"Talks Machina: Campaign Wrap-up" (Sx31) is the thirty-first special episode of Critical Role. Now that the Vox Machina's adventures have come to an end, the cast sits down to talk and to answer some fan questions about every arc of their journey. Special guests of the show will also answer some questions.
Synopsis[]
Announcements[]
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- Critical Role will be back with a brand new Campaign starting January 11, 2018.
Arc I: Kraghammer and Vasselheim[]
This section covers "Arrival at Kraghammer" (1x01) through "The Rematch" (1x23).
- nerdyscotsman: Everyone except Matt. Why did you all trust a mindflayer more than a holy paladin? (4:09)
He was an underdog! Travis didn't trust him from the beginning.
- Jesse: Was there anything in the Underdark areas you made that the players missed or passed up? Encounters, puzzles, or areas of interest? (5:13)
The duergar city around the Emberhold, with some possible encounters and social elements. Within Yug'Voril there was a portal to the Far Realm, plus most of the city itself.
- animLae: Liam, What info did you get from insight checking Keyleth? (7:25)
That Keyleth seemed unsure and scared, feeling cut off from topside. It might have been the first time he looked at her in a new way.
- Synchoraven: Marisha, Can you delve into your own and Keyleth's insights on that vision she spoke of having when she met the Earth Ashari? (9:16)
It was right after she killed a child,[2] which was the first big character changing moment in the pre-stream home game. The vision was her way of writing her own epiphany realizing the consequences of inaction.
- Brian: What was the biggest difference, switching from the home game to streaming? Did you guys change anything about your characters?
They really didn't want anything to change, but some abilities had to be modified due to switching from Pathfinder to Dungeons & Dragons. And they changed their name from the S.H.I.T.s to Vox Machina, because Percy and Keyleth insisted they be introduced as the heroes of Emon under the new name.
- TiamatZX: Matt, What ultimately made Clarota turn on the party? Was it already planned, or was there was a chance he wouldn't, only for his free will to be overridden by the elder brain? (13:37)
It would have taken a lot, but it was possible. Clarota was all about his own survival, but once he reconnected, there was no coming back.
- JoustingJose: To Taliesin, Did Percy worry about 'flashing' his name, knowing that the Briarwoods were still around? How come the Tal'Dorei Council didn't connect him with Whitestone, having heard that he was a de Rolo? (15:37)
He essentially was trying to put feelers out to see who knows what happened in Whitestone because the news had not spread through the kingdom. The only information that got out was that the de Rolos got very ill, the family all died off, and these friends came to power to continue their legacy. And that was the story that was spread beyond the city's limits. So whenever they heard "de Rolo," either they think, "Well, he's crazy," or maybe he's a relative.
- VexMeUpBeforeYouGoGo: Ashley, I don't think you ever went into detail about what Pike had been doing on her time off, just that she was on the seas. Could you elaborate on that? (17:57)
Ashley wanted Pike to be a bit stronger after she had died in the home game before they started streaming the show. So, Ashley wanted her to offer more than healing in battle. She wanted Pike to spend time at sea due to Ashley's experience living on a boat as a child.
- frankelstein_: For Laura, Constantly Percy had to craft more bullets, but never did we see Vex fletch arrows or go out and buy them. Why was that? Was it just an assumed between episodes thing? And if so why not the same for Percy? (21:05)
Bullets don't exist in this world outside of Percy, so you have to make them. Whereas arrows, you can buy them anywhere. Before the stream, once they got a Bag of Holding, Vex went and bought a thousand arrows and threw them in the bag of holding.
- shardee: Liam, You've said before that the first time Vax realized he had feelings for Keyleth was during a moment in the Underdark. What was that moment? (22:07)
The ball started rolling with that whisper. He wasn't thinking of telling anyone until the thing with the Briarwoods, so Liam was like "Well, he's dying. So I'm going to let it out here. Oh, he's not dead. Uh--" (sucks in a breath) And I'll pull it back in.
- Myrnorunshot: Travis, We never heard about Grog's mother. Did he know her at all? Is she alive? (23:33)
Grog's idea of family was his father Stonejaw Strongjaw, and the herd. In Travis' mind the Herd of Storms is free love. You hook up, get kids, and teach them how to fight, and then move on to Tuesday. He never figured out who mom was, and until he met Pike, he never thought about it.
- Shandraa: Matt, Who was the anonymous person who took out the contract on the Rakshasa? (25:38)
One of the members of the Arcana Pansophical. They were working on a portal to the Nine Hells, and they needed demon parts and there was a rakshasa in the area, so a two for one deal. They didn't understand the cycle of revenge that whoever killed it would be in. But that's why you pay people to do it for you.
- MishapMaster13: Matt, When Kima was introduced, was the relationship with Allura already planned out or did that evolve in response to the party and community? (27:22)
No. It was part of the character's plan to develop them, as far as past history. They first heard of Kima in the second session when you were looking for Grog in Westruun. Back then Matt was like she has history with this mage character I'll introduce later in the campaign. When he developed the Underdark arc, he was like, okay, they're still good friends, they still care about each other even though their lives are separate, and then that reunion was what re-sparked it. You guys retrieving Kima and the idea of losing one another on her pilgrimage is what rekindled it for the two of them.
- Brian: Matt, Did you have any idea that those two characters would become as beloved as they have been to the fan base?
No, I had no idea! And once again, you don't know what to expect, what magical combinations of characters and people make for good storytelling, and what people will cling onto. And they became as important to a lot of other people as they were to me, as it progressed. You know, Allura eventually became, as we all realized, a self-insertion into the story at times.
- Smokeontheraze: Marisha, Keyleth has had the antlers since day one and never took them off, sometimes even getting defensive about them. Is there a story behind the antlers? (29:16)
She had a circlet in the home game. It was one of the last relics from her mom and her Ashari tribe that she took with her. and then Kit drew it as antlers. All Marisha told Kit was that "she's got a dope circlet." And then when it came back with antlers, and she was like "Oh, I love this!" A lot of the original characterizations came from Kit such as Vex's feathers or Percy's four lens glasses.
- Ickulus: Matt, I believe you mentioned that the Thunderbrands were supposed to end up as allies or a bigger part of the story if the initial encounter had gone differently. What did we end up missing there? (30:40)
The idea was that when you conversed with them, there is a story about a family member missing in the Underdark, and if you had brought it up and discussed it with them, like we're going down there, it's dangerous, can you be of any aid, they would either provide some equipment and possibly send somebody along with you who would be kind of a guide into the Underdark. One of the Thunderbrand mages. They eventually found the necklace that lead to that thread, which was eventually returned to House Thunderbrand. It could have been an alliance that led to possible bonuses in equipment options and an ally to guide you through the Underdark.
