Follow TV Tropes

Following

Funny / Critical Role Temples Of Ukotoa Arc

Go To

As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.

    open/close all folders 

    Episode 36: O Captain, Who's Captain? 
  • Marius quickly becomes the groups new Butt-Monkey, complete with Beau kicking him awake, ripping off his expensive sleeves on his cloak, and threatening him a few times.
    • On the other hand, Jester, Nott, and Caleb become fast friends with Gallen, the ship's carpenter, despite the fact that he initially attacked them with a sword and Jester buried an axe in his head (by accident.) They rule that, since he has the most experience with sailing besides Fjord, he's now the First Mate. They then realize he's a bit of a dumbass and immediately start ignoring his commands.
  • Fjord asks a person at the dock for advice for where to pick up some crew for their ship, only for Caleb to walk up and ask the exact same question. Then Nott comes up, only for her to be using Disguise Self to be Captain Crunch of all people.
  • Nott saves a redshirt's life, an immediately goes to comfort him in the same way she did the child in the Gnoll mine. She gets the same reaction.

    Episode 37: Dangerous Liaisons 
  • The entire cast followed through on their idea to dress as pirates!
  • Sam comes out dressed as Hamilton, doing the pose from the poster. He and Ashley proceed to sing a rewritten "Dear Theodosia" for the sponsor plug.
  • Over the course of the Menagerie Coast arc, it has become clear that while Fjord is an experienced sailor, Travis is not. Travis brought notes of nautical terminology with him to the live show, in a notebook clearly labeled "Idiot's Guide to Sailing".
    • Speaking of not knowing sailing terms, Beau completely misunderstands what Fjord means when he tells her to activate the windlass. She then goes over and smacks Yasha (their resident "wind-lass") on the butt.
    • Speaking of said notebook; Jester asks Fjord to give it to her, causing Fjord to defensively say no, because Travis has to point out it doesn't actually exist in the story.
  • Almost all the player characters misunderstand the use of parlay as parfait. This reaches the point where during the very serious conversation with Avantika, Caduceus asks for yogurt because he's hungry.
  • Liam's wonderful sense of comedic timing: Caleb doesn't know about the situation above, so he happily Messages Fjord that the damage to their ship is handled and they should be safe now. Fjord ends up having to awkwardly inform him about the incoming pirates.
  • Nott actually succeeding on a Deception check. What kind? Telling Gallen that it wasn't pirates but "high rats" (rats in the Crow's Nest) she was talking about.
  • Jester uses Disguise Self to look like a pirate, and chooses to make herself look like herself, only meaner and wearing a tighter dress.
  • After episodes without it, the old Running Gag with "but there is only six/seven of you" in response to their group being called "The Mighty Nein" returns with Avantika dropping her threats in favour of being very confused for a brief time.
  • The whole situation with Fjord and Captain Avantika is charged with enough sexual tension that Liam and Caleb (via Frumpkin) are quite quick to note to everyone else. To make it even funnier, nothing of the sort ends up happening - Fjord and Avantika just show each other their eyes.
    • Highlight includes Fjord turning Avantika's comment about his attempt to decieve her meaning he's got "either large balls, or is incredibly stupid" into him saying that she was perceptive enough to notice he "does indeed have large balls".
    • As Avantika begins describing Uk'otoa, she repeatedly refers to it by name. Jester begins immediately repeating the name in a dramatic whisper - until Avantika pointedly glares at Jester whilst refusing to refer to Uk'otoa by name after that point. Jester pouts like a 5 year old getting a noisemaker taken away.
      • Later, Fjord asks if Caduceus got a read on if Avantika was telling the truth - he admits that he wasn’t paying attention to anything Avantika was saying, because he wanted to join in on Jester’s game.
      • By the end of the episode, Jester, Nott & Caduceus have all started playing the whisper game whenever Uk’otoa is spoken of by name.
    • At one point, Fjord "shows Avantika his sword," which shoots off a stream of water when he summons it. The audience went so nuts at that moment that Matt had to start shouting reminders that the falchion has always done that when summoned. The fact that Avantika begins caressing the sword afterwards just makes it worse.
  • In the first meeting with Captain Avantika in her quarters, Caleb makes a smart remark that leads her to throw a dagger at the cheese he was eating (surprising Liam that Caleb was apparently eating cheese) and pinning it to the wall. Caleb goes on to pick the cheese off of the wall.
  • Jester thinks she'll be able to feel the Cloven Crystal inside Fjord, so she forces his armor and shirt off. Travis thus takes off his pirate coat and mimes removing his shirt.
  • Nott "gets the itch" and rummages through the cargo hold unseen. First, she distracts the guards outside the Nein's room by using Silent Image to troll them into believing their spy "Jumanji Costco" had returned, then dismissing the image before Captain Avantika could see it. Next, she plays with the hold guard by repeatedly snuffing his lantern and dropping his pants.
  • As the Mighty Nein goes over the possibilities of who Uk'otoa’s third “chosen” could have been, Yasha realised that Molly was covered with eye tattoos, and Jester asks Fjord how he forgot that because he roomed with Molly & must have seen him naked at some point. Before Travis can respond, Taliesin immediately asserts that yes, Fjord totally saw Molly naked.
  • Jester decides to draw Captain Avantika in her sketchbook. However, since Jester is a Clingy Jealous Girl towards Fjord, there's daggers sticking out of her and she's broken four pencils.

