Critical Role - Sam the Wide Deceiver - *Spoilers Ep 114* 

No need to apologize, thanks so much for making the effort and putting it up. 😁Everything is a learning curve. Now you know for you next edit that becomes a viral hit. 😉I come back every so often and watch this, such a great cut. Love when Liam says "Now I am the Master!"

Do you have a time stamp for that last "how long will the luck last?"

Tight you got a million views on content you had nothing to do with

@@bambilicous9008 I know isnt it amazing! I really enjoyed editing this one and conjuring the titles and adding them was a real easy edit. I am sure you can do it too if you try:)

Nah I’m not interested in being a useless leach

Thanks to this comment, I will never not see this fight as everyone else beating the crap out of Vecna while Scanlan is just in the background spitting out rhymes and wearing a ridiculously big golden necklace.

Vecna: I- Scanlan: *Let me show you how to scratch it*

scanlan is now that guy from Friday night funkin'

Scanlan's spitting venom cause he got that adrenaline momentum

Scanlan: *breathes* Vecna: "something's wrong I can feel it"

Laura Bailey has entered the Chat Laura Bailey used Blueberry Cupcake

@@zach1972 It's super effective!

@@zach1972 To be fair, Laura didn't have to argue against her friends about any "bad" decisions, so I still think Sam takes the cake. (by an extremely slim margin tho)

@@zach1972 that has nothing to do with fooling friends

@@Axeloy She did have to trick Matt.

Thanks for describing the video

Matt doesn’t pull any punches and for him to realize he’d been got in that spectacular a fashion is definitely a fun D&D moment.

I'm about to end this god's whole apotheosis

Mordirit I’m about to foil this pseudo divine being’s entire machination

I’m about to yee his last haw!

I will terminate the totality of his trajectory (Yes, I love aliteration)

Vecna: I’m gonna… Scanlan: Nope

[Translators note: Keikaku means plan]

@@TenThousandAnts extra note: [in japanese]

I get this DBZA reference and I endorse it.

All according to cake !

@@RoxyGotMoxy. what does this have to do with dragon ball?

And his original intention with Scanlan was to create the biggest joke, or worst character.

Larry Berry yet the joke became our savior of the campaign

@@WingZX1103 thanks to how op counterspell is

@@dandini0698 Nah, not overpowered at all. He sacrificed higher level spell slots to counter lower level spell slots, with the exception of once...where he got a lucky roll, and luck isn't OP, it's just luck.

@@penguin12902 you can auto-succeed on cs when it is cast from same level. Basically you trade your reaction for the boss's action. Hows that balanced.

ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my girl :)

That was so cute!

She's so adorable. I wish we got to see more of her. She adds so much to the party.

Her reactions to the whole thing gets me every time.

DrLipkin Thanks for pointing this out. Adds so much.

First comment here to make me crack up xD

same

Burt Reynolds Esquire: Attorney at large and master of the counterspell

I don't get it

@@brokenvow8700 Sam/Scanlan called himself Burt Reynolds anytime he did lawyer-type things

I don’t think sensen9900 actually read the captions.

@@sensen9900 Are you ok? Do you need a hug?

@@sensen9900 Who hurt you?

@@sensen9900 I mean, yeah look at yourself, the fact that you can't accept that other people potentially behave differently than what you believe happens in your own cynical world is pretty sad. Go to a therapist and unfuck yourself.

@@Lenaseymour4323 I dont think he was the only one they are so hard to read XD. Great! But so hard!

*"Now I have become the master."*

and he keeps doing it. Sam can't keep getting away with the "I don't know how to play" excuse because he seemingly always knows just enough to make extremely clutch plays.

It’s funny because Sam was actually the first HDYWTDT on stream, and it was the first time he killed anything in TWO YEARS of the house game. Dude’s come a long way

This is giving Sam a lot of credit lol. He's a fantastic player but he never pretended to not know how to play so he could surprise his friends, lmao.

