Travis Does the IMPOSSIBLE // Cerrit's Family Saga Pt. 4 / EXU Calamity Ep. 4 

Thank you all so much for helping me to reach 500 subs and thank you for (hopefully) enjoying my edit of the Cerrit Family Saga! I have a to take a little family-related hiatus myself for a few weeks but never fear, when I return I promise to dive back in and bring you the same (if not even better!) quality entertainment that I have provided thus far! If you know anyone that would enjoy what I'm serving up by all means send them this way! Hope to see you all back soon and feel free to check out anything else here on my channel while I'm away! I will have plenty of time to get caught up on Season 3 and I have my trusty dusty notepad with me to take down video ideas! If you have any ideas for CR or other videos you would like to see me take a stab at please let me know in the comments below! My home office setup is NEARLY complete so I shall soon be streaming as well and hope to get to know you all much better in the future! Yours truly, Judgementfish

When you kill 4 out of the 6 players and damn the 5th to serve in hell for eternity. Yet at the end every player is in tears with a look of "damn right we did what we could".... good job BLM... good job

Funny how the destruction of the world, the rending of an entire continent takes a back seat to the emotional heart of a father trying to get back to his kids, and his friends doing everything they can to help. This is such great storytelling

I feel like it's a bit poetic that the ONE person with no magic ability what so ever in the AGE OF ARCANUM is the sole survivor

"You don't get to give your kids the world they deserve but you get to give them the world they can fight for with you." I think every parent here can relate to this on a very real, deep level.

Not gonna lie as a new dad I was balling like a baby during this part. That final drawing was just priceless 👌

"You have bardic inspiration." I broke on that moment. It was such a powerful thing to say.

It just KILLS me that between that last bit of bardic inspiration, the talisman, and Laeryn's directions, the Brass Ring's last actions went so far to give their friend the best chance to get out ofnthis alive and back to his family.

We were ALL Marisha throughout this entire 6hr episode. Reactions, crying, everything. Chills, man. Chills.

I love that almost every character dies in the end, but at 10:58 every single member is smiling that just one friend got away.

Brennen literally took the player with the youngest, most vulnerable child and gave him a heartbreaking storyline about needed to save his fictional family from the end of the world. That's just not fair

I'm rewatching this for the second time today, because I cannot get over how good BLM is at giving a monologue. The man is an absolute master at his craft, and i hope some day to be able to craft a narrative half so engaging as he and the players did here

I will forever be AMAZED by that clutch 31 against a dc of FREAKING 30. WHEN DND BECOMES POETIC ITS SO GOOD

And the last member of the ring of brass, get to keep his promise to his family... Brendan D&D is not supposed to make me cry 😢

The Brass Ring endures, now and forever

As a dad, I immediately feel for Sam and Travis in that immediate moment. They're both suddenly in "dad mode" and losing it. 100% the most impactful part of the series.

I just keep coming back to watch this masterpiece. If this doesn't get animated eventually, the universe needs correction.

I love the music choices, and how they go so well with the moments. Maybe just a little bit lower in volume. It’s great to rewatch these moments.

God it killed everytime I think this series started with a 31 and ended with a 31

This needs a miniseries crowdfunded immediately

I was already crying when I started watching this… but when you added ‘The Price of Freedom’ to it… goddamn it

I haven’t watched a lot of CR, but breaks my heart seeing Sam so sad!! 😭

Just found this a bit late. While the somber music was appropriate in the moment, I love your pairing of the triumphant rock ballad with the destruction of the two great titans. Thanks for another great video!

How dare you put the price of freedom on this, I am crying

You can see Brennens ability to separate his voices from his normal dm voice slowly slipping away as this goes on until the whispered “thanks so much for watching”

I spent approximately 19 of the 20 or so hours of this campaign bawling, but a lot of Cerrit’s scenes just BROKE me.

