The Tower | 4-Sided Dive | Episode 29 Discussing Up To C3113

Summary

Critical Role Podcast Summary

Episode: The Tower | 4-Sided Dive | Episode 29 Discussing Up To C3113
Release Date: November 15, 2024
Host/Author: Critical Role
Description: Welcome to Critical Role, home of a bunch of nerdy-ass voice actors playing tabletop roleplaying games! Enter a world of glorious imagination and improvisation with a group of the finest collaborative storytellers around.

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Introduction

In this episode of Four-Sided Dive, the Critical Role team—Laura Bailey, Sam Riegel, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, and Aabria Iyengar—engage in a lively roundtable discussion delving into the events and character developments up to campaign milestone C3113. The conversation is rich with humor, insightful reflections, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes that offer fans a deeper understanding of the ongoing campaign.

Major In-Game Events

Meeting Deities and the Matron of Raisins
The team reflects on interacting with powerful beings within the game, including a humorous encounter with the "Matron of Raisins." Laura Bailey highlights the excitement of meeting gods, stating, “I've been with you guys for a few days and I've met two gods now” (00:27). The discussion touches on the complexities of deity interactions and the impact these encounters have on the campaign's narrative.

Battle Against the Undead and the Nine Hells
Taliesin Jaffe expresses, “It was terrifying, but one of our better episodes” (16:36), referring to the tense moments battling undead forces from the Nine Hells. The team discusses the intense and thrilling aspects of these encounters, emphasizing how they contribute to character growth and story progression.

Character Developments and Interactions

Character Relationships and Dynamics
A significant portion of the conversation revolves around the evolving relationships between characters. Marisha Ray comments on the complexity of their romantic dynamics, particularly Pike and Scanlan’s tumultuous romance. Sam Riegel shares insights into Pike's motivations, saying, “It's the pouch too. But no, it’s a mirror of their own recklessness” (67:08).

Emotional Growth and Personal Struggles
Laura Bailey discusses Keyleth’s emotional struggles, stating, “She's grown more confident and mature, but she hasn't moved on emotionally” (37:08). The team explores how these personal challenges add depth to the characters and drive the overarching narrative forward.

Humorous Moments and Behind-the-Scenes Anecdotes

Adventures as Vox Machina
The actors reminisce about playing their original campaign, Vox Machina, bringing nostalgic humor into the discussion. Taliesin Jaffe remarks, “It feels like a hot cup of cocoa in a warm blanket. Just so cozy” (29:26), highlighting the camaraderie and warmth of the original group dynamics.

Creative Challenges and Improvisation
Sam Riegel shares a funny moment where he improvises a game segment, exclaiming, “This is literally the arguments we have off camera” (04:45). The actors laugh over the spontaneous and sometimes chaotic nature of their creative processes, showcasing their ability to turn real-life quirks into entertaining in-game scenarios.

Meta Discussions and Campaign Insights

Art and Character Design
The conversation shifts to the importance of character art, with Sam Riegel emphasizing, “I want to make sure these designs are really where they need to be” (94:05). Laura Bailey adds, “I want to see these” (30:39), underscoring the team's dedication to ensuring that character visuals faithfully represent their personalities and story arcs.

Evolving Storylines and Future Directions
The team discusses potential future developments, including the fate of certain characters and the overarching goals of their current campaign. Marisha Ray hopes, “The matron's gonna be like, it's my parting gift. Here you go” (39:30), hinting at upcoming divine interventions and character resolutions.

Conclusions and Final Thoughts

Commitment to the Campaign and Community Engagement
As the episode wraps up, the team reiterates their commitment to delivering engaging content for their community. They encourage listeners to participate by submitting questions and staying connected through various platforms. Sam Riegel concludes with a heartfelt thank you, saying, “See you again next month” (102:40), emphasizing the collaborative spirit that defines Critical Role.

Upcoming Events and Promotions
Despite skipping the advertisements, the summary acknowledges the seamless integration of promotional segments that support their various projects, highlighting the balance between entertainment and community support.

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Notable Quotes

• Laura Bailey: “I've been with you guys for a few days and I've met two gods now.” (00:27)
• Taliesin Jaffe: “It was terrifying, but one of our better episodes.” (16:36)
• Sam Riegel: “It's the pouch too. But no, it’s a mirror of their own recklessness.” (67:08)
• Laura Bailey: “She's grown more confident and mature, but she hasn't moved on emotionally.” (37:08)
• Sam Riegel: “This is literally the arguments we have off camera.” (04:45)
• Taliesin Jaffe: “It feels like a hot cup of cocoa in a warm blanket. Just so cozy.” (29:26)
• Marisha Ray: “The matron's gonna be like, it's my parting gift. Here you go.” (39:30)
• Sam Riegel: “I want to make sure these designs are really where they need to be.” (94:05)

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Conclusion

Episode 29 of Four-Sided Dive offers a comprehensive and entertaining exploration of Critical Role's ongoing campaign up to C3113. Through candid discussions, the voice actors provide valuable insights into character developments, in-game events, and the creative processes that drive their storytelling. The episode not only deepens fans' understanding of the narrative but also highlights the strong camaraderie and passion that make Critical Role a beloved series in the tabletop roleplaying community.

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Note: Timestamps correspond to moments within the provided transcript and are denoted in MM:SS format for easy reference.

Transcript

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[Sam Riegel]

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[Laura Bailey]

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[Sam Riegel]

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[Marisha Ray]

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[Sam Riegel]

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[Taliesin Jaffe]

Welcome to foursighted Dive. Critical Role's monthly show featuring a roundtable discussion about the events and characters of our current campaign alongside a heavy helping of hijinks. Four Sided Dive usually airs the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm Pacific on our Twitch and YouTube channels, with the VOD available on YouTube the very next day. And of course, each episode releases right here on the Critical Role podcast network the following Friday. Let's take a dive, shall we?