    Episode 38: Welcome to the Jungle 
  • Jester was (naturally) really nasty when asking Captain Avantika and Jamedi if they wanted to sleep in the Tiny Hut with them. Jamedi initially declined, preferring his own tent, but Avantika's interest was piqued, so she accepted to Jester's clear displeasure.
  • Much hubbub is made at the table about the two Clerics going scouting together and getting ambushed by two kamadans (leopards with a mane of snakes).
  • In the kamadan fight, Jester and Avantika are the only ones to fall asleep. They're close enough to each other that they wake up almost in each other's arms quite miffed about their situation.
  • Jester's entire conversation with Jamedi, from trying to teach him about The Traveller to exchanging stories of "the craziest thing they've ever seen". Out of all the "crazy shit" Jester's seen, what does she choose?
    Jester: This one time, I saw a bug, carrying a piece of bread, that was like five times its size. And he was carrying it UP stairs. [mimes] Like up, and then he would turn, and then he would go up, and then he would turn...
    Jamedi: Will the wonders never cease? [Long pause] I am going to concentrate on the surroundings for the remainder of our shift.
  • The Major Image of the manticore is pretty awesome, but also excessively random for an island of lizard-like beings.
  • Jester's disguise checks aren't great. She makes Caleb up with a 7, so he got green dots. Beau was a 17, so she looked good. Yasha was a Natural 1, thus Matt described the result as "head to toe Grinch".
  • Jester tries to break the grapple she's in, and the grappler rolls a natural 2. Nice and low... but Jester rolls another of her multiple Natural 1s of the night.

    Episode 39: Temple of the False Serpent 
  • Sam's sponsor plug this time has him get face-painted by Laura and Taliesin to... sorta resemble a cross between a snake and a Pokemon? He keeps it on the entire episode, too.
  • Caduceus' darkly humorous line after the yuan-ti kills herself. As a grave cleric, someone preoccupied with the natural order of death, it's extremely fitting.
    Caduceus: That's cheating. [Complete with nine-year-old pout.]
  • Nott's repeated, increasingly unsubtle attempts to catch Jamedi out as an undead, first offering him a drink ("Do you drink liquids?"), then jerky, then inviting him to pray and asking if he worships any god in particular. For the last, she claims "we're a tolerant group". His response is to gesture towards the corpses of the snake people they just encountered. (One of which, Laura points out, is having its arm used to plug a hole in the wall)
  • Nott and Caleb eat the psychotropical fruit, getting extremely high. Notably, when Nott is grappled by an assassin vine:
    Sam: I’m trying to cast Teleport.
    Matt: [looks at his notes behind the DM screen, probably asking himself "Does Nott have Teleport?"]
    Sam: I don't have Teleport.
  • Fluffernutter. Really, everything about that Crazy Enough to Work idea down to its failure.
  • Yasha's kill of the Hydra.
    Travis-as-Yasha: (simply, with a shrug) No problem.
  • After the fight, Liam asks for clarification: are Nott and Caleb still high? Yes, yes they are meaning they fought and defeated two big enemies while high as kites.
  • Nott repeatedly cocking her Automatic Crossbow for no good reason. The cast joke about unused bolts just being ejected from the weapon.

