Talks Machina: Discussing C2E76-77 and Dalen's Closet

both nicknames I had as a child are we on the Internet Hey look twins twins wait a second is this a tox macchina exclusive Laura you're having twins it I didn't even know you were pregnant you announced it I am wearing my pregnant shirt after all I'm not pregnant Riley John another 90 show Danny did you know about this Ryan they're twins in the first campaign come on well spoiler alert oh my goodness gracious just come right out with the spoilers tonight the mighty nine deal with shadows of the past plan a future con just keep going feels good and scry on Yahshua's and bloody present oh that is not a euphemism I checked with Ashley earlier just to make sure we're gonna break it all down with my guest Liam Oberon man and star of Gears of War 5 on my on my giant guns now if the game sells really well will you get an actual tattoo considering how great your bicep is relatively small right now it's sort of just looks like a a spider bite that maybe you'd shut up it's perfect that's perfect do you know what's perfect Gears of War 5 and also technically just called Gears 5 - what it dropped B of War we dropped over where you dropped of war yeah it's just gears how come what was that meeting like because the reason is because nobody says well except for you Brian nobody says Gears of War everyone just says Gears do you do you are there five gears in the game no that's just how many gears there's have been so far do you [ __ ] with us war I [ __ ] with a war I [ __ ] with God of War I [ __ ] with Gears of War were previously the game previously known as Gears of War now Gears 5 now it's just a symbol now they're not gonna send me all that and more tonight on Fox marking it fast backward [Music] thank God I didn't put money on it nobody heard me put money on it in case couple announcements real fast outside of gears five it's just years five yes it's starting if they make another one it'll just be gist six they're just gonna keep up it's gonna be g7 stop it in case you missed our announcement earlier today this is a good one the next episode of between the sheets featuring our dear friend Felicia Day it's going to air this Monday September 16th at 7 p.m. Pacific on our twitch channel oh man this was a good when we filmed it a couple weeks ago like two weeks ago three weeks ago she has a new book coming out that's sick so we talked about a bunch of stuff she's she is brilliant she's brilliant funny sharpest yep she kicked me around a lot you know and I like that I need it you know you get it I get it VOD will be available to following Wednesday and you can listen to each episode on our podcast network a week later did you know we have a podcast now I had heard something about that this show is a podcast right now it's not right now I mean it's gonna turn into one it's cuz his uncle's world would he's distracted you can go wherever you want keep your weenus away though is it out it was before the show oh yeah well he gets excited when uncle Liam's here too as a reminder there will not be an episode of critical role this week but you can watch our very own you can catch our very own Matthew Mercer at heroes Comic Con in Stockholm this weekend he should just not wearing ASAP Rocky t-shirt was it Ferg or was it Rocky Steve it was first it was right old old old references no they're not I'm not talking about the movie I'm talking about the rap got locked up I understand take care of Matt be safe we'll also take a break from toques machina next week because there won't be an episode to talk about what there will be well will there be I'm gonna tell you Tony it's the legend of Vox machina tavern-keeper build livestream what the [ __ ] is that if you know what that is you friends out there can help literally pick and and and build a character that's going to be in the animated series that'll be out six or seven years from now know how long it takes to make a show gonna help design a cartoon we're gonna help design a cartoon character it's pretty cool if it's anything like orally which was also designed by our community it'll be badass we're in for a treat yeah we're in for a treat that's going to be next Tuesday in place of tax macina be sure to check out the pole at crit roll com this is Kashmir slash wanted and for more information check out our website what's our website address Laura great roll comm that's correct Wow what she wins Brian well Zack I think there's only one way to celebrate go back to Laura and show us what she's won o rare bowling touchdown oh nice nice can I get a turkey tonight man that's the second time you've asked me that today let us now discuss episodes 76 and 77 of critical role refuged and a tangled web plus plus that's leader oh okay never mind that's later I don't know it or not we're also gonna go over some downs closet questions later but I'm gonna give a spoiler alert okay the people that aren't caught up let me host the shine I get paid tens of dollars to do this it's refused and a tangled web [Music] oh are you watching are you watching you did you finish this ah no my having it started just prepped we're talking about the Dark Crystal everybody I'm very topical too critical role I'm watching with Travis and he doesn't remember the movie at all so he's not like oh I just watched the movie with my kids to prep them for the series the show is dark brown I can't wait the movie is beautiful stories yeah well it means a lot of things make sense let's go get on with her school you're the chosen one why let's go yeah yeah yeah I like to explain there's no like a matrix you know yeah hey show off those shoes man oh wow like my new kicks I do they're pretty what's on the bottom there's a well there's a price tag I thank know but I do what I do like is underneath the shoelaces it's a lightning bolt whoa that's awesome mm-hmm that's pretty cool Laura Bailey I'm so happy to be here with you Laura and Liam episode of talks is like a rare baseball card you get like 20 copies of the towels and Liam baseball so many copies of the the Matt and Sam baseball cards there's only like three this is the third ultra rare Quinn ultra rare baseball card congratulations on your baseball you're celebrating appearances on a talk show about a D&D campaign yeah that's right we are you've done great mmm hey guy I'm buddy my buddy isn't that how it is yeah yeah I was trying to harmonize but then there was no melody it's the story of my life the name of my memoir I was trying to harmonize but there was no melody well we're gonna begin tonight's show the way we begin every episode of talks macchina with a question from [Laughter] critter all stats actually she's got some stats got some stats oh yeah have my stats this is for episode 76 bread was mentioned how many times two episodes ago would you guess two episodes ago yeah 69 okay good I'm gonna say well you're saying for a close I'm gonna say 42 right in the middle 52 yeah Congrats got it surrounded yep hey 69 and 42 Oregon are the best numbers right you only you're only missing for 20 and then you have the Internet's three favorite numbers 42 and 69 are the meaning of life and the meaning of meaning of life yeah Wow then what would 666 be the meaning of death let's not