The Ominous March - LIVE | Critical Role: VOX MACHINA | Episode 109 

Watching Matt have a 7-way conversation with himself is just impressive

Vex "He is married to me and I will cut you!" I could not stop laughing at that point.

“Use protection!” “That’s what Grog is for!” Solid double-entendres

46:26 everyone questioning Scanlan’s actions and then Percy, after rolling a nat one on insight, saying “is it that hard to believe that maybe just someone finds me attractive?” is just gold, I’m so glad it was Scanlan and Percy who ended up as the respective victims of the love potion

After the love potion... I'm convinced sam riegel is the greatest performer on earth

"Our entire relationship has been psychic damage, baby." - Iconic. Legendary. Hall of fame.

"Does this have to be attuned?" "....It does." It's one of the driest exchanges ever but it never fails to make me laugh.

My personal top 5 Vox Machina moments: 5. Vax shaving Grog's beard 4. Scanlan buying spices ('You spice?' lol) 3. The swimming pool dive contest 2. Goldfish cliff-diving 1. Whatever the f*** just happened in this episode

1:23:54 - Platinum Dragon Sanctuary Counsil. Matt voices 12 different characters in one sequence. This is insane

To whoever did the sound editing to lower the volume of the crowd screaming, my ears thank you and you’re a saint

"You guys make everything sexual!" "Anyways, I'm not offering you the potion, just an experience"

At one point J'mon made the comment "you defeated a volcano?" And now they have to kill a mountain.

Totally underrated moment in this episode is when Vax offers Grog an "experience," and you can see every single cast member wondering if Vax just offered to have sex with Grog under the influence of a love potion.

Man, both of Sam's characters have been gay for Percy now.

Matt reveals 8 superior potions The cast: WOW!!!! Grog: Oh wow, we are SUPER fucked aren't we?! Who says he's dumb? LOL

Oh my god when laura stood up to grab sam's chair and drag it away from taliesin it felt like Vexhalia did the exact same thing in scanlan's mansion ! Im crying !

Grog-as-wanted-man-in-Vasselheim is a much under-rated subplot

In an attempt to turn these comments around, can we just mention our favourite moments? Mine was Talesin playing along with the whole "Is it that hard to believe that maybe just someone finds me attractive?" line.

2020 and almost done with campaign 1. almost there. almost there...

How wonderful Matt must feel when he describes the arrival of two NPCs, one of whom is an extension of himself, and the entire audience screams with joy.

When the DM gives you superior potions, it's time to worry...

Audience IMMEDIATELY gets its money's worth with just the first hour of performance. The whole group just keeps giving one hell of a performance!

“I’m not offering you this thing, but I’m offering you an experience.” And with that one line, Liam killed his friends more thoroughly than any BBEG Matt Mercer has ever made or ever will make

One lesson to be learned here. There is literally no situation that can break Sam. He'll roll with any scenario and make the most of it, always. Loved every bit of that part. :)

We really have come a long way from Kraghammer.

6:25 Enter the cast 18:19 Recap 20:07 Gamestart 24:51 The Proposition (Heavens, I'm not stamping everything please watch it all) 31:54 Meanwhile, elsewhere 32:46 Game on with vegan wine 34:58 But first 39:45 Choices, choices 41:13 Under a new light 47:16 Liam is serious 53:27 Testament of true love 54:18 Anything else? 1:05:46 Wait, do we care? 1:07:15 Residuals 1:11:22 Writing on the wall 1:15:31 Looks familiar but slick 1:16:23 Accurate zealot 1:20:36 Again, looks familiar 1:22:51 Entering the Platinum Sanctuary 1:24:19 Hiii and other VIP 1:27:22 No sass 1:28:01 Eerie entourage 1:30:02 BAMFing in 1:35:15 Band of Shrouds 1:36:42 I only am escaped alone to tell thee. And Marlee. 1:40:39 Two places 1:43:45 Oh, but I do 2:07:00 Break ends 2:09:17 Game returns 2:10:23 Loved ones 2:15:42 Now, there's a plan 2:16:57 This is our plan for reals 2:21:08 He's trolling us 2:24:01 Persuade Blindspot 2:31:23 Stare down a wyvern 2:34:40 Optimistic Keyleth and planing 2:48:45 Fight Vecna right now 2:52:04 We fly, but first, a speech 3:01:03 She made a Larkin on a liveshow 3:06:08 There it is 3:12:23 Monstah 3:22:49 Keyleth sees the trickle 3:25:33 They'll be fine (and relationship descriptions) 3:30:54 Here comes the arm 3:38:37 The way to the final conflict begins, game ends 3:39:07 Watch their faces 3:43:06 Trigger warning on that question

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It's crazy how a bunch of friends playing d&d becames so popular that they can fill an entire theatre, the power this game holds

catch up crew 2019 (I'm SO CLOSE! I can TASTE the 2nd campaign!) ....my freaking EARS!

