The Family Business

is the ninth episode of the fourth chapter of Critical Role.

Pre-Show
The following pre-show promotional videos were shown on the Twitch stream, but they are not included on the final YouTube VoD:
 * International Tabletop Day promotional video:
 * This video was played multiple times, and it featured tabletop gaming scenes with cosplay at Game Häus in Glendale, CA.
 * ITTD is 2016-04-30.
 * Find participating locations near you at TableTopDay.com.
 * Preferred Partner locations will also get some variety of limited ITTD game pieces, which are themed after Geek & Sundry's most memorable moments, for:
 * International Tabletop Day call for store partners (presented by Ivan Van Norman):
 * This video was played multiple times.
 * Submit your one-minute or less video of you saying your name (or your store's name), talking about board games, reminiscing about games, or playing games all across the world.
 * Deliver to Geek & Sundry in a high-resolution file (720p or higher) in a .MOV or .MP4 format.
 * Submit either through WeTransfer or Dropbox to [mailto:preferredpartner@geekandsundry.com preferredpartner@geekandsundry.com].
 * Submit by the deadline of 2016-04-15.

Announcements

 * Sam Riegel is running late.
 * Liam O'Brien is joining via Skype from New York.
 * Sam arrived.
 * Matthew Mercer and Marisha Ray will be guests at Tekko in Pittsburgh on the weekend of 2016 April 8th–10th.
 * Tomorrow, 2016-04-01, is the last day to pre-order the Gilmore's Glorious Goods T-shirts from the [Geek & Sundry webstore].
 * Two new shirts are available for pre-order from the [Geek & Sundry webstore].  One is the "Dagger Dagger Dagger" design, and the other is the "Strongjaw Ale" design, both of which were created by [Kennef Riggle].
 * Critical Role is trying to find vendors that offer a greater range of T-shirt sizes.
 * Sam Riegel voice directed a cartoon called Home, based on the movie Home, and the studio just announced it today.
 * This is the 47th episode—three episodes away from the 50th episode.
 * The 50th will be a regular episode, depending on where the story is at the time.
 * There should be a couple surprises.
 * There will be a big Critmas event on the 50th episode, after which the on-stream Critmas tradition will go on hiatus until the holidays.
 * Wyrmwood Gaming partners with Critical Role, offering free shipping with the "critrole" discount code.
 * Marisha Ray's last episode hosting Signal Boost will be Tuesday (2016-04-05), before the host rotation begins.  Marisha continue producing the series.
 * Liam O'Brien is currently in the first room where he played Dungeons & Dragons for the first time as a child, now playing it as a professional actor.

New

 * Reginald ("Reggie"):  A farmer whose daughter was abducted by a group of half-orcs, goliaths, and others.  Horus took pleasure in torturing Reginald occasionally, and referred to him as "Reggie".
 * Horus:  A goliath from Grog's herd, younger and smaller than Grog.  Horus's name was given by Kevdak in ridicule.  Grog killed Horus with Craven Edge.
 * Kohl:  Accompanies Horus in patrolling the fields.
 * Xanror:  Grog's cousin; Kevdak's son.  Mentioned only.

Returning

 * Cerkonos:  His left arm, destroyed in Thordak's escape from the Elemental Plane of Fire, is in the process of regrowing now.
 * Kevdak:  Grog's uncle.  According to Horus, Kevdak swore fealty to Umbracil.  Mentioned only.
 * Wilhand Trickfoot:  Mentioned only.
 * Abjurist Noja:  Mentioned only.
 * Margrave Atrix:  Mentioned only.  "Margrave" is a position and title, and Atrix is the current Margrave.

Quotations
Laura Bailey:  "Which, to me–" Matthew Mercer:  "Would that be, like, midnight tonight, or...?" Laura:  "See?!?  That's exactly what I was asking Travis–" Travis:  "Listen–" Laura:  "–and he–" Travis:  "–you smart son of a bitches, it's so simple!  Tomorrow at midnight." Laura:  "Is, like, in a few hours." Travis:  "Oh my god.  Oh my god.  I'm gonna rage before the show even starts." [...] Laura:  "So is it ending tomorrow night, or is it ending tonight?" Travis:  "Holy shit." Matt:  "I don't know; you should order tonight just in case." Laura:  "I'm scared it's actually ending tonight, and he thinks it's tomorrow night, but I think it might be tonight." Matt:  "To be safe, make it tonight, but it's probably tomorrow night, but to be safe, make it tonight." Laura:  "It's probably tomorrow night.  He's gonna murder us all.  Very shortly." Matt:  "Save it—save it for the battle.  Save it for the battle, Travis." Sam:  "What do you mean, 'last'?  You just started!" Marisha:  "Yeah, we rotate hosts out." Sam:  "Oh." Marisha:  "Because it's, like, our favorite things–" Sam:  "But you're the best host!" Taliesin:  "Of all the hosts they've had, she's certainly the best [...]." [There have been no other hosts.] Sam:  "She is; she's number one!" [...] Marisha, with cheerful sarcasm:  "I'm glad my friends support me!" [...] Sam:  "Just tell me:  am I one of the hosts?" Marisha:  "Do you wanna host?  Do you wanna do it?  Yeah!" Sam:  "Just tell me—just tell me when, and... I will probably be twenty minutes late."
 * Travis Willingham:  "Tomorrow at midnight is the deadline."
 * Marisha Ray:  "My last episode of Signal Boost is this Tuesday–"