NO MERCY PERCY - Vox Machina ORIGIN Moments 

In my personal opinion, same thing (but still good)

they both work the magic but at different arcane frequencies. ;P

@@metaforest If you cast it at an even higher level does it become Hurtful and Unkind Percival Frederickstein?

@@BeinIan And _this right here_ is to go even further beyond!

@@marcusdaloia2974 HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (insert bruce faulconer super saiyan 3 theme here)

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Percy always had that calm aggression

Where is it?

To be specific, they were fighting the bounty hunter who was coming after Lillith.

Wait is he a fighter or a pact bound warlock?

@@zephyrs4850 Gunslinger subclass fighter with the magic initiate feat.

@@truebastard1268 god you need attention, don't you

@@truebastard1268 ...then why are you watching a video of a "gay roleplaying game"?

Probably saving it for the final fight

@@jamesscott7215 in the original campaign, they didn't show off the black mask until several episodes later, It's really nice that they foreshadow stuff much earlier on this time, The moment he says his full name in episode 9 is so good, literally every time someone says percy's full name

They did it ;)

I was gutted when they didn't include that, such a chilling moment

@@1jame2james this is a warning for spoilers, assuming you haven't seen all of season 1 yet. He has that moment. Last episode. "..No, your pain will linger. I'll shatter your ankles for my sister Vesper, your hands to Julius, each De Rolo will get their pound of flesh before I flay the skin from what's left.."

You missed 'Fredricksen'.

But you can call him Percy

@@rayanderson5797 Crap, you're right. It did seem a little too short.

Huzzah

the timeline got no time for it.... geez they be racing through the key beats!

That shout sends chills down my spine every time.

No one: …… Guts: G R I F F I T H! ! ! ! !

So glad I've met her! Baldurs Gate and Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines!

its a real life device called a quick loader i think it would have fit the time frame and his lore better if he used what was called moon clips same purpose just disposable. fyi fast gun competition shooters that use quick loaders can empty a revolver open the cylinder reload and close the cylinder again in under 1 second.

It really is! In the words of Matt Mercer (during the watch party), "That reload animation, it's so hot."

@@hardwirecars the disposable nature of those is to sell more. its a money making method. percy made his own, so he'd naturally avoid disposable methods.

@@Rin-qj7zt even if the difference is penny's on the dollar in comparison to the device he had to have custom milled in a time power tools and standardization was not a thing? not to mention watching the latest episode the device would not work considering it shows him muzzle loading the pepper box (irl pepper boxes were muzzle loaders so it would not work anyway plus he forgets to put a cap on each barrel after he reloads so yeah fantasy i know but still) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Io7o3nf_dH4.html

@@hardwirecars The Pepperbox is a magic weapon. It can also shot freezing bolts and fire bolts, if I remember correctly

I thought it was weird that they didn't have a scene to explain the giants. In the campaign they stumble upon an abandoned giant fortress and then they see the giant zombies and it becomes clear why the fortress was empty

@@andrewpeli9019 it was the pre stream one that got me a bit, it went from a complicated interwoving story of demons and a dragon into well a very basic quest. And well no one knows them before hand. Don't get me wrong I love the show but here I think being a new viewer has its benefits.

@@caijones156 would have been cool to see them fight the dread emperor but I guess general Krieg sets up a potential second season.

@@caijones156 thats kinda the point. they arent going to make it as in depth because that would take way to long.

@@Jquezzie I know, I'm just pointing out that I don't think 2 episodes could do it justice. Also the undead hounds attacking them could have easily been replaced with the giants. There are a few changes to the show I think that where unnecessary and harmful to the narrative. Though I prefer Archibalds changes in this round of episodes.

Time never stops.

Isn't her hair the same though?

I think It was because percy saw cass get shot down so already assumed she was dead but wasn't sure about the fate of the rest of his family

​@@ashH-B True but it also means that Matt wasn't forced to give conflicting answers or spoil the surprise earlier.