make it dark we don't need to Chris locky vibes in here episode 76 also had the 300th natural one of campaign to we're not given are we still giving money away the children whenever that happens or something no I guess we only did that a little bit I guess even our generous hearts ran out of generosity how dare you make me answer no to that question sorry at one point it's important to remember that we were gracious a hundred message spell was cast 100 that's so much more messaging than I have healing that's true yeah yeah well you are a battle mercy right you still don't know what that means Patrick can you accept it's not oh really yeah well I have my co DM here tonight and one of my players yeah yeah Dominic who plays a Dragonborn monk yeah very cool combo what color and silver Silva he says in his accent and then Patrick you get silver star of talons favorite movie wrist cutters most recently seen in first man with Ryan Gosselaar he's he hates them doing as though killed after the ship but Patrick and I Cody him because we have nine players yeah that's a lot most of them amateurs like steve blum mary elizabeth mcglynn tv's wilfred ale yeah we have nine players as well yeah yeah guys episode 77 we are 15 minutes into this yeah we're gonna go along we have a lot to talk about ten days passed between Caleb's talks with the imprisoned scorcher schoolteacher jester cast nine instances of sending time with her record in episode 62 and episode 60 76 and 77 both tied for the most DM face poems in campaign to not 14 Wow fourteen times you drove the man to look down into his energy drink and wonder why he started this game in the first place our first question is for both of you but I want both of you to answer it's from Christ's Ark can you talk about any changes with your characters that you made sure was reflected in their new character art go to create role , see the new character art by the way you have so many Ariana did a fantastic job or Narine on Twitter but we talked at length with that went got batted back and forth between I was sort of the point man - Ariana so I talked to the cast about what everybody wanted and what they wanted reflected and went back and forth and there was like revisions and changes and all story-driven yeah Leah made fun of me because I took the longest I took I did it instead of just like make her hot I asked for a lot of changes what were some of the biggest changes that you asked for are the most important ones to you that were really real sticking points that she was hot okay you just got done saying it's not like I told her I approve of the flora she's being pissy I like I I sort of drew out the outfit like really really really sorry shittily like super bad yeah and then she like looked at my shitty drawing and went okay what does this actually mean and then you had to explain it I don't remember it like that I just remember just a lot of ping-pong with it but that's fine it's it's a gorgeous it's a gorgeous portrait yes I wanted I wanted her to look more and more like the traveler like I've been saying like the traveler cosplay so that's why I've taken her little capelet and made it a full coat mm-hmm in tribute yeah you talked about her wanting to be a little like dressing a little more adult even though she still has that yes same spirit she's figuring out how to age up like gesture is going through a very like tough period of figuring out who she actually is now so I wanted her clothes to kind of reflect that wow how cool do you think so deeply about your characters was it the same for Gears of War 5 yeah [ __ ] just gears just gears [ __ ] no Laura has to answer this one wait I have an answer do you want my answer as I thought you did answer goddammit you were lured back out well you shouldn't be answering for her she's a grown I try to answer all of Laura's questions right Laura that's right Brian this is why he would have made a great president keep going sir one of us is in Gears v and it's not me it's not pretty good actor Caleb dressed covered himself in dirt as a hiding mechanism and that's gone there I expose so I just clean him up shave that [ __ ] off his face Dada's coat put him in a badass coat that is gonna be stick out like a sore thumb once they go home and nana Dargis type asked that he look a little more grim and less like in the first round of art I wanted him to look frazzled and he did yeah and now you want to look around your side Anna Bertram yeah surprising character choice and hominy someone put the gerbil next to me I don't where I don't that's not where they go keep going I love I know holding each other each other's yeah hey Laura yeah Sappho Joe wants to know gesture is very good at picking up on when other members of the group are upset and is quick to offer reassurances why is she so reluctant to share her own troubles when she knows it's nothing to be ashamed of oh well mostly it's because I'm not aware that it's nothing to be ashamed of I don't like having problems when everyone else needs to be happy well you guys please answer the remaining questions in the show game character using the puppets just get a shot at their feet if you guys can't tell by the kind of content we put on this channel if you ask Maxwell James what his kink is he says Mister Rogers neighborhood but only the puppet parts so I think we should his words not mine I think we should answer the okay Liam yeah as your button I'd character they're who I often wake up in a fever dream picturing stabbing me and face repeatedly yeah no offense Lee whoever sent that in it's just that it was thrown at my face once mcfly cahill 90 wants to know hello McFly Caleb took a big dunam antic step and solidified his friendship with Essick what does Essex trust now mean to Caleb drop the dunes well you know I am not entirely a certain that Essex does Oh what is wrong with my hair it's the death of your face Caleb I thought you cleaned yourself up after all it's better the other York's I can't shave I'm a doll I do not not shave Wow so I am not sure that s ik trusts me in the first place and I think he does I disagree agree to disagree and I don't really trust ESSEC either I assume that he is working me for his own and I think really likes you he's working you for his own angles yeah you can take the the sexual innuendo is baked into the answer because I do think that ESSEC maybe likes the cut of my jib and did they add a jib to that doll by any chance can we take a look at it this is trick I don't know stop filming me I'm awkward never squeeze my god we've just over a decade that your face it was my face look away Henry these puppets will never be the same I think that that I think that Caleb thinks that ESIC is is trying to stack up favors and get him under his thumb he might even be the mole Caleb's not sure he is he is catching those vibes that is throwing great though if esic just wanted a friend Shirley just hasn't had him in his life because of his environment that would be awesome if that's how it turns out and once they have done the deed I'll tell you what the answer is hey what's that dangling from Caleb's hand is it perhaps the remaining a piece of clothing the further you took from his mother's that he's taken Laura Oh badass