- Payattention007: Matt, How did a Sphinx come to be hidden beneath Vasselheim? (32:30)
That's an interesting point. So, Ioun and the Knowing Mistress and the following there is a belief that knowledge and the dissemination of knowledge is of paramount importance to elevate and teach people about history, about lore, about truth. And when she was wounded and when her following was largely culled during the Calamity, and then shortly after the Divergence, they had to go into hiding. So the followers of Ioun outside of the Cobalt Reserve, which are like the most prominent members of them but they are well protected by the governments, including Osysa, they had to go into hiding and in doing so kind of-- I imagine almost like those truth groups that find secret information and then disseminate it to the press: this is the truth about this, and kind of reveal and whistle-blow certain things. That's kind of how a lot of Ioun's followers have to work in society. Because if they reveal themselves, there are a lot of darker elements that will hunt them down and try and destroy them. Followers of Tharizdun, the Chained Oblivion, and other individuals that want to see this wounded god eventually taken away. So Osysa has long been an agent of Ioun's will and they needed a bastion of that in Vasselheim, and so the creation of the Slayer's Take was all a cover, in a way, of ingraining that within Vasselheim society. And Osysa needs to stay hidden to be that heart of the information network for the followers of Ioun in that part of the countryside of Issylra.
- Telepickups: Matt: Where was the other horn of Orcus? Could the players have found it? (34:22)
Matt refuses to answer due to the fact that it might pertain to the next campaign. He's not saying it will, but it might. But, the other Horn of Orcus does exist in the world.
CritRoleStats: 10819 rolls during the campaign, 548 nat20s, 497 nat1s. Most nat20s: Vax 107, Percy 104. Most nat1s: Vex with 76, followed by Vax at 61.
Arc II: The Briarwoods[]
This section covers "The Feast" (1x24) through "Echoes of the Past" (1x38).
- saraheliz135: For Matt, What was Seeker Asum's plan to investigate the Briarwoods before Vax threw a wrench into it? (37:56)
He was trying to find some sort of proof that they didn't have the political power for the promises they were making to build the bridge between the Shearing Channel and Wildemount.The whole ordeal of the dinner between the Briarwoods was with hopes to bridge a gap between the Council of Emon and Whitestone. They seemed to have boasted a lot of connections, knowledge of Whitestone, and political connections. Asum was reading something off about them. He was trying to save the Council from anything negative. Matt didn't think Asum really knew how deep it went though.
- Mike Garcia: Travis, how close were you to murdering Liam when you destroyed the pencil? How close was Grog to doing something more regrettable to Vax? Cask of ale destroyed close? (39:10)
It was a pretty hot moment. That was a new level. It kicked off months of Grog trying to get Vax back, actually. That's when Travis realized how damn slippery Vax is because Grog could never get his damn hands on Vax to do some shit!
- Brian: Liam, what was that like on your side of things?
He doesn't think he realized how furious in game Travis really was. It was magical, Liam figured it would just come back! He'd already fucked with Vax's shit plenty of times. Liam thought it was just tit for tat. He was wrong.
- settiai: Matt, Just who was the woman in her late 40s/early 50s that Percy saw with his Nat20 roll in "The Sun Tree" (1x28), the one with the wolves outside Whitestone? (40:43)
That was a hunter. That was a denizen of Whitestone who was out hunting with the wolves at night. If they had seen you, it could have been either an opportunity for you to learn things about the city and its current state, as opposed to wandering in and figuring it out as it happens. Or if it went poorly, someone who could try and escape and go back and relay information to the Briarwoods in hopes of not being killed or getting some possible favor with the overlords. Out of fear. They weren't a follower or a toady. They were just a person who lived there and wanted to survive and would have done so if they didn't feel you could help them.
- Zombie_Caddies: Liam, I actually cried when the Briarwoods killed Vax, with the last thoughts going through his head being his friends and Kiki. What was your inspiration for that moment? (41:56)
Liam thought Vax was out just like he thought he was out in the Raven Queen's tomb. He hadn't worked up the gumption to say anything in the story to Keyleth. So Liam was like, I'm getting it out here. Also at that point, it was starting, but Vax's world was still 98% his sister. It was just a chance to vomit out his inner monologue before exiting the game.
- argentumlupine: Sam, What tipped you off that Percy's gun needed to be destroyed? (43:12)
Because he was doing crazy shit with it all the time and he was marking things off on the gun by that point. Scanlan is not very perceptive, not very wise, so it took a long time to realize that something was wrong with it.
- Arthur Ornelas: For Matt, Can we get a little insight into Sylas and Delilah, and the Life Choices they made that lead to Vecna? How much of that was Tal's notes and how much was your brain?
The only thing that Taliesin told Matt was that the Briarwoods came and murdered his family. Taliesin tried to hand Matt nothing that Percy wouldn't have known. With the Briarwoods, Matt tried to create a scenario where they were not a super powerful lord and lady in the Dwendalian Empire, but they had some renown, some power, some connections, and they lived a comfortable life. She was a lesser mage, working at the Soltryce Academy when her husband got sick. They couldn't find a cure for the disease, so she went to find someone who could make one. She found one who could, concocted one, and by the time she came back, Sylas was dead. She tried to find a way to bring him back, and screamed into the Astral Sea her fury, and a voice whispered back. And it said "I can help you." And that was Vecna. He started to come into her dreams, and give her elements of information. In her grief, she began to follow it blindly, which led to one of Vecna's old laboratories, with an old servant of his that forgot his name for ages. And that's where she found, through the whispers, the rights of vampirism. And he was like, "I can give you the secret to bring your love back to life, but then you owe me. You're mine." And so she said, "Whatever it takes." The resurrection of Sylas as a vampire was a fraction of Vecna's power that tied them to him.
But, because of them toying with necromancy, which is outlawed in the Dwendalian empire, there was a hunt out for the both of them. They were both arrested, they got away, and there was a hunt to find them and have them executed. So they fled the Dwendalian empire, went to the Menagerie Coast, which is where Port Damali is, which is kind of like the last major port town on the way western to Tal'Dorei, and that was where they ran into Ripley. And Ripley was fleeing from her own thing, and was like, we're both fugitives of the Dwendalian empire, why don't we work together. They then heard about Whitestone and began to talk to the family and make trips from Port Damali to Whitestone. They made alliances, turned some people who worked in the castle, for the plan of gutting this family that had isolated themselves politically, so no one would know or care if they went missing or died.