@@magicmasterp Think that's why Matt kept her alive though, the last person he would expect to be alive, things like this just lined up well, Matt played this arc so well, but when doesn't he I guess

@@jackcrook6330 yeah, Matt played the cards close to his chest and masterfully led the game

@@Rembanspellsong I still gotta finish C1 tbh, I kinda watched C2 first lol love it its just finding time for it

Percy was insane and pretty close to the Party leader. He was more the play of the words leader knowing the language of nobles far better than the rest. And the early parts of the show(Till the near end of the Chroma Conclave) he was the most powerful, 2d12 is scary compared to the rest of the crew's damage output.

Party leader? Lol, nope.

Also. Percy is the reason for Viktor! Learn from my mischtakes!

forever my favorite CR arc tbh.

What makes it so satisfying is I don't think we see Percival spin his gun like that. His movements and every shot he takes is usually calculated and meant to be efficient. Here he doesn't care, sure he's pissed but he's walking and acting with a sort of confidence that's pretty scary tbh

It was. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-twiOoAuhnQ8.html

It's in there, but something about that original yell is magical. There's a lot of stuff like that where it feels like the scene is in a hurry to end, because there's so much story getting squeezed into 9 hours. The original briarwood arc was like 40-50 hours of game time, certain things just aren't gonna have the same punch that they did with hours of buildup. I hope the inevitable success of the first season gains them some more trust with the Amazon execs, so they can get the budget for like 15-20 episodes in season 2. Either way, I fucking love the show so far. I still can't believe it's a thing.

@@BeinIan Not an issue I've had to be honest.

*Ahem...* 3:22

Agreed!

He knowns his family is dead so naming them doesn't make a lot of sense and is a bit janky. I wish we'd had the "I can't sir, they'll kill me" "No they wont, because I will kill you first. Tell me what you've seem"

@@High-LordHarza It would be bad-ass right when hes about to kill them he names off each and every one of them

@@Rhino-Prime In the campaign he was asking if they were alive which is different, but it would be cool if he names them when the Briarwoods die

@@High-LordHarza I think the reason why it’s so powerful is because he know’s they are gone but he still has some hope left even in that darkness. The animated version really just sets up the shadow monster instead of doing some extremely efficient characterization and getting us invested in the character. Definitely one of the scenes where they could of just stuck with what they had and made it amazing but they decided to change it for sake of brevity :/

@@alexiavya722 A lot of the changes in the script are sone with the players concent and are changes they wished they could have done during the campane. The naming of names was a bit pointless as the character WAS there and saw them all die so logically he knew they were dead. While many things are skimmed over for sake of time they are done how they want it to be done.

for some reason i thought she was on later in the series

Just know, that if you like the show, then the dnd is 10x more rewarding and much more full of emotions

@@lvic4 I know, I just don't have the time for 100+ 3 hour long episodes.

@@alexanderthegreat6682 Just sayin, I also didnt had time, so at ttime when there was 5 epi of campaign 2 i started to watch it like 20 min a day or on train and so on, caught up by 14 episode, and then it was +-3 hours a week. Similar if you jsut watched 3campaigne now

and if you hadc morte time older campagins

@@lvic4 The problem is, there's also a lot of nothing that happens. No disrespect to them but they can spend an hour in a single room and not get anywhere and very little of plot relevance happens. That's not including the typical D&D slog of the basic encounters with some players not sure how their spells and abilities work so they have to look them up etc... I just start zoning out. That said, since Chroma Conclave is a vastly superior story and they bothered to tease it's arrival at the end of the briarwood arc (not including the references in the first 2 eps) I do hope they extend the episodes and have a larger season to accommodate it. The show has been extremely successful so hopefully they push more with it in the future.