[Sam Riegel]

This is just fucking weird. Welcome back. Let's begin the night with our open discussion segment.

[Laura Bailey]

What the fuck was up with that?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, honestly, what the fuck was up with that?

[Marisha Ray]

You made up the game, Taliesin.

[Sam Riegel]

I did.

[Marisha Ray]

You should not get the name of it.

[Sam Riegel]

I get to update it. This is the new expansion. Because we have three teams now, so it's our expansion. Look at how I covered that bullshit.

[Marisha Ray]

That was great.

[Sam Riegel]

You're welcome.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Robots have cursed your brain.

[Sam Riegel]

It really did. That is a. I have the virus now.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It is awful.

[Sam Riegel]

Not a real vi. Well, it's a brain virus. It's been a day, kids. So, so much has happened.

[Laura Bailey]

So much.

[Sam Riegel]

We talked to a God. We talked to the matron.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, that's right.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

This is the matron of raisins.

[Marisha Ray]

We fought at the Matron of Raisins.

[Sam Riegel]

A matron of raisins.

[Marisha Ray]

Uh huh.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

How bad was that? Bad meaning how badass was that map that Matt made?

[Sam Riegel]

I really.

[Laura Bailey]

How bad ass was that Matt? The mat made?

[Marisha Ray]

I realized I had so many M's, I had to think about what I was gonna say.

[Sam Riegel]

You guys, Matt's map was.

[Laura Bailey]

It was cool.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It really has been a day. It was very cool.

[Laura Bailey]

It was cool. It was cool to meet the matron. It was cool that. I mean for me, for my guy. I've been with you guys for a few days and I've met two gods now.

[Marisha Ray]

I like how you've been with us for like four days and you still took the mask from the matron when, like, it was so meant for Laudna.

[Laura Bailey]

Of course it was.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Can I have it?

[Marisha Ray]

You already took it.

[Laura Bailey]

You can certainly try.

[Marisha Ray]

Didn't you already take it?

[Laura Bailey]

No, I gave it back to you when you wanted it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You gave it to me and then you were like, give it back.

[Sam Riegel]

Between Fern and I, we can get that back.

[Laura Bailey]

I wanted to prey on it, which I don't think I've had a chance to do yet.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No. Well, we did it. It's old she gimbal jumble gibberish.

[Marisha Ray]

Don't keep it. Cause it's gonna turn into the flute. Like Scanlan, when he had the flute, and then you never used it, and you had this super magical, powerful item, and you were like, are you flaving yourself?

[Sam Riegel]

This is literally the arguments we have off camera.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I think I do remember the flavor.

[Laura Bailey]

Wait, wait, wait. Just stick on one.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We're immediately fighting about items. We're five minutes in.

[Marisha Ray]

Where's Liam?

[Sam Riegel]

We fight about items that existed eight years ago, nine years ago, and we're all still bitter.

[Laura Bailey]

When I said I wanted to prey on it, I didn't mean cast identify on it. I mean pray. Yeah, I haven't done that yet. You cast identify on it and you saw some gibberish. Or somebody did. Right?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Someone did.

[Laura Bailey]

We don't know what it is or what it can do, but we know what it is, but we don't know what it can do.

[Sam Riegel]

Correct.

[Laura Bailey]

So I would love the chance to prey on it. However, if you want it back, just ask.

[Sam Riegel]

Are you there, Matron? It's me, Reyes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So, wait, but you also. You're just being a little God whore.

[Marisha Ray]

I know. Kind of. Why do you need to pray on the matron when you already have the dragon and the bad guy?

[Laura Bailey]

That's why I need to pray on it. To sort of offer it up to one of these gods and say not to give it to them.

[Marisha Ray]

What if they do? What if you pray and the Lord of Lies is like, I will take this mask. And he takes it from you. And you, as Breus would totally fucking give it to him.

[Sam Riegel]

How?

[Laura Bailey]

He's down somewhere.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't know. You would give it to him, though, if he was like, give it to me.

[Laura Bailey]

Then you better get a vaccine. Cause you don't know, between Fearne and.

[Sam Riegel]

I, we can make that happen.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, that's fair.

[Sam Riegel]

Thank you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We'll figure it out.

[Marisha Ray]

You can just ask him. He'd give.

[Laura Bailey]

I could also pray to the matron.

[Sam Riegel]

You don't need a mask to pray to the matron.

[Marisha Ray]

We talked to her. Why would you need to pray to her?

[Sam Riegel]

She was right there.

[Laura Bailey]

That's a fair point. I prefer texting.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

That'S fully what it is. There's an app for that.

[Marisha Ray]

I have so many things I wanted to say.

[Laura Bailey]

Does anyone really talk on the phone?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Hey, I slept on it. And these are all the things I should have said. Yes, yes.

[Marisha Ray]

What else did we do?

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, we fought some shit.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, we also. We went and talked to the council. We went to Alexandria and we were like. Talk to the accounts.

[Laura Bailey]

Yes, but before that. Sorry. With the council, I was. While we Were playing Council while we were playing that night.

[Sam Riegel]

They're Muppets.

[Laura Bailey]

I texted Amy and I was like, we're fighting you right now.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, that's right. We were talking about that.

[Laura Bailey]

Who plays Opal on the show if you don't know? Everybody? And she was like, oh, my God, why am I gonna die? And I was like, I don't think you're real. And so she was okay with that. But then she was.

[Sam Riegel]

Did you tell Amy.

[Marisha Ray]

Did you tell Amy that she wasn't real?

[Laura Bailey]

I texted her again. I was like, now we've really met you. And she's like, for real? I was like, yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Going to.