assassin wants to know now that mentions of the travelers following being a cult have been planted does this change jesters perspective on it no Liam I mean cults are people following someone who thinks their God they're not actually the traveller is a God so we're not that kind cults are also sometimes a cool religion some they're also sometimes people following someone who claims to speak for God but that's not what the travelers doing he's not he so you say but I got my I got a bunch of followers and I was like everybody listen to me cuz I follow the track do we know that's not what you're doing with the mighty nine because she makes unicorns and lollipops right how else is she gonna entice you all to follow her and to you know what will definitely be destruction and betrayal the real answer is gesture as a god nobody gave her her powers she imagines everything the traveler isn't real that's what I said from episode one just keep the lollipops come on man just keep the lollipops coming man the second time I've heard you say that today Oh car no lesbian Liam has a question for you to no one's surprise Caleb takes debts and favours very seriously is he concerned about how much both the party in general and he specifically Oh two ESSEC hmm well he did promise a lot to turn nikka thana we all know how that ended I mean I gets for being named Trent that's true apologies to the Trent's out there and to Matthew Mercer who I think wasn't lafrana and answer the question wasn't Trent a wizard that Matt rolled as a kid I think so I think so no Bolivar was his name why are you stop thinking about the little feet running and dark red stuff oh my god did you take edibles before the show and they just kicked in if so why no I'm not share we could all be having fun thinking about the Dark Crystal right now I'm enamored by Liam's wonderful character analysis meanwhile you're dancing over is Johnson with you early remember we were talking about we were talking about critical role I have now I have forgotten the question about would you guys owe to ESSEC oh wow how do I feel how does Kayla feel about like debts and yeah um well I think he wants to keep all the balls in the air I think he feels like they're clever enough to how do you keep doing this what talk about testicle every actor has so many layers of any window I hear them laughing back here I hear them lay up laughing and if they're laughing it means it's something dirty anyway continue listen you got a crunch these nuts somehow he thinks that they can play all sides and not in a knot in a minute hoodwink everyone but like they can they can meet the needs of the different people that they're they're dealing with yeah he's trying to he's trying I'm in it's a long shot but he's trying to actually broke her some sort of a peace you know one one in a thousand chance but that's what he's given given a yeah I understand let me see the feet again that's it this is our show now this is our show now max is over there weeping he's so excited I'm sweeping Henry - yeah oh maybe Henry had some of it edibles there are no edibles not anymore you ate them all after this question this question you [ __ ] degenerate from our friend Rachel Klein we know that gesture always feels the need to prove herself to others so how did she feel when esic told her that there was nothing he'd want to learn from her did it hurt her feelings at all yeah this was also a podcast you can't just no I do have to say yes it did hurt her feelings and yes she did try to hide it yeah yeah she is struggling right now it's interesting that you keep saying that and these that it's such an important part of the journey right now that you wanted it to be reflected in the art yeah that's cool well I mean I made fun of you for it earlier but now I respect it thank you that's what ten minutes will do just a little contemplation yeah I mean she doesn't know who she is I know yeah I think that's starting to register in her brain mm-hmm do you know what's starting to register in my brain cosplay of the week yeah is this a good show you guys they're lying there lie specific closes we ever had to a studio audience and it's two people who have had little [ __ ] I mean hey our winner this week was sent in by job' Joby I said Joby you said job' act job' leak oh so the last names not any easier either guitar lick don't look I have a perfect streak of pronunciation on the show I'm not going to have it photographer Topher Oriel at Topher oriole let's take a look what are you laughing at beautiful it's upside down oh it's not it look at all that is that braiding with leather I think so geez gorgeous it's such a good job pretty crazy that's gorgeous fond of that character that's based on art right I think I think it is right Liam you've got character on this show [Laughter] hmm pretty soon you know oh man so soon but you know what that means though the end of my beloved show blind spot what how will it end what are we gonna do I don't know okay what did we decipher the tattoos well yeah they figured out the tattoos okay yeah and now it's a cooking show no no no no no it's about football every single one of the tattoos led back to getting a C at USC writing school Congrats to you Joe B you have won this newly redesigned hero vault featuring art by our friends Devin roux and crystal silly okay wait is that you I'm Kenneth I open it every week I smell it don't rush me okay I can this show is as long as I want it to be do you understand okay hold on you show you show me thank you finger look it no were you aiming for it now you meant Wow and you can put your Dyson you so that's the Devon rule b20 in it yep yeah the cover look at that Wow get where you make me funny that's the then you can put your other dice here for some reason that makes me uncomfortable aster I hate the hell episode this is the show that one off for fail artists we can have it back let's see I don't nurse you with this I didn't smell it mmm how's it smell it smells beautiful it smells like an autumn breeze it smells like the the water coming off of the Pacific Northwest mountains it smells like just out of reach is it good pretty good oh it is good Liam yes smells like a new closet drag of course it does your highest [ __ ] I don't know I'm not stop saying that oh I'm spreading awful rumors about you Oh Liam yeah okay is Jerry still here Yeah right is max - here max can you please bring in a whiskey for Laura on the rocks this is getting out of control I just they don't we I don't need one stop saying that that's what happens this is what happens Larry Liam you yet tuned in wants to know Caleb's called the scorer's his brothers and sisters and showed the captured vole Strecker empathy even telling her sorry at the end can you tell us about what led him to face his past in this manner hi well he's talked a little say what they want he's he has not he's been thinking about these people for years [Music] and wondering like he didn't spend time with full-blown sergers as a student he was on his way to being one and I think he wondered with everything that happened to him what state somebody who'd been in it for a few years would be in and he figured that it was probably a losing scenario but he still wanted to try