Temple of the False Serpent | Critical Role| Campaign 2, Episode 39 

Rudimentary Timestamps before Flando gets here: 0:19 Sam gets his face painted 8:31 Recap starts 12:10 Recap ends & roll initiative *[TEMPLE COMBAT]* 14:01 Combat starts 18:12 Grog: "She would like to rage" 19:51 Easy kill... oh no 22:26 Admiring Sam's facepaint 23:28 Cobra dude's brutal turn doing 42 damage on Beauregard 31:50 Jester tries to Hold Person 39:33 HDYWTDT 42:52 Fjord intimidates *[EXPLORING TEMPLE]* 43:51 Combat ends 47:13 Interrogation 48:58 Prisoner kills herself 52:34 Caduceus talks to the moss 53:07 "That is a big glory hole" 56:31 Jester milks the cobra dude 58:02 Beau finds a sing-songy tube 1:01:02 Jester: "This is so fucked up, I'm into it." 1:04:17 Fjord and Avantika chat 1:06:10 "I can trust you, right?" 1:10:25 DM makes an error 1:11:48 Nott and Jamedi 1:16:46 "We are a tolerant group" 1:18:23 Zehir lore dump *[EXPLORING BLOOD ORCHARD]* 1:20:22 Activating the fountain 1:25:58 Nott eats fruit 1:29:09 Nott is high af 1:30:59 Jamedi lights a torch 1:32:25 Caduceus talks to the trees 1:38:20 *wut do u seee* 1:42:33 Caleb eats the fruit 1:45:29 Deciphering the symbols *[VINE COMBAT]* 1:48:08 Attacked by vines 1:51:32 Nott tries to Teleport 1:53:07 Jester enlarged 1:55:52 Ragé 1:59:06 Nott unconscious 2:03:10 Liam says Fireball by mistakes and scares Mercer 2:05:30 Ashley's gonna be happy 2:06:54 HDYWTDT 2:07:14 "Don't worry little children." 2:08:42 No more attackers 2:11:22 Welcome back. PT2 *[MORE EXPLORING]* 2:11:50 Session Resumes 2:13:04 Hatchery found 2:16:40 "Why's everyone yelling?" 2:20:05 Nott (high af) explores 2:23:55 Avantika and M9 friction *[BATTLE STRATEGIZING]* 2:28:25 3 members nat 20 stealth 2:29:48 Map comes out 2:34:20 Beauregard: "He's meditating like I did that *one* time" 2:34:46 Laura and Sam share a very mischievous look 2:34:57 fLufferNutTeR 2:35:32 More Fluffernutter 2:35:58 "Okay, the name is great" 2:36:13 How Nott sees Fluffernutter 2:38:27 "Fuck the blackpowder keg" & "Counterargument..." 2:39:02 Travis calls Taliesen Molly 2:40:00 "How many people are seriously considering Fluffernutter?" 2:42:11 Nott is Baby Groot confirmed 2:44:31 Laura provokes Matt *[FIGHTING THE WARDEN]* 2:45:40 M9's surprise round 2:48:21 Roll initiative 2:49:48 Starting combat proper 2:50:06 "I'm a MONK!" 2:55:32 Fjord casts Hunger of Hadar 3:02:50 A Hydra enters combat 3:11:28 Fjord nat 20 3:11:47 Off with head #1 3:12:30 Caleb nat 20 3:12:55 Off with head #2 3:18:26 DM rolls 2 crit fails 3:21:09 Beauregard Extract Aspects 3:23:07 Nott instigates Fluffernutter 3:25:09 Beau Deflects Missiles 3:28:12 Caleb casts Slow assisted greatly by Caduceus' Bane 3:29:22 Jester: "Should I do it?" 3:29:34 FLUFFERNUTTER 3:30:16 It's too sad 3:30:55 Glorious screaming 3:31:44 Clay and Yasha combo 3:32:56 Off with head #3 3:33:47 Off with head #4 3:35:29 The Hydra grows to four heads, saves from the Slow effect 3:40:17 Beau (10 hp) avoids a crit 3:41:32 Fjord nat 20 w/ Hex 3:42:14 Sam: "Travis loves..." 3:43:23 Hydra gets a nat 20 save for Caleb's second casting of slow (last 3rd-level slot), Bane brings it down to 16 which *just* meets the DC and Liam and Matt have a little back-and-forth 3:46:05 Timestamp to skip the drama and get back to the action 3:47:46 Clay hates laziness 3:50:07 Trying to keep morale up 3:50:45 Hydra takes 4 attacks on Beauregard with flanking advantage 3:51:50 Beau down 3:52:00 Laura/Tal quietly chat about their healing capabilities as Hydra grows back up to 5 heads 3:52:56 Hydra in melee with clerics 3:53:07 Beau first death save 3:53:41 Laura metagaming pigeons 3:54:44 Nott kills abomination 4:01:24 Liam's after-session plans 4:03:24 HD Yasha WTDT 4:04:47 Cleric hug 4:05:29 Session ends 4:06:12 Discussing fluffernutter 4:07:54 Fanart Compilation EDIT: Flando's back. Find their timestamps and go shower them with likes