[Laura Bailey]

And she's like, am I good or bad? And I was like, I don't really know.

[Marisha Ray]

She's bad. She's got, like, 10, eight arms. Because she's a spider.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Does.

[Sam Riegel]

Does eight arms make you bad?

[Laura Bailey]

Sure.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

Sure. The more arms, the badder.

[Marisha Ray]

Over every arm you up 10% evilness.

[Sam Riegel]

So that once you hit 10 arms, it's all over.

[Laura Bailey]

That's right.

[Sam Riegel]

Do legs count as arms or no?

[Marisha Ray]

Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

Does it cycle back if you have 11 limbs?

[Sam Riegel]

Dr. Octopus has 6 arms, which always bothered me. It's only 8 if you count his legs.

[Marisha Ray]

Why isn't he Dr. Squid?

[Sam Riegel]

I don't know. That'd be really cool, though.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh.

[Sam Riegel]

Cause then he could shoot squid.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Only have six.

[Laura Bailey]

Boy.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Does squid only have six tentacles?

[Marisha Ray]

And then in some, he only has four.

[Laura Bailey]

Guys, we are doing the weave right now.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm sorry.

[Sam Riegel]

No.

[Marisha Ray]

What else do we have?

[Sam Riegel]

Boo.

[Marisha Ray]

What the fuck is up with what else?

[Sam Riegel]

Amy was delighted. I talked to her yesterday, and she was delighted that she gets to be a bit of a baddie right now.

[Laura Bailey]

Yes. I would love her to come back and be a baddie.

[Sam Riegel]

I know.

[Laura Bailey]

I feel like she would be a great baddie.

[Sam Riegel]

I was a little sad. I knew why I was a little sad. You weren't the matron.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I was a little sad.

[Sam Riegel]

I kept looking at you.

[Marisha Ray]

There's no way.

[Sam Riegel]

I know.

[Marisha Ray]

I was happy, though, with as much as what the matron was saying was all the stuff that I knew. So it's all the discussions that Matt and I had already had and formed together those, like, ideas of the matron.

[Laura Bailey]

But the arch heart made it sound like she was gonna be, like, simpatico with him. And she was not.

[Marisha Ray]

Not fully.

[Laura Bailey]

Not fully.

[Sam Riegel]

Right.

[Marisha Ray]

But I got her vibe. Like, she's like, yeah, we need to go, just like he said.

[Laura Bailey]

But then she.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. Cause you're not dying. You're Leaving. And I think that's. I felt like that's. Cause I have watched the scene that happens in the bar in aeor like 30 times. Because the two of you are so good. And I just sit and I watch and I dissect and I watch in your head as he's doing. Watching people's haboo is oh, always yours especially. And just what. What he's putting out there. And then watching you absorb it and. And pickleball. There's just the tiny hint of panic as you're watching it happen because I. Because I've watched you.

[Marisha Ray]

There's. There's a little panic of like, oh, he is so good.

[Sam Riegel]

So deep in there.

[Marisha Ray]

So deep in there. And he, like, dropped in so fast. We're, like, backing up all the way.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We're talking about Downfall.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, we're talking about Downfall.

[Marisha Ray]

Because he's talking to me like I'm the matron, even though I wasn't the matron in that scene.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We're talking about Spider Man 2.

[Marisha Ray]

But I talked to Matt about it. Talking about.

[Aabria Iyengar]

No, that's not Madame Web.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

But Spider Man 2 was with Dr.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Ock does have an upside down kiss. It's just with the astronaut when she's trying to recreate her love for Parker with the astro.

[Laura Bailey]

This is why Danny.

[Sam Riegel]

I forgot about that.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

He wasn't really upside down. He was like, kind of like he's on a couch.

[Aabria Iyengar]

It's definitely not the same vibe.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's not the same vibe.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Listen, like I said, it's poor recreation.

[Marisha Ray]

Matt. I like, I talked to Matt about it beforehand and he's like, I can't make you matron in this scene. He's like, number one, he's been the matron before I was the matron. He's always been the matron in our campaigns. Number two, like, the stuff that she was going to reveal to us, I couldn't know as Imogen. It just wouldn't. It doesn't work the same way. It would have ruined the player experience to reverse that.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, I agree. I was spending that part of the game, though, like, looking at you like I was forcing you to watch a movie I love. And we just got into that scene. And I have to keep making sure that you're not texting. Is she texting? Is she? She's not paying attention. She doesn't like it. Shit.

[Marisha Ray]

I was in.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's fair, though, because Abu being the arch heart.

[Laura Bailey]

Abubi.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We didn't know anything about the arch. Like, there's been no portrayal of the Arch heart.

[Sam Riegel]

And what a. Yeah, what a great pull. And I loved every moment of it.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

And I loved him messing with you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

God.

[Sam Riegel]

Just a great God.

[Marisha Ray]

He's such a cool God. Why haven't we, like. Has anybody worshiped that guy?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I don't know.

[Laura Bailey]

I was pitching the arch heart last night to one of my kids because they want to roll a cleric for a new character in our home D and D game. And I was like, well, you usually have to like follow a God. And they're like, well, what are the gods? And so I went through the gods and I was pitching the arch heart hard. But they went with this Knowing mistress.

[Sam Riegel]

I have a lame. I have a.

[Aabria Iyengar]

She's not lame.

[Sam Riegel]

I got one in the background.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

The arch heart would have been so good.

[Laura Bailey]

I know, cuz the arch heart, forgive me, is the God of like creation.

[Sam Riegel]

Art. Art and magic.

[Laura Bailey]

Art and magic. Yeah, but. And my kid was like, well, but they don't know anything. I need to know a lot of information.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, they know things your kids know.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I mean, knowing mistress is cool.

[Laura Bailey]

Knowing mistress is cool.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Damn right she is.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

They all know things. They're God.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

Rest in peace.