Yep. Through (until?) episode 28.

yeah drugs will do that and when everyone defriends you

Yep Just wrote Tiberius out now we have the glorious Robbie as the 8th member

@@MormyJenkins no such thing as bad drugs, he just was a shitty person

@@Commander_Ray Robbie is awesome, you're 100% on that.

Of course it would! Never let something like that stop you cosplaying a character you love!

@@OurAdventuringParty well, it wouldn't look how I would WANT it to look. HOWEVER, I got a buddy that's like 6'3" so I could just make it up for him and takes credit for bringing the costume together 😂

@@OurAdventuringParty I have been thinking on replicating his pepperbox but with actual metal casting. Gotta figure out how to get the barrel to rotate.

That really doesn’t matter, do it!

Pike might be a better option.

They were all pretty messed up and Percy had, until then, been largely cool, calm, and collected. Seeing him so raw really stunned them all. Its doubly layered with the fact that Vox Machina, until much later, weren't big damn heroes. They were closer to the amorality & selfishness of the Mighty Nein a lot of the time.

To be fair, at this point in the campaign, they were all mostly neutral characters. Even Pike, who started out as chaotic good, was chaotic neutral at this point in the story. The only three in the show who could be considered 'good' are Vex, Vax, and Keyleth, all of whom actually do react or start to move to stop Percy when they realize what he's about to do. So I wouldn't say they just stood there. In the campaign they were basically stunned and didn't know what to do, it took them by complete surprise. In the show they were held back by the vines Keyleth summoned, were stunned by what he did, and halted by Uriel's appearance and him ordering them to stop.

In the campaign its not unusual for them to torture people for information.

@@Sesquedoodle That's true too. I think most of us remember Vox Machina as far less evil as they really tended to be. You saw it come up a lot during the Mighty Nein later, but VM could be just as bad.

To be completely fair, given the answers the servant gives Percy in the game, he probably was an eyewitness of the murders or at least was considered loyal enough to know what happened and not betray the couple. But you are correct, this is definitely not a heroic action.

yeah. i liked his character, and acknowledged his flaws, hoping to see growth. but i understand him having to leave for the sake of his mental health. sometimes you cant cope with the stress and it makes things worse, you lash out, ect. i hope he moved on ok.

@@Rin-qj7zt from what ive heard it seemed like he was doing better, getting help etc. But he lashed out at a fan very rudely for some reason and I haven't heard anything since

@@GrimViridian didnt he cheat at rolling too?

@@iananderson4754 Yeah he did. It got to the point that Marisha and Sam and Taliesin had to watch Orion’s dice roles to make sure he wasn’t fudging them, and Matt had to get increasingly specific about what spells could do + the ring and sorcerer points. He also had a really bad habit of metagaming information his character would not know (like, not being in the actual location/wasn’t something the party would know Via Earrings), and had major Main Character Syndrome when another party member was getting a character rp moment or got a “how do you want to do this” during a major/boss fight. (During those moments the party’s engaged in another player’s moment…except Orion. Sometimes Orion was engaged on a better day, but increasingly he wasn’t or outright glowered.) Kinda takes all the fun out of both Tiberius as a character + made the episodes Orion acted out like that as a player pretty unenjoyable to watch. Then ofc how he behaved outside of DnD-stealing money from a charity drive, tearing into a fan for a Tiberius shirt they made for themselves as fanart as “intellectual property” (it’s only when merch is sold there’s a grey area legally, not made for selfusage/not for profit), and abused his girlfriends. I do hope he’s getting therapy for his behavior, drug addiction, and coping with his health…but CR made the right call booting him from the show (and since they were all friends before CR became a podcast, cutting ties with him). You can only tolerate so much for so long, and by this point Orion had become a liability even if his relationship with the rest of the cast hadn’t become strained. But the main reason why Tiberius isn’t part of TLoVM is because at some point Orion went ahead and copyrighted the character

Who is Tiberius and Lilith? Are we going to see them in the future? I’m just a show watcher so I don’t recognize them.

