Caleb's Wall of Fire | Critical Role Highlight | Campaign 2, Episode 42 

Caleb's inner monologue is just "I'M NOT GOING BACK TO JAIL" every time he does something whack. Episode 42, episode 56...

A man of quiet action. No hesitation, no second thoughts; when the chips are down - you want him on your side.

basically what happened: Caleb: “TO SHOW YOU THE POWER OF MY WIZARD MAGIC AND MY MENTAL TRAUMA!” *_grabs graune and sulfur_* *_Casts Wall Of Fire_* Caleb: “I SAWED THIS BOAT IN HALF!”

3:20 and here we see Caleb in his natural habitat, looking up how much fire damage he has to roll for his turn

I love that Liam (Caleb) waits right up until Matt (Vera) locks eyes with him, and *that's* the trigger for him to cast Wall of Fire. He's not jumping the gun, or panicking; you can almost see, Sherlock Holmes style, the scenarios running through in his head, the positives, negatives, probabilities, potential outcomes, and in the corner the numbers running down, down, down, until their gazes meet, and he locks in the course of action with the best probable outcome. As he has stated before, he's a fan of calculated risks.

I just love how Caleb is just like “ well this is going to happen.....but it’s going to happen on my terms”

Avantika: "There has also been a break in to my personal chambers" Jester: "Audible Gasp!" Avantika: "I know"

Matt: and that's where we're gonna pick up next week! Liam: Liam: Liam: Liam: Liam: Liam: *shit eating grin*

This is coming from someone who has seen episode 56: why does Liam pull the craziest shit off when there is a two week break?

this is caleb's "I throw the sword's Caleb's "would you share a cup cake with me"

That "NOOOOO" could be used to replace storm alarms around towns

All of the members of the Mighty Nein are important of course but goddamn, does Caleb pull his weight in this team. This kind of shit is exactly what a party should expect from their wizard: quick thinking and display of power.

They all look like guilty nervous ready to run children.... And then theres caleb, "yep they know, ok so I would like to gently cause a a wall of fire around us please?" Edit: HAHA I JUST LOOKED AT TRAVIS JUST :0

Marisha's shocked gasps and Travis's slow turn towards her, had me lmao

What ensued was perhaps one of the most chaotic skirmishes I think we've had this campaign...and a complete reversal from "The Mistake" (when everything went horribly wrong and they accidentally stole a ship). The wall of fire...then the epic counterspell...then the Thunder Step...the Dimension Door...the Expeditious Retreat...just one epic chase scene after another...a blizzard...oh yeah, then Fjord summons a freaking demon that proceeds to slaughter the ship crew... Good times.

When shit gets real, Marisha crouches on her chair. When shit get absolutely bonkers, she climbs under the frakking table. (5:22)

And it was Caleb, the physically weakest of the party both in HP and frame, who stepped between the most powerful enemies they had fought up to that point and his new family. He was the one to step up. Not Fjord, not Jester or Beau-- him. And I think then and there was one of the major moments where Caleb stopped seeing them as a "means to an end" and more as people he'd take a fireball for. And it has only flourished from there.

Considering that each end is not scripted, this really multiplies the tension

5:09 through 5:39 Travis.exe has stopped working lol

Caleb is my favorite character in any show ever!!! Hes the reason as to why I own a cat, whom of which is named Wizard. Great job liam for making and roleplaying such an amazing complex character.

Liam has a gift for doing epic things right before a two week break

Travis' slow head turn at 1:50 is honestly the best part.

One of the most epic moments I’ve witnessed in any storytelling medium.

you can tell that he was waiting to pull the trigger at any moment 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I think the best thing in the video was Matt yelling “CURSE YOU THANKSGIVING!”

4:58 Air raid siren.

I like how they react the exact same way most people do right before going down on a roller coaster. Its fucking awesome.

Im on ep 51 so far but I keep coming back to this moment, this solidified Caleb as my favorite. He claims to be a coward, but he's extremely decisive when everything is on the line

Probably my favourite episode ending this campaign

the best thing about it is how casual Caleb is when he does it

5:02 - Liam is so incredibly proud of himself in this moment! And rightfully so!

Waiting two weeks for the episode after this one was so painful

This is still my favorite moment in the entire campaign. Truly incredible thing to imagine in your head. She turns her head to look at the mighty nine crew who have clearly just been caught red handed, and maybe you’d imagine as the rest of the crew follow her gaze towards the mighty nine, a massive wall of fire just shoots up from the boat completely separating all of the crew from them. I like to imagine the view from avantika as she looks at them for a brief second before BAM wall of fire. So. Fucking. Cool. Literally one of the coolest moments that has probably happened in any DND game ever.

