THE POWER OF JESTER'S CUPCAKE! (2x93) | CRITICAL ROLE HIGHLIGHTS 

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Cleric of the trickster god, tricks a thousand-year-old hag into reversing a curse for a cupcake and a friendly conversation. This is the stuff of legend.

I love Matthew's reactions to the party being creative. Matthew was so clearly impressed with Laura, but also so very disappointed that it work out and stopped some of his plans with the hag... 😂

I love how stone cold Jester's voice goes when describing the effects of the spell. This is Jester's revenge.

Liam's mind CLICKED when he heard "disadvantage on wisdom checks and wisdom saving throws" :D

Jester: "That was sprinkled with the Dust of Deliciousness." *Jojo Golden Wind piano starts playing*

I just realized that at 5:50 when Laura was scrolling through her character sheet looking for her cupcake, Sam SAW what she was going to pull out. So when Marisha was going to have Beau step in, that’s when Sam piped up and said “let her do her thing.” He KNEW what power move she was about to pull 👀

J: Did I succeed? M: .... yup.... That was amazing.

Jester: look at me. I'm the Fey now.

That is the most begrudging "yup" I have ever heard

An under appreciated Talesin Jaffe quote from this video: *”YOU FED A WITCH A BAKED GOOD!! HOW??”*

A magic item you forgot about ruining your plans. It doesn’t get more D&D than that.

I hope that the Hag would stalk them like the Rakshasa, but her sole goal would be to abduct Jester and keep her around, since she’s the best company the Hag ever had. And when the Hag asked Jester what she wanted the most, Jester replied with ‘just your company’ and that’s the kind of loophole a tricky trickster like the Hag would exploit.

Lara just gave a master class on being a trickster cleric. I mean come on that was a Brer Rabbit, Old Man Coyote, Anansi, Sun Wukong, Reynard the Fox, Loki, Bugs Bunny level of a trick to play. classic myth start in a position of weakness, give the target what they want, temp them with something extra, then pull the rug out from under them, leave the target wondering What just happened.

Taliesin is all of us with our butts clenched

Beau: I will do anything, even give up all my happiness just to make sure one of you is happy Nott: I will prolong a war and put millions of people in danger to get what I want Yasha: I will start any fight I have to in order to help those I care about Jester: Itookcareofitletsgo! (Joyfully skips away) It would be hilarious to me if Jester never tells the team that she tricked the hag and pretends she made a horrifying sacrifice Fjord: What did you do? What did she take? Jester: ooooooooooo wouldn’t yoooooou like to know. It was like really bad you guys, for real though ya know? Like it was real bad and I’m so sad like forever now. (She says with a giant smile)

does the door...? does the door.. do that thing? riiiight...

God this could literally be a moment of legend. Imagine 1000 years later during mass at the church of the traveler an epic poem is sung. When jester the traveles first high priestess tricked a hag into accepting half a moldy cupcake for her friends freedom

That wheeze at 7:10 though, definitely the moment that Matt realized that Laura was absolutely not playing within his expectations.

Some might say that Jester...haggled her way out of that situation....I'm seeing myself out.

SHE.KNEW.EXACTLY.WHAT.SHE.WAS.GOING.TO.DO. She walked in there with the expressed intent to make this plan happen. It was glorious! It's a combination of her charm, street smarts and how she read Matt's reactions, she played him like a fiddle and you could hear his disgruntled voice when he realised she played him. That move was brave, and sly and devious and f**kin' epic!!!!

So many players have had amazing plays against Matt's plans, but this very well might top Sam's Counterspells from the fight against Vekna. Laura was playing chess against Matt, and he didn't even know it.

This is, and I say it without any attempt at hyperbole, one of those once in a campaign, maybe even once in a lifetime moments, where a prepared and capable DM is completely and utterly outfoxed by one of his players. This sequence should be mandatory viewing for both DM's and players. For the former on how to be graceful in defeat and not use DM fiat to undue a players plan, and for the latter because of you pay attention to all your gear and abilities, you too can achieve a crowning moment of awesomeness. Kudos to Matt for the way he handled it, the other players for staying out of it, and to Laura for being an absolutely stonking good player

So many things going on here... I didn’t notice the first time around, but there’s a moment where Travis looks like he’s about to crawl up in his seat vulture-perch-Marisha-Style... ...Marisha at the end looks like a prisoner on death row who got a last-minute call from the warden... ..and my favorite lines from Taliesin... “You FUCKING BEAST!... you Greteled his Hansel! You fed a cupcake to a witch!...

This was such a Jester way of using "Modify Memory". Here eat a cupcake, also you enjoyed my company so much youll do what i say, k thanks bye.