Usually I hate people who shout in theaters, but "Hey guys, so those t-shirts.." @1:41:52 is perfect.

Vecna is all like "Oh I know all of your plans!" ... Well, Vox Machina is pretty much his natural enemy.

The DM giving you 8 superior potions is the TTRPG equivalent of a save point in a dungeon. Something bad’s coming.

Episode 109 and Travis finally feels bold enough to just straight-up tell the rest of Vox Machina that they need to stop procrastinating and get on with their job. =D

And Grog, the Goliath Barbarian, wielder of the Titan Stone Knuckles, killer of chromatic dragons, vanquisher of beholders, Champion of the Crucible, and the hugger of halflings, is promptly told to sit, by a copper dragon.

Travis (sarcastically): "We are super lucky and it's just a turtle." Travis (several years later): *sweats looking at turtle*

the love potion scene is so much funnier now we have the Legend of Vox Machina scene where Percy comes crashing into Scanlans room and scanlan says "if you wanted to join in all you had to do was ask" lol

Is Matt tearing the paper during the Scancy ship him saying, "welp! Not getting to the first hour I had planned"? If so ... I LOVE IT AND HIM!!

Shout out to Mat roleplaying every powerful NPC all in one room together all at once, so impressed by his skills

*Jamon Sa'Ord:* "May these potions keep you safe." *Vex:* "Well, what is it?" *MM:* There are, you see, eight Superior Healing Potions. *Crowd and players gasp* *VM:* Why do we hear boss music?

Wow. That whole council sequence by Matt was very impressive. It's basically the D&D equivalent of having the Eldrond's Council scene from Fellowship of the Ring with Viggo Mortensen playing every speaking role but in the middle of it Galadriel and Arwen suddenly show up and he plays their roles too. xD

"The final miniature is just Matt" PLEASE!

That love potion. Holy shit that was good.

57:23 "Can I at least watch?" BEST moment in the entire campaign lmao

Grog not getting the hint when they’re pretending to give up was one of my favorite moments lol

Scanlan is like David Bowie. His sexuality is just YES.

Oh, lord. The first hour of this is just unbridled hilarity from start to finish.

2:27:26 I so wish that Ashley Johnson just came on stage right at this moment, and gave Travis that bro-shake. If she were to surprise everyone, THAT would have been the perfect moment.

2:34:54 Marisha: "They think we're gonna die :)" Matthew: *sips drink with malicious intent*

One hour in, nothing has happened, I couldn't be happier

Keylith: ..... praise.. vecna? Grog:WTF?! 😂😂😂

I love how everyone comes out hype af, and then Matt gets called and he just walks in like "ooohhhh.... oohhhh nooo, that's a lotta people..." lol

*!! REPOSTING TIMESTAMPS !!* 6:25 Enter the cast 18:19 Recap 20:07 Gamestart 24:51 The Proposition (Heavens, I'm not stamping everything please watch it all) 31:54 Meanwhile, elsewhere 32:46 Game on with vegan wine 34:58 But first 39:45 Choices, choices 41:13 Under a new light 47:16 Liam is serious 53:27 Testament of true love 54:18 Anything else? 1:05:46 Wait, do we care? 1:07:15 Residuals 1:11:22 Writing on the wall 1:15:31 Looks familiar but slick 1:16:23 Accurate zealot 1:20:36 Again, looks familiar 1:22:51 Entering the Platinum Sanctuary 1:24:19 Hiii and other VIP 1:27:22 No sass 1:28:01 Eerie entourage 1:30:02 BAMFing in 1:35:15 Band of Shrouds 1:36:42 I only am escaped alone to tell thee. And Marlee. 1:40:39 Two places 1:43:45 Oh, but I do 2:07:00 Break ends 2:09:17 Game returns 2:10:23 Loved ones 2:15:42 Now, there's a plan 2:16:57 This is our plan for reals 2:21:08 He's trolling us 2:24:01 Persuade Blindspot 2:31:23 Stare down a wyvern 2:34:40 Optimistic Keyleth and planing 2:48:45 Fight Vecna right now 2:52:04 We fly, but first, a speech 3:01:03 She made a Larkin on a liveshow 3:06:08 There it is 3:12:23 Monstah 3:22:49 Keyleth sees the trickle 3:25:33 They'll be fine (and relationship descriptions) 3:30:54 Here comes the arm 3:38:37 The way to the final conflict begins, game ends 3:39:07 Watch their faces 3:43:06 Trigger warning on that question