Sam: "I'm trying to cast teleport" Matt: has the expression of that one math meme, trying to figure out how the hell a rogue has teleport Sam: "I don't have teleport, I'm just trying my hardest anyway" Matt: "Oh..."

"idk what a hydra is! i'm not a dork" -sam riegel, who at this point has over 460 hours of footage of him playing d&d spread out over the internet

Travis being one of the biggest Beau and Yasha supporters but completely ignoring his wife trying to romance him is amazing

"Yasha winks at Beau." Travis once again being the Captain of every ship in CR.

"I try to cast teleport... I don't have teleport..." ... "Why is everyone yelling?" ... "We've been here for daaayyys..." ... "Fluffernutter!" ... "...that's how I see it go down." Sam had me in tears all the time.

Matthew Mercer, master DM: *no fear* Liam, misspeaking as he's playing a wizard high on fruit: "I'm gonna throw a _fireball_ at the vines" Matthew Mercer, master DM: *one fear*

nott, trying to find out if Jamedi is a zombie by giving him jerky and seeing if he actually eats it me, thinking abt how the only jerky nott has ever had on her was human jerky-

i would like everyone to please remember that canonically M9 are still wearing the green face paint Jester put on them through the entirety of this temple

Whenever Nott screams I always imagine a muppet version of her flailing around.

Every time Travis speaks as Yasha, I just imagine it’s Fjord talking but he’s wearing a wig.

Matt: “See you guys in two weeks” Me Who’s rewatching the entire series: “Wrong” *Clicks next episode*

Caleb calling jester blueberry while higher than a giraffe’s nuts is a criminally underrated moment

Nott: I'm gonna do a quick prayer to my god. Do you wanna pray with me? Jamedi: I am not a religious man, but I ...appreciate your sense of inclusion. Nott: I just want you to be part of the team. We are a tolerant group. Jamedi: **looks over at the dead serpent people jammed into holes**

Nott: He's not a zombie! he eats food! *she says after feeding him human jerky*

I love that they have Travis pilot Yasha in combat while Ashley's gone. He's so stoked to be a barbarian again AND also flirt with Beau.

when laura missed that lvl3 inflict wounds and was about to be mad and sam cheered her up by complimenting her dice. friendship 100

Honestly, it's a damn shame Molly is dead, because he would have been ALL OVER that fruit.

Travis calling Taliesin “Molly” hurt.

Matt: describing the smell of earth, egetation and fermentation Taliesin, perfectly in character: 😊😌

Underrated part: Jester’s face when Avantika and Fjord were “talking” was super funny. Laura does such a good job role playing lmao

I like how when Travis plays Yasha she is constantly flirting with Beau

Matt clapping and saying "pay attention you guys" makes him sound like a exasperated teacher full of a class with goofy students and minus the teacher/student part that's pretty accurate

I love how Travis as Yasha flirts with Beau more than Ashley does but Travis as Fjord shits himself any time a woman flirts with him

Every time Matt says “snake people”, my brain autofills “or sneeple if you will” immediately afterwards. EVERY TIME

Nott: I cast Teleport! Matt:*visible confusion* Nott: I dont have teleport but I'm gonna try anyway!!

I love that Liam is constantly picking up the handbook and flicking through it, feels very Caleb

Travis: Okay. How many people are seriously considering 'Fluffernutter?' By a show of hands? *everyone stares as Sam and Laura raise their hands, grinning devilishly* I am LOSING IT

Enemy: does scary stuff Caleb:*announces with great confidence the materials for a spell he's pulling out of his pocket* - "I'm about to end this mans whole career"

"I am trying to cast teleport... I do not have teleport"🤣

Sam "I dont know what a hydra is..I'm not a dork like you guys" as hes covered in green paint and wearing a tie and t shirt

I appreciate Liam always works the spell components into his RP'ing.

With that look Matt gave Sam when he said that he was going to cast Teleport, you could tell the hamster was running so fucking hard on its little wheel, trying desperately to figure out what the hell he was talking about.