It was WORST class and WEAKEST race. Next campaign he went for the WORST race and the... class

he does this pretty often even in camp #2

I love how shocked Ashley looked and that she literally got out of her chair to do a victory dance when Sam dropped it on them 😄

it happens quite often where Sam plans furthur ahead then the group. WIth the group typically casting doubt on his actions, when they are the actual niave and impulsive ones

And then in the epilogue Vex went with his Queen of Spades and Grog, y’know... pulled the joker 🃏

@@mrHellkid1 to be fair, he was the biggest support role. It was his job. Healer, or not. I say this from a position of praise, not the typical "dps needs their @#$% sucked" mentality.

gcollins1992 as a GM of 15 years I can say though he didn't power play the best he could have he played well above great and had flawless timing with his counter spells. Give him like 3 more years and some power gaming lessons and he would be a true force to be reckoned with

Why would he need it though? It's about playing a fun game, not biting down on every number you can squeeze out of your statblock. Sam plays it smart, he doesn't really need more.

Hunterfalke I can see your perspective and I totally agree but you have to understand that if he would have cranked every last number he may have succeeded in what he was going for

Hunterfalke you don't have to power play for the entire game but when you have something this crazy going on it's definitely a time to Crunch every f****** number in the game you can to save your best friend. And to be honest I think he did in that moment I think he just came unprepared in that style

Angelus Fallox I always get confused when people say that power gaming or minmaxing is metagaming and out of character. Like, obviously your character wants to survive and protect the people they care about. You think they aren't going to put everything they have into doing that?

I bet it felt so immersive actually pulling that off, fooling everyone including his friends into thinking he had thrown the fight with that action, only to reveal his genius plan at the perfect moment. He truly became his character for a few monents

@@eragonawesome and then what came after with the hand of vekna

matt and sam have bad blood now

Sam used that song as a taunt in the game. "Ooh look what you made me do! You made me screw up you and now you have to do brand new!" I died there.

Ay 420.

SAME

Yep!!! By the end, Scanlan was no longer just an annoyance, he was a clear threat and Vecna was totally trying to off him through any means necessary by the end.

I wonder how many people fail to realize that had they not gotten Scanlan to return when he came to them disguised, they would've TPK'd in that first fight with Vecna. Had Tary stayed with them, they would've been fucked. Scanlan Shorthalt single handedly set forth the chain of events that would lead to them saving the world.

They also later said on an episode of Talks Machina that if they hadn't seen through the Aeus Adon disguise, Scanlan would have come and gone. That would've been their one chance. And it was all foiled by Jon Heder using the Meat Man nickname, which he wasn't supposed to.

Though Aeus Adon means the meat man in elfish

Vex spotting the shadow length of Aeus being shorter than it should be was what sealed the deal. Yeah Jon messed up, but Chod screwing up like that made sense character wise. This is why its a good idea to play dumb characters from time to time. You can play off your fuck ups as being in character!

Remember when Scanlan saved everybody with that perfectly executed Modify Memory spell in the Fire Plane? He's truly Vox Machina's MVP.

Yeah, its a slightly nonplussed attitude of laissez-faire "Oh by the way Mr GM, I have this spell for you"

Yeah you can see him calculating, I never noticed that. He definitely knew what was up at the table. He does say to Marisha, "We've got 5 more spells to live through" which is enough for her to put it together, but maybe not enough to tip Matt off to the ultimate scheme. This is appropriate meta, because concealing a plan from a DM is totally acceptable behavior.

meanwhile Joe is concerned for the stability of the platforms and has no idea!

Let's be honest, if anyone is gonna catch Sam doing that play, It's Taliesin

@@GodBear97 I dont think Taliesin caught shit, as evidenced by his reaction when Sam actually revealed his play. None of them caught on.