and it was he was I was probably obvious he was trying to see if anyone who had gone through that was a lost cause and he's thinking about his other two friends and to have a sense of what what they might be like as well and he definitely had affection for them before everything ended so and he you know he he still you know we've been doing this show for seven this campaign first 70 plus episodes and he still is not happy with himself he still has very got tons and tons of self-loathing but he he understands that that he was manipulated he still has lots of personal blame for himself he's not going to absolve himself of that but he understands that he was abused and so they're just that this woman in the cell was younger than him as a victim of abuse and she's probably done even more terrible things than he has but so is he and if he has any hope for himself he has to offer the same kind of thought Renea outside of himself does caleb believe that someone can truly be a lost cause outside of himself how he feels well it's funny he thinks about yasha a lot even though he's not the closest in the group to her and I think he would be quicker to make excuses for her than he would for himself and that's not necessarily logical or fair but he would be quicker to absolve her and say that while she was taken advantage of or controlled in some way and he's not able to make the same allowances for himself couldn't drink there was a lot of business going on to get that here Laura [Music] yes felon gray days wants to know Oh another felon gesture lied to the group about what the gentleman said after using the sending spell do you feel she is lying more to the group or to herself how fully does she believe that the gentleman is actually her father she fully believes the gentleman is her dad she fully knows that the gentleman doesn't think that or it doesn't want to doesn't care mm-hmm um but she thinks she'll be able to convince him otherwise and she's not about to let everybody else know that there's another person you know that's that there's somebody out there that that doesn't that is [ __ ] on her a bit yeah yeah yes she doesn't want to omit that yeah that's interesting just pop on your knuckles at once that was so crazy you hear that okay Oh God Oh God Oh I swear did that one come these are these parts oh I don't know how to do that one I don't think that's healthy is that good for you I don't know really I used to pop and twist my back like crazy yeah and then I've got herniated discs now mmm there could be a connection popping and locking I like those I like those uh those those those ones with the springs that work out you know other things I do that wall I do the ThighMaster you remember the work you might as well do at the same time might as well it's what I always do I'll put on a little Miami Vice put on your Jazzercise out the shake weight yeah I don't like that one too much because pretty good I was shaking a lot as a child it brings back Leona thank you for the good form Liam thank you for that gift he knows thank you for that gift oh no stare at this camera they're starett Sturridge starid you Craig right here somewhere there's a little Englishman who got up in the middle of the night to make gifts of the show I'm so happy for him they say practice practice practice yes they do they do oh boy wait for my kids to turn into teenagers and find the show they will never watch this they won't get past my intro they'll be like that guy maybe in podcast form maybe they can skip ahead yeah what's he doing good radio you got a coaster under there Steve hey who answered the last question that was Laura or a dead okay Liam yes xtr M wants to know yes I believe you once said that Caleb is afraid to return to wrecks Tron now we see him actually in favor of going why the change in mind says there's some newfound confidence toward facing his past absolutely he has powerful friends he has a powerful family of warriors and cultists and goblins and there they are in the pocket of a queen they have a lot of assets now and he has learned a lot and can do a lot more than he was able to and and he's and he's you know I didn't know where I was gonna be at this point at the start of this campaign I was like I bet one of them one of these five paths could be word this goes and and I and it kind of is going down one of them but one of them could have been walking away as an NPC well and rejoining and and one could have just been that be a coward to the very end mm-hmm-hmm but he's going a little more I don't know the group are real cast our family is a little too persuasive as a family so it's kind of hard to Sam walked away it's true he's not saying correct Laura T Ahmad ZX wants to know gesture seemed very disappointed and confused that no one else could see the traveler at all how is this affecting her opinion of the mighty nine is a hole considering her entire devotion to her BFF I do think it's weird that nobody else can see him because he's so varied there yeah but then you know you just track it up - how awesome of a god he is he can be seen by just one person mm-hm they so choose he is very they're like it's not like the Raven Queen or surrender I yeah it's kinda more like write it all up in your girl yeah because caduceus like there's a spell called commune right and that's something caduceus does a lot and I kind of don't I don't know if I don't what commune would do for the traveler because I already can sit down and talk to him I can just go like flat-out hey have you heard of this thing this beacon do you know what it does so yeah makes sense to him he's acting weird he's not acting weird he's acting he's just he just loves just her so much she's just the best disciple he's fake do you know what's real look at you wearing a sweater sweater that's what are you then be the last time you guys came was the episode where Molly Markert died right both you guys were here for that was a sad one Wow how would you rate this against that episode oh they don't want to get into it okay the will ask appear it's not a competition I mean both episodes have to because there's no Ashley bag this week's fan art winner for campaign - episode 77 was sent in by a KL at King ko let's take a look yeah I saw that at home and moment on us because it was so beautiful wow that's a Christmas present for you Laura Bailey that's gorgeous I just uh it's so good beautiful all the broken apart yeah oh man I thought that was like ribbon a no no he's breaking up wow that is great mmm even a stink finger broke off Wow great midsection mm-hmm really so what about the lily flower at about that too oh [ __ ] yeah hair still in place though we got that perfect and he's got great hair yeah he kind of looks like if a clicker from the last of us was beautiful which is super hot thank you to everyone who submitted congrats to you kale you have won this newly redesigned here of all this one featuring art by our friend crystal Sully this one's awesome look at that okay get it good that's that let me show it to the people that it's beautiful that's is awesome oh you know it smells like smells like the tears of a child kale your art is always beautiful done Sam I thank you man remember you can enter our weekly contest