I feel like Liam lives for the out of context quotes

The conversation with Grog and Vax at the beginning had me in tears.

28:20 lol! Sam's face! Vax using the gift of one of his characters against the other of his characters is Top 10 D&D Betrayals material. xD

Matt ripping up that paper just struck me as hilarious followed by 'continue' lolol

Why has no one animated the scanlan love potion scene... Pure gold

2:27:39 You can just feel Laura's unease/regret after Pike decides to go with them, especially after the whole "if she dies while Ashley is away, we're assholes" comment.

Campaign One: Travis wants a turtle. Campaign Two: Travis gets a turtle.

The audience clapping and cheering when an npc is brought in like character in an 80's sitcom 🤣🤣 I don't know why it's funny to me but it is

Been playing for 25 years or so and not in my wildest dreams could imagine this kind of shows would even be possible. It is really a dream come true. (Missed Ashley though).

Rewatching in 2019 and crying because of how shocked they were by the audience cheers in the beginning... They don't even know how crazy it's gonna be when they do their Kickstarter Campaign

I love that bit of fanart that has the raven queen basically be vax’s mom.

I so hope the scenes with Vax and Grog slipping Scanlan a love potion and Scanlan's short-lived crush on Percy makes it into the animated series. If not, I'll cry. I love how Vax and Grog are eating popcorn in the background.

Liam and Travis dying laughing during the prank was everything this game.

Have to say, the level of self-satisfaction Liam achieves with the whole segment from 00:24:30 to 01:03:27 is goals. Like that's the kind of achievement one aspires to. Clearly he knew he was going to pull something on Sam going into this, but I don't think he could have expected quite how well it went. And Sam Riegel. Truly a master of playing the bit to the hilt and deeper still. Whipping up that song while the plotting was happening (you can see him start writing it) and then everything that followed was amazing. Thank you.

"It's just a turtle" who knew this would be the moment Travis first talked down to his mortal enemy of Campaign 2

When I DM, I'm gonna create a character that often scry's on the PC's, but instead of being a villain who's like "I know all your weaknesses, & all your secrets", they're just gonna be like "Hey, remember that time you dropped sauce on your ceremonial shirt & hoped no one noticed? _I did._ Oh, also, loved what you did at the Necromancers lair, really loved all the undead puns, especially, 'Man, we must earn a _killing_ from all this _killing._ Oh, & by the way, remember that one inside joke? You know, about you being gods?" And you know what, that character is going to be a Silver Dragon, & no one can tell me otherwise.

Love when the audience claps for Travis killing a fly at 3:27:30 and Laura thinks it's for Vax and Keyleth, haha.

You know you are in for it when you find superior healing potion in a chest before the boss room