- GloriaRokicki, For Laura, Did Vex have feelings for Percy at this time and how did watching this darkness bloom in him affect her?
Oh yeah, the "Darling, take the mask off." That was definitely starting around then. I don't know. I think it attracted her to him more. How fucked up is that?
- Blangadanger: Marisha, Had VM continued to kill with extreme violence without concern of moral consequence, would Keyleth have left the party?
She was. Marisha sort of had a crisis with Keyleth for a little bit. For a while she was like, "I can't stay! What I am I doing here? Your friends will be the first people to drag you down. They're bad influences. Matt and her had a conversation regarding what would happen with Keyleth if she left or maybe she eventually would come back. Marisha thinks that it was around that time that she kept repeating: I have to continue my Aramente. I feel like I'm just dicking around at this point. I still have work to do. I got to go.
- TheOodSigma: Matt, What would have happened if they had left Ripley in the cell?
Ripley probably would have either found a way to escape or once the Briarwoods were freed you would have to go back down to deal with that. But the minute she had any chance of escape she would have, or probably try and work her way into your wiles. If she was purely unable to escape the prison and you knew who she was, and you had defeated the Briarwoods, and Whitestone was yours once more and you just had her prostrate in a cell with no weapons, and you intending to murder her, she would have done everything in her power to be as sly and convincing that she was as used as anyone else. As Cassandra was, and to get in your good graces and the first chance she had to abscond with any of your technology, gone.
- Maxvsthegames: Matt, What happened with the bodies of the De Rolo family? Were they buried or did Vox Machina ended up fighting their skeletons in the streets of Whitestone?
No. The Briarwoods, in order to cement their rule, they needed to instill absolute fear of fleeing or any sort of rebellion. So you don't just murder the family, you leave them in public as a sign. So those bodies you saw hanging from the Sun Tree weren't the first to hang from that tree. In fact, I never got to tell you, because it never came up and nobody would have told you at that time, but when you saw the Vox Machina hanging from the Sun Tree, those were almost the exact same arrangement as Percy's family were after Whitestone.
- SerPounce_a_Lot: Ashley, Is Pike's ability to astral project across great distances to help her friends a sign that she is special to Sarenrae?
Ashley would like to think that is the reason why, but she believes it's because she lives across the country. So she knows Matt found a way around that, which she's so thankful that he did.
- FrostDragon85: Matt, What would have happened if Lady Briarwood's ritual succeeded?
It did. She succeeded the ritual, but she didn't know what she was looking for. Like all things piecemeal with Vecna, she was told to prepare all these things to succeed. And when it succeeded, it triggered the siphon, which became this tiny dot that did nothing from her perspective. And so she went from "All right, this grand ceremony!" to "That's it? We failed." It was too early, they were pushed to do it, and they were already afraid it wouldn't have functioned, but the idea was they succeeded entirely. And if you guys had prodded it enough over time, began to delve into the research and make that a big point, you might have discovered that it was a successful ritual, but the fact that you didn't made it more fun for Matt to play in the background anyway. As far as Delilah was concerned, it failed, but when she was killed the first time and then recovered in her clone body and began to reconnect with the whispers of Vecna, Vecna was like, "No, you did good. And now to move onto the next one, now to prepare for the next siphon to be triggered." And so that was the background progression of her arc while you guys were battling the Conclave and everything.
- Lizlevelup: Travis, Percy gave Grog Craven Edge in this arc ("Winter's Crest in Whitestone" (1x36)). When you first got given the card, what did you expect from the sword? Did you have a 'what have I done" moment when you read the card fully?
Travis didn't know what a sentient weapon even was. Matt just described it as some big, gorgeous greatsword, and he was like, "I can wield that, I'll take it." And Percy's reaction of reading the first few lines of the card and showing a little dismay having just been cured of his current curse, Travis was like, "Give it to me, it'll be fine." So when Matt started talking, it was a total shock. The rest of the card is super important. Travis thinks Grog was just enjoying this new friend that talked to him and helped him shish-kebab really well.
- Jessie Lewis: Matt, How did you intend for VM to get out of the acid chamber?
There wasn't just one way for them to escape. They could have attempted to focus all their strength towards the residuum wall that was blocking them off. They could have tried to block up or destroy the chutes in which the acid was being delivered to the chamber and bought some time. There also was a possibility of waiting for the Briarwoods to leave and then fiddle with the buttons.
- Bangadanger: Sam, Had Scanlan learned of his daughter before Kaylie confronted him, what would he have done differently?
He wouldn't try to get with her. He probably would have run away from that information. Sam says that's scary information, and not seeing her in the flesh, if he had just heard, "You got a daughter out there, she's looking for you," he'd probably be like, "Let's go to another town."
- Gornuk23: Taliesin, Who was the final, unnamed barrel on the List meant for?
It wasn't meant for him, which a lot of people thought. It was his acknowledgement that the List was not the end, and his acknowledgment that the minute he started this, that this was going to be an unending cycle of awful. That barrel was meant to be a fresh start for a brand new List. It eventually was going to be "They're all dead, time to find the next six people, and this is who you are now." Taliesin says the reason he gives Percy a lot of crap is because when he started building this thing and going on a revenge run, he was acutely aware of what he was doing. The first time he saw a gun in the wild, it wasn't, "Oh no," it was, "That went a little more slowly than I expected." He was expecting Ripley to have guns, he was expecting all of this to go horribly wrong because he knew it would. And so he was like, "I really want to kill these six people, and I'm excited to help thousands of other people in my lifetime die this way as well. It's worth it. Trade done." And that was the line of, "I know what I'm becoming, I know what I'm doing, and I'm doing it anyway even though it's really dumb."
- Buzzrock1: Laura, how did Vex get Vax's snake belt back?
Vex went and flirted with the guards. It was a lot of, "Hey, I lost this thing, could you please go get it for me? Please?" And the guards went, "We'll see."
- Tilia-cordata: Matt, If he had failed the saving throw, would Percy have been forced to kill Cassandra? Had you always planned for her name to appear on the gun?
He always did intend for her name to appear on the gun. Unless there was some way in which they met Cassandra beforehand, they had snuck into the castle and came across her room beforehand and managed to break her of her cycle of mental abuse with the Briarwoods-- possibly it could have been averted but for the most part, it was designed to be one of those crux moments where it's a point of showing Percival how deep this terrible choice and deal he made can go.