by visiting crit roll calm flash submit whoa next that is high level casting Brice drenched rules for our contest are available at crit roll calm that's our website that one smells pretty good right yeah it smells kind of like like patchouli or something oh really yeah doesn't it smell like earthy it smells earthy it's nice yeah wonderful sorry our noses all over your prizes they don't care that increases the value by dollars give me that you're gonna pinch somebody with it pinch well wonderful moving on oh speaking of Oh this questions for you Liam from the lady T fling when you seeming everybody into Assemblymembers caleb made himself look like trends said of any of them under 9 was that intentional did caleb obviously not want to look into the face of the man who inflicted so much harm and trauma on him that is correct why bother looking at him and also he's the he's enemy number one so he would also put that on make sense just put that on him mm-hmm yeah oh look a question about Mika Burton's character I miss her already make it did quite well on this program I saw I saw her she did a great job posting mm-hmm how great of a job I mean not Brian levels of great but pretty great okay Thank You Liam Laura I mean it's not ryan levis okay so sorry wants to know jester's note torini was so sweet and exactly what really needed to hear and she's also recently been trying to help not with her alcohol addiction was there something that happened to cause her to behave in a more motherly way toward her friends oh wow I think her her our studio Alice is being distracting real distress rifled sneeze it was well stipple though it was a sneeze okay it was okay oh man Laura was just about to go deep I was now it's just gonna be a little stay with jester absolute now no just kidding it's her her like outside of the traveler her example for people that help is her mom and so she tries to emulate that yeah I don't have like a deep answer she just jesters mom is proud of her no matter what though yeah no matter what yeah no matter what path she takes no matter what because you know yeah yeah I mean unless you like you know something like Yasha okay I actually if you're watching let's disinvite Laura from the wedding comeback dark Empress we miss you it's almost I feel like soon why don't I give like longer answers like you give sometimes you do how many episodes have we been doing this for max hundred and twenty five I've been asking that for a hundred and twenty five episodes why doesn't Laura give better answers no I think yours are fine okay I think you're fine you're not Sam you don't sit here and go well how can I make Liam's answer about me you don't mean like this you keep your [ __ ] you know about you it's just I think you also just you make your point very concisely you don't like to drone on and on and on and on like say Travis or Matt right that's true what's your puppet work is great thank you anybody is looking for somebody to hire for the next season of Dark Crystal I'm just putting my name out there I could puppeteer orgy voices yeah check her out and gear mini chocolates check her out in the new Game Gear leaves vibe wacky historian wants to know oh you think the darkness is your ally I was born in Milwaukee this episode's got everything you've chosen to roleplay several of Caleb's class abilities the transmuter stone shape-changer the level before he gets them what made you decide to do this and how far ahead do you look into future wizard abilities to get ideas it is really impressive how you do that it's fun it's just making stories we're just more Mako that's what we do here we spend stories yeah that's that's what the whole board dream we're Dream Factory man mm-hmm and I look at dandy I mean D&D can be whatever anyone who uses it wants it to be but I look at it as a skeleton that we get to weave beautiful you're really good at making it like clear though your intentions of why you like pulled those things you know like I'll think those things in my head and then I'll never actually like speak them out loud and then they just come out randomly so it's really cool how you set the things in motion thank you you are my favorite actor well that's an even trade yeah sure you never saw Whitney Cummings show yeah it was really good steve was the big fan of that one yeah yeah I was the name of that it's Whitney [ __ ] I think was the name of it hey Laura Farrell dan Pride wants to know Ferelden pride that moan oh yeah Dan's Farrell that's up to him traveler econ is getting closer and jester is very excited for it yeah what are her thoughts about what to expect at the con a religious Union celebration or something else entirely I'm reading it cuz I didn't really listen listen when I [ __ ] this is why we never asked you to be on the show that and you're outstandingly unreliable I thinks it's going to be a really awesome celebration we're probably you know the traveler we'll ask her to host a few panels oh my god obviously cuz she's just best follower and you know uh so yeah maybe there will be a rave yeah I don't know we're still figuring it out maybe a costume contest Wow yeah the schedule is still in the air after going to Burning Man for the first time I really just imagined Traveler Khan as Burning Man except everyone was wearing green cloaks lots of what is a desert it's a volcano a volcano volcano island yeah I saw that sci-fi channel movie thinking about it I think it started larenzo Lamas member him Lamas Greg laughed because it's his favorite actor he gets mad when I pull out the Lorenzo Lamas - he's like remember remember renegade dude he's like that second season was underrated he'll I got DVD if you ever want to come by my hands place and watch it Laura you answer that one [ __ ] you Liam not aggressively not a question Gold stab wants to know what step goal stabbed all stabbed so odd case to get stabbed whole Gaul how many port Patrick is there a goal on a body is that a part of the body part no it's g UL dole stones how many porcelain cats does caleb have are they all sure Hessian will he try and acquire more from other places how would he feel about a matreoshka of all of from khun's forms that's a question we this is the most important question pretty great and a fan gave me a friend of the show gave me matroyshkas that are caleb VAX liam the DM from my one shot a tighter and friend what's the smallest one maybe it's from kind of camera with small but it's on my bookshelf at home love matreshka that just sparked my merge mine oh yeah yeah that would be really cool yeah because you could do one with me like one where I died like beard it's all I know it's a bumpkin and then of the very teeny one is gonna be you'd like from can final form youth you're from in the whole time okay but let's see there were clues along the way there were clues along the way very good at spying yeah most people allergic to me terrible at perception terrible if my passive perception is zero it's on everything I piss on a lot of [ __ ] that line about the the cat porcelain statues about the porcelain I pulled that out of my ass I've never thought about having cats ashes before that moment so I guess he has nine nine cats so far you pulled like you porcelain cat I pulled out