@@johanlassen6448 calm down there Johan

I hope a Mage, Sorcerer, Wizard or a Druid, or anything that has more choices than dagger-dagger-dagger, because he is also a very-very smart dude.

That wish to save him was stupid. A god gave him a 2nd chance, and to repay her, they betrayed her. Do you really think that god is going to be merciful when he actually does die? There's serious consequences to what that wish did.

As far as I know, Scanlan never ended up using the Wish spell to save Vax (he instead used it on the 9th level counterspell for the Teleport Vecna was going to use). So unless they had another episode I wasn't aware of or something, Vax is still on the way to the Raven Queen (unless they remember that they can just long rest and use Wish, which then we can watch that can of worms being opened xD). Regardless, I'm excited for the next episode :D

Yes, your correct. You should watch Matt Colville's video on it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Nz8EoyXTHV8.html

Antrix While that is inevitable, don't forget that Wish could theoretically still work, because as far as I recall about the spell, it can rewrite events that have happened before (unless that was just someone's custom wish spell or something), among many other abilities.

Taliesin, as Percy. what!

Close, I mean Matt is McCree and the guest to the game, Darin DePaul is Reinhardt, so yeah that work.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-41LRTWJttts.html

"It's high noo-" "¡APAGANDO LAS LUCES!"

Actually think the play of the game would go to the 9th level counterspell at the end. This is still up there, though. :D

Clerics have good charisma saves, but with her charisma score it would have been pretty risky. Grog would have been gone forever lol

No doubt, Pike was in-game very attracted to that gnome in those moments.

@@BlueVortecz only in those moments

didn't do much damage but messed up the enemy and bolstered his friends...so ...your saying he, played a Bard?

DwarfBeard TheDungeonMaster played it perfectly...I've played with players who played bards that didn't know how to play them. All I'm saying is he did great.

You misspelled season.

Just being a complete pain in the ass. In other words, just a bard doing bard shit.

Play with a valor bard that only ever attacks + healing word... oh how I long for someone with half the game sense of Sam.

I noticed Liam also immediately looked at the minis too alongside Matt and just… both their reactions when they realized that YES Scanlan WAS in range. Just love it.

I mean, counterspell is a pretty important spell and matt is planning something something and vecna is a spell caster so it only makes sense for Scanlan, the most versatile magic user of the group (no tiberius present) to prepare for worst case scenario

I think Marisha's annoyance sold the whole thing with Matt.

Not too hard to figure he was probably going to have the spell caster cast a spell.

It's at the end of this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Nz8EoyXTHV8.html

Hey, sweet moment and all but I don't want Sam to break down like that. Ever.

To me it just showed how invested Sam was in the story. Its great to see that much commitment, making it all that much more real.

3 years: hundreds of hours of investment led into this finale. It felt very much real indeed.

you realize he was saving that 9th level spell so he could use a wish spell to keep Vax alive right? that's why he was upset

@Eli That is the nicest compliment I have ever had on RU-vid, thank you:)

TP Burrow :)

But that's not how the meme works. Vecna literally said that he was casting a spell. He didn't say nothing.

I should make a vid on everyone's "tell" so we know when they are planning something:)

Yeah your right, good insight check, a GM thwarted portrays NPCs as themselves for a little while, a bit like Players who put a lot of themselves into their character

agreed but color was a lil difficult to read but besides that it was great

The subtext is badly done; I can barely read it at all. It would have been better to go with white on dark color, rather than black on dark color. As an aside, could somebody get me a read-out of the subtext, because I really can't read most of the lines?