- Brian: Matt, somebody had asked what would have happened to Percy had he shot everyone on the list including Cassandra. What would have happened to Percy?
Six more names would have appeared. The intent of Orthax's revenge curse is that it's continuous. Once you've made that deal, you take those six names out, well now there's six more people you have to kill. And if you don't have anybody you need vengeance for, let's go find people.
- RaibDarkin: Marisha, It was during this time that Keyleth made two of her most impressive moral stands. The first - refusing to have VM send the young Roc to Whitestone and the other by refusing to let the skeletal army overrun it. Is this where she began to realize she could be a leader?
No. Probably not. No, she was still suffering from crippling self-loathing. She still didn't believe in herself and still was dealing with insecurity issues. It took her a while. She thinks that Keyleth didn't fully believe it until the mantle was being put over her in the final ceremony. One of the bigger turning points of stepping up and making sure she was a leader was the kraken fight. [3]
- Marisha: Matt, had I not rolled a natural 20 when sticking my hand into the ziggurat, anything under the natural 20, what would have happened to Keyleth?
A natural 20 was pretty close to what you needed, or a high roll. She would have gone through, taken a shit ton of damage, and either died, or if she survived, thrust out into the Shadowfell, seriously jacked up on the outskirts of Thar Amphala. You would have found out a lot earlier the Vecna tie in to the story was, and it would have changed the story a lot at that point if Keyleth had survived. Matt can't recall the exact amount of damage, but the average was somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 to 150 damage. Marisha states that she didn't have that many hit points at that point. No one even knew Keyleth was down there. Everyone was asleep and she didn't even tell anybody. You would have woken up and Keyleth would have been gone.
CritRoleStats: Vox Machina dealt 50,074 damage. Grog took the most damage (5,646) and also dealt the most (10,038).
Arc III: The Chroma Conclave[]
This section covers "Omens" (1x39) through "The Deceiver's Stand" (1x83).
- Hadley DiForti: Matt, During the Conclave attack did you plan who you would kill off for story purposes or did you just roll the dice on their fate?
It was what made more sense. Matt wanted the Sovereign to die because he wanted it to be a transition into the Council, the Republic of Emon and Tal'Dorei, and he wanted it to be a central figure that had previously become the highest ally you had attained. To have the sovereign slaughtered immediately would be one of those giant wind out of the sails, you're on your own type sensation. He also thought which members of the council would be the most brave and resolute and try to throw their lives away in trying to attack this unassailable force that had just arrived.
- CommanderClay: Liam, would Vax have left Vox Machina if the Chroma Conclave had not attacked?
Liam doesn't know the answer to that. He definitely wouldn't have left without his sister. Liam was having the challenge and the fun of trying to figure out why he's still there. Liam states it was similar to Keyleth's moment in which she was deciding to stay or not. He says there was a lot of butting heads and the prank war which would have eventually reached a breaking point in which Vax would have had to make a choice whether to leave or stay.
- coelki_king: Matt, Did Vox Machina bring the dragons down on Emon because they messed with the orbs or did this event happen to coincide with that?
No, the event just happened to coincide. The plan that the Conclave had, it was geared upon the conjunction of Winter's Crest and Thordak's escape from the Fire Elemental plane. It was all long-planned by Raishan and the council. However, because Vox Machina had been recognized through the orbs, there was an element of recognizing who you were. It put you on Raishan's radar very heavily, which led to them finding information very quickly, ascertaining your location in Whitestone once things had gotten a little rough with the Conclave, and trying to find a strong position going forward.
- Liam: Follow-up question for Matt: Was it always your plan from when we were at home to get to that, and playing every six weeks, would we have gotten to that Conclave attack this weekend?
Probably, yeah. It was Matt's plan when he introduced the orbs and he introduced Krieg and Brimscythe, that was all going to be a lead up to the attack of the Conclave back then. Matt intended that to be an event down the road, and that was the tease to it. But going at the pace we were playing at home, we would have gotten to that by about now.
- Heather Johnson: Taliesin, What was Percy's plan to take out Grog in the workshop over the skull? He seemed very sure of himself in a tight space with a raging Goliath.
My thoughts were several. A, I can give him disadvantage on every attack, every round, and B, I know what is in every one of those bottles, and I had a working kiln. I thought I had enough stuff around there that I could have had him bathed in acid, knee-deep in sodium, and probably set on fire pretty quickly and kept out of his reach and kept keeping back, pushing back, and giving him as much disadvantage, blinding him. It would have been keeping lots of status effects.
- coelki_king: Matt, How close was Gilmore to dying before Vox Machina found him under his shop?
It was really close. It was a choice to either go for the gold, the treasure, the money, and items that had been shifted away from the Clasp, or go directly for Gilmore. If they chose to go for the treasure, Gilmore would have been dead by the time they found him.
- Kuributt: Laura, What did Vex find under Gilmore's bed when he sent them to Marquet?
Vex found a bunch of love letters from Gilmore and his first boyfriend. Vex didn't tell anyone because to seemed personal.
- Crepuscularious: Matt, What were the horrible possibilities the team sidestepped with Kashaw's resurrection of Vex? Was invoking Vesh as much of a razor's edge as it appeared?
It wasn't so much a razor's edge but it would have piqued the Raven Queen's interest. Vesh is an entity that kept to the shadows and focused on Kashaw's journey, would have been forced to turn an eye to Vox Machina and meddle in those affairs. And in a weird way, the deal with the Raven Queen circumvented that. So much of the story changed the moment that Vax stepped forward.
- TheHollyPhoenix: Ashley, How did Pike feel knowing that going and getting her armor probably made the difference between Daxio being destroyed and not?
Ashley is very happy about it. Getting that vestige was a huge part of Pike feeling important in battle. Getting the courage to go out and be in the middle, and knowing that it would be okay if she got knocked out a couple times, and she'd be fine.
- Stephen David Dougan: Matt, How did Kevdak come to have the Titanstone Knuckles? What were his aspirations beyond being a dragon's lackey?