When Caleb receives the psychic damage, I imagine him being like: “my mind is fucked up beyond anything you can try to do to me”

Sam presenting a full advertisement mostly unhindered while having his face poked and prodded and covered in paint is the most Dad thing I've seen in a while.

I love how our heavy damage dealer is the drunk goblin.

Small thing, but I like that when the vines attacked, Jester’s immediate reaction was to pick up Caleb. It probably prevented lots of damage to him and freed him to attack the plants. Truly the best buff, and a nice character moment to boot.

HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing 00:20 NO SAM, you’ve gotten in trouble for painting your face before 3:35 The paint smells like farts 8:30 Episode Starts 13:55 Battle begins 22:25 Little Sam got into the makeup 31:00 Mom’s Jamedi 39:55 HDYWTDT (Travis ships Beausha) 53:10 Snake hole 56:50 Milking the snake 1:01:10 Filling holes with corpses 1:10:50 Caduceuscare 1:11:55 Testing Jamedi 1:16:35 M9 is very inclusive 1:26:10 Nott does a taste test 1:28:25 The somatic component of feather fall 1:29:20 Nott trips 1:38:30 What do you see 1:48:00 Second battle unofficially begins 1:51:30 Teleportation attempt 2:05:30 Travis ships Fjasha 2:06:55 HDYWTDT 2:09:20 Still high 2:11:20 Break Starts (and ends) 2:25:00 Everyone invisible, please raise your hands 2:26:40 Beau gets wrecked 2:27:30 Is this gonna be forever? 2:30:25 The final map is out 2:34:25 Just one time 2:35:00 Fluffernutter proposal 2:38:05 Crossbow cocking 2:39:05 Wow, hurtful memories 2:40:05 Voting is important 2:42:15 Training Nott 2:44:35 Not going to dignify that with a stamp 2:46:15 Planning over, let’s get rolling 3:02:50 The Warden 3:06:55 Get outta there 3:23:10 Nott is about to fluffernut 3:29:40 The nut gets busted 3:42:10 Blowing heads 4:03:35 HDYWTDT 4:07:45 Episode Ends Between Twitch and RU-vid, live viewership of this episode peaked around 50,000 people. The in-game start date for the episode was the 19th Cuersaar 835. Sam’s flask says “I have had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday island!” Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?

Now that i can see their health during battle my anxiety increases so much like HOW ARE YOU NOT FREAKING OUT AT 11HP-

Hey friend who does the subtitles. Thank you for making rage appear as "ragé " every time Travis says it. You're the best!

I'll never get tired of the way Travis says "Eldritch Blast"

I love that how much of a beau/yasha shipper Travis is LMAO

Love the captions; Caleb: “panicky drug high groans”

Laughing the whole time they're all trying to deal with these abyssal-speaking creatures when Yasha speaks Abyssal.

I love how Matt's face changes as they're explaining Fluffer Nutter, from "haha funny name" to "oh my god these people are insane"

when matt clapped to get their attention, i felt that

50:15 Taliesin saying “that’s cheating” like a child was the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen

I really appreciate how Matt locked in with Marisha and said, "don't listen to them. What do you want to do?" He could tell Marisha was second-guessing herself and falling out of character, and he locked her into a 1:1 with him for that moment. I've moderated webinars for businesses and man can ot be difficult to control the room and manage the flow. Matt constantly impresses me with his ability to listen and act with incredible precision, and encourage a healthy environment for all players.

Jumanji Costco really is Matt’s way of responding in a sarcastic way to every little ridiculous thing the group does. I love it.

*Nott offers some Jerky to Jamedi* *Me remembering that Nott had some human jerky* "There's no way... but- no, it can't be..."

2:40:00 Fjord: "How many people are seriously considering Fluffernutter? Show of hands." Me (knowing it will probably fail for all the reasons he said): ✋

I love the "proud father" look Matt had when Jester remembered that she could bring her duplicate close to impose disadvantage on the Hydra's attacks.

Party's favorite thing to hear: "How do you want to do this?" Party's least favorite thing to hear: "You can certainly try..."

this episode is such a rollercoaster from 'absolutely hilarious' to 'suddenly and immediately stressful'

Marisha: "Who's the false serpent, if the hydra is the warden???" Uk'atoa: Am I a joke to you?

When Travis is playing Yasha I can picture Grog wearing her cloths and a wig 😂

I love how after the ship incident the group had this crisis of conscience about their actions and promised to be better, and now they’re slaughtering people in a religious temple in order to release an obviously evil serpent god into the world because a pirate told them to.

I finally made it to the notorious fluffernutter episode...

