Where the River Goes | Critical Role | Campaign 2, Episode 15 

when you're 2 years late, everyday is thursday

1:02:50 - You know what they say: "If you don't find the trap with your Skill Points, you'll eventually find it with your Hit Points."

“I feel guilty for having needs!” What a mood, Nott.

Enemies show up: Travis: I would like to mage

"last time we left off" I'VE BEEN WATCHING THIS NON STOP FOR THE PAST SIX DAYS MATT!!!!

Matt has been DMing for so long he has a perpetually raised eyebrow

Travis is such a proud papa whenever Ashley says she's going to rage

2:53:52 Liam: Who is it getting? Mat: *Laughs evily* Liam: MY CAT?! YOU SON OF A FUCKER!!! Liam: *Fake leaps across the table to get Frumpkin* No one messes with the cat.

Yasha: * Does anything * The Mighty Nein: *Happiness Noise*

Seeing people marathoning this in the comment section during quarantine is like when you accidentally bump into an equally exhausted mate in the kitchen at 4am and you both just give each other that nod of acknowledgement and solidarity and then go about your day feeling slightly less alone

I think my favorite thing is when Caleb looks through Frumpkin and grabs onto the nearest party member as an act of ultimate trust, and every party member making it their priority to keep Caleb safe whilst doing this

when Caleb offer Jester a healing potion she refused, when Nott offered a healing potion she was ignored, but Jester drank two of Fjords healing potions

Beau: “I’m always a fan of going down” Yasha: *nods in approval*

Beau: I'm always a fan of going down. Yasha: *nods in approval* [seconds later] Beau: I'll take up the rears. Yasha: I'm always a fan of rears.

Laura aggressively slamming her dice bag on the table when Sam questioned her Dice Dominance was great

I love Laura and Liam passive aggressively judging Sam's amateur rogue mistakes.

I did not realize how much I truly liked and appreciated Jester as a character until Laura was absent last week. It was not the same without her, so I'm so happy she's back. Also Talisen's hair is gorgeous.

I love how laura flirts shamelessly with Travis in the form of her D&D character lmao. Husband and Wife-ery at it's finest, folks.

Sam: How does Ashley have more dice than Laura? Laura: *pulls out a duffel bag's worth of dice* You dare question my power, mortal?

3:39:01 "I don't want to wait a week I want to do it now!" - Ashley. I agree... clicks next video.

Yasha - has the light cantrip Also Yasha - pulls out torch

"I don't want to impose... But I'm bleeding profusely" Best line :D

1:00:46 TRUTH, cats somehow not having darkvision in the PHB is rly bullshit. We always houseruled them having at least 30 ft of darkvision, partly so there's an actual incentive for druids to wild shape into a cat at night to scout something in a city, it just makes a lot of sense.

Me: I wonder if Nott will remember he has an invisible mage hand that can disarm traps and pick locks from a safe distance this episode. Nott an hour in: Oh god theres lots of traps, IM DYING DOWN HERE!!

I love watching Laura overtly flirt with Travis through Jester while he eggs her on, simultaneously playing Fjord as completely unaware/disinterested. This is golden entertainment.

Did no one else recognise the genius of Liam at 17:04? 'It is sad when ships sink' Just after Laura tries to ship Jester and Fjord.

When the DM needs to give the party a hint: "Roll an intelligence check (because maybe your character is smarter than you)" No shade though, that puzzle was HARD

I feel like “It is sad when ships sink” was one of Liam’s Common Duolingo sentence practices

Sam: “I feel conflicted trying to hurt a cube.” But not a baby manticore?????????

Laura - "How do you kill a gelatinous qube?!" Liam - "You die."

Travis telling his wife “don’t read into it” is so funny

Caleb had TWO baths!! One where Nott stole the doorknob and one where they all saw yasha.

Gelatinous Cube: *Drops from the ceiling but gets a 0 on initiative* The Entire Mighty Nein Group: *Nukes it with as many spells as humanly possible*

You can tell Liam DMs because as soon as the cube comes down he's like "Oh we are so fucked."

I love how while they’re discussing what Evocation magic does, everyone’s like “oh yeah it does fire and lightning and elemental stuff” and all very cool with it while Liam is on the side, mumbling as Caleb “it’s killing” and things along that line.

Matt: the shaft is about 5 feet- Marisha: *wheeze*

I love Liam and Sam's dedication to actually performing somatic portions of their spells

Matt's struggle to maintain a poker face after Marisha says she likes to go down is hilarious. I love it!

I don’t know why, but every episode it seems like Sam’s flask gets bigger and bigger

matt mercer: says something that sounds like foreshadowing. players: "write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!!"

COVID-19 Isolation watch party. Made it through 14 episodes in about 10 days. Anybody else here during quarantine?