of your ass out of my ass take that Richard Gere imagine if if instead of Ford having to swallow swords if Caleb had to eat cat statues those of you different jokes would be telling him they would be was it the Richard Gere show packs he's God he literally waved oh boy Laura on this final episode of talks he on o77 wants to me Laura's not pregnant with twins how does gesture feel being the one who has to scry on Yasha and see what she's becoming how heavily does that weigh on her hoof yes yeah it's hard yes yes yeah yes it's hot move yeah it's hard to be the it's hard to be the one that everybody relies on to be the messenger which I really really enjoy but it is also a lot of pressure mm-hmm um just because I mean not that I would ever [ __ ] it up ever yeah but um yeah there's that and then the scrying just I'm the thing I'm thankful for mm-hmm I hope Matt isn't watching is that like it's not reliant on my memory for a gesture to be able to like communicate what she saw because the things that he says in those moments I'm like oh my god and then it's like yeah completely gone yeah so and there's no way you can take notes fast enough no yeah no way and so if I had to like if he only said at the one time and then gesture had to be the one to be like so that she was in a library and the guy said something and there's people that's all I would probably like it out yeah I started to see the kill room gesture yeah yeah Dirk Liam yes sir critical bard Omega Jones name a Kuh snake what's a cooler name his name ever I got to meet him last week sounds like a D&D his name is Omega Jones that's a dandy name yeah okay twitter twitter is it yeah he knows I'll double checked this isn't live will blank it out are we are we're not live bar we Zack has the name of an aqueous 754 year of our Lord Liam what is Caleb's see himself getting out of learning more due to man see spells does he consider the repercussions of learning an unknown and potentially dangerous type of magic is it a power that he seeks or is it merely the knowledge behind it it's both of those things it's just knowledge for the sake of knowledge is up Caleb's Ali but also he the audience knows this we know it but the nine doesn't know it he wants to learn how to manipulate the flow of time you don't know that yet no no nobody knows it and nobody knows because I've never said it out loud to anyone [Music] but he wants to twist and move time and maybe travel through it is good what you want to do go back and uninvent fire yeah that's it if I were to go if you go back and you save your family is that we want you to do Wow if you back and you save your family does that mean that caleb never gets created then if caleb never like as you are now ever gets created then he will never be in the mighty nine and if he's never in the mighty nine then the rest of us probably would have died several times because you saved the day that has occurred to me and i'm not gonna talk about it not talking about that part oh you don't want to accept all that praise mm-hmm well she said no I mean she said I don't want to talk about oh I get it Laura hmm dance around this question from fake Connor fitzy wonder who the real Connor Fitz is guess we'll never know does gesture seeing four become a follower of the wild mother make her wish that she had done more to get him to follow the traveler instead how does she feel about this missed opportunity considering how much more evangelizing she does them a caduceus I do feel gesture does feel like she's doing a pretty lousy job of getting more followers okay because you know she talks about it coolly as all the time and nobody really believes her board straight ups looking for another God and then went with a wild mother I've had some talks with Travis about it oh I can't I can't a picture a world where that's true because the traveler would have been a great patron for a warlock the traveler would have been able to do some really cold spells and some cool stuff for Ford but he was steadfast he was he you know he likes flowers and vines and stuff it's fine and seaweed whatever I mean em think think God Allison isn't here to hear you just describe the well yeah yeah I try to make it sound like the lady I used to buy pot from before it was legal you know that's the wild mother's much cooler than that that's true that's true well Natalie Oliver teeth still I am doing a bad job of getting other followers i well because everyone potentially mica it's tough for new religions man always is the case you think those fools down there trying to hand out Scientology things you think business is going well for them you know you think they're put your hands up put your hands on these things and I'll tell you whether or not you know you have enough money for us to take that's what people think about the traveler walk around grab this lollipop the lollipops the [ __ ] the meter test the lollipop has nothing to do with a traveler but what if somebody has a lot of cavities or they're diabetic you can't just go around handing lollipops I don't hand out lollipops if anything I hand out dick statues that is true well and those can be useful that's hard to argue that's hard to argue all right you need to prey on the weak more like some of those other organizations we believe that's a good point maybe you should just turn evil I gotta look for more impressionable eviler oh not the Jester Nellore sorry what I didn't like that look one bit do it again to that camera all done absolutely right featured in gear available now get it right well listen if you are not caught up on campaign one you should leave us immediately because we're now going to ask a few questions about the Downs closet daylon's closet one shot spoilers good night good night all of you campaign to people so long we love you come back and watch this after you've caught up and you've seen the one shot we have a couple of stats for this one - can't sing that on the air please do that order order nope we can do Tears for Fears oh yeah and we can do weirdo got it here's a couple of stats we've got for the gallons closet do you say daylon's are dead I don't know I always say daylan's but I think I'm wrong I think it's canon that the people across the globe of eggs and RIA get confused between the two oh okay yeah yeah it's like the Caribbean or the Caribbean exactly yeah you know people say both yeah right yeah no they don't they say Pirates of the Caribbean vex is the only member of Vox machina to have gotten that how do you want to do this on both Silas and Delilah Briarwood something I'm sure you'll be talking about thirty years from now yeah I remember when I was a young thanks mom great mom sure yeah you know who's on these lunch boxes of yours Delilah Briarwood I said make our hot oh good yeah answer the door with a Tatas out husky that was me this is great this is great future Laura cannon Grogg called Derek four names other than Derek Deckard to card burger and army tree Liam Ryan shelf wants to know is there did you know ahead of time that VAX would be Scanlan's wedding gift to them or was that as much of a surprise for you at the table as it was for [ __ ] everybody oh I definitely did know that he intended oh [ __ ] and I'm glad that he did