[Marisha Ray]

Pour one out from a girl.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, I mean, like, we talked to a lot of people. It was fun. Like, we talked to several gods. We talked to the council, which I know I'm gonna keep hitting because that was. I love. Anytime Matt talks to himself, it really pleases me.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Everyone was there. I was convinced something bad was gonna happen.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And it didn't. I was wrong.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

And then we talked to the council again. Or we talked to all of Vasquez. Gosh, we've done so many things.

[Laura Bailey]

We have.

[Sam Riegel]

It's been a while.

[Marisha Ray]

Because then you had to give a speech as Keyleth.

[Sam Riegel]

It was a good speech.

[Laura Bailey]

Yes, that was a good speech. You knew you had to do something.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I took a page out of the Sam Riegel handbook where you prepped just in case. I didn't prep. Like, I didn't prep it before the game, but in the game while we were playing. While we were playing. When it started.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, it did. Out.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You write it really fast when the writing started to become clear. So literally two minutes before.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I just started scribbling basically, like phrases. Yeah, I didn't have time to like write that.

[Laura Bailey]

Like, oh, shit, I'm gonna make a speech.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

He's gonna call me.

[Laura Bailey]

Five minutes. I should probably have an idea of.

[Sam Riegel]

What I do the same.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And I just. It was like bullets almost.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So I wrote like, whatever. I. Whatever.

[Sam Riegel]

It was very solid.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Beasts. And I was like, beasts, Behemoths, devils. Timmy Cox. It was like buzzwords that I just kind of like. I love alliteration.

[Sam Riegel]

Who doesn't?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It just sounds good.

[Sam Riegel]

But anyway.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

But I learned that from. I learned it from watching you, dad. That's very flattering because you did that with calamity.

[Laura Bailey]

Yes, I did. I was writing for, like, 20 minutes before that moment. Thank God I had time to jot it down.

[Sam Riegel]

I love that. I've had two angry, angry yells. And every time, everyone at the table goes, oh, please don't. And they've all. They've both worked out well.

[Laura Bailey]

That was great.

[Sam Riegel]

They both worked out well. But anytime you're like, oh, just my. No, no, no, no, no. I finally have an authority figure I'm gonna yell at.

[Laura Bailey]

I was waiting. Yeah. That was scary.

[Sam Riegel]

I know. And I was like, yes. Like, I've been poor. Poor Ash has been waiting for an authority figure to yell at this entire game. It was one, and I got two.

[Laura Bailey]

How dare I say sexy?

[Sam Riegel]

Thank you.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And to be fair, is. I mean, it's a quintessential barbarian move. When the barbarian's like, I've got opinions. And then the rest of the party is like, no, don't.

[Sam Riegel]

Please don't.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So it's not out of character.

[Sam Riegel]

No. I love that it happened twice, though. Cause, like, the first time I knew it was coming was like, I'm gonna open my mouth and everyone's gonna be horrified, and I can't wait. And then the second one happened. I'm like, they're still horrified.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I remember that happening all the time with Beau.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Where it'd be like, listen. And everyone's like, don't. Please don't.

[Sam Riegel]

Don't be a cop right now. Please don't be a cop. I loved it.

[Laura Bailey]

It was also great just seeing everybody in one. In one place. You know, all of Matt's creations and all of the campaigns passed, all of the side characters and stuff, all in one place. It was so great.

[Sam Riegel]

And then all of our characters in one God Place. Yes.

[Laura Bailey]

Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Revenge.

[Laura Bailey]

Are we talking about that?

[Sam Riegel]

I mean, we can.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, gosh.

[Sam Riegel]

The nine Hells.

[Marisha Ray]

The interaction that is the nine Hells.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It was the nine Hells. It was. I mean, it was great. I was terrified of it. But I really do think it was one of our better episodes.

[Sam Riegel]

I had fun.

[Marisha Ray]

It was kind of the most fun I've had in.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Ever.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. It's crazy.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's so fun.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I think at one point, while I was taking notes, I just went, this is impossible. And like stopped for like 20 minutes too much.

[Sam Riegel]

We thought about you a couple times. Like somewhere Dany is having a nervous breakdown.

[Laura Bailey]

Well, the math of it was just so fun because there's so many characters and each one is gonna have a different opinion of all the other ones. And so there's just so many opportunities to just like, you know, roll the dice. Let's put these two characters together, see what they do. And it was always so fun. Brayess and Caduceus moments.

[Sam Riegel]

I could not wait. I was so. The minute I walked in, Caduceus was like you.

[Marisha Ray]

I loved Caduceus energy.

[Sam Riegel]

I miss it.

[Marisha Ray]

In contrast to Ashton.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, they are monstrously different people. And then Ashton and Percy are monstrously similar. It's really. I love it quite a bit.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I have miss Caduceus.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

He brings an energy that nobody else has and a wisdom that nobody else has.

[Sam Riegel]

It's hard to play that character. And hopping between an idiot, an idiot and a self. And a narcissist. And then Caduceus was really fucking hard. Yeah. Oh God.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And of course Jester. And Jester.

[Marisha Ray]

Which by the way, yes, it was pointed out to me on the interwebs that Jester and Nott were in disguise the whole fucking time. We were. I was an old man priest and not with somebody else. Breus would have never even seen us.

[Laura Bailey]

Had exceptional perceptions.

[Sam Riegel]

He had a fist.

[Marisha Ray]

Do you have.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Do you have true sight?

[Marisha Ray]

Imagine, just say, yes, I have true sight.

[Sam Riegel]

No you don't.

[Laura Bailey]

I have blind sight and true sight.

[Marisha Ray]

I believe you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No you don't.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

I want to see your deck. Deception Church, right now.