Say what you will but Abria played her part so perfectly and the fact that her creation destroyed 2 primordials is so incredible to think about. Also having the Ring of Brass somewhat leave a peice of them with Cerrit and his family. Quay, Larren, Nidus with Cerrit, and Patia with Cerrit's daughter.

over a year since the calamity, and I am still so deeply moved by every moment. I think it may be near impossible to top it.

Chills all over - again. Thank you!

Somebody make this into a Animated Movie for god’s sakes!!!

Critical Role ÷ Crisis Core ost? You know how hot it is where I live? I'm dehydrated as it is! I have to tears to shed. Lol. But great idea/job.

I'm balling my eyes out at work and I dont give a shit 😭 Wingspan you go give that family the biggest hug!

Amazon Prime needs to make a series on EXU Calamity, and in part due to this saga here.

The gravel in his voice as he says "great workings were indeed possible" gives the moment so much weight

larryn singlehandedly killing two primordials

The Crisis Core music kicking in literally hit too hard 😭😭

Okay so I was holding it together BUT THEN YOU PLAY THE CRISIS CORE SOUNDTRACK AND I WAS LIKE CMON MAN THATS GONNA FUCK ME UP (crisis core was the first game to make me cry, I was like 8 when I saw Zack die and that game remains one of my favorite games ever made)

The shattered teeth thing sent me flying

Ugly cried through the whole bit here. Damn you Brennan. Damn you Travis. Well done.

Great edit! Those moments were really the most heartwarming. And that fanart at the end, just so spectacular! Friggin metal!

I feel like this is such rich rich material for animation. It would be heart breaking and incredible to see

Oh mann, I though I was ready to see this again.... Now Im crying ToT

1:05 Watching Lou just enjoy seeing other people get destroyed for once.

So so good. Hope you keep doing these sorts of edits. Thank you so very much for these clips

It doesn't matter how many time i come back to this moment It still breaks me... 😭

the greatest moment in dnd live play that ive ever seen. and it was a father keeping his promise to his kids.

A father's promise is one that must be kept.

The price of hubris need not be payed by the humble.

The price of freedom is goddamn steep. But the Ring of Brass made sure paying that price mattered

This is probably the best video I've seen of yours yet... Well done, Critter. Well done! 👏👏👏👏👏😨😢😢😭😭😭😨

Man, this gets you right in the feels. I don't know if this was him at his best GMing, but it was pretty close!

This game has such great character development in all the players. I loved every single moment of it.

This is an excellent edit job.

Adding the Crisis Core music at the end made this so much more moving.

EU: Calamity was so good I've had trouble going back to regular Critical Role

God I get teary eyes every single time I even think of this moment 😭

Considering he had a +21 to his roll… and he got a 31… that means with advantage, he rolled a 10.

The music from FF7 CC is just that last twist of the knife into my heart

Saw this late but you're so insane for the crisis core music i actually cried lmao

Exandria's Best Dad

Rewatching this still makes me tear up.

Tears already 🥹🥹

Seeing Travis's character make it was So satisfying.

You know what I always thought would be adorable and add more a little more emotion is if Brennan brought Laura in just for the parts where Wrayne talks but it wouldn’t change how powerful this moment is. It’s amazing storytelling and all the cast were spectacular in this miniseries.

4:03 Was not expecting "The Price of Freedom" to start playing. That's unfair to use that music here. That's a 1-2 gut punch. Well played

Duuude. I was tearing up on this part

-Struggling to remember where that guitar track is from while Cerrit runs back when a quote floats to the top of my mind: "Although the morrow may be barren of promise, nothing will forstall my return". EXCELLENT CHOICE

oh boy that one hits hard.

bravo, standing loud applause, BRAVO!! through the tears.

This gets me every time

CHILLS

The god's and the apocalypse will never stop a man coming home to his family.

who the FUCK is cutting onions in my bedroom???

