As someone currently playing a barbarian, the line "I can take it" is something I say nearly every session. Fireball? I can take it. Horde of goblins? I can take it. Critical hit from an upcasted "Inflict Wounds"? That one nearly killed me BUT I STILL TOOK IT
Yeah, i like the vocalization of the spell, it was clearly something she struggled to do in her state and it just sounds so powerful. the word i was looking for is straining rather than pain
It’s justified considering that she had already taken heavy damage from Sylas gut-punching her and being slammed into a wall earlier in the fight. Already weakened, she’s relying on sheer willpower alone here, as well as the Sun Tree’s aid.
@@AdamEspersona and also kinda the dawnfathers help maybe? He certainly has an influence on the tree since he planted it after all (I think haven’t read up on taldorei lore in a while)
I always loved how Percy right after this was like "that kill was mine!" like BITCH there was no way you were even gonna give sylas a bloody nose let alone kill him
Well technically it's not Percy speaking there, it's Orthax, and Orthax doesn't care whether Percy can actually kill Sylax, Orthax just cares that Percy couldn't get Sylas' soul.
I agree, that was just Orthax influencing and amplifying Percy’s desire for revenge The actual Percy, while disappointed and angry about not taking Sylas life, he would’ve been more proud of Keyleth than anything else
@@Karlz1212 I can imagine this, Percy: Well damn it.. I wanted to kill him for everything that he put me and everybody here through, but damn Keyleth, that was amazing. Well done =D"
If you play barbarian and haven’t grappled a boss so the mage can nail him with every D8 of the upcast fireball spell, you haven’t played barbarian right. REAL MEN HUG!
can we just stop and think about the fact that Delilah's scream could be heard this loud through the silence spell, i dont want to pity the antagonists but imagine how heart wrenching it must have been for her to see her husband die in front of her like that. without that silence spell the scream would probably be heard all across whitestone. kinda made me feel bad for her for a moment.
@@Nitro89 That his body was technically already dead, doesn‘t matter. He was still moving, eating, had his personally or for short, he had still everything thats matters for a living lover/partner. But now, he was really gone and therefore this was for her the first and only time, her husband died.
Yeah it kinda was in the audience's face since E1 when she summons lightning, then in E3 saved Vax and Pike, then in E4 defeated the bad guys, then... They clearly wanted to force a different response than in the live podcast against her. The intention wasn't bad, but it was SO forced...
@@snake698 its literally how it feels in the c1 bro. im watching it now(its a fucking drag cuz the comment section is still a cesspool of bs) and shes obviously the moral compass since these fucks would all become evil if there wasnt someone there to keep saying maybe dont do that and theres this thing called consquences. its not forced its just actually show casing how it is without a bunch of jackasses bitching that a first time dnd player isnt prefect and is playing awkward and unsure perfectly to the point everyone hated the player even tho marisha is the exact opposite.
One of my favorite moments she has so much raw power and I like how she don't have a big ego and is more timid nature unlike most op characters that have a way to big ego or trying to be cool. makes her feel more life like and not so overbearing like holding all the spot light
she got cocky once it didnt end well. but yes keyleth is the strongest of vox machina but she also the one with the strongest moral code and is also super awkward and timid.
You kind of wonder how she ended up with the group from the begginning as the rest of them with the exception of Percival were more or less drunkyards that liked to party and cause trouble. Even if they got a moral code in the end.
@@raggarbergman It's explained in the dnd (don't know if it's also explained in the series as well) that her, vex and vax had been friends for a long time way before the group's creation.
That choir in the soundtrack reminds me of "Transformation" by Bulgarian Women's Choir from Brother Bear. Maybe that's what struck me the most about this scene and how well it goes with Keyleth literal shining moment
Grog (Machamp) used Helping Hand! Grog is ready to help Keyleth! Keyleth (Chi-Yu, yes the goldfish suicide is something she’ll never live down) used Solar Beam! A critical hit! Silas (Gliscor) fainted!