Matt envisions he got the Knuckles by beating to an absolute bloody pulp the previous owner. It was a chance meeting with the vestiges and it wasn't something that he sought. The owner was moving through the Tal'Dorei countryside, got waylaid by the Herd of Storms, and unexpectedly was bludgeoned to death, by chance and Kevdak then took the Knuckles and was like "I can rise to power with these." Kevdak was not the leader at the time, and brutally worked his way up into helming the Herd of Storms. He had no aspirations beyond being the head of the group, expanding the herd, and taking what he wanted. Once the Conclave came and destroyed most of what was society, protected society, at that time, that was when he saw the opportunity. The guards could not protect the cities and are too disorganized to truly protect the cities. That was when he finally saw the opportunity. like, "These guards cannot repel us. They are disorganized. They are focused on this other foe. Now's the time for us to finally live like kings." He convinced the herd to charge Westruun with him. The guards were unprepared for a group of very focused and very powerful warriors, when most of their guard had been slaughtered or scattered. That's when they made the deal with Umbrasyl, in which he was like "I will work with you" but also had the notion, once getting that taste of power, to destroy or bend Umbrasyl to his will and become Dragon King Kevdak.
- Ashley: Matt, What was in the box of Senokir's wife's ashes?
It was his wife's ashes. He was completely, 100 percent honest.
- CainhurstCrow: Liam, Were you intending to multiclass into Paladin before the events of the Raven Queen's tomb?
Liam was strongly considering it. He hadn't made up his mind, but he was leaning that way, because he was forming this new branch of friendship with Pike, and being fascinated with the things that she did. The group had a meeting a week later, and Liam did not want the armor at the time, and he was not happy about how the events in the tomb went down. But now he wouldn't change a thing.
- Liam: Matt, follow up question, fate-touched, Was it always going to be a thing, or do you think that just sprang out of that moment?
No. Matt decided on the fate-touched thing because he knew Liam was going through some hard stuff, and Matt wanted to give some little special light to him.
- CainhurstCrow: Travis, During the Kevdak fight, did you initially go in thinking you could win head on against Kevdak? Or did you always intend for Vox Machina to come into the fray?
Travis had no idea. He just knew he wanted to face him head-on to start with. Even if it was going to go south super fast like it did, he just wanted to get an idea. And Travis says he was woefully unprepared, especially when Matt was like, "You realize that he is not taking as much damage as you think he should." Travis was like, "Oh, shit." It was nice that everybody had taken up positions and everything, and then he knew it would be a good chance to just call in arms, and just trying to set a little bit of a trap. But he got to face him on his terms, and that's all he really wanted.
- Aegis_of_Ages: Laura, When you found out you had been assigned a new alignment did you change the way you were playing Vex?
Laura doesn't think she deserved that change in alignment. She says all she did is steal a broom. But she doesn't say whether or not it changed the way she played Vex.
- Karraxx: Sam, What was in the letter that Scalan gave to Pike?
This is the letter "Dearest Pike, my entire life, I've been half a man. Not in stature, nor confidence, nor certainly not in reputation, but you see, even though my heart has pumped blood for these 69 years, it has done so only as half a heart. The moment I first saw you was not a choir of angels singing, nor silly butterflies fluttering in my chest. No, the moment I met Pike Trickfoot-- I haven't read this in a year-- the moment I met Pike Trickfoot was the tragic moment I realized that my heart, my soul, would be forever incomplete without you. For years, I've strived to mend to mend my incomplete heart. To join it with yours and find true bliss at your side. Though it may not have seemed so, everything I've done these past years has been to impress you, please you, protect you. I knew early on it was a futile effort, I'm not stupid. The entire world may be mad, but that doesn't nullify the laws of reality, one law being that you are, and will always be, too good for a poor penny-singer like Scanlan Shorthalt. But even though I would not win you, your love, I could never stop trying. Does the sun stop rising when the clouds blot it out? No. Like me, it knows its purpose. To illuminate the world so that mortals can witness such beauty as you. Oh, that's right! Okay, good. But now, as the sun sets on my life, I have discovered something new. I have a daughter whose heart beats my blood and whose life is my own. And she, unlike her father, can be good and right and one day worthy of your love, which is why, on my deathbed, I leave her to you. Don't you see? This whole time I thought I was chasing a lover, but instead, I have been chasing a mother for my child. You, Pike Trickfoot, are the savior to Kaylie that I could never be. Your wisdom and honor and goodness can give her the chance at redemption that I never had. Pike, take my daughter as your own, show her the light of Sarenrae. Guide her to be a kind-hearted gnome. Teach her to be everything her father was not. That way, in death, my heart will be complete. And it will beat inside Kaylie, by your side, like I always dreamed it would. With love and respect, Burt Reynolds, Esquire.
- EvilGeniusReborn: Matt, In your head, what vestiges did you intend to go to which player?
Some vestiges were geared towards certain players, like Mythcarver for Scanlan, the Titanstone Knuckles for Grog, and the Spire of Conflux for Keyleth. But when it came to the Deathwalker's Ward, the Cabal's Ruin, those were a little more open. With Fenthras, it was probably going to go to Laura, but depending on who wanted to focus on what, it was either the opportunity of people swapping them, or one person was better with a single vestige or multiple vestiges, that could be decided.
- phorsi: Taliesin, What did the party have to say to convince you to come back from the dead?
It was less what they had to say and what they could have said that would've made him say no. There were certain appeals that they could have made that Percy would've ignored. Religion was a big one. But it was all about finding reasons to come back. Taliesin was really happy to let it be a 50/50 flip. It could have gone either way. That could have been a great end to that character.
- Charlie John Boychuk: Matt, What would have happened had Vox Machina permitted Raishan her time with Thordak's Corpse?
So what Raishan was doing with Thordak's corpse was an ancient variant of Speak with Dead. Now when you cast Speak with Dead, you rise the spirit up and you can ask it questions, and it can decide whether or not it wants to answer truthfully or answer at all. What she was concocting was a more intense version of that, that actually tortures and forces information out of his soul. What she was trying to do was be given a moment where she could extract information from Thordak's soul. And the information she wanted was the location of Opash's lair and what he wanted: what was the secret, the secret to her-- it wasn't Opash's lair, it was what was the secret to her getting rid of the disease that she knew, she saw in his eyes, that he was truthful about from the very beginning. And that information was Opash's lair, and when you interrupted her, she sealed you guys off, continued with the ritual, got enough information to get out of there to Opash's lair, teleport there, and then got the rest of the information she needed when she had absconded with it. So that's why when she left and she put the force wall there, it was just to keep you at bay, just to give her enough time to get the information she needed to know where to go, and then took his corpse with her so she could get the last bit of information when she had found herself there.