[Marisha Ray]

I was an old man priest.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, but not when you were trashing the place.

[Marisha Ray]

All of it. I was always an old man priest trashing the place.

[Laura Bailey]

Then I followed you afterwards.

[Marisha Ray]

Uh huh.

[Laura Bailey]

When you took off the disguise in the alley. And I was like, that's what they really look like.

[Sam Riegel]

I actually like that. That's pretty good.

[Marisha Ray]

I'll go with that. Even though I dashed away invisible.

[Sam Riegel]

You did leave a bunch of pamphlets also, if I recall.

[Marisha Ray]

I did leave pamphlets. I could have been tracked.

[Laura Bailey]

I tracked you down like the one armed man.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm pretty sure I drew myself all over the pamphlets.

[Sam Riegel]

I think.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Yeah, that's actually a running joke in the Mighty Nein Chronicles of Exandria Art book that I wrote that y'all were really. The mightline are really easy to track because of Jester.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Just leaving a literal paper trail everywhere you go.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Everywhere you see everywhere. It's like, ah, yes. I know exactly where they've been.

[Laura Bailey]

I was fully intending on attacking you.

[Marisha Ray]

I know.

[Laura Bailey]

I texted Matt before we started. I was like, I'm sure you got shit to do, but I'm going to kill Jester. So what would so make space for that?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh my God.

[Marisha Ray]

What can you imag. You know, if Brace had killed Jester.

[Sam Riegel]

It wouldn't have happened.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

But yeah, I mean, all of Mighty Nein would have immediately jumped to defend.

[Laura Bailey]

Jester and none of Bell's hells would have jumped to join.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Honestly, probably not. We'd all be like, well, I mean.

[Laura Bailey]

Who is this guy?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's not my business.

[Sam Riegel]

I can literally hear Ashton going, everyone calm down. We're about to learn a very important lesson. Let's just let this happen.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, but then we made buddies.

[Laura Bailey]

It's hard not to like you.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, it's true.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

As much as I want to immediately disarming.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Like I said, there's a reason why everyone ever has had a crush on Jester.

[Laura Bailey]

That's true. Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

I was rewatching a little promo with.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

The two Jesters and I forgot who was so. It was so bad to be bad.

[Laura Bailey]

I wanna be bad. Let me be a bad guy.

[Marisha Ray]

I know you keep trying to be a bad guy, but you're just so darn likable. So.

[Laura Bailey]

No, it's. You guys are all likable.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm really not.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm trying to be bad and evil and you guys are like, but what if you are among friends now and one of you have support you've never had?

[Sam Riegel]

Playing evil in a campaign is hard. Playing evil in a campaign is really hard.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, because you're doing noble things for the most part.

[Laura Bailey]

I know it sucks.

[Marisha Ray]

You have to have a lot of bad people around you, I think to be bad.

[Sam Riegel]

Even then it's interesting. I will say I've never been an immerser evil campaign. But like, evil campaigns often go off the rails because it's a lot of selfish motivations and everyone's kind of quick to undermine each other.

[Marisha Ray]

That's no fun.

[Sam Riegel]

No, like you really have to. I mean, the. Honestly, the Mighty. The Mighty Nine, in my opinion is the closest we've ever played to an evil campaign. Because everyone was a. I will keep selfish. Well, they're all like. There is a world where all those characters turned into villains. Like they were. Everyone other than Caduceus was like, three bad days from like you were ready to become the fucking Joker. Or like. And yeah. And you were on the edge of Judge Dredd at that point. And, you know.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I'd also argue Vox machina. Before Keyleth and the Rock, there was. I wouldn't say that they would have gone evil, but I think that they could have gotten on a very selfish past.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

No, the Rock.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm sorry.

[Aabria Iyengar]

The scene is in an lvm. So.

[Sam Riegel]

Wait.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No.

[Marisha Ray]

What rock?

[Sam Riegel]

No, the.

[Aabria Iyengar]

The flying.

[Laura Bailey]

The rock.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Whenever, Like.

[Aabria Iyengar]

No, we have to do this at least slightly morally.

[Laura Bailey]

Rock. Roc.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Big rock.

[Laura Bailey]

The big rock.

[Marisha Ray]

I was picturing. Yeah. One of those things.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah. They wouldn't have.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Where do you think Exandria is?

[Laura Bailey]

San Francisco.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Speaking of.

[Sam Riegel]

Speaking of.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We were all Nic Cage.

[Laura Bailey]

We were Nick Cage.

[Sam Riegel]

Every Halloween, it just lands on the one episode that it shouldn't.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It really does.

[Sam Riegel]

Why can't it just be a shopping episode?

[Marisha Ray]

I want to be vexed as Nic Cage, y'all.

[Sam Riegel]

And it happened.

[Marisha Ray]

I did not want to do it.

[Laura Bailey]

Let's talk. Let's reveal to the audience how we became Nic Cages.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, a very Cagey Halloween.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

A force Cage Halloween.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. Oh, thank you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

First, we wanted to be villains.

[Sam Riegel]

We were first talking Batman.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. We were all gonna be, like, DC Villains.

[Sam Riegel]

Cause we'd done comics.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We didn't wanna do comics again, though.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. And then we'd already done comics. So then we were like, let's all be classic.

[Sam Riegel]

Classic monsters.

[Marisha Ray]

Monsters. But then we're like, what comics?

[Laura Bailey]

There's no female.

[Marisha Ray]

There's no classics. Except for Bride of Frankenstein.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

They're all kind of iffy.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You wanted to be hot. So that's the ultimate joke of this whole thing. I know.

[Marisha Ray]

I was like, there's nobody hot.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

There's no hot ladies. And then we all ended up in a cage.

[Marisha Ray]

Well, then it turned into. Which I was very excited about. And you were very excited about just, like, 90s movies. Yes. Characters.