Vecna: What are you doing? VM: What are we doing? Vecna: Whatre you doing!? VM: Oh, nothing much Vecna: Thwarting my plans!? VM: Thwarting your plans?! Vecna: ARE YOU? Scanlan: ..Yes. Vecna: Im gonna fucking kill you!
The fact she don't want her grog is best form of charater friendship for them. Cause she always helps the big guy out like rest but is never once thought less of him and even then was more concerned form him then getting damage on sirus
23 episodes of Critical Role S1 in and I’ve never watched the animated series yet. This is episode 11 of the animated series and rings no bell to me. How true to the RPG campaign is the series?
That might be, because this is a good bit past episode 23. Though I presume you know that by now, it being 5 months later as I write this 😄. They definetely condensed some stuff and changed a couple things here and there to have it be more satisfying for a TV audience, but to me it is definetely a close enough adaptation to feel like home. And you'll have a good few moments of "Oh, I know where that's from!" 😁
One gripe I have with this scene is that after Delilah is silenced and Pike hits her with the light beam, aside from being knocked off her feet she doesn’t appear to have been affected by it at all.
I believe that Pike was using Guiding Bolt right there. While not a bad spell, damage wise, its secondary effect of giving advantage to the next attack against the target is kinda op. You can see the sparkles around Delilah after she falls down. Might be wrong though.
@@shawnheddin4833 Good theory, but the sparkles appear to be a part of the Silence spell, as they were present after she was Silenced but before the beam hit her.
Actually, I think the Silence spell only disables the ability to cast, not the ability to talk...since Scanlan was hit with it earlier by Delilah and he was able to talk still...just wasn't able to play any magical abilities to help.
She definitely got a lot of focus, but Percy wasn’t exactly short on screen time either; I expect each arc is going to have two or three focus characters, simply because narratively speaking trying to juggle a party of 7 main characters all trying to be in the spotlight at the same time is a recipe for disaster
@@willieoelkers5568 I hope so, but I feel this trend with Keyleth is gonna continue until the story gets to her arc and only after it they'll tone it down
Really with a gigantic Percy scene almost every episode and 10 out of 12 episodes revolving around his arc, it felt like Keyleth's season bc she got some epic moments in?
@@snake698 Actual meaningful scenes that advanced her character? She absolutely did not. Percy was even the focus of an entire episode with the finale.
NGL, I wish the whole series had this vibe. Instead it was crass jokes non-stop because sex sells or some other based mentality. People don't love Critical Role for the inappropriate gags. That's part of it, sure, the low brow charm of playing pretend with friends. But in a professional style show? Come on, how can I get my family into CR and D&D with this? We love it for the characters, development and story... like everything that happened in this scene. I can't show them this scene before all the others so they'll get just how amazing this is, from the original improv stream to now a high budget animation. But do we really need a lewd joke every three seconds... Anyone with half a brain knew what was going to happen before, because of how cookie cutter and tropey it all turned out. You cut out parts of the story and development, we didn't get the forming of VM like was advertised during Campaign 2, you completely changed Pike because empowerment or something because the dumb barbarian trope is ok as he's a guy but a caring white mage female is so 8 bit theater and demeaning or something. IDK but I wish I could enjoy this moment for what it was, and not slog through boiled down, soggy tripe. Jester's unicorn gags that came and went and got Fjord invested? Character building. Scanlan's beads? I've seen better humor from Stephen Crowder, and I loathe his humor and attitude.
Ehhh, to me it encapsulates a lot of D&D campaigns better through its tone. A mix of tomfoolery but with heart and serious events weaved in. Even if every single joke doesn't land, I'd rather they be there than not. Plus I think it's good overall.
TBH I would agree on the jokes bit not really my thing BUT it did not ruin the show for me because their was still character elements in it like Vax a Keyleth or Vex and Percy. I have not watched the streams so I don't know a lot about the characters but i do now some and I think the way that all the characters interact and play of each other is great. its just a good show and I hope you find something that you like too.