CritRoleStats: 86 rages for Grog, 3,658 hp healed for Pike, 474 Vex arrows, 36 Percy Misfires, 264 DM facepalms, 110 Keyleth beastshapes, most used shape is earth elemental 15 times, 136 Scanlan inspirations, and 21 Vax one-shot kills.
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Guest Stars[]
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Will Friedle, Darin De Paul, Jason Charles Miller, and ND Stevenson take over to answer some questions.
- Darin De Paul plugs a few episodes of his and Amy's early morning show on Alpha.
- Will Friedle plugs Painter's Guild
- Jason Charles Miller plugs Starter Kit
- What is the biggest difference between playing here vs playing at home?
- Mary: It was my first show, trial by fire.
- Will: same
- Would you prefer to be thrown in the deep end?
- Will: yes
- Darin: It's improv and yes and, creating an adventure is good.
- ND: People care, unlike a home game!
Arc IV: The Adventures of Taryon Darrington[]
This section covers "Loose Ends" (1x84) through "Masquerade" (1x99).
- _quietbatpeople: Sam, If Revivify had been successful in the second fight against Raishan, and Scanlan hadn't had to go through the Res ritual, would he still have left VM? Was it the act of dying or the circumstances surrounding the ritual (Kaylie, etc.) that were more influential?
It was the act of dying that pushed him over the edge. There was a long buildup to him leaving. He had discovered his daughter. It brought front and center that he was a shithead most of his life. He was doing stuff with drugs, or trying to, anyway.
- Hawaiianxngel: Matt, regarding the kraken, could Vox Machina have had the chance of killing it (even though they weren't supposed to)? What would have happened if the kraken died?
They totally could have killed the kraken. If circumstances allowed them to or if they decided to. If the kraken had died, the lodestone sources that both prevent the expansion of the rift between the water elemental plane and the ocean there would have been lost. The lodestones do slowly degenerate over time. They also keep Vesrah aloft above the ocean. It would've begun to sink. The sinking isn't immediate, and they would have had about five years to find another kraken.
- Shackleface: Ashley, you've mentioned that if you'd been able to be there for Scanlan's departure, Pike would've had a few things to say to him. What sort of things would you have said?
Sam remarks that she would have been the only person that probably could have stopped him from leaving. Ashley says that she got a lot of it out when Scanlan came back and she got the courage to say it.
- Luap82517: Matt, what would have happened if Keyleth had failed her Aramente trial. Would she have been able to try again?
Keyleth wouldn't have been able to try again. She could join a small council there is for the Air Ashari alongside her father, Korrin. Somebody else would have been chosen to take on the Aramente to become the next leader.
- ThisTinSoldier: Laura, this arc is where Vex saw the true face of wealth in Tary's arsenal and his pomp and attitude. Was this one of the deciding factors that mellowed her money-grubbing tendencies?
No. Once she got money, she mellowed out. Once she didn't have to worry about paying for things anymore, she calmed down.
- JornCener: Matt, what was the plan for Hotis, assuming VM hadn't ended him? Would he have shown up in the final arc, or would he have been left as a lingering threat for the next campaign?"
He wouldn't have been a threat for the next campaign as the rakshasa is only bent on revenge towards the one who killed them.
- Hakumen_narukami: Sam, you mentioned before that Tary was only meant to stay for a couple of sessions. When was Scanlan meant to come back before the one year break?
Sam had no idea. He assumed it would be two or three episode stint and then he would die and Sam would have to figure out a way to bring Scanlan back.
- ForsakenGrundle: Matt, is there anything the soulstones from Dis could have been used for?
Other than a quick high and a temporary advantage to initiative, not really. They're meant for consumption by devils and other entities that can gain power from souls.
- Jacob Thomas Bush: Taliesin, there was a moment after Percy used the Scrying Eye that felt like he wanted to kill Scanlan, but Vex talked him out of it. If she didn't intervene, what would've happened?
He wouldn't have killed him. He would sneak in, cripple him, take all his stuff, and tell him to never come back.
- Melzy89: Travis, Grog has come close to finding lady love (or at least infatuation) on a number of occasions. Do you consider any of the women Grog encountered "the one that got away"?
No. The rest of the cast ask if Grog "boinked" the nymph and he says no, Grog was very meek when confronted with this super hot naked nymph creature. It was ceremonial from her perspective, but also an effort by Matt to make Travis uncomfortable.
- TiamatZX: Everyone, were there any other small things that the group did together on their year off that have not yet been revealed?" Did everything pretty much come out?
Nothing that didn't come out during previous Talks. Laura then remembers that Vex and Percy broke up, then got back together, then eloped.
- DerAlpi: Matt, what were the consequences of being caught listening to theatre in the Feywild?
If you are found listening to the theatre, you are caught and made to be a member. They pull your soul to join the theatre, which means you either flee, or fail to flee and become a member of the theatre. Everyone who is there got caught and was forced to join.
- T_fallenangel_T: Laura & Taliesin, can you share with us the marriage proposal (who asked who & how), why did you not tell Vox Machina, who married you (was it Pike?), and did Tary know?
They were out on a walk and were talking about marriage and both had the notion of "let's not be a couple like your brother and Keyleth." Which then they were like, let's do this, and went and eloped. A priest married them, and Tary only found out by the chance that he was in the house.
- snickerdoodle65: Sam, was Scanlan close enough to hear Pike with the earring whenever she tried to talk to him?
No, she was always too far to hear him.
- HeidiDobson2: Matt, after the year break, it was said that no one found Scanlan when they searched for him. How many actually found him, but had Modify Memory cast on them?
None. He didn't want to be found, and there were a few attempts. Pike and Grog tried to find him but they didn't think to look on another continent because Scanlan was in Marquet and Pike and Grog were on Tal'Dorei.
- TalaTag: Liam, what would Vax's reaction have been had he found out about Vex and Percy's wedding before everything went down with Vecna and the Raven Queen deal, after Vex herself had specifically told him not to get married in secret?
He would have just asked why. It would have been different if Laura hadn't said "Don't go off to Zephrah and get married without me there."
- Futureshocking: Marisha, at the temple of Melora, after burying Senokir's wife's ashes, it seemed like they really wanted their Spire of Conflux back. Given that at the time the Chroma Conclave was defeated, did Keyleth ever consider handing it over?
Marisha thought about it but no, she didn't want to give it back. She just likes it too much and says it pulls the whole Voice of the Tempest look together.
- Legotti: Ashley, would you have wanted to play an evil Pike had her family's tales of the curse been true? What were you expecting through this bit of story?
