.........or the time Matthew Mercer nearly ended the Bailingham marriage. PS: I won't tolerate Laura Bailey slander here. This was clearly a joke From Critical Role campaign 1 Episode 62.
I would like to point out that in a recent (maybe TLOU2?) awards speech, Laura expressed her love for Ashley Johnson and asked to marry her AND THEN THANKED HER HUSBAND.
@@franciscoborjaescobarsuare5802 In the end, though, didn't Grog have a shitload of money because he hardly ever bought anything? I feel like it came up in a Talks once.
@@hrodga I think so but even though I didn't say it in the comment I was referring to the exchange with the sleazy merchant in Vasselheim and the sandkheg's hide bottles (" We be clubbin', mothafuckas")
I was in the GenCon audience for this moment. It was even more epic in real life. Travis ran and hid behind the scenery poking his head around the scenery with a wonderful look of comedic terror. The audience could feel Laura's rage, Travis' fear, and Taliesin's disappointment.
Yes! I was waiting for another Present Critter to make this comment! My favorite crowd interaction moment was when someone in the VIP section, who happened to have just taken a beer 🍺 brake, took their fresh ale and donated it to Travis! 🍻 Cheers Buddy! 😅
When a couple get divorced they have to state the reason for why they get the divorce. I think them putting down "He destroyed his wifes magical broom" would be rather suspect.
"I think with this many witnesses it's not a threat, it's a promise." I know Taliesin Jaffe is an eldritch god but i still don't understand how he can come up with sentences like this :D
@@primecreator5257 I still haven't watched that one-shot since I never finished campaign 1 and it has been on my to do list which I slowly chip through every so often what was so bad about them if you don't mind me asking?
@@primecreator5257 The guy has amazing one liners but that wasn't even funny really. Everybody says "That's not a threat that's a promise." That's why they didn't laugh they've heard it a million times lol
Years later Travis: (Holding Ronin and showing him this clip) And this when Uncle Matt stopped Mommy from murdering me on stage in front of a thousand people. Ronin: (In his head) My god my parents are weird.
When Taliesin is saying "run! Hide!" under his breath. Hearing Travis in Grog's voice go "What Percy? You saying we should hide? Where?" I'm just sitting here like....um....Travis, I don't think it's Percy telling Grog to run. I think Tal telling YOU!"
@@Allantitan I don't know what you mean; everyone on the cast is so thoughtful, mature, respectful, and subdued..................................... (Is that enough ellipses to show the irony?)
It got to the point where Ashley and Sam were just working together to save Travis. No one was focused on the dnd repercussions. The only enemy they were worried about was at the table
There has to be a campaign in which Laura plays a mob boss. No matter the class. I know she played the daughter of one. But come on, we all know she'd be right at home.
@@136jab - That's a good comparison: in that case, losing it took multiple failed ability checks, and the choice to heal / save people instead of saving the item with limited time. Plus it was the party's collective property, not one player's gear that they loaned to another player. Having another player be the one who lost somebody's favorite item wouldn't be fun, it would create some resentment. I'm sure Matt realizes that inter-party personal dynamic, and wouldn't destroy the item without a chance to save it, not without other players taking risks with fairly clear consequences and then failing some rolls.
I think he was more upset because that didn't have consequences, which is most likely what he wanted to happen being a long time dnder. I got that Laura was upset, and Matt probably let it slid for that reason alone, but if you look at the consequences for Laura in C1 vs C2, you can see that Matt held her accountable for little. I don't blame him, nor do I make this comment with any maliciousness; but Matt did let Laura get away with quite a bit in C1.
I think he was just reacting to Matt's classic move of creating a tense moment where the players think something disastrous might be happening with the tone of his narration, but then it was actually a trick, nothing bad happened. It's like "ugh, that was a dirty move". And then a smile of "you got me / us" as he points to Matt. Having PCs lose or damage another PC's personal magic item is a big deal and would in general create tension between the *players,* not just the characters in the game. With Laura being more protective of her loot than most (some might say dragon-hoard-ish), it probably wouldn't make the game more fun for the players for the DM to do that. Without a clear and obvious risk that players knowingly took, and without giving them a chance to save the item with some rolls or cleverness, it would not be cool to destroy a magic item. In fact the gnomes *did* use their character abilities to escape invisibly after the broom was temporarily disabled. IIRC, this was after they lost their magic carpet, which was the collective property of the party, not one players personal gear that they loaned to another. And losing it involved multiple failed ability checks, and actions that attempted to save it. I'm pretty sure all Matt ever intended was to take his players on an emotional roller coaster without a long-term downside (unless the players actively screwed up and fully lost the broom).
@@Peter_Cordes 100%. Not only was he messing with Laura and Travis, but it created a tense and exciting environment for the crowd as well. Matt put on a "Performance" if you will, and you can hear it in the crowd that it worked.
ashley pushing travis out of his seat and matt just dragging out the fact that he is holding travis’ life in his hand at that moment will never not be funny to me
@@ForeverDegenerate he was born early Campaign 2 but this was still only about mid Campaign 1. At least a year, year and a half, in between or possibly even a bit more.
I love Sam's long game too with Laura and her broom. At one point, he had a custom witches hat made for her. Many episodes later, based on a promise she made, she put the hat on and he cast a spell to make her skin turn green.
This was a really fun moment but it also shows how Laura evolved as a player, she seems to be so much better at not letting meta knowledge influence her game
@@gamergirl209 She told her husband she would be pissed with him if something happened to the broom. She also got "up" to stop Grog from using the Deck of Many Things, or throw it into the lava, after Thordak even though Vex was supposed to be resting and not truly aware of what he may have found. There are other examples but these are the most egregious for me. I like Vex and I love Laura, so this is not coming from an antagonistic place, it is just my sincere opinion on it. But I do agree that Vex was very close to being Laura (which is common with first characters)
Matt said on 4 Sided Dive that information is the villain of tension, and this is a prime example. In this case, that information was how to prevent a homicide.
I had always seen Laura always so happy. Its this very rare moment when she gets in rage is why I remember. This is the reason that this group goes out of there way in keeping her always happy. 🤣🤣
That pause by Matt during the sentence at 4:40... That is such an a-hole thing to do in that situation, which is just so much funnier than it should be XD
This whole video is a memory permanently etched into my memory when I saw it in person. I can still feel my jaw hit the floor and my fingers clutching my hair in disbelief as it seems all too obvious that Matt is about to tell Laura that her favorite toy has been destroyed... Only to tell her it's fine and literally save a marriage.
God I love the live episodes! They bring so much more to the atmosphere, every emotion is amplified 100 fold, even out of story. All time fav ep (so far), is from the 2nd campaign, when they got Lorenzo. That was epic. Much love to the whole cast of CR!!!
I live for the day that their son sees this episode and asks "Mommy, were you really gonna murder daddy?" Its the same feeling I have when he sees FMA and asks "Daddy, why are you burning momma?"