Liam’s expression was interesting to because you can see the moment when Laura/Jester starts showing her hand, his mind clicks in completely to what she was doing. Playing a rogue before, I bet he was wondering if Jester had a trick up her sleeve to play going in. Liam is one of the few players at the table who doesn’t underestimate what Jester can do. She worships a trickster which is about as close to a rogue without actually being one. I think Sam also knew Laura/Jester was doing a bait and switch tactic on the hag close to the end.

They were playing dnd Laura over there playing chess tactician mind

how do you want to chew this

Jester: *THE TRAVELER HAS ALREADY SPRINKLED DUST OF DELICIOUSNESS ON THE CUPCAKE* Hag: yare yare...

"Every inflicts wounds that you have failed, is paying right now"

8:48 _* Liam grins with malicious intent *_ _* Travis realizes he married the Brer Rabbit *_ _* Ashley supports her friend through this success *_ _* Tal and Marisha are dreading the horrible twist that Matt will inevitably pull *_ _* Sam's mouth tries to implode *_ _* Matt glares with a mixture of hatred and pride for Laura *_ (mostly hatred) _* Laura can't believe that actually fucking worked *_

Laura Bailey did the impossible.......She has won D&D. LoL

You hear that foreboding, Dark Souls style background music? The bell tolling just before Matt rolled the dice? The change in the tone of Jester’s voice when she describes the modified memory? That’s what a boss encounter sounds like. Jester wasn’t fighting a boss, Jester WAS the boss fight.

That exasperated ".......yep" from Matt is just wonderful

I feel like throughout this whole interaction Laura was slowly and deliberately throwing jabs to get Matt off his game. Seriously he couldn't keep up with the chaotic energy that is Jester.

I loved watching Taliesin Jaffe just lose his mind throught the entire exchange. So fun!

This was a Scanlan level play.

poor marisha was mourning her damn character, and then laura goes "no, my new dnd wife is sad, cant have that"

Before she said dust of deliciousness we were all saying NO JESTER IS GOING TO MAKE THE DEAL. Then we all lost it.

I just watched this for the third time. I think I'm most impressed by how Laura and Matt managed to stay in character, especially how Laura kept RPing AFTER she succeeded. I think I would've booked out of their as quickly as I could! She has been playing that character for two years, and she risked it all for her friend. She easily could've been ended if she failed. The finest gaming I have ever seen.

"John Wick thinks he's pretty slick with that pencil trick" -Jester probably

I love how visibly frustrated Matt was when he was told Jester it had worked

Scanlan was ready to fight two gods with his desire, Jester was ready to fight a hag with a cupcake

Jesus Christ that's going to have long lasting repercussions, and i for one can't wait to see what happens at the conclusion of this journey.

shout out to sam for preventing marisha from meta-gaming this moment away

The witch got bewitched, I guess..

I love how right when Matt ends the episode Tal turns and immediately says "YOU FUCKING BEAST!"

I love how sam stopped marisha from stopping this

Sam saw what was on her iPad. He knew what she was going to pull the entire time.

You leave when Fiona Fancypants allows you to leave :D

That deah scowl from Mercer at 8:50 ! So furious but so proud at the same time

I Love 8:48 when Laura is so excited she leaves her chair lol

Why is it that Jester is the best? Like she’s so cute and so powerful.

Remember Matt's "point of order" mention of his roll being a 2. I think the dice itself decided the moment for everyone. Now the consequences of Jester's legendary epic troll? That'll have to come at a later time.

Sam also clutch, saved the whole scene at 6:10

Shout out to Second Place: Fjord dropping his pact with his deity

You guys want some fun. Just keep using the 10 second skip forward & just watch all of Talesin's facial expressions throughout the video. It bring me so much joy.

Travis' face at 7:40 shows how impressed he is with his wife. It goes to show how much he admires her intelligence and cunning. Damn I love those two.

taliesin's face is a show in itself. it really looked like fear, right then.

It was fascinating to watch the other players faces leading up to it. Marisha and talisin seem so anxious not being able to help, trying to find a way to intervene without metagaming. Liam looks a little sad- like he already knows Laura’s gonna make the sacrifice- he’s used to tragic characters and he realizes how much that sacrifice would affect Jester. Ashley looks in disbelief that she would actually go through with it. Travis knows she’s planning something, he keeps squinting at her, but he doesn’t know what

Taliesin's reactions are all of my love XD When Larua starts laughing and he is just SHOOK. In all his centuries he has never before seen true eldritch horror until he saw this axis of chaos beside him XD

09:07 Matt's expression says it all. He wants to be so mad, but that's just too funny at the same time!

So happy Sam stopped Marisha from knocking on the door!

This woman is gonna be gunning for Jester after this when she realises what happened....

I love how she plays Jester off in the end. A big smile, acting like everything is okay with the. "Lets Go, Your good, come on, Lets go." But then has a moment of, shits about to hit the fan, with the "Lets get The Fuck OUt of here.