[Sam Riegel]

But then I objected.

[Marisha Ray]

And then. You motherfucker.

[Laura Bailey]

Because I was like, it's too broad a category. No, it's not.

[Marisha Ray]

It could have been amazing.

[Sam Riegel]

It could. It was, too. We needed to tighten some of the.

[Laura Bailey]

Ones that we were going to be.

[Marisha Ray]

Leeloo. Cher. Not share the singer share from Clueless.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Clueless. The Big Lebowski.

[Laura Bailey]

That's just too broad.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Neo from the Matrix.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm with Sam on this one.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So then the 90s are hot right now. They are hot.

[Marisha Ray]

We were like, let's contain it. And then I said, what if it's all Nick Cage? I'm the dumbass one that recommended Nick Cage.

[Sam Riegel]

You are. You are the One who actually.

[Marisha Ray]

And I said it as a joke and then everybody liked it.

[Laura Bailey]

You knew that it would be relevant to the kids.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, because that was. Because I was like, well, with 90s, we can tap into 90s nostalgia. And all the kids are wearing 90s clothes.

[Sam Riegel]

Those kids.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And then we went the opposite way with a bunch of Nick Cage reference that no Google gets.

[Marisha Ray]

They're like, who's Nic Cage?

[Sam Riegel]

Google it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Bobby Girl is a seminal classic.

[Sam Riegel]

Do they Google anymore? TikTok it. I don't know what kids.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. TikTok it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Hey, hey, kids.

[Laura Bailey]

Hey, kids.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Will you tell us if you know who Nick Cage is? Just tell us. If you do, just tweet us or see us on the screen, hit up our Hotmail. Just tell us.

[Marisha Ray]

Send it to our Yahoo account.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, we still have a Yahoo account.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, I have a Sierra Online.

[Laura Bailey]

And you'll get a reply saying, we don't recognize this address.

[Marisha Ray]

Wait, what else did we do other than the Cage?

[Laura Bailey]

Just.

[Marisha Ray]

What else is up. What else is up with that?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, for the.

[Laura Bailey]

What the fuck is up with that? Well, wait, there was two conversations that we should talk about. Orym and Dorian had a whole.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, my God, they're not on this episode. People are going to be like, what?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Seemed like they cuddled.

[Marisha Ray]

They cuddled.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I think Robbie was very specifically like, we just hold each other.

[Marisha Ray]

We just didn't but, like, hold each other.

[Aabria Iyengar]

It was just a really beautiful cuddle.

[Marisha Ray]

We hold each other with a. Yeah. What part do we hold?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, yeah. We don't know. We don't know how.

[Laura Bailey]

Eric cannot vines that grow.

[Sam Riegel]

Wow. Wow.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Danny face.

[Sam Riegel]

Also. Thanks.

[Laura Bailey]

And like, weirdly, yeah, Dorian chokes himself with Orym's vine dick. That's what happens.

[Marisha Ray]

That's exactly what happened. That was canon.

[Aabria Iyengar]

This is why I don't release any of the smut. Guys, you gotta.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, no, it was a very beautiful moment.

[Sam Riegel]

It was wonderful. Thanks to Yasha, like, Ashton and Fearne finally hooked up. Although it was like she immediately kicked him out after.

[Laura Bailey]

And by hooked up. Did they cuddle?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, no. They shagged.

[Marisha Ray]

They shagged.

[Sam Riegel]

They did not. Yeah. There was not cuddle. There was just Shaggy.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Like, the kids.

[Sam Riegel]

We already cuddled and we got.

[Marisha Ray]

Give Jester some of the credit. She gave you some really good advice.

[Sam Riegel]

You did. And just. Yasha was just mean and just said, shut up. Deal with it. I'm like, oh, wow.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, she's.

[Laura Bailey]

And then after the fact, Matt was like, oh, by the way, you're all sleeping in the same room together.

[Sam Riegel]

No, we buggered out.

[Marisha Ray]

Liam had totally said that.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, we just missed it. Cause it's weird.

[Marisha Ray]

Well, maybe you just walked into it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You have a fucking tower.

[Marisha Ray]

It was like the level of the tower you put us on. It was like separate beds, like with curtains between.

[Laura Bailey]

It's a tower.

[Marisha Ray]

Like a bunch of yurts. Why not put walls?

[Sam Riegel]

I think Ashley and I decided that we just stole one of the Mighty Nine's bedrooms. And then there's just. Yeah. And castle.

[Laura Bailey]

I know how this spell works.

[Sam Riegel]

Poof.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Walls cast wall endlessly. Magic spell. And it's like. No, there's like a. There's a hospital sheet.

[Laura Bailey]

This is a hostel.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

You all have to share a bathroom. Sorry. Check in your. Check out. It's at 10. You have to leave your backpack downstairs.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Caleb wouldn't make a bed making alterations to his tower for you.

[Marisha Ray]

Chuckle.

[Sam Riegel]

For all he's been doing is making alterations for his tower. That's like his train.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Yeah, but for you guys.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Belle's health.

[Marisha Ray]

But this is Liam's brain. He at least should have made it for Orym. Because he knew that something was gonna happen with Dorian.

[Sam Riegel]

I know.

[Marisha Ray]

He didn't know, but he hoped.

[Laura Bailey]

He had to.

[Sam Riegel]

Had to have not.

[Marisha Ray]

Come on.

[Laura Bailey]

Suspected.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I don't know, because he did.

[Marisha Ray]

I heard him say if. If Robbie hadn't made the move, then he was gonna go knock on his door. Oh, really? Yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

So he did talk to his own character.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Wait, but wait, there's door. So are there doors? But then sheets in between. How does this work? Is there one door?

[Sam Riegel]

We are in a circular wall, but.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Then one big donut room.