because I needed to think about it not about what I would do because I didn't plan when I was gonna do other than to tell them that they should be happy and to go go live their lives yeah but I would have been freaked the [ __ ] out if he had just sprung that on me and I think he wanted he texted Matt and I in the same threat I want to know if both of us would be cool that Matt's that he was I said I need to think about it I went to bed got up and thought about it a lot because I don't really even see it as playing at a PC anymore I felt like I was coming in as and hmm and I felt like Matt look I felt like we really glided it in for a very beautiful ending and I didn't want to cheapen it or or accidentally erase or muddy anything that we'd done but I thought about it and about where he's at and Matt's told me a little bit and I have my only only right before that game because I asked to one making that decision whether or not I was okay with it yeah and I'm really glad I did because I had to kind of definitively decide where I thought what he was mmm where he was at what a great moment it was really cool of Sam to text you guys ahead of time and say like hey I have this attention-seeking stunt Laura Chris Patterson wants to know how does it feel to be responsible for the final death of both Breyer woods Oh [ __ ] awesome that arc is most people's favorite when talked about in campaign one mhm the brand yeah and I remember the night that you guys dressed up like oh that was yeah yeah what I think is pretty great is that I feel like Bex and Percy sort of look a little bit like them too you know what I mean like it's definitely like what they could have been like a different different different coin yeah different sides of this anybody did anything like that you know - Percy I'd probably pull a delaila mm-hmm for sure yeah yeah pulling a Delilah meant something else when I when I was growing up gotta love westerns hey Liam yeah Alastair Dane Alexander Stubbs wants to know what was the in the moment inspiration for both vaccines no disjointed Mandarin new and disjointed mannerisms and the bone slash fungus growths it's not fun gasps I know I I just meant cordyceps like in appearance it's bone the bone is supposed to be a physical manifestation of the tattoo he got of key let's antlers and I died he's owned by the Raven Queen but I felt like this is a way to it's like one piece of his humanity that she has no control over and it expressed itself whether she liked it or not and it's part of this thing that he is well as far as the way that he is it's not like he went to Canada for summer camp right he is in like a metaphysical mystery box and I this is nothing mat told me but I was reminded of there's a great Stephen King short story called the jaunt mm-hmm you know that one mm-hmm it's about teleportation people in the future people are able to teleport over vast stretches of space plant it to plant it but you have to be [ __ ] asleep when you do it because if you're awake you experience something when you go through it and people come through and either die instantly from a heart attack and shock or they come out raving and saying things like it's longer than you think it's longer than you think it's longer than you think and claw out their eyes that's not what I would read it oh it's a great great story really unsettling but even though he's been gone a year who's to say how he even experiences time anymore and when he is busy thousand years it could be a second it's like yeah tell her you know and they go down on the thing and they get back and the guys like I'm [ __ ] old now where the [ __ ] were you guys yeah you know that's a good reference is a good scene I'm in a row that's how I've actually come out in a room but when he visited the Raven Queen he was there were like strands of gold stretching into infinity in every direct like yeah he's not just in Connecticut yes he's dead he's whatever here I think that made it so much harder not to [ __ ] on Connecticut that that moment for him to be not just VAX cuz I fully just expected that best soon as Sam said it I was like how good we're gonna have like I'm octave max again and then well I did but then for him to be different and nothing nothing we said nothing we could do would change that like you can't have you can't have that back you can't have that loss it's a helpless feeling it really is feeling yeah and I'm my opinion up about it was that that the that all of his decisions they're all all of their decisions but especially his decisions had to have cost mm-hmm the cost is I don't get to do these one shots with the group in the same way they do which is melancholy for me I'll play anything these guys are on the table but every time we're like alright it's another vm one-shot Lulu yeah well that was the last one we're not gonna do anymore yeah that's it that's it that stories how could it get better than the way it ended well I feel like everything prior to that had been like there's still more there's still more in this one is like okay yeah we've we've said everything we've said their goodbyes we've wrapped everything up and and you can see them on their new life now yeah yeah guys get to imagine where they go and what they do with the rain and remainder of her days oh I do mmm oh I do I like to think that I just said this to Travis a couple days ago that Grogg just goes out still just tries to kill things and eventually tries to solo it to Rask out in the water yeah yeah yeah he's Drax and like so many ways I couldn't be happier yeah Barbra Octavio nee how'd it feel to be twinsies again even for a brief moment yeah I mean we kind of touched on that and heartbreaking it was wonderful though it was a message so and I love that we go back to the old seating arrangement for those one shots you know Laura Sarah Jones Rigby wants to know look at all these people giving us their real names fools I will find you and drain your bank accounts what was in vexes mind when she was bound on the cliff and later while she was drowning [ __ ] me would she have reacted differently if Vesper was at the wedding instead of asleep yes but I mean that's straight up what was going through her brain from the get-go was oh my god the baby and in no way did she want to like say that out loud to Silas because that would just make it worse right if you know that's the thing that would hurt more than anything else in the world then he would have had that yeah um mmm so that's why like it didn't get brought up more that's cuz she didn't want it like speak it out loud mm-hmm but [ __ ] during the getting knocked off a cliff and drowning what what like after we left I was like what was I supposed to do his old fish we had to die was it there was no option when your hands are and your feet are bound behind you there's no swimming I I really like that talisman like said he was able to swim up when your legs and arms are bound where's nothing yeah would and I imagine they were hooked like the feet and the picture together that's what I pictured there's what you just think wouldn't it have been funny though the entire campaign won the epicness of that journey the home game the fact that you've lived with these characters for so long TPK