A good clever move, but this won't rest, ripples my friends.. every action has a consequence. I wonder what comes next

Laura is a masterly manipulator when she wants to, she even uses her hands to gesticulate more than usual. Who else could pull this on Matt? Poor Travis, that gentle giant is being steamrolled whenever she chooses to. And fortunate Travis, that nice guy has a fantastic and sweet wife. As I watch it again, while all the others are laughing at and taken by her innocent sillyness, at around 05:00 both Travis and Marisha realises she is up to something. But take a moment to enjoy and admire how masterfully Matt rolls with it and says "yes" even as he realises how thoroughly he is being played. He still plays it objectively and allow her scheme. They both excelled in this encounter.

Travis is just looking at Laura and falling in love all over

So everyone, how does it feel to be married to Laura Bailey?

LOL Matt is so pissed! Yet still proud!

It's gonna take something HUGE to top this moment.

i LOVE Marisha but i am SO GLAD she didnt continue trying to interrupt

My favorite part of this is Taliesin looking around frantically like he's expecting someone to come and stop it

misery really does love company, and just deserts

Laura Bailey 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I bow down to you mam. What a baller move!!!

Can anyone edit the audio to make jester say “ You enjoyed my company so very much, that you agreed to end Nott’s curse, because you liked hanging out so much.”

matt's face when he says laura succeded is so fucking priceless

The one where Laura's god play turns Taliesin into the Magikarp guy.

Jester fed sweets to a witch in the swamp... AMAZING !!! Absolutely legendary !

The subtext I got was: Travis: THATS MY WIFE!

Matt's face as he's probably thinking about how a No-Handed Jester would get by only to get a new face journey.

Incredible work by the legendary Laura Bailey here, continuing her legacy of brilliance that she began back at the Duergar Warcamp. (Referring to the Hallucinatory Terrain idea). As to the Scanlan comparisons I would like to point something out. Scanlan was obviously capt. clutch in C1. He saved the [arty numerous times with slick counters and mind control and such. In those cases though he usually just had to be smart and not tell Matt was doing (sometimes not even that). The one time he had to be sneaky was with 6th level counterspell in E114. The one where he had to get closer while pretending to forget his job. Not as elaborate as Jester but still awesome. His real E114 genius though was actually his Simulacrum. By refusing to bring it in at first he kept it from dying to the first Meteor Swarm - which he knew was coming - allowing him to get a couple of extra counterspells in before it was dispatched. Effectively casting two counterspells a turn for two turns which was why the battle went so well for them. Have a cupcake day ! : )

0:47 Travis didn't realise how right he'd be with that "anti-misery" 👀

Oh no! Jester! you didn't... Yup you did.

Throwback to when I thought Laura and Liam were actual siblings back at the start of campaign 1. Sam sat next to Laura and I think he must have seen something and accordingly said to let her do her thing. But Liam is just sat there and his expression has that "I know my twin is up to sth"-look on it. A remnant of cr1? I don't know, but it's radiating sibling energy. It's very "I'm not sure what yet, but I know you're up to *something*, and I'm here for it"

I love Ashley's and Taliesin's reactions. I just imagine them being great friends and it warms me inside.

This is the Odysseus “No man” level of trickery, without the arrogance at the end. Well fucking done...

Taliesin quietly losing his mind in the background is fucking wonderful

10:07 - being able to laugh and act on demand never seemed so scary until now. like damn boss girl @.@

5:57 Sam realize the ballsy move Laura was about to do

*The most epic moment of campaign 2 SO FAR...

I think Jester just earned a spot as the Traveler's Supreme Disciple because of this Fucking Legendary play

That was like Keyleth and the feeblemind.

I'm so waiting for fanarts of this moment! :D

In this moment, I wanted to give Laura a high five and five Marisha a hug. That was SOOO INTENSE

This was truly an epic move! So many facepalms around the table then Laura pulls out her plan. She is a freaking amazing player and Matt masterfully deals with the sudden curveball he gets thrown. Watching it again, I wonder if Sam saw something looking over at Laura's sheet, because he gets a big grin and keeps people from interfering. Or if he knew Laura was setting something up because he's done the same. (I've seen the video of his counter-spell move in the campaign 1, that was incredible too!) Travis' look as he's watching her is great too, you can tell he's thinking "Yeah, my wife is up to some mischief." :) Marisa processing of what Beau just did is really noticeable too, I'm glad she could hold onto that for one of my favorite CR scenes, the group discussion in the shack in the next session.

8:50 can someone just photoshop matts face out of that so i can use it to represent all those times when the party does something that negates many hours of planning?

BEST MOMENT IN C1 OR C2 !!! Laura Bailey just won D&D, ladies and gentlemen.

This taste... is the taste of the dust of deliciousness! Also a liar!

I am so glad I didn't watch this live; my scream would have woken the whole neighborhood.