I like to think about the burning in Cerrit's lungs. Not in his flight home to his children, but the burning years later. The slight cough, the loss of stamina, the frailty that still lingers in his bones. Soaring for weeks without food, barely even a drink of water, through all that ash... all that smoke... his body withering with each passing second, held together only just enough, by willpower and love alone, long enough for him to *just. keep. flying.* Wrayne sees it more often than Kir and Maya; even after the hard lessons learned in the Calamity, Cerrit is who he is, a proud man who wants his children to feel safe and protected in the ruinous world in which they will now grow up. But he can't hide it fully, and he knows it's wrong to do so, to hide the effects of those terrible nights from his children. They see it in the way his breathing comes more ragged than it did in his days as the Senior Sightwarden. How he sits to rest frequently, whenever the family are out hiking, or foraging for supplies. And most obvious of all, they see it in the pair of worn out spectacles he uses to read, to see through the pitch black of the night. They see Cerrit, their father, and his tremendous powers of perception just...lesser, now, for the rest of his days. All that ash and smoke, the stinging in his eyes, the choking in his lungs...the body trying to sustain itself through weeks of flight, turning on itself, stomach acid and bile eating Cerrit from the inside out...and of course, once he arrived in the arms of Wrayne and whoever was left around them, the conditions weren't much better, medical treatment was spread thin if it existed at all, and could only do so much... But their family- Kir, Maya, Wrayne...Cerrit, most of all- know what a miracle it is that he survived in the first place. How could they not? So it is doubly miraculous that he isn't *more* permanently disabled by that long flight home. He can still play with his children, dance with his wife, protect his family when the horrors of the new world come to hurt them. And I like to think, that if you ask Cerrit Agrupnin, well...he would tell you that he would make that trade as many times over as he has to.

I've seen this scene so many times, but this is the first time I've heard it with Crisis Core music added on and I fucking broke.

Our honor…our dreams…they’re yours now…

Nice cut of that section of story. I wish your background music was a little quieter. But it was also a great choice.

My head cannon is that one of the elves onboard was an ancestor of the Pallid elves and in their time and generations under the Pallid Grove the story was handed down.

Goddamn, when The Price of Freedom started playing… Fucking phenomenal.

The price of freedom indeed

Pride comes before a fall. Cerrit’s humility saved him.

Putting The Price of Freedom in there put me in the GROUND

I want to get into voice acting and when I need to cry ill rewatch this.

What was the first piece of music? When Cerrit was talking to his wife?

And always...hope...

Is that the crisis core music that's cruel I love it but that's cruel my heart

You’re really gonna hit use with Price of Freedom like that man 😢

YOU REALLY STARTED THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IN THIS MOMENT?!? How dare you.

"It did happen, and it did matter."

It was a great moment but the music edited in didn't really add anything.

Fuck, I didn't need to hear "The Pice of Freedom" today. Not as accompaniment to this finale... Fuck. 😭

Why isn’t dnd campaigns that are broadcast not nominated for Emmy/oscar awards because this whole mini campaign has everything

What is the music? It fits this scene so perfectly. I can't help rewatching this clip and crying my eyes out every time. ExU:C was just absolute peak D&D.

Move over, Mercer. Jebus.

After days, weeks of looking to the horizon, Wrayne turns away with Maya holding her hand and Kir over her shoulder. Hope not gone, but fear becoming more prevalent. Wrayne holds back the tears in front of her children. Maya begins to cry again. Kir looks to the horizon as they walk away, opening his eyes in the way he’s seen his father do…and he sees one spec on the distant horizon…wings flapping furiously, exhaustedly…until that spec sees his family. Cerrit lands, exhausted, collapsing into the arms of his family. He barely has any strength left, but he summons what he can to embarrass them. He knows not what the future will hold, but now, in this moment, the Agrupnin family is together. And not even a war of gods can separate them again.

Aabria’s SOB and covering her face at “that’s a 31” 😭😭😭

Powerful shit

Cerrit legit WON the Calamity

Gotta be honest made me cry, just a little bit.

Brennan is a genius