    Episode 40: Dubious Pursuits 
  • Even though it's the day after Halloween, and most of them had no time to prepare, the cast are still dressed in costumes because "Halloween is when you want it to be!"
    • Matt is Dante from Devil May Cry 5. The reason why? Because apparently when the new design for Dante was revealed, people began messaging him saying Matt looked like him. His costume also appears to the only one that really took any effort to put together.
    • Taliesin is Sherlock Holmes.
    • Sam is a bottle of ketchup.
    • Liam is Kylo Ren. He tries to speak using Kylo's voice, only for the group to say he sounds like a weird combination of Adam Diver, and Christopher Walken instead.
    • Marisha is "Lisa Frank Castle".
    • Travis is ..."The Bargain Bin," aka a cowboy hat and a random pair of bright orange gloves. He threw it together because the alternative was wearing the panda costume he wore on Halloween itself with Laura, but as he explained, the costume was "too fucking hot".
    • And after the break, everyone but Matt changes into normal clothes... except for Sam, who is the only one left wearing a last minute costume. It also takes Sam several minutes to notice, at which point he interrupts Matt to ask if they all got changed without telling him.
  • During a battle against a group of Yuan-Ti the party encountered while fleeing the flooded temple, Caduceus uses the spell Spirit Guardians, which he sums up thusly:
    Taliesin: Anybody I don't like within 15 feet of me is currently getting ransacked by tiny fairies.
  • After months of what appeared to be mostly one-sided flirting from Jester, Fjord finally kisses Jester, keeping her from drowning while using up the last of his own air. The catch? Laura is absent this episode and isn't even there to react to it.
    • Luckily, Sam and Marisha are there to react to the moment:
    Sam: That is so hot!
    Marisha: The last breath! He just selfishly wants the door unlocked but it's so sweet!
  • At the end of the session, Fjord walks into Lady Avantika's chamber to find her nude on the balcony of her quarters and playing with her newly obtained aquakinetic powers. After a brief chat, Matt (as Avantika) hints towards a night of fun between the two. Fjord goes for it, astonishing everyone, but nobody more than Matt. The look on Matt's face when Fjord says yes is gold.
    • The moment Jester finds out will be another instant entry onto this page, as Laura wasn't there to see it.
    • Additionally, who notices that Fjord slept with Avantika? Caduceus, with his 18 Perception.
      Caduceus: Sleep well with your bad decisions.
  • And finally, after the intimate night between Fjord and Avantika, the episode ends on this note:
    Liam: Seamen, seamen everywhere.
    Sam and Taliesin: (in unison) ...and not a drop to drink.
    Matt: (somewhere in between crying and laughing) I think it finally happened. I think you finally broke me.