[Sam Riegel]

What is.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Shit. We got a bone to pick with Liam next time we see him.

[Sam Riegel]

We were in a yurt inside the tower. Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

He built us a yurt.

[Laura Bailey]

His imagination sucked.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Caleb phoned that one in. I don't know. Sheets for walls. Whatever. The cats are bored.

[Marisha Ray]

What else do we get?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, we're all vox machina now.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Yes. That was so fun to be vox machina.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It really was.

[Laura Bailey]

It was fun. It was so exciting. My heart was beating really fast when everyone was out there being vox machina.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

And you're coming to find.

[Laura Bailey]

Me and Liam were backstage and so was Robbie for a while.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

How was it?

[Sam Riegel]

And I was there briefly.

[Laura Bailey]

It was so fun. We were just. Oh, were you back there too?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. I was the first one to go out because they all went to Whitestone.

[Marisha Ray]

Right? That's right.

[Sam Riegel]

That's right.

[Laura Bailey]

It was fun back there.

[Sam Riegel]

It really was.

[Laura Bailey]

Just watching you guys be you guys.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

It just jumped in so fast.

[Sam Riegel]

I was like, oh, God. Ash. Ashley was on point, like. Cuz we've all been playing these characters now in the Animated series. So it was so.

[Marisha Ray]

It's fresh easy.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

God, it really. It feels like a. Like a hot cup of cocoa in a warm blanket. Just so cozy.

[Sam Riegel]

Going back to them, it was hard not to like. I can tell Matt thought we would be moving a lot faster too, because we would just not stop talking at all.

[Marisha Ray]

You gotta have conversations, gotta catch on. I was like, how much have we already talked?

[Sam Riegel]

Not yet.

[Marisha Ray]

How much have we. You know what I mean. About all the things that are happening in the world.

[Laura Bailey]

So I don't know what you guys look like.

[Marisha Ray]

What do you mean?

[Laura Bailey]

I haven't seen any of the art.

[Marisha Ray]

Do you wanna show you?

[Laura Bailey]

Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Can we. Are we gonna be able to bring it up on the screen? Is this gonna be weird or. Yeah, I was gonna.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I haven't. No, I have seen yours. Because you're a centaur.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. Yes, I've seen yours.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We're all saw yours. I think the only ones I haven't seen.

[Sam Riegel]

I haven't seen grog are Grog and Pike. I've seen Pike.

[Marisha Ray]

I saw Pike.

[Sam Riegel]

I haven't seen Grog.

[Marisha Ray]

But then Ashley was like.

[Sam Riegel]

She changed her name.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. Cause she saw. I showed her Vex. Then she was like, wait a minute.

[Laura Bailey]

Didn't she make a super old Vex?

[Marisha Ray]

She made pike all old. And I'm like, you're a gnome. And she's like, yes, I am.

[Laura Bailey]

She gave her like super gray hair.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, she was like really wrinkly. I was like, you're still young. Just like vegs. You're still young.

[Sam Riegel]

Percy's the only one who should have aged. Really?

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Like he's gonna be the first to go.

[Laura Bailey]

I want to see these.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I'm not on the lorekeeper, by the way. I was not included on these.

[Laura Bailey]

Wait, you haven't seen it either?

[Aabria Iyengar]

No, I got. I saw them once. They were fun. The finals were okay.

[Laura Bailey]

I am.

[Marisha Ray]

My. My note originally was that like, she didn't have enough cleavage showing.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Vex looks so fucking good. Vex's is my favorite.

[Sam Riegel]

It's a really great. There we are.

[Marisha Ray]

I was gonna show you and I realized I didn't have her face at all. I was just showing you her.

[Sam Riegel]

It was just. It was just moves there. I looked. It was like. That's a real.

[Marisha Ray]

That was just boobs I had seen.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, wow.

[Marisha Ray]

Isn't she. She's Gorgeous and regal.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I love. I love the pose.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, that's great.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's great.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Love it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And then look at my color.

[Sam Riegel]

It's the same color palette, but reverse.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, we matched.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I actually don't think this is the final. Final.

[Marisha Ray]

We're that couple.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Damn.

[Sam Riegel]

I mean, we have royal colors.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Damn.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I wanted to go for, like.

[Laura Bailey]

Let me see, like, almost look like spikes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

It's cool, right? You're battle ready.

[Sam Riegel]

I really hope that we're putting those up right now.

[Laura Bailey]

Otherwise, it's. Oh, damn.

[Sam Riegel]

That's battle ready.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And I gave her. I wanted to have some, like, a little bit of, like, raven elements. And then. So if you see.

[Sam Riegel]

You look a little bit like a He man action figure there. But not. Because it's. But like the. Like the armored.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Like.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, a lot of the. If you look a lot of the concepts. And I was, like, chatting with producer Kyle a lot about this, and he actually, like, put it very succinctly. It like trying to have her represent that moment, that last moment of fall right before winter comes and, like, that first frost. So if you see.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Shout out to Kyle for producing me such an amazing job coordinating everything.

[Laura Bailey]

Those also sort of look like raven.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Feathers and a little raven feathery as well.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So anyway.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, it was very cool.

[Marisha Ray]

Elemental states. Now as we're vox machina.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh. As vox machina. Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Because we're still in the battle.

[Sam Riegel]

Mm.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, shit.

[Marisha Ray]

Like, what's important to us as vox machina.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You know, I feel like we're a little. Like, there's half of the group is like, we are here solely on, like, a very straight trajectory. That is a rescue mission for Vax.

[Sam Riegel]

Mm.

[Marisha Ray]

And I know there's more in the world, blah, blah, blah. But that's the important stuff right now.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And I think one half of the group is like, this is our mission. Let's be honest. And I think the other half, mainly Keyleth, is like. But other things too.