Ashley thought that would have been very fun. She didn't know that any of that was going to happen, but, she would have gone along with it if it did happen.
- AlwayzB_: Matt, if Sam hadn't rolled so well, using his fate die no less, to convince Lord Darrington to back down, how did you see things going?
Not well for the Darrington family. It would have been the end of the family unit. He probably would have been cast out of the house indefinitely. His mother would have been forced to choose between. It would have sundered the whole family.
- Laura: Matt, did you have plans for the hag cashing in the favor from Vax?
He did, but by the time he was planning to pull it into the story, other threads were prominent and it would have just made it messy.
- roadrunner032: Travis, how long did it take for Grog to get truly angry with Scanlan for leaving? Would he have been as angry if Lionel was not a barbarian as well?
Grog was not mad at Scanlan until he came back. With the illusion, and the wearing the disguise and everything. It was instantaneous rage from Pike and Grog. A, that he had to pretend. B, we had been worried about him. And then C, brought this jackass that was like a half-orc imitation of Grog. An idiot, a barbarian, and Grog had the biggest jealousy issue of all time. He was ready to pick Scanlan up and just smash his brain into jelly and just paint on the wall.
CritRoleStats: Most cast spell for each character: Keyleth: Transport Via Plants 43 times, Scanlan: Healing Word 47 times, Percy: Hex 27 times, Vex: Hunter's Mark 80 times, Vax: Lay on Hands 25 times, Pike: Cure Wounds 40 times, and Grog: Enlarge 18 times.
Arc V: Vecna[]
This section covers "Unfinished Business" (1x100) through "The Chapter Closes" (1x115).
- AlwayzB_: Matt, how many other gods could Vox Machina have talked to? Related, how many trammels or boons were possible to get?
From each deity that they reached out to, they could have acquired a seed or a spark that could be created into a trammel. They went to the deities they were closest to because they were fast tracks to the ones that would have the closest connection and the easiest, most fine-tuned challenges to what you're able to do. For the other deities, they would have to research what they're about, where they are, how to get there and then each one of those experiences would have been a much longer and challenging endeavor. That's more time that would have added to the progression of Vecna's power. If you had gone to a fourth deity, there probably wouldn't be a Vasselheim standing, Vecna would have performed the miracle, would have begun to understand abilities beyond the avatar form. If you'd gone to two more trammels, the expansion of power would have gone past the ocean into Tal'Dorei and Marquet. I had a scaling element to his power based on how many things you went for. Had you gone beyond those core deities that you already had connections with, it was going to get more challenging down the road.
- Nuclearwhale94: Sam, why did Scanlan choose Ank'Harel to go back to? We know he got scammed out of some gold, but why did he stay longer than just long enough to get his revenge?
It took some time to get his revenge. Those guys who wronged him did not live there. They were traveling assholes. He had to sit and wait. As he sat and waited, he got used to living there and got a little taste for the power! The crime power! Taste of furniture!
- Baylaust: Ashley, Was there a specific moment when Pike's feelings for Scanlan began changing? If so, what was it that made her reconsider?
A lot of it started in the letter. Even in their home games, she thinks the two of them would flirt a little bit. She didn't take it very seriously because she didn't think that he was very serious about it. When he left, she realized how much she cared for him and missed him. When he came back, he was different and a little bit more mature and she thought the time had passed.
- Brooke Casey: Matt, where did Vecna keep his phylactery?
Matt knows where. No one else is going to know that. That's not campaign information; that's world lore information!
- TiamatZX: Laura, did Vex take the name de Rolo after her marriage?
"Yeah"
- MsMaggie357: Matt, the Titanstone Knuckles vibrating seemed reminiscent of Mythcarver vibrating in the slave market battle. What were the Knuckles trying to tell Grog?
A couple of things. They were resonating because they were close to the source of which they are carved. The earth titan that was raised is what the Titanstone Knuckles were forged from. The vibration when you got there was a key to that and a possible other key to tackling the conflict with Vecna. Because of the siege elements of it and the resonation between it, the gauntlets gave a bonus in structural damage against the interior of the titan. There were other ways to slow it. If you decided not to the stealth topside element, you could also begin to damage around the legs, knee structures, and cripple it from the inside. That would have stopped the titan from moving. It would have been slowly regenerating, but you would have slowed it down or stopped it for a period of time. That would have also notified all of Thar Amphala that you were there. It would have been an upward fight through the armies. There were benefits to all the different choices you made, but that was one option that you could have made.
- amun1221: Taliesin, was Percy troubled by the escape of Sylas?
No. He had transferred a lot of his angst over that whole process to other people by that point. Taliesin feels certain that if he comes back, we can deal with him. We had ruined him already. He had shifted his anger and frustration at the world onto other people by that point. He says that it was never about Sylas on a weird certain level.
- DavidMoMahoney: Matt, who was the death knight?
Actually, this ties into what he answered earlier. (See the Briarwoods arc above, the question by Arthur Ornelas). That was the servant. As it grew closer to Vecna's ascension, this servant was rewarded for centuries and centuries of undead vigilance, looking over and keeping hidden these spaces in Wildemount. He was elevated to death knight status and became one of the great warriors of Vecna's return. Doesn't even know his name. He's been old and held in that space alone for so long that has no recollection of the living life before and only understands its existence at the behest of Vecna.
- Oatey_Goat: Liam, is there anyone that you wish you'd had time to say goodbye to before the Raven Queen took you?
If he had a week to go on a tour and see people, he would have tried to make an awkward peace with his father. He would've said goodbye to Korren at that point. He would've said goodbye to his friend, Gilmore. Everything was so quick, his little sister he barely had any moment with before he was gone. Liam thinks that's it. These are the most important. he says maybe he's forgetting somebody, but these are the most important people in his life. It's his family. 100% his family. Not even like, "This is my family, this my other." This is his only family.
- ForsakenGrundle: Marisha, do you feel Keyleth was ready to lead her people by the end of the campaign?
Yeah! She thinks it still would have been a learning process getting into it, but Marisha thinks she had made peace that she was ready to do that and retire from adventuring because she was pretty exhausted by the end of that. She was pretty done. Ready to move onto the next chapter in her life.
- Marion_Avalon: Matt, did you know what Sam had planned with his level nine spell to save Vax?
