The Row and the Ruction | Fantasy High: Sophomore Year | Ep. 8 

Lou being so committed to his character's story that he fucking LOST HIS CLASS is incredible

I think it needs to be remembered that Fabian has pneumonia throughout all of this

Gilear immediately taking advantage of Fabian the moment he realizes they're on equal footing will never not be funny.

As great as Fabian's breakdown is, I wish we could've seen more of the seacaster warlocks. It's pretty clear that Brennan's original plan was to have them all here to "help" the bad kids

Emily wanting to help Murph is so cute and then Riz just turns around and goes "Fabian help me" SO FUNNY IM CRYING

fig singlehandedly fighting for her life trying to keep gilear's 'dropped so low it broke through the floor of the basement and is digging its way towards hell' self esteem from getting any worse is so important to me lmao

Not dropping concentration at will on banishment even though they have succeeded in their objective is *such* a dick move

"Boyos" joins season 1's "Daddy-O" as the most hated villain catchphrases of D20

Reconceptualizing Fig's mistrust of Cathilda understanding that Emily had just finished filming A Crown of Candy before they started this

Remember that this started because Fabian decided to say something into the wind

I’ve never seen a group deny a long rest so hard. They’re borderline insane lol

I really hope Gilear gets anti depressants in JY He seems severely depressed

I'm CRYING they decided to baptise their shit-rolling dice 😭😭😭😭

Siobhan is so mad to see her parents again and I'm here for it 😂

Never realized before how much i depended on them telling us what they rolled lol, without the graphics figuring out the box of doom results is a lot harder

I really like Siobhan's being genuinely pissed at her dad then making the elves job harder is jus satisfying and Lou using his laughter to make Fabian's mental breakdown more convincing

this episode is just like watching a man kick a baby for 2 hours

Emily being nice Emily and Murph having to assure her he understands that Fig would heal her mom before she helped Riz 😂

They don’t need a baptism for Lou’s dice, they need an EXORCISM!

I'm a 41 y.o. mom of two, in Germany, have never played DnD and I love it!! Brennan makes it so interesting and can describe living pictures and all the players are so into it and bring us into the fight as if we were watching from the side! Love you guys!

Riz was an absolute come back kid in this episode

Crazy that Murph is the only one with consistently good rolls this session

highlights 40:44 Siobhan baptizes Lou's dice 1:06:50 a second baptism 1:27:51 lou rolls in his cup of water in an attempt to fight the dice gods 1:40:46 the water is discarded as a false prophet 1:47:03 the squid bitch dies 1:58:13 ayda: friendship is much less confusing when you just verbally confirm that you're friends. the bad kids: honestly yeah fair 2:27:27 "it was on the tip of my tongue" "it specifically wasn't"

I love the visual of Cathilda dashing forward, throwing out a couple of sword swipes to distract from the true threat of the critical strike against Cpt. James and then her standing in the tide of his psychic blast, a stone in the river, unbothered

"because there is no level of an annoyance to you that will be satisfying to the ghost of me" ADAINE ATE THAT LINE LET HER COOK!!!

i hope junior year brings back the maps. I don't mind the theater of the mind stuff, but a lot of the fights would be so cool to see in battle maps. I wouldn't even mind if it was on talespyre like the 7. I understand why they did it this way since it was live but I would have loved to see this battle on a map. I think it would also make things less confusing for me personally

55:10 it's no doubt that Zac has the best delivery of such perfect lines in the most perfect moments, but this has to be my favorite moment. No words, just AHHHHH

I fully pay for dropout, here for the engagement! get in the comments gang!

I love the cinematic value of a barbarian and rouge fighting a captain on various bits of debris suspended over a giant fistfight

Not Gilear becoming an unhinged fiend for those 250 gold pieces.

i genuinely would love to see a fantasy high animated series in the style of vox machina, i’m manifesting it

Living for the attempted purifying of the dice 😂😂

Yay, updated character art! I neeeeeded to see Cathilda's badass get-up, thank youu!

Im going to just say thanks to D20 for giving me the PERFECT legeslative and judicial bodies for my pirate themed campaign. The Row and the Rabble especially will fit nicely into the game im running, i was drawimg a blank for how i wanted to run those aspects of the pirate realms

I love this series so much that I am getting a drop out subscription just for junior year

I cannot believe how unfair this battle was for the party! Fabian lost his subclass, still had two levels of exhaustion and was targeted by Captain Whitclaw - who had Legendary Actions, Gorgug lost most of his hit points in the first turns, most of the unattackable enemies were exclusively attacking Adaine, Tracker got banished in the first turn, they didn't get a long rest so they had very little spell slots, most of them spent a riddiculous amount of time stunned... Honestly, I'm still surprised they didn't get a TPK nor lost anyone in this episode...