"I hate you Vecna, stop hurting my friends!" - "I need to get in range, what transport does Scanlan have?" - "I can't fly like Vax or Vex" - "I could use Bigby's hand to lift me up" - "I need to be within 60ft of Vecna" - "But I don't want the GM to realise!" - "For this to work, I need the others to be duped too" - "Sorry friends, it's for the greater good!" - "My go is after Percy, what else could I do?" - "Good work, Percy!" - "This is risky, what else have I got?" - "Hmm, nothing better" - "This is such a hard fight!" - "The fate of Exandria rests on this battle!" - "I will not let Vox Machina die this day!" - "Okay, time to save the world AND Vox Machina!" - (then after his turn, when it comes to the song) - "Sh*t, what do I sing!? This needs to be distracting for Matt!" - "Think think, a song of inspiration and distraction..." - "Anything! Sing anything! Now!"

thanks

The subtitles are great, but as was mentioned before, they are barely readable. A good way to fix this, if you are going to add them in a future videos, is to add white outline to them, even 1 pixel width will make them 100% readable. Thank you for your content!

Nah, cupcake thing isn't that impressive.

Kind of like how the character group treats Scanlan.

The only thing it lacked was at 2:59 "Katta. Keikaku doori!"

Gilgamesh Prime Well the plan also definitely counted on people at the table not noticing or saying anything, so it's a good thing she didn't lol

Vegas242 sorry for this late comment but, by this point 115 episodes of sam been clutch, its true he tried to deceive everyone on the table and he did it successfully. but after the first vecna fight, after scanlan saved everyone by counterspelling the counterspell of the plane shift, and the fact that sam never alongside travis they never get in some1 else's turn unless they are asked about it. they should realize sam is always thinking ahead.

I find it ironic that Marisha consistently did the dumbest things, forgot about how spells work, etc, all while had the audacity to be pesky at Sam thinking he forgot about the main goal as why he is there.

She was incapable of thinking like that in season one, she veiwed herself as the best of them all in nearly every way so if it didnt the way she wanted she got pissy, just look at her expression after shes told sam cant take his turn back.

Part of it is Sam is playing a bit of a con. He could have said, "I am getting close for counterspell, because we won't have time this round to get in there without it" buuuuut. Subtly he doesn't want to clue Matt in about his ultimate plan, because Matt might use a juicier spell for him to counter. So, as much as Marisha is freaking out, she's a bit in the dark because Sam's playing some mind games. As much as I wanna say Matt is impartial and wouldn't have changed his plan.... Matt's a little opportunistic when it comes to his villains sometimes. Even the best DM's at times get "invested" and can be biased. In this case, Sam's enforcing a bias that's good meta, but at the cost of leaving Marisha to waffle openly.

You and the rest of us. Sam’s “that’s why I got closer, motherf*cker” BETTER be included.

Scanlan Shorthalt, the Bard and total bane of Vecna’s existence.

I watched it right after uploading this, I had planned to make another vid of it, but Mr Colville nailed it and he is more skilled than I:)

That was a different moment, but yeah, that video is amazing :D

The specific moment might be different, but Sam's thought process was the same throughout: he was conserving his spell slots, double-checking every spell, and staying close to Vecna in order to save his 9th-level slot. Even when it was contrary to the party's strategy, as seen in this video; they wanted to keep him safe and far away, so that he could read the book. That's exactly why it hurt him so much to have to use the slot after all. In _his_ mind, it was all for nothing; defeating Vecna came second to saving Vax. Remember what Sam/Scanlan said after Liam/Vax returned the first time in the Feywild: "So if we win, you lose." That was unacceptable to him, both as a character and as a player. And then, "No matter what happens later, this was a brave choice, and I'm not sure I would have made the same. But we're stronger together, and thank you for coming back. It's a harder choice to come back, it's easier to walk away. I know this. Thank you for coming back." Really think about what that meant, and what it continued to mean right up through the final battle.

Michael Hayden That is very true. And it all serves to illustrate just what an amazing player Sam is: always making sure to work only with the info his character has, giving real flaws to the ones he portrays, introducing difficult but necessary and interesting plot and role-playing threads, and thinking strategically several steps ahead in battle! He jokes a lot but he does obviously care, very much, and when he brings his heart into it, boy is it amazing to witness.

Thanks for watching, enjoy 115:)