    Episode 41: A Pirate's Life for Me 
  • Matt begins the episode with one of his typically eloquent and descriptive recaps of the events of the previous episode, including a lengthy review of the conversation between Fjord and Avantika which he ends with "...after which they fucked."
  • Nott's romantic advice to Jester is both adorable and hilarious, but what really seals it is Sam taking the opportunity to add some Dramatic Irony, since neither Nott nor Jester know about Fjord's... "escapade" with Avantika. (Which, for even more irony, is happening as they speak) Nott encourages Jester to "play hard to get" and "make him think he's done something bad".
  • Jester asks Orly to teach her how to do tattoos. The rest of the players react accordingly.
    • Later, during the raid on the ship, Jester grabs a "volunteer" from the crew...to do a tattoo on them.
  • Nott is enthusiastic in her new role as powder monkey. ...And rolls a Nat 1 to fire her first cannon. Explosion ensues.
    Crew: You owe us a cannon.
    Jester: Cantrip Mending!
    Matt: I don't know if that's gonna help fix a broken cannon... [Reading] "A single break or tear". Nope. That cannon's fucked.
  • As the Mighty Nein are about to embark on their first act of piracy, Fjord decides that they want to do this without immediately resorting to violence. To that end, Caduceus uses Thaumaturgy to open all the door on the other ship before projecting his voice to make the following announcement:
    Caduceus: Fellow friends at sea, we wish to have a parlay with your captain and we hope to keep this entire confrontation as bloodless and reasonable as humanly possible. We will do our best to be civil and and not encourage anything inappropriate over the next several minutes. We would appreciate your cooperation in this direction.
    • Topping this off, Matt makes Taliesin roll for intimidation, and with Taliesin being who he is, rolls a 22.
  • The group finds a magic paintbrush during their pirate raid, which makes whatever it paints real. Caleb gives it to Jester... and the group immediately realises she could just paint dicks on everything.
    Matt: [Completely broken] I did not think this through!
    • Which she IMMEDIATELY does.
  • On the final leg of their time on the ocean, Nott (as Powder Monkey) attempts to steal some gunpowder, a little at a time- and rolls a Natural 1 on her Sleight of Hand check. After a brief pause, Matt proceeds with a description of Nott stealing a pinch of gunpowder here and there in a way that would make sense with a much higher roll. It is then capped off with the following:
    Matt: You can add to your inventory "One Handful of Black Pepper."
    • Nott then follows up by using that black powder to craft an explosive arrow, and succeeds at the tinkering check, thus creating what Nott thinks is an explosive arrow but Sam and the rest of the players know is a "pepper arrow" (which may or may not be useful in its own right).

    Episode 42: A Hole in a Plan 
  • Beau tries to get a bit out of Avantika... and sounds like she's flirting with her.
    Sam: [sing-song] Everyone's fucking Avantika!
  • Immediately after this moment, Liam makes a hand gesture and Laura, of all people, calls him out on it. He's quick to point out the irony.
    Liam: Laura Bailey just shamed me for a sexual finger motion, after THREE AND A HALF MOTHERFUCKIN' YEARS of this game... I've seen everything.
  • "And there we have the direct connection from Campaign 1 to Campaign 2: Sam has taken a shit live as both characters, in-narrative."
  • The increasingly absurd conversation that ensues when the Nein discuss their future with Avantika with "codenames". Avantika = Tiffany, The Squall-Eater = Tiffany's Ship, the Cloven Crystal = Apricot, wherever the next Cloven Crystal goes = Apricot tree, Bouldergut = Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fjord = Honda.
  • The discussion ends with Jester and Nott agreeing to sneak into Avantika's cabin together. Then note that nothing they have ever done together has failed before.
    Travis: [Rolls] That's a Natural 1, this is gonna fucking fail.
  • "So we all wait until Fjord starts boning, then we start the action."
  • Nott and Jester attempt to escape the ship by casting Disguise Self, and disguise as Keg... and Molly. The others are quick to point out how he's probably the WORST disguise to use if you're trying to be inconspicuous.
  • Nott and Jester's infiltration results in some Black Comedy as several of Avantika's crew end up suffering horrible collateral injuries: first one falls through Jester's hole in the floor into the sleeping quarters, and is stabbed repeatedly by another member he startled awake. Later, Nott uses Phantasmal Force to make the lookout in the crows' nest think it's on fire... resulting in him leaping off and breaking his leg.