in the Dallas closet one shot that's the end of their story what a [ __ ] give it to me dude you know ii mean like a larry clark movie yeah I can't accept that I could accept everybody dying except for VEX you made a deal I made a deal with a god I heard you say that yeah I made a deal with a god in a tomb so and all throughout the rest of the game even when Beck's died again I was like well this isn't gonna stick we're gonna fix this because I made a deal so this is going to it's going to fix itself the ex had died yeah died died and the Raven diamond was like yeah but then she didn't give her back okay if she was Dada Dada Dada and she was sent off and she went to the dom father would facts have been like [ __ ] you [ __ ] I'm out and he would have like left The Raven Queen would he have found a way to like say you didn't fulfil your pact to me and I don't you that's an interesting question it's the campaign is over I don't have any play time to figure that out but you can imagine it asked in the home home audience mm-hmm I always like the art of the leg vex like popping up for like a quick second and the and leg backs turning around and being like sista and they're popping back out just be like oh they're mine we're good so funny all right a couple more Vachon take office wants to know Liam yeah we didn't get to know a lot about Derek during the one shot outside of being married with four kids oh [ __ ] were there any other interesting tidbits of his backstory that you wish you could yes but I'm getting something [ __ ] [ __ ] I meant to remember it but I didn't so I'm grabbing my phone Oh fun well I have two kids names three girls and a boy yes wife's name is Nell things like that Greg Jodie Foster movie how many of you know the Jodie Foster movie Nellore Hanley apparently the triplets are barony Lisa and Maeve and the son's name is will after TVs Wilfred a oh yeah that's exactly why oh good lord well he's got a promising future as long as he stays away from the vital China white what's that bridle hey what's with the bare feet are you one of those people that takes your shoes and socks off on an airplane this is a Tarantino joint no I'm not it is it is but I'm wearing sandals and my feet are cold and I don't want to put my shoes up on the couch CEL yeah because we really care about that couch that's where max sleeps at night yeah but I just don't like shoes on a couch is it bad luck I just don't like it Liam Liam mm-hmm keep smiling like that while Laurie answers this final question of the night and it's from caddywhompus I'm ready where any of the wedding plans such as Fox mocking his roles in the ceremony discussed out-of-game ahead of time Sam and Ashley had prepared speeches did you and Alison right out vows or wing it okay everyone's been wanting to know this so who does their vows without right and [ __ ] out yeah I thought that the flava flav married Brigitte Nielsen Wow and he probably winged it too probably so I don't remember how exactly it happened but both Sam and Marissa both thought that they were Tallis ins right both you both both killeth and teri thought that they were going to be the best man as as their players thought the same yes but so that when we told Sam ahead of time we were like oh by the way you're gonna be saying thanks to vex he was like what no I have a speech written for Percy and it's like well you're saying expect so he was like [ __ ] it so had to like rewrite a speech really fast yeah the prior to the show like it fully felt like we were all getting ready for a real wedding it did yeah everybody will be running around and see clothes you're gonna get no good you know I got my hardened and my makeup done and everything and it was like I had to run over to Matt mirages house and get both of their outfits that they left yeah name a thing we've shot where you haven't had to do that did you prepare they did in wedding vows I mean you did I did I did and I didn't write them down though I just thought them in my head ahead of time of like this is probably what I'm going to say and then when it was time for it I almost fully blanked on what I was supposed to be saying my shoes all have that same tag yeah it was it was I rewatched when it restreamed I watched the vowels because I didn't remember what I said yeah well it was a bit ago because we had filmed it right right before Ashley had to yeah go back to that cursed television program and then sobbed like a baby all over again with with you coming out I was just like yeah god I could nobody could get get their [ __ ] together no your studio you would think yeah yeah you would think it was Molly night all over again in the studio everyone's crying clutching other people were pouring dr. pepper into each other's mouths you're talking about literally just me isolated to just you Danny but yes just Danny so what you guys don't know is that during CR Danny has one of those beer helmets that has like this and then she's got dr. pepper Danny a goddamn beer it's not two containers of critter tears oh no those I shed myself yeah that's dr. peppers to rehydrate recycle like a dude yeah instead of crocodile tears she has dr. pepper well thank you for joining me that's all the time we have for tonight we went a little extra but we all know the light went down I know Mark twinkle no there will be two in content but not I'm not it not game room you guys could play twins in the next time you guys get to be twins as doing some voice over again you know that'll be fun right turn to everything you can do your sessions at the same time I don't know how good of agents you have I love Laura I love lamp you also like little feet on puppets man and I'm bummed you guys didn't answer the rest of the questions as puppets but and it's hard for some people that's all the time we have all my choices these knives on my chest what does this [ __ ] I'd like to thank I'd like to thank Liam and Laura for joining us tonight but I can't reminder no episode this Thursday but we will be back next Thursday September 19th at 7 p.m. Pacific for episode 78 for the 125th time don't forget to love each other don't worry my friends it's almost Thursday stay true to the tutu nuts [Music] you [Music]

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Keywords: Talks Machina, Brian W. Foster, Brian Foster, Interview, Campaign 2, Campaign 1, Mighty Nein, Vox Machina, Critical Role, Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, DND, Crit Role, CritRole, Dani Carr, Q&A, Xhorhas, Wildemount, Exandria, Tal'Dorei, Talks Machina Critical Role, Henry, Critical Role Henry, Talks Machina Henry, Liam O'Brien, Laura Bailey, Liam O'Brien Talks Machina, Laura Bailey Talks Machina, Dalen's Closet, Dalen's Closet Talks Machina

Id: FiRTgVhpgL8

Length: 76min 7sec (4567 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 12 2019

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[u/TheArchivistDM]

Okay, I remember Liam finding the lucky rock for his transmuter’s stone, but I must have missed how he set up for Shapechanger. Can anyone point me to an episode?

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The whole discussion about "Gears 5" makes me think it was a huge missed opportunity not to call it "Fifth Gear"...