Caduceus is like that friend who doesnt do drugs but absolutely acts like he does. Also: jealous jester is ungodly hilarious. I love the high school crush that jester has on fjord

Laura got visibly pissed as soon as Matt said "she puts her hand in your hair", starts doodling as Jester. I think she's just so much fun in this campaign

Bane is such an underrated spell. It's a level one spell that cripples all of the attacks and saving throws of THREE creatures for TEN ROUNDS. It basically pumps your entire party's AC and modifiers up by 1-4.

sam has such strong goblin energy with the facepaint... this should be a prerequisite from now on

Vines: trying to kill Nott and Caleb... Travis (to Liam): Only *you* can start forest fires. Love it :D

"Think about this" "I am the only one doing that right now."

I like how Matt handles the mistake with the lessor restoration spell. Smooth.

Travis basically gets to play a free barbarian since Ashley is always gone lol

I keep waiting for Taliesin to say "life needs things to live" with the trees

Whenever Beau try’s parkour I alway imagine Michael Scott yelling “Parkour”

Just saying, Infinite Alcohol is Infinitely Flammable...

You can see Matt's DM energy rising as each player forgets the consequences of something and he's mentally counting "Strike 1, Strike 2, Strike 3..."

"I am trying to cast Teleport"...the look on Matt's face...priceless.

I love how fjord kept calling Caleb Caleb and Avantika just ignored it. Philip yes

I love that whenever Caduceus makes a perception or insight check its like he reached nirvana

Taliesin saying he hates lazy people Me, having watched this instead of working like... all day: :O

3:26:15 Beau already has two party members high on fruit, and she licks a poison arrow. This truly is the kind of behavior I’ve come to expect from the mighty nein…

1:23:46 the look of joy that Matt has when Laura said to keep explaining is a perfect example of good player and DM situational awareness and the recognition for pointing it out

"Pull your weight." I didn't think it was possible but damn, Caduceus can be scary.

Fjord trying to get Nott to stop smelling/eating the fruit at 1.25:54 is exactly how I try get my cat to stop eating the wrong thing.

*"panicky drug trip groan"* the people who write the closed captions are incredible

Captain ivantica definitely reads tusk love at night

I love how jealous Jester gets about fjord and ivantica. I think it’s really cute lmao

I totally feel Liam’s pain. It’s absolutely fucking heartbreaking when your high level spells fail. You only have so many.

Having Travis roleplay as Yasha and then say "I would like to rage" was just fantastic

Dude, knott fucking kills me. When sam screams or acts manic I love it.

when fjord said molly instead of caduceus he whole mood dropped instantly and im sad but mostly im cackling cause everyone just went "mmmmm|

"Counterpoint-- * cocks crossbow *" I fucking wheezed. Sam Riegel is an American treasure.

I love the brief moments when Matt goes from standing to sitting and the camera doesn’t cut in time. It’s like Matt is peeking in going “hello!”

Feel like making a parody of Old Town Road now. 'Got the wizard in the back; Goblin's comin' strapped. Crossbow bolt is nocked and the warlock's prepped a Blast'

the moment when Travis said "Molly," ( 2:39:00) my heart broke. I miss him so much... long may he rein

I can't help but think how much easier out might have been if they remembered "the garden feeds the warden" and fed it the fruit they had put in their pockets to get high with.

Cad is often characterized as a stoner - but in the garden of hallucinogenic fruit he's stern, cautious, and thinking the most clearly about the situation. Cad isn't a stoner, he's straight-edge and high on Melora :P

Nott trying to get Jamedi to eat and drink is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen

If Caduceus had been one level higher, he’d have blight as a domain spell. It would auto-deal 64 points of necrotic damage to a plant creature if it failed a CON save (with disadvantage).

I'm remembering what it was like to be a new mom and I think Laura picked a fantastic character, she gets to kind of do whatever she wants so if she's got like overly tired mommie brain she can be completely silly, and she gets to laugh like crazy or beat up shit, great way to blow off steam.

I would just like to say that Jamedi is one letter off from the French word, Samedi which means Saturday. So essentially his name is Jaturday.

Talesin Absolutely is the kind of guy who is immediately game for anything and everything that people toss to him, like painting Sam.. This proves why he is an exceptional him being

I wonder. If Caduceus had eaten the fruit, would it have made any difference?

Marisha picking up the candy off the floor then eating it without anyone noticing is so funny for some reason. Time stamp - 3:32:21

I love how much Grog comes through while Travis plays Yasha 😂🥺 he loved being a barbarian so much

travis roleplaying protective yasha towards beau = A TRUE FUCKIN ALLY