2023 gang 2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE) 10:45 Episode Starts 14:45 Row your boat 15:25 Laura is back 16:45 Oskar and Guinevere 19:15 Fancy oarwork 20:40 Water walking 24:20 Battle 1 56:40 Beau Going down 58:50 Sam works the shaft 1:11:05 Nott apologizes 1:14:15 Puzzle 1 1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration 1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb 1:42:05 Battle 2 1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions 1:59:15 Break Starts 2:11:50 Art Montage 2:17:15 Break Ends 2:25:10 Rude detect magic 2:28:05 Dice measuring contest 2:38:55 Battle 3 2:44:20 Slappin the jello 2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks 2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin 2:57:30 Succumb to the cube 3:01:20 HDYWTDT 3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat 3:19:35 Yasha knows all 3:31:40 Caleb’s book face 3:33:05 Journal Reading

Binging critical role right now has helped my mental health so much. I'm actually truly smiling and laughing for the first time in a long dark while and man does it feel good. Thank you. I don't feel so alone.

2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE) 10:45 Episode Starts 14:45 Row your boat 15:25 Laura is back 16:45 Oskar and Guinevere 19:15 Fancy oarwork 20:40 Water walking 24:20 Battle 1 56:40 Beau Going down 58:50 Sam works the shaft 1:11:05 Nott apologizes 1:14:15 Puzzle 1 1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration 1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb 1:42:05 Battle 2 1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions 1:59:15 Break Starts 2:11:50 Art Montage 2:17:15 Break Ends 2:25:10 Rude detect magic 2:28:05 Dice measuring contest 2:38:55 Battle 3 2:44:20 Slappin the jello 2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks 2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin 2:57:30 Succumb to the cube 3:01:20 HDYWTDT 3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat 3:19:35 Yasha knows all 3:31:40 Caleb’s book face 3:33:05 Journal Reading Between Twitch and RU-vid, live viewership of this episode peaked around 59,000 people. The in-game start day for the episode was the 20th of month Fessurian 835 PD. Sam’a flask says “FART” If you’re the kind of person who wants to see the Critical Role team in person at a convention, but hasn’t been able to yet, you might be interested in Critical Scope. This RU-vid channel films and posts panels and interviews from the cast so you’ll always know when someone accidentally lets a character detail slip. They recently posted a talk with Matt about his role in the D&D resurgence. Check it out. Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?

As a someone who bingewatches a lot, you guys can not even imagine how great it is to discover Critical Role in 2019 EDIT: DAMN TIME FLIES, Those who started in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, lucky you

Beau: "I'm always a fan of going down." Matt's face = me dying with laughter

Sam: Drinks from his flask. Nott: Drinks from her flask. Me: Drinks from my flask. *cheers*

"Life needs things to live" -Percival De Rolo "It is sad when ships sink" -Caleb Widogast

I love it when Sam questions the amount of dice Laura has and she just slams this massive dice bag. I died XD

2:28:10 Sam: "We've discovered that Ashley has more dice than Laura." Laura: (puts a literally football-sized bag of dice on the table)

Sam: "I feel so conflicted having to hurt a cube. But I will. I will bash that cube until it explodes all over the place!" 🤣🤣🤣 [If you didn't get it, watch campaign 1]

Matt: “I need you all to roll initiative.” Party: *SCREAMS*

"what will the washington football team do when they face the cowboys?" " *LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE* "

56:42 Beau: I'm always a fan of going down Yasha: *nods approvingly*

1:54:18 did… did travis just remember his wife’s medication schedule and send it down on a quiet chain down the group so she could have it?? My damn heart❤

I like how Nat1's are now celebrated half-assedly

I have a feeling Liam really wants the Metagaming Pigeon to be an in-game thing, and i wholeheartedly approve

credits: Flando Maltrizian 2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE) 10:45 Episode Starts 14:45 Row your boat 15:25 Laura is back 16:45 Oskar and Guinevere 19:15 Fancy oarwork 20:40 Water walking 24:20 Battle 1 56:40 Beau Going down 58:50 Sam works the shaft 1:11:05 Nott apologizes 1:14:15 Puzzle 1 1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration 1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb 1:42:05 Battle 2 1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions 1:59:15 Break Starts 2:11:50 Art Montage 2:17:15 Break Ends 2:25:10 Rude detect magic 2:28:05 Dice measuring contest 2:38:55 Battle 3 2:44:20 Slappin the jello 2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks 2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin 2:57:30 Succumb to the cube 3:01:20 HDYWTDT 3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat 3:19:35 Yasha knows all 3:31:40 Caleb’s book face 3:33:05 Journal Reading

Gotta love just watching Matt while the party is figuring things out. Hes got a poker face and a slight cocked eyebrow permanently plastered on his face, haha

D&DBeyond: $100 for every Nat1 rolled. CritRoll Crew: Look everyone Will Wheaton is joining us as a special guest. D&DBeyond: Oh Crap!