That fight was a damn mess, but this episode was amazing and very satisfying narratively. Truly the best actual play show in my opinion. ❤

gilear: shut the fuck up youre down here with me now oh my god im DYING LMFAOOOO

I love seeing these bad kids have grand and cool plans just to get their asses kicked 😭 Im just waiting for the end of battle nat 20 that changes the course of the battle like "I roll to come back to life" from the calvaxis fight

Emily is honestly such a creative player in battle in all campaigns I've seen her in. She thinks to shatter the floor below the elves when she believes she can't harm them directly

1:25:45 This is such a cool concept for calling for aid! And Ayda's Response!!!

Astounded by Brennan's ability to instantly pull out any voice, and in any accent. Also, I am hooked on Garthy O'Brien

the amount of genuine hate i feel towards adaines parents and the other elves in the fight cannot be expressed in words.

2:27:23 "I know, it was on the tip of my tongue" It *specifically* wasn't

This series has descended into chaos and it is beautiful

Fabian, my boy - i have been there. I once played a Paladin and during a crisis of faith i just gave up my subclass.

i wouldve liked if they put up james' head next to the pirate king, as a way to show that that sort of behaviour is not tolerated and a way for fabian to not just put the crown where his father put it all those years ago and instead ADD to his fathers legacy

I am just going to have to sign up for dropout. This scheme is working.

Everyone has such terrible rolls in combat compared to last season lol it's giving me so much more anxiety

2:01:18 Technically, if you consider that a prophecy, she's still right if she doesn't consider that place home.

It says something when Murph has the best rolls

When Captain James took a shot at Fabian around the 58 minute mark he was still in the Row wasn't he? Seems the other brawlers would have taken issue with someone using a weapon.

I can't believe noone is talking about the quip Brennan made at the very end XD what a quick and funny response 😂

Fabian was about as useful as a block of cheese in this fight

It’d be awesome if Fantasy High got a cartoon remake like Vox Machina

My god, what an episode, really sold on the acting Also if this ever got an animated series like Vox Machina, they should Chris Parnell to voice Galeer

They’re uploading the rest!!!! Junior year prep let’s goooooo!

At what point do we collectively decide that Lou's dice might be weighed? Like, clearly not in his favor, but it feels like his dice have an air bubble or something that's fucking him up.

If they had died here they could have re-rolled new characters that exist in a post-apocalyptic esc version of this world after they effectively fail to prevent the big bad of this season

When Fig/Emily says to her mom “did you see me drag that guy to hell with me?” I saw myself whenever I do something cool I wanna show my mom😂

God I love Ayda and Garty!

“Look you’re down here with me.” “You’re rich and I’m poor, help me.”

The first time I saw this episode live, it fucked me UP. I had no idea that my trauma was still that raw, but Adine being locked away and unable to escape, have atonomy, or get away from her abusive father just... hit me like a ton of bricks. I was feeling all the emotions of a younger me and they were overwhelming to the point of an anxiety attack. I felt desperate to help her despite the fact that she wasn't real. Knowing she was there just made me sick to my stomach. That space of time between this episode and the next was HARD. I literally had nightmares of my own trauma most nights. I know now that it was so raw because my dad treated me the same as hers down to being over controlling, cutting me off from any outside support, not allowing any moment of privacy (he literally took my door off the hinges), and beening deeply verbally abusive (this was still happening even when I had to stay with him as an adult after I lost my place in a breakup) and I had only been away from him for 9 months (and would continue to talk to him on the phone for 2 years after until I finally went no contact). At first, I was upset at the show for not having trigger warnings, but I was deep in trauma brain territory by then (I'm also autistic which contributed to my issues plus I was sick with bronchitis at the time). The wait until the next episode kicked my ass, but seeing what happened next helped. I guess it's a testament to how great they are at storytelling that they were able to break me that much. It's been four years. I think I'm doing better than I was back then. I went through a program for people with PTSD, I see a therapist, and I'm on an antidepressant that works for me and have an as needed med for anxiety attacks. The part with Adine still hits a lot harder than I expected it too, but I'm okay and can appreciate the story for what it is instead of just seeing it through a trauma lense. I'm grateful for what the gang created and look forward to having my ass kicked once again for junior year!

i havent seen anyone point this out yet lol but fabian's character art this episode closely resembles gilear's charachter art. they have the similar pose and facial expression, love the details 🤣🤣🤣

Yes, my favorite episode is next. "Chej!"