I remember thinking at the end: “Damn...Caleb is a badass!”

One of the understated moments after this was when Marisha claimed to be an expositor from the cobalt sol. Pretty clutch and even had the group w/o dering if she was really a spy.

Caleb's Wall of Fire here is the exact moment I became completely invested and hooked into Campaign 2.

Caleb is their Leroy Jenkins.

god I cannot wait to see this campaign animated. Given that LoVM has already been renewed for season 3 it's clearly doing pretty well, which should hopefully imply that they can go all the way

Caleb had previously made it clear that he likes calculated risks. He had also made it clear that during a fight, his mind races with calculations. What not everyone had realized at this point is that inside him, under the anxiety, and under the joyful and sensitive young man, is a merciless, brutally efficient Zemnian killing machine.

This moment right here is what got me into Critical Role.

I really thought they were going to die this time

It is moments like 5:20 that convince me Taliesin is evil incarnate

Episode 43 of Campaign 2 is definitely one of the best episodes in the entire show, and these last 6 minutes of episode 42 perfectly set it up.

Find it funny Liam just said Cool at the end

LOVED Liam/Caleb in this ep and the next. Ep 43 with counter spell.

Coming back to this 2 years later is so weird. Their old seating layout. Their old accents (forgot how much more raspy Tal used to play Caduceus). Their younger faces (it seems the pandemic has aged everyone at double or triple the pace). And Ashley still off at Blindspot. How times have changed...

Man that had to be the best cliff hanger so far

thank you for uploading these clips. Most of my favorite clip channels stopped updating a few weeks ago, right when the episodes starting getting really good, so I'm thankful for a quick reference to some of my favorite moments

Amazing moment, the fan art was so amazing!

4:52 :D 4:54 :O

5:00 Sam trying to go super saiyan there?

This was such a fucking power move

C2 has a lot of really key moments like these that I adore

This was so devastating to wait for lol. TWO WEEKS!

Still one of my favorite CR moments.

I think this episode, a few before it and a few after, maybe a 6 episode arc, was the best role play and gameplay of critical role thus far.

The best part is that there was a week break too after this episode. So everyone had to wait two weeks just to see what was going to actually happen 😂

I'm telling you, Liam is a beautiful mix of calm & chaotic energy I can only hope to achieve someday XD I also hope to achieve Sam's level of Chaos, but 1.) Way too high, even for me 2.) I don't even think Sam would have the balls to do something like this XD

One if the best moment in this campaign do far

man I gotta rewatch campaign 2

I just realized that they could've hid it in the lead box that jester has and it would've been fine

i forking love that scene

If only there was a cleric inside Avantika's room to cast Silence to stop any noise. Oh, wait. They were so fuckin' lucky afterwards lol

I can imagine the to be continued happened when Caleb said wall of fire.

There were parts and arcs in C2 that I thought dragged.... but the highs are so fkn high...

Liam is so happy at the end lol.

Caleb is best

Still my favorite moment I think

When i have too many friends at home and i don't know where to hang their coats, i use this video.

such a powermove.

At about 3:10, Liam picks up the players handbook and turns to the back. He was looking up Wall of Fire.

What a great fucking moment.

Pause the video and go to 4:57. Sums up this segment nicely.

Wall of fire and the counterspell... I hope someone animate both.

How was this a year ago...

You know every time Liam plays a wizard I keep picturing Lezard Valeth

feels like breaking bad moment!

Look at Travis being adorable.

"Cool."

This followed by counterspell...

I just watched this episode and my reaction was much like Travis’ 😂

This could have definitely turned out WAYYY worse lmao

Ok is it just me or does the point where it’s just sam and Travis screaming sound exactly like a tornado siren.

This moment was when I fully fell for Caleb.

The campaign definitely picked with this storyline

They cut off the end where Travis says "we're going to war"

4:58 onwards at quarter speed sounds freaky

Funny thing is, a lot of this could've been avoided; besides the mending on the desk, Jester could've painted a new floor while Nott could've used Mage Hand to make a distraction away from the cabin to give Jester time to work. But the end result ended up being awesome so it all works out xD

4:46 at .25 speed is amazing

can someone who understands the context explain to me why caleb cast the wall of fire? why it was needed and why the fighting began? did they stole whatever was stolen?

Am I the only one who misses Avantika :( ? I feel like her end was unjustly brutal for such an interesting character.

I don't know why but matt yelling "Curse you Thanksgiving!" has stuck with me ever since this,.

I had so much anxiety watching this and then Caleb casts wall of fire! I was like,” wait… wait,wut?!?!” “And that’s where we’ll end tonight’s episode.” WUT!!!