#ep85

[theloopcrew]

I will always be in hysterics by how fucking bad Jasmin wanted him she wanted to give up her entire life just to be with this weird sad old guy

[esseqthelyss]

[spiritsncrystals]

The fact he's able to sense a god cards emotion is touching

(or is it that plain obvious by now that ra don't like this)

[melonatures]

[aetherkidatheart]

Okay lucho coming in the indoor pool like a madman and valentina's dad breaking it up. I would have knocked lucho out if that was my daughter....just saying bro

[the-punslinger]

Critical Role Quotes and Funny Moments (83/?)

Matt [recapping]: “...upon walking to the centre of the strange empty temple structure, you saw, down in a once previously traversed sandpit, there stood Earthbreaker Groon, the high priest of Kord, who then turned to you and asked you to ‘show him what you have learned.’” Grog: “I reach into my Bag of Holding, and I take out a small drawing of the letter G. This is what I have learned. That’s not it – I take out the Dwarven Thrower and I jump into the sandpit.”

[Talking about brothels in Whitestone. Again.] Marisha: “Is one called the House of Bosoms?” Matt: “As one of the titled masters of Whitestone, it could very well in the near future. Just tell me so I can add it to the campaign guide.” Travis: “I”ll come up with something better.” Sam: “International House of Bosoms.” Travis: “With all the flags on it.”

Grog [to Vex]: “I only trust like a few people in the world. You, Scanlan, and Pike. And now it’s just you and Pike.” Vex: “Me and Pike?” Grog: “No, I mean I trust the others, right? But like, I know you on a more intimate level.” Vex: “Cause you saw my titties?” Grog: “Pretty much, yeah.” Marisha: “That’s literally it. I don’t know if they’ve ever had, like, an in-depth discussion.” 

[Sam introducing his new character like a complete asshole] Grog: “What does he do?” Tary: “That’s my biographer, Doty.” Grog: “Does he just write stuff?” Tary: “He also has other skills. [...] I can grant powers to many people. For instance, you [to Vex], little elf girl, what’s your name?” Travis: “I’m going to move over here [scoots away from Laura, Liam does the same].” Taliesin: “I take it back, I like him.” Vax: “Wait, wait, I’m stealthing.” Matt: “Flames on the side of my face. Fire. Heaving breaths.” Marisha: “Keyleth uses a fog cantrip and just fades into the alleyway.” Vax: “I rolled a 33 on stealth, I’m gone!” Percy: “And I just hex into the shadows.” 

[frosteblaze]

And here is Endou, believing you just need to walk around the city a bit to find A TRUCK TIRE. Because, you know, people just usually leave them around.

The thing is, he actually finds one. But it’s Daisuke’s so it doesn’t count

[morganeilish]

Ok so I’ve caught up on Critical Role to where I started watching it a few months ago now and have decided to just keep watching it to the end. I just finished ep85 where Tary arrives and as shitty as I though Scanlan’s good bye was the first time I saw it, it’s 10 times worse when it’s put into the context of everything else they’ve done before. He knew exactly what to say to hurt each and every one of them and he was not pulling any punches, even if a lot of it wasn’t true.

And while Scanlan has clearly never been well adjusted and his break down had been a long time coming, I was still surprised to see that he somehow managed to make Vax and Percy seem stable in comparison. Vax who has been suffering from some pretty heavy depression since at least the underwater temple, possibly earlier. And Percy who typically rather than talking things out, shuts up and goes to build something explosive. I’m just letting that sink in.

And I know clearly I do need to stop reading the youtube comments when I go looking for the time stamps (tho to be fair this time I didn’t come across any Keyleth hate so woo progress), but I still find it hard to believe there was very little criticism of Scanlan for his lashing out and instead Vax mostly and a little bit of Vex were criticized for coming across as defensive bullies. Which yeah, of course they were defensive. Their friend who they just begged back from death and have been worrying about for the better part of 2 days woke up and started yelling horrible and not entirely true shit at them.

Telling them that he had no one and that they didn’t really love him and were just being selfish for begging the gods for his life was really fucking low. Telling them that they don’t know him when he never really gave them the chance to was really fucking low. 

Yes Vex and Vax have daddy issues. I don’t really think there’s a person in the group who doesn’t. They didn’t travel to the Feywild to deal with that, it just sort of happened. And Grog didn’t want to confront Kevdak. They didn’t take on the Goliaths for him. They took them on because they had to. Because they were serving Umbrasyll. Because they were terrorizing Westrunn. 

And yeah, they didn’t go specifically on a mission into Scanlan’s backstory. Not on the stream anyways. But he also kept his backstory to himself. Anytime anyone asked him anything remotely personal, he deflected it with a joke. How were they to know this was going on? I’m really happy that several of them brought this up and that they all recognized that Scanlan was hurting but wouldn’t take his poor mental health as an excuse to treat them like shit.

I’m glad that Vax brought up his depression and pointed out that he understands where Scanlan’s coming from because he’s been there. I’m glad he told him to stop lying to himself. I get that the way he said it came across as very harsh and probably wouldn’t have sunk in right away, if at all, but it did need to be said. As did everything Percy had to say. I like that they both reminded him several times that they loved him, appreciated him, and that he was worthwhile while also calling him out on his shit.