Golden moments this episode😂 Siobhan washing Lou's dice mid game because they were being mean Ally following suit and washing their dice too Emily being the epitome of "If I'm going down your going down with me!" this episode Murph smiling from ear to ear: HELL YEAH, TAKE HIM TO HELL WITH YOU GIRL!!! Kristen trying desperately to get the ice cream sandwiches to help her get out of stun Cathilda's GLORIUS outfit! Riz : I think I have a lot of friends sometimes, but then everyone's mean to me😐... at school you guys are cool👀❤ Gilear being incompetent and crashing the Hangvan trying to do a K-turn and passing out

2:01:30 Tell me young elf lady who is three times my age: why is Solis not my home, since it's the place I have grown up and lived in most of my life.

55:12 The most guttural and enraged war cry one will ever hear

Currently rewatching this series with my wife, on episode 6 with the bar fight. If this isn't a sign, idk what is lol

1:45:58 I have the exact same problem. I’m a barbarian (level 4 but still) I have a rapier that does 3d8 instead of 2 on a crit and for some reason I CAN’T SEEM TO CRIT

I started season 1 a week ago knowing it was 5 years old and I had a lot to binge and I literally just noticed now that this is one month old. I am not prepared to catch up and no longer have this to rip through lmao

the combat in this episode felt so much longer than any i’ve watched before 😵‍💫😂 also it gives me so much vicarious satisfaction to hear Adaine refuse to give her family an inch of leeway lol

The more I watch this, the more I think how the bad kids would probably be a group of power rangers in a different world.

I cant believe that guy called the cops on adaine lol. what kind of pirate does that? like idk, i feel like if i were a pirate i would absolutely not want a king with an extradition policy

Leave it to Brennan Lee Mulligan to have a Dubliners reference in a D&D campaign.

This was probably the episode that suffered the most from lack of battlemap in the season. Though the finale was pretty hard to follow as well but that was a bit looser as well as the horrific video call from that time.

Brennan: if you pull weapons or use magic, the entire Row will gangbang you *party proceeds to use weapons and magic (when not stunned) for the next hour*

Gilear at the end is such a mood. YOU'RE NO BETTER THAN ME NOW GIVE ME MONEY

Captain james and his crew are no joke no wonder fabien couldnt best him with randos

1:58:20 Rizz's response is so relatable to me lmao

1:37:00 "Take our luck-take all our luck." YOU SURE YOU WANT TO GIVE /ALL/ OF IT!? 😭😭😭

I was kinda hoping they would put Jame’s head up with the old king, but instead of pinning it by stabbing through the tongue, they get like 20 knives and pin each tentacle to the mast

spoilers for this season's plot: love going back through and watching Brennan take every opportunity to try and heal the party to spread the infection. It's so genius. Of course the npcs just want to heal up the party because they just went through a rough battle! absolutely insidious on his part, but he played it so well. I didn't notice on my first watch through until much later but this time it was evident as soon as Ragh's story about prom night.

Cathilda being so nice after Fabian’s terrible performance is peak parent figure 😂😂😂😂 I guess she had to be since his mother was basically a throw pillow his whole life but still ❤❤❤ love her

These last two episodes took 10 years off my life, jeezus 😅😅😅

Being a new fan and finding out Emily and Brian are actually married blew my mind 🤯 Truly didn't expect that, what a duo !

"I just feel so bad not bringing up my husband" is so sweet 😊

34:18 Lou’s single “yay” is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard istg 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I'm at 45 minutes and i can't imagine how this isn't ending in a tpk

Right around 20:57, Emily starts getting visibly annoyed with all of Zac's questions. Kind of funny

A stunned condition with no "maximum" duration is kinda bullshit and I think this fight really demonstrates why.

This whole episode is pure pain. Last episode was just so much crying and this one is just pain, pain and more pain. Riz comes in CLUTCH!!! And then more gut punches! AAAGGGHHHH!

“Summer of ‘69” by Brian Adam’s had nothing to do with the year. He was 11 years old in 1969. He is talking about the sexual position of…… eagles.

14:00 figs shatter should’ve worked on the planks it’s an area of effect not a targeted spell plus shatter destroys non magical items anyway

Anyone else notice how rizzs gun range change every episode 😂😂

id be so mad this session. brennan telling people to take more damage than they should and stealing dice in the first third of the session 😭

just sad that there are no more battles with figurines.. was so nice to see everything happening visually on the board

I really wish they would go back to using miniatures for combat, figuring speed and distance is sometimes a hassle but it does make the combat more realistic in my opinion

1:03:02 - Hot damn. I bet it's the, "Night Yorb" fresh chest ink influencing someone. I'm making a prediction here now: Night Yorb is a codeword for a Hangman possession, and why the Hangman warned against discussing it, poor guy prolly gets vertigo when invoked in the same room.

Siobhan asking if they should run away… I was screaming EVEN THOUGH YOU WEREN’T AT FABIANS FIGHT YOU HEARD IT WHAT MADE YOU THINK IT WAS GONNA GO GOOD??!?!?