    Episode 43: In Hot Water 
  • Sam decides to impersonate the group for the DND Beyond infodump... using headshots, that he's cut mouth holes in. The biggest problem is not his downright awful impersonations but the fact that because his face is behind the headshots he can't see the copy he has to read.
    • The headshot he uses for Taliesin is just a pyramid and an Illuminati triangle, through which he speaks with the Voice of the Legion.
  • "I'm going to ask you to make a Persuasion Check... with disadvantage, because you just summoned a fucking demon."
  • When Fjord summons the Bar-lgura (an ape-like demon), Laura jokes that Bouldergut has found her perfect match and will start making out with it.
  • As we return from the break, Matt describes the damage from Caleb's Fireball to the ship... and Liam has the biggest smirk on his face, until Taliesin gives him a disapproving look. At that point, Liam physically pulls his facial muscles into a frown.
  • As Laura reveals that Jester can cast Control Water, everyone is super impressed and surprised... then Taliesin says "Oh yeah, I can do that too!"note  Travis is so annoyed to learn that they both have access to the spell he missed out onnote  that he stands up and steps away from the table.
  • When Jester is searching for the gems she dumped into the water, Matt lets her search "with dis-ad-fucking-vantage". Laura proceeds to roll double 1s and mock-celebrates her utter failure.
  • When she goes diving to look for Fjord's old ship's wreck, Jester finally remembers to leave Sprinkle with someone else this time. Her first choice to babysit her pet is Orly, who it turns out is not fond of weasels and responds by slowly withdrawing his head into his shell.

    Episode 44: The Diver's Grave 
  • When a Merrow attempts to harpoon Caleb, Sam belts out a Big "NO!" in Nott's voice. When it actually successfully hits he does so again, but so panicked that it sounds more like Nott gargling.
  • Nott's Hideous Laughter joke this time is so bad even she seems appalled. (She's drunk)
    Nott: What happens to Merrows with bad singing voices? They get auto-tuna'd!
  • Caleb declares that they must treat the situation with the seriousness it deserves. He then has Octopus-Frumpkin attach himself to his face so he can see through his eyes.
  • For just a brief moment Beau is taken over by a ghost but thankfully Caduceus wards it off. Beau immediately returns to her right mind and thoroughly confused.
Beau: Huh?! What happened?! Did 'Tracy' come back?!
  • In response to the poisonous, grasping seaweed covering the grotto walls closing in, both Jester and Caduceus unleash blasts of Sacred Flame to clear a path. Matt stops, checks his notes, and rolls before remembering something important:
Matt: Of course it auto-fails its saving throws. It's seaweed.
  • Beau is unable to find Dashilla after she flees, but does find one of the lair's creepy ghosts. Having now gained magical attacks due to her Monk level, she proceeds to punch the shit out of the ghost. Caduceus joins in with Sacred Flame, and Nott fires her crossbow. (Which, as Matt points out, technically gets sneak attack damage!)
  • A moment of very dark comedy at the end of the episode. Dashilla's lair contains a table caked with dried blood, and there are ancient magical runes on the walls. Out of curiosity (and to the horror of the rest of the party), Caleb and Fjord repeatedly cut themselves to fill the table with blood. They manage to get it "two-thirds of the way full" according to Matt before backing out. As the group return to their ship and sail away, they see a violent storm emerge over the Diver's Grave, Dashilla having completed the ritual. This is implicitly how she sinks ships to find treasure and prey, so if Caleb and Fjord had continued playing the magical equivalent of What Does This Button Do? they might have sunk their own ship!

