes of adventuring academy with the blood keep cast that is really informative

E-A-G-L-E-S, EAGLES!!!!!!

My favorite so far is: "That is desperately sad... Let's keep fighting."

That would be such a fucking power move.

I’d love it but I believe it’s still Leiland Jr.

Erika is incredibly stylish This series introduced me to her and I live her so much. She was so good in the critical role one shot she did with Ally Beardsly and others If you haven’t watched it I’d recommend it

Liam Ross yeahhh! Monster Hearts? If you liked that try LA By Night

Erika is an unbelievable treasure of a person. an incredible performer and a genuinely kind wonderful soul

@@liamross340 where can we watch this one shot?

Smiling Muse The Critical Role RU-vid channel

I mean, he did also give the crown to Galfast, but to be fair, he didn't know

She's certainly no Adaine Abernant

she simply had to do it for someone other then herself

@@MrSHADOWANGEL999 And do find her own direction instead of gaining it from others.

HAHAHAHAHA right, the description fits pretty well!

She got through so much! If this were an opposing campaign she'd be everyone's favorite hero

Fun fact... Brennan gave Hamhead the same stats as a storm giant.

That scene is just perfection. Of all 6 episodes, this is the scene I've watched the most. lol