He gets out pretty well in the campaign. Goes through some scary shit, but eventually he gets paid well and welcomed back to Whitestone

I think the correct term you’re looking for is S A M F. Scary Ass Mother ****er.

He’s both

yes it feels like slower animated recap, with parts stiched together

I just caught up on the animated show and yeah I got that vibe. Watching felt like I should just *know* things about the characters and whatnot. I knew nothing of CR before watching the show but I'm excited because I like the characters.

Will never not be salty about the show not doing Delilah falling on her ass after jumping out the window

It actually features a little bit later in the original campaign but the reason for it is kinda spoilers.

@@williamwall3403 thank you :)

Percy had the mask and it was kind of like an early attempt at a gas mask, he usually used it to block out foul odors and some potentially harmful vapors. For flavor, Taliesin made it look like an old school plague doctors mask and it ended up that his shadow demon had a similar face.

Same, but I'm starting from ep 1.

Ah... you'll find out, it's totally worth the wait!

I mean...Punisher, Kratos, and Doom Slayer are all up there.

​@@VegetaLF7those guys kinda feel unrealistic in a way. Netflix Punisher, too. Percy feels exactly like a real person.

Cut to the end of that ark... Grog has got a sword

He does now

Yeah he pulls it out briefly in the newest episodes. Hasn't used it yet

Honestly, I'm pretty excited for diplomacy. 😊

No he assembles it while in house-arrest at the keep in the show I'm pretty sure.

There's a scene in episode 4 where he pulls out the blueprint for Bad News. I think he builds it before going to Whitestone.

Assuming we get more seasons announced like how season 3 was a few months back, that moment would happen in what I imagine to be season 4.

I was just thinking I'm so glad they gave her that line. Grey does condescension and disdain so well. This is perfect casting. Hell, even the name is perfect: Grey DeLisle (her maiden name, "de-lie-el") playing Delilah. And with how they've fleshed out those two characters, this line sounds more like something Delilah would say.

And I'm sad we won't see Grog headbutt a giant into submission just for drinking all the ale.

Just a guess, but possibly to subtly telegraph that Delilah is at least as significant a character as Sylas, going forward? Which is likely something that developed over time in the campaign(s).

@@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll she's always been the more important one imo. she was the villain who kept escaping them and coming back to be terrible. i love the briarwoods so much 😩

@@OceanStateMadness She kept bringing Sylas back too, of course. Worst part? Knowing that bitch *still* isn't dead as of C3.

They don't have the rights to the character and he would have been gone by episode 5 so it was easier to just leave him out entirely.

@@jeffwithheldforsafety8359 ah thanks

Because they separated on bad terms as well due to his drug use and everything getting too much. It's one of those things the CR crew has asked critters not to talk about

Just a couple of more weeks! We're almost there!

Only like, the first 2 episodes though

Left at the very beginning of it. He was there for the dinner and initial Briarwood battle (as opposed to Pike who was back in Vassalheim at the time) and made it to the mountains outside of Whitestone when Orion took those couple episodes off, being officially let go from the show in the early stages of the party exploring Whitestone. Tibs made it to the mountains before fucking off to go handle something and when the party returned following the Whitestone adventure he was in his room in their keep packing up as he was leaving to return to Draconia.

Orion copyrighted the character after he was kicked from the show for repeated bad behavior. Even if they wanted to include Tiberius, they can’t

I think the origin of No Mercy Percy was in the Underdark Arc, when he head-shot Clarota the Mindflayer with Bad News.

@@leonielson7138 No mercy percy was born because he Critted exactly when it counted during boss fights. It was insane. I'm just saying that the show took a different approach. They made him seem more possessed by that being rather than just being an awful person.

Why? I'm a late CR fan (mid campaign 2) and I see this guy and no one really talks about him, it's kinda weird

nvm, I just googled it, kinda sad what happened

Possibility waiting for a better opportunity.