The party: *drawn out conversation about taking the bowls out of the room to cast* Matthew Mercer: *the face of a DM watching the party waste their time*

Every episode be like: Matt: "And we'll leave it there until next week." Everyone: "AAAAAAA"

Some of this fanart is unreal, talented people out there

DnD team flipping through an animal encyclopedia "Hey how about... an evil blanket squid?" "Meh" "...How about an evil blanket squid THAT CAN FLY" "Genius."

"-Oh Oskar... -Fjord. -Thank you for saving me..~ -It's Fjord." I died!

Caleb: [During reading of the charred book, to DM] "I'm not telling anyone this." Marisha: Continues writing furiously.

Travis shooting Laura a pouty face when she starts coughing Bc she feels bad is the most precious thing

Travis's vicarious excitement of Ashley playing a barbarian is gold

*Molly:* "I've got an idea! I think I know how it works now." *Drunk-Nott:* "I don't know how it works and I'm not paying any attention. I'm very drunk." I think Sam might be a deity in human form.

It always impresses me just how much of the rules Matt has memorized.

Matt moves the cube to consume Frumpkin. The whole table erupts in protest. Ashley laughs. Matt admits to just wanting to mess with them and moves the cube past. :) Love these guys :D

1:01:24: Caleb grabs onto Mollymauk without context, Molly just accepts it and pats Caleb's hands lmao

I like how Liam makes really good use of the ritual magic ability to cast spell without using slots.

That moment when you are 3 years late, every 4 hours is next week;)

Reposting cuz it's too far down credits: Flando Maltrizian 2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE) 10:45 Episode Starts 14:45 Row your boat 15:25 Laura is back 16:45 Oskar and Guinevere 19:15 Fancy oarwork 20:40 Water walking 24:20 Battle 1 56:40 Beau Going down 58:50 Sam works the shaft 1:11:05 Nott apologizes 1:14:15 Puzzle 1 1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration 1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb 1:42:05 Battle 2 1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions 1:59:15 Break Starts 2:11:50 Art Montage 2:17:15 Break Ends 2:25:10 Rude detect magic 2:28:05 Dice measuring contest 2:38:55 Battle 3 2:44:20 Slappin the jello 2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks 2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin 2:57:30 Succumb to the cube 3:01:20 HDYWTDT 3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat 3:19:35 Yasha knows all 3:31:40 Caleb’s book face 3:33:05 Journal Reading

"LOOOOOSEEE" And in that one moment Travis was no more, there was only Grog.

For a non native english speaker, the subtitles really helps and adds on the depth of understanding what is going on. Keep it up the good work, really apreciated those who help translate the audio..

"Taliesin HATES pot." "Yes, I do." Me, four bowls in and only one was soup: "Sorry, Taliesin."

Everyday is Thursday when campaign 3 already started and I’m also trying to catch up campaign 2 while campaign 1 stares at me

It's funny how Liam went for weeks barely able to hit anything before suddenly landing 3 consecutive attacks while blinded. It's like the dice know Caleb needs to get serious when Nott is in danger (as with the Manticore fight when he took out the priest).

I hear "You're getting to the tip of it" and I IMMEDIATELY look at Laura to see if she can control herself. Hint: she cannot.

The look on Matt's face when Marisha responds: "I'm always a fan of going down."

Laura’s face when Matt is describing fjord “pulling out a rod” is perfect

When either Laura or Sam miss from the show, you can REALLY feel it.

Travis screaming LOOOOOSE made me fuKCIN choke thANKS SAM FOR FACILITATING THAT

I saw the fan art of all the different Calebs and I went DUDE. is the dodecahedron literally a d20? and those are all the different branching versions of himself if the dice had landed differently? DUDE. THAT'S DEEP.

All I can imagine: Barley from Onward, “GELATINOUS CUBE!!” 🤣

"Ashley has more dice then Laura," that's gotta be one of my favorite moments on the show!

fjord: is there anything around here that looks like a staff bo (with a staff on her back): i dunno, lemmie look around

Oh god, i wish Campaign 2 gets animated into a TV series too.............. It would be so COOL!

After officially watching all of campaign 2, the best line is (insert drumroll): "No more dick jokes, just focus on the cube!"

What critical role has taught me: all voice actors have the sense of humor of a 12 year old boy

So cats don’t have dark vision yet to Tabaxi do? OK 5E, whatever you say.

I love that they TOTALLY forgot about freeing that dwarf's wife from prison, and he went and unlived himself xD

Absolutely love Sam, very adamant about not metagaming and even inflicts himself status because it's what his character would do. Just a joy to see him at the table.

2:53:40 when Liam goes “my cAT”

Liam constantly saying "neunzehn" (nineteen) for nine, when counting in German gives me so many chuckles. His dedication to a character's personality is so damn good 💜

I love how Liam gets so excited for gelatinous cube since it's such a classic enemy and he's played the game since he was a kid.

2:35:46 Molly unknowingly figuring out exactly what the thing is while Matt is like "yeahsurewhatever"

How many more drinks until Nott gets poison resistance? XD