He knew that Sam had an inclination because Sam came to Matt and was like "what can this spell affect?" Matt says it's such a broad spell and outlined Sam some vague ideas. Matt goes on to say it's powerful because it has so many things that it can do, but there are limits to its power and what it can achieve, so it's important to consider timing, scope, specific words. So when Sam said the Counterspell in the final battle, it hit Matt: all the conversations between they had, it hit all at once. He says you can see it on his face in the episode. He says it's one of his favorite moments of the game.
- Cardamonelaw: Sam, Scanlan went toe-to-toe with a god, and between True Polymorph and Wish, can potentially do almost anything... except save or bring back his friend. How do you imagine he reconciles being both all-powerful yet completely powerless in his retirement?
He can't. Sam thinks he feels like it was a big opportunity lost and that he ultimately failed, but as he gets older, he realizes it's okay to fail. He realizes you don't have to succeed in everything to make a difference in people's' lives you still care about.
- Myrynorunshot: Matt, what was on the opposite side of Entropis from the lab the party passed through?
The opposite side they didn't go up had a bunch of ancient holy relics that had been sundered and destroyed. It was the research laboratory for the creation of the seed that ascended Vecna. One side was the torture, mutilation, gathering of information from the flesh. The other side was the desecration, destruction, and tearing of information from ancient relics past. The two together is what eventually led to preparation for the Ritual of Seeding, which allowed his ascension.
- Cat1832: Taliesin, what were you originally envisioning for Percy's ending?
Percy was going to save Vax. Percy was going to make a deal at the last minute and sell his soul, get the punishment he felt he deserved eventually when death came. Even though he understood that that contract would go horribly wrong, he would've convinced himself that it didn't matter where he went when he died anyway. He was of the impression, "I'm going somewhere awful already. Why not get something out of it?" And then once doubt crept in, it became that weird moment of: what am I doing with my life and why am I making all these poor decisions?! I don't know how I lied to myself to convince myself that was going to work, but somehow it worked.
- Aegis_of_Ages: Travis, what was Grog thinking about when he decided to seek an education?
Travis thinks he just wanted to get smarter.
- PhoenixHeart815: Matt, what was Syldor's reaction to Vax's death?
Grief. Though they were estranged for many years, he regrets the treatment of his two twin children and has been spending a large part of his life thereafter trying to reconcile the choices he made as a father to them. Beyond the grief and sadness there, there's a lot of pride in the things that he's learning that his son accomplished, and his twin daughter has continued to go into. He's learned a lot of lessons about the issues in Syngorn's society and acceptance of other races, cultures. He's doing the best he can, within his own lower political position, to try and influence future generations and politics between the nations to be a little more open.
- GloraiRokicki: Matt, did Vex's relationship with her father change after she saved Velora's life?
Later in life, they made peace with each other. She worked to rebuild that relationship. That came from having five kids with Percy and going: Oh, this is what family means. This is what having children means. It suddenly became very important in a different way to reach out to Syldor.
- Zelda_CR_Fan: Matt, what happened with Vax and the Raven Queen after his death? Did he keep her company as she once mentioned or did he simply have a peaceful afterlife?
He doesn't want to answer too much of this because he likes to leave the ethereal essence of these questions to interpretation. Matt thinks a little bit of both though. As part of that process, Vax was able to reconnect with the spirit of his mother, even if temporarily or occasionally. But also, as was decided and discussed between the two of them, prevent an element of loneliness in that transition for her. The small section of mortal self that she maintains takes solace in keeping the champions close. Ever watching and doing the work she needs. Matt doesn't want to go any deeper than that because he doesn't think he needs to.
- Cardamonelaw: Matt, was there any other means of stopping the Titan other than binding and slaying Vecna?
That was one of the things we mentioned earlier. The Titanstone Gauntlets. Destroying it from the inside, hobbling it from the interior. Those were really the only means that would have functioned. The exterior was too powerful. It could only be damaged from the inside. It's serious business.
- BrandieFree: Marisha, would Keyleth ever cast Speak with Animals on the large raven that visits her every day?
Marisha thinks she would've hesitantly tried. She doesn't know if she would've gotten the results that would've wanted, which is why she would even be so tentative to doing it in the first place. Almost better to keep the illusion it for sure is Vax than the confirmation that it might not be at all.
- Xarkost: Travis, what were the final contents of the bag of holding?
A shitload of silverware, some candles, some stones. He had a shitload of caltrops and handcuffs. A dried poo disc that broke. There was some armor. The big black sapphire he gave to Scanlan to get married to Pike with. A shitload of expensive-ass bottles of wine. Basically a bunch of other random shit. It was like a busted-up Home Depot at the end. And Liam adds a troll dick in some mage robes. Laura has the Kevdak skin in the bag of colding. Travis also adds that there's 10,000 pieces of platinum in the bag to which Laura gets mad at him for.
- F3ntin: Liam, how does Vax feel about his ending? Is he a little bit bitter about how soon it was or is he only concerned for his friends and accepts his fate gladly?
In the final moments? Liam doesn't think there's an answer for after. This is similar-- mystery is better. But in the last moments? No, he was not bitter. It was very heavy. He felt very full as well and knew that his sister was taken care of.
- IfThenAnderson: Ashley, who was Pike's other love interest, and how did she come to reconcile those emotions with her ultimate choice of 'extremely settling for' Scanlan?
For a very long time, it was Percy. She thinks she saw through her faith and the light that she carried within her that he was a marked man. She could see the weight on his shoulders and the darkness that he carried with him. She did so much thinking and praying for his soul. I think all of that time spent on him was confusing to her. Obviously, it never would've worked! But in the end, it was always Scanlan. I think there was some time there where she was a little taken by the dark side.
- PragmaticBeaver: Everyone, when your characters look back at their time as world renowned adventurers, what memories stand out the most as moments they will never forget?
- Travis: Dropping on Kevdak from the necklace. Bar none.
- Liam: Saying goodbye. Gilmore stabbing him.
- Marisha: Cherry blossoms in the tree in the Voice of the Tempest ceremony. The hanging tree.
- Laura: Talking to Trinket for the first time. Also flying.
- Sam: Trying to kill Trinket for the first time.
- Taliesin: Letting go when Ripley shot him. Actually, on the other end of that, realizing that Percy was in love with Vex was pretty impressive.
- Ashley: I think it goes back to my first game. That changed my life.
- Matt: Everything they've mentioned here and so many more. It's hard to pick, it really is, there's so many.
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- ↑ Credited as Noelle Stevenson; Stevenson changed his name in 2021.
- ↑ See "The Story of Vox Machina" (Sx06) at 19:51.
- ↑ See "Tangled Depths" (1x88) at 5:21:30.
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