Tag: critical role

Things we know happen in Wildmount:

  • Fathers keeping their daughters in cages
  • Sisters tearing each other’s faces off and sending assassins after each other
  • Necromancy
  • Vampirism
  • Mothers selling their angel sons into slavery
  • Whatever kind of shit happens where people like Anna Ripley come from
  • Speaking of Ripley, human-centric racism, anyone?

Things that apparently destroy our suspense of disbelief:

  • A father who may or may not have had his son’s significant other killed, be it for homophobic or classist or entirely different reasons

That’s not to say that the Taryon discourse is entirely unfounded, and there are important points to be made there, but the existence of homophobia in a place that so far has been pretty explicitly described as extremely fucked up is pretty low on the list of things possibly wrong with Taryon’s backstory.

Currently rewatching episode 40.

People in the comments seem actually convinced that the fucking skull could have prevented the Chroma Conclave arc from happening, and that Marisha prevented that cool story line from unfolding by meta gaming. For fuck’s sake.

  1. EVERYONE but Grog was convinced the skull was evil, because Matt made it pretty damn clear that it was evil.
  2. Marisha isn’t even the key player during those scenes.
  3. Allura explicitly says at the end that the skull was full of shit.
  4. Nothing would have kept the Chroma Conclave arc from happening. A DM does not throw 4 ancient dragons into a campaign if there’s an easy rewind button for them to be found within one episode.
  5. Keyleth being pissed about the party keeping secrets from her has been a thing for three episodes now and well established and given the stressful situation is perfectly justified.
  6. Though of course nothing Marisha or Keyleth ever do is justified because she’s not cool doing it or making dirty jokes while doing it. And metagaming in this “fan”dom means “A half elf is doing something I disagree with” 9 times out of 10 anyway.

Other highlights include continued complaints about the party trying to keep Trinket alive, and how mean of Laura it is to be emotionally invested enough in him to make Travis break character. I’ve actually seen someone argue that it shows disrespect for her husband or whatever. Why do people suck so much.

(And if everyone could just stop engaging that Fourth Reich Nazi in the comment section, that’d be great, y’all.)

It’s truly amazing how some people watch 93 episodes usually around four hours in length and still complain about the same things they have complained about during the very first episode. And every single episode since then. Of something that is free entertainment.

I will defend hate watching some things, but in this case? Just fucking quit like 50 episodes ago and save us all having to see your name in the comments, ugh.

(The thing is, of course, Marisha existing. Sometimes also Liam existing, but mostly Marisha.)

tabbyclaw:

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It’s not about the penalty. Broken contracts can be nullified, meaning the second and third pact could cease to be active, removing the temptation to invoke them and saving whatever is left of Percy’s soul until the next time he tries to sell it.

Yes, this is the heart of my latching onto it, the potential to nullify the entire contract. Not only to save that beautiful disaster from himself (Percival, I love you to death and I believe that you honestly believe, at this moment in time, that you can resist this particular temptation, but you’ll forgive me for doubting you), but also to have their own ammunition should Ipkesh decide that they haven’t fulfilled their end of the bargain to his satisfaction.

Plus there’s the fact that “Vox Machina Goes to Small Claims Court In Hell” would be amazing in its absurdity.

I can see it before me. The scene: Small Claims Court in Hell, on the matters of Soul Ownership.

The case: Percy has died of old age, because humans do that rather quickly, and now Ipkesh and Orthax both made a claim for his soul and are ready to lawyer it out.

The twist: Team half elf bamfs into the court room, the twins attractively middle-aged with a bit of grey in their hair, Keyleth not looking a day older. They present several binders of evidence as to how Ipkesh violated the terms, and how Orthax wasn’t forward in his deal and how his contract was technically dissolved the first time Percy died and he got to munch on his soul.

The conclusion: Both claimants are shamed to death. Vex winks Dispater into submission. Percy’s soul can go wherever the hell it pleases. Well. Without the hell part.

Sure, Keyleth and Grog are the kind of bosses you wouldn’t want to run into in the wild, and are easily the toughest party members to take down.

But if we’re going full video game boss here, may I propose the following:

Percy.

In a lair he gets to design himself.