    Episode 45: The Stowaway 
  • Twiggy in general qualifies, as her character takes the funniest parts of Nott and Jester and rolls them into one energetic gnome of fun.
  • Nott tries to make some explosive arrows. Matt asks a question first...
    Matt: Are you proficient with Tinkerer's Tools?
    Sam: I have Tinkerer's Tools.
  • Matt waits until the last possible moment to tell the Nein they're travelling into Clovis Concord territory on a known pirate ship with a visible nametag.
    • Nott, Jester, and Twiggy thus rename the ship the "Ball Eater", complete with the newly-painted B looking like a pair of balls. Caleb... is unamused.
  • Caleb tells Twiggy about all the "interesting stories" he's heard from Jester, and makes a Call-Back to Episode 38 by mentioning Jester's story about the ant carrying a piece of bread several times its size, which leaves Laura in hysterics.
  • When rolling initiative against a cabinet minic attacking the party, Matt loves that he gets to say Beau is going at the same time as the cabinet.
  • The cabinet mimic rolling high enough on its Intelligence check to recognize that Jester's duplicate is an illusion:
    Sam: That is a perceptive cabinet.
  • Nott gets the HDYWTDT on the cabinet mimic. Weapon of choice? Explosive crossbow bolt - but a bad roll means that she actually grabs the pepper bolt she made en route to Darktow. It still does enough damage. Cue mimic literally sneezing itself to death.
  • When Jester accidentally discovers that Cold magic energizes the crystal via Hellish Rebuke, Fjord attempts to continue charging it on his turn. How? By casting Armor of Agathys on himself and slamming his head into the crystal. Surprisingly, it works!
  • When Caleb and Nott arrive into the fight with the blue dragon, Caduceus emerges from a wall and sums up the situation to them.
  • The party finally escape the sphere and return to the ship where they find Orly, Marius and half the crew waiting for them. Turns out they've been gone for seven days, long enough for the ship to make it to port and be fully repaired. Marius also informs them that the crew haven't paid for said repairs yet, and as a result the dockmaster is not happy with them.

    Episode 46: A Storm of Memories 
  • In a darkly comedic way, Nott's indignation that she didn't get a funeral when the group sans Yasha went missing. Then, at the fact none of them got funerals. She proposes a new policy that, if someone's gone for four days, they hold a funeral.
  • Doubling at heartwarming, Beau talks to Caduceus about doing something nice for the crew. Not only to show their appreciation but also to dissuade the crew from stabbing them in the night. Taliesin clarifies it's not him laughing at that, it's Caduceus.
  • Caduceus uses the word astute...and then says he has no idea what it means but he heard the crew using it.
  • During Yasha's fight Travis tries to silently prompt Ashley to use her Rage by grimacing and flexing his arms above his head, except Ashley is so focused on Matt that she completely misses his hints.

    Episode 47: The Second Seal 
  • Nott's Shipper on Deck tendencies come on strong this episode. Not only does she push Fjord and Jester to go out on a walk together but she also asks they'll need any money, with Jester saying no but "Thanks, Mom."
  • In probably one of the biggest instances of Matt being inadvertently trolled by the players, Matt finally gets to use the semi-homebrewed rules for naval combat he'd been sitting on for weeks, (completed with additional character sheets for everyone detailing their role's special abilities) only for Caduceus to instantly capsize the enemy vessel on some rocks with clever use of Control Water.
  • In an anticlimactic way, a large part of Fjord's arc for the first year of the campaign was dedicated to finding out about Vandren and if he was still alive...only for Caduceus to find out via getting high in the crow's nest and asking the Wildmother about him. Fortunately what Caduceus finds out raises more questions then it answers, as the Wildmother tells Caduceus Vandren is staying out of sight, and making amends.
  • At Fjord's behest, Jester asks The Traveler if he knows anything about Uk'otoa. At the mention of his name, the entire party echoes "Uk'otoaaaaaaa"; after a Beat, so does Matt, as the Traveler. Jester tops it off by relaying the answer to the group as:
    Jester: He's heard about as much as we have.
  • After Caduceus capsizes their ship, the pirates are brought on board and, among other things, learn the name of the ship. The captain is very dispirited to learn he was toppled by the crew of the Ball-Eater.

Top