copied from comments for 2020 gang 6:25 Enter the cast 18:19 Recap 20:07 Gamestart 24:51 The Proposition (Heavens, I'm not stamping everything please watch it all) 31:54 Meanwhile, elsewhere 32:46 Game on with vegan wine 34:58 But first 39:45 Choices, choices 41:13 Under a new light 47:16 Liam is serious 53:27 Testament of true love 54:18 Anything else? 1:05:46 Wait, do we care? 1:07:15 Residuals 1:11:22 Writing on the wall 1:15:31 Looks familiar but slick 1:16:23 Accurate zealot 1:20:36 Again, looks familiar 1:22:51 Entering the Platinum Sanctuary 1:24:19 Hiii and other VIP 1:27:22 No sass 1:28:01 Eerie entourage 1:30:02 BAMFing in 1:35:15 Band of Shrouds 1:36:42 I only am escaped alone to tell thee. And Marlee. 1:40:39 Two places 1:43:45 Oh, but I do 2:07:00 Break ends 2:09:17 Game returns 2:10:23 Loved ones 2:15:42 Now, there's a plan 2:16:57 This is our plan for reals 2:21:08 He's trolling us 2:24:01 Persuade Blindspot 2:31:23 Stare down a wyvern 2:34:40 Optimistic Keyleth and planing 2:48:45 Fight Vecna right now 2:52:04 We fly, but first, a speech 3:01:03 She made a Larkin on a liveshow 3:06:08 There it is 3:12:23 Monstah 3:22:49 Keyleth sees the trickle 3:25:33 They'll be fine (and relationship descriptions) 3:30:54 Here comes the arm 3:38:37 The way to the final conflict begins, game ends 3:39:07 Watch their faces 3:43:06 Trigger warning on that question

I just love how Sam Reigel is happy to sit there and watch the sexually charged chaos unfold,..... but when he realizes they are gunning for HIS character. Well just watch his face at 28:20 priceless

I understand laughing and excitement, but I really cringed at the random call-outs. Imagine being shhed by Matthew Mercer. I'd die with shame.

Title : *The ominous march* Guy with orange shorts: - comes bounding out in gleeful hops and gallops - Title: *Am I a joke to you?*

9 episodes left, it's been a long journey, and I've loved every second of it.

"...I know each of your strengths, but not as well of each of you know your strengths as well as you do." -Keyleth, Voice of the Tempest.

Matt is a savage...I don't have the dice for this. Don't worry I'll use the app.

"We're super lucky and it's just a turtle." -Travis 2019 If only he knew.

This is my favorite episode so far. They need to animate the whole Love potion shenanigans because it's without a doubt the funniest conversation they had so far in the whole campaign.

Oh, wow. That was amazing. Sam doing that whole rap just to inspire Vax for pranking his own character. These guys are the best. xD

When the god at the end of the table looks concerned/stunned/proud, you know that you doing a good. Edit: Also, Matt managed to get the ENTIRE STADIUM silent for a solid 20 seconds. An actual God.

All Vecna needs to do to defeat VM is to planeshift them to the City of Doors, the 3rd Book in "Die, Vecna, Die" Module. XD

Scanlan: "Al;so, if you dont like The Meatman, I can make him go away." Jamon Sa'Ord: "Your business has not encroached on the peace of the city. You'd know if it did." Scanlan (to himself): "They know..." Scanlan (into a secret, different earring): "The Baby is out of the Tub! Pull the Plug! Drain the water! I repeat, DRAIN THE WATER!"

I just realized - as bad as the audio is for the most part, the reverb on their voices really added to the atmosphere when the council meeting came up! PS: also getting nearer to the closure of campaign 1 in this dark period of 2020...much love to all of you out there! Keep safe!!

I love how one of the episodes with the most dramatic titles begins with one of, if not THE funniest sequence of events in C1

I love when Allura is mentioned there's cheers but when Kima is there as well EVERYONE loses it.

11:22 Liam: announces the artbook Crowd: goes crazy Me: here watching for the first time, with BOTH artbooks already sitting on the shelf next to me

I had heard the screaming. I had bookmarked the fanart. I had seen the gifs. I WAS NOT PREPARED.

39:00 the start of the greatest prank in Critical Role

Sam Riegel - official winner of this episode! My stomach hurts from so much laughter...

The first 50 minutes of this episode is probably the finest ever roleplaying to have ever been recorded.

Can we just take a moment to say that half of the party has fallen in love with Percy?? If only Pike was there

Imagine having to explain Sam's entry to someone who doesn't watch CR...

“Took me exactly two months to reach this point, and I ain’t stopping” - me, 19 January 2020

Taking a moment to appreciate the planning and tie-in of Grog's knuckles to the titan they are about to encounter. Again, Genius.

It’s Liam and Travis eating imaginary popcorn watching the drama that sends me.

Missed a golden opportunity for a joke. Matt points to Percy "Sam? How do you want to do this?"

Gotta tip my hat to whomever did the subtitles for this. "Liam and Travis: Scared Bear Noises"

obsessed with matt accidentally calling vex'ahlia perc'ahlia

I applaud the man in the audience that shouted out about merch during the scanlan whisper.