[Marisha Ray]

While secretly, I probably. She still worships the Everlight. I still have that. I'm the. Not the champion.

[Sam Riegel]

No, you're not the champion. But you.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm not a champion.

[Sam Riegel]

You are.

[Marisha Ray]

I have a blessing.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. The blessing of blessed by.

[Aabria Iyengar]

You're chosen.

[Laura Bailey]

I guess that's the word that matters. A champion or. No. Scanlan was just chosen, I think, also chosen. I don't think Scanlan cares about the gods. I mean, the greater.

[Marisha Ray]

Don't you have, like, a blessing from the knowing mystery?

[Laura Bailey]

Sure, sure, sure. You still have a third eye scanlan's Gosh. I guess so.

[Sam Riegel]

Wow.

[Aabria Iyengar]

It's not always there.

[Sam Riegel]

No, no.

[Laura Bailey]

It's just. I think Scanlan just cares about joking there. Being back with the group and impressing Pike. And impressing. There's also a sense, I feel like maybe with all of us or maybe just with Scanlan, I don't know. But, you know, when we do one shots or miniseries on our channel, and it's like, your Calamities or your downfalls, and it's three of us plus three new cast members, I. Whenever I participate in those, I'm like, oh, shit, this is my channel. I better be really fucking good.

[Sam Riegel]

Stop setting me up.

[Laura Bailey]

I feel like Vox Machina is like, we're the OGs. We better succeed or else. Like, what are we even doing right?

[Aabria Iyengar]

I mean, y'all are really old now.

[Marisha Ray]

We've been doing it for so long. Like, what if we die? What if vox machina. Fucking TPKs.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, dude, I'm into it.

[Marisha Ray]

No, I'm not into it. We have.

[Sam Riegel]

I mean, I don't want it. I will. No, I mean, like, my. I will. Poor.

[Marisha Ray]

Our poor children.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, Percy. Percy is country and family. That is. Percy is country and family. These are the only.

[Marisha Ray]

She's still very young. She needs us. Gwendolyn's young.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

She's, like, 11. Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Or. Yeah, she's. She's in that. Like, 10 to 11.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, she's.

[Laura Bailey]

You have five kids.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

And who's your favorite? Gwendolyn.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, yeah. No, that's no secret.

[Sam Riegel]

No, I have a favorite, but I don't say it. I just undermine the rest secretly.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Like, all parents.

[Sam Riegel]

Like, all parents, especially. Especially. Yeah. Like, the Derulos were not huggers.

[Laura Bailey]

Sure.

[Sam Riegel]

It was just not.

[Laura Bailey]

What, are you huggers now?

[Sam Riegel]

She is.

[Marisha Ray]

I am.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm not.

[Marisha Ray]

Well, I become a hugger with my babies.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, you're very outward that. You have a favorite.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, well, I mean, I love them all, but, like, I feel like she needs special care.

[Marisha Ray]

And also, she's the baby. It's like, you know, like, from. As it gets progressively younger. That last kid is just like a wild child.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, she has my demon's eyes.

[Marisha Ray]

I know.

[Sam Riegel]

That's, like, really fucked.

[Marisha Ray]

I was like, what happened?

[Sam Riegel]

Percy is aware that I don't want to quite say the worst of him is in her, but, like, it is a chance to take the things he doesn't like about himself and kind of mold a kid who's clearly got some of his bad traits and make it into something that he's proud of.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So she is his vanity project.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, very much. But, like, the twins are great.

[Marisha Ray]

I love wolves and.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. And little Vaxie is a mess.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Are the twins your favorite or is Vex, like, I love all of my children equally.

[Marisha Ray]

I love all my children equally.

[Sam Riegel]

And Vespers. Vesper's responsible.

[Marisha Ray]

Vesper is who I rely on the most.

[Sam Riegel]

Vesper's gonna take Cassandra's place.

[Marisha Ray]

And Vax Jr. My little Freddy is probably, like.

[Laura Bailey]

It feels like Vax, Percy, Scanlan, pike to some extent have changed. But Grog is the same.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, Grog hasn't really changed.

[Marisha Ray]

Why would he?

[Laura Bailey]

And Keyleth is. I mean, she's grown. She's more confident, more mature.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes, certainly.

[Laura Bailey]

But in terms of, like, life stuff, like, she hasn't moved on.

[Marisha Ray]

She's heavier, like, emotionally.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, she's. That's kind of.

[Laura Bailey]

That sucks.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. She can't move on.

[Sam Riegel]

Correct.

[Marisha Ray]

And we've joked about it before on the show, like, how, you know, Vax visits her and, like, that's not good.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Not really great.

[Marisha Ray]

No, it's not.

[Sam Riegel]

You need to get on Tinder. You need to get on Tinder real bad.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Like, she. She quite literally has, like, a balcony where she has, like, a branch or whatever that ravens fly and land on it. However, so often. She probably doesn't look at it as a bane, of course.

[Marisha Ray]

No, she's just like, it's probably comforting.

[Laura Bailey]

Does she go to therapy? Does she have a therapist who's like, hey, maybe you should close the window.

[Marisha Ray]

And you can't close the window. That's Vex.

[Sam Riegel]

I know, I know.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And then a raven is like, I know.

[Sam Riegel]

Keyleth and Percy talk regularly.

[Marisha Ray]

Can you imagine if Keyleth does, like, moved on and, like, kissed somebody?

[Sam Riegel]

I would freak out.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I feel like.

[Laura Bailey]

Did she even go on a date once? And then she was like, this is weird. This is weird.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I feel like. Correct. I think she might be like, okay, I should try this. Maybe I should try it.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

I have these.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

God, this guy.

[Sam Riegel]

Soft. Like, I can see her wings on.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, I like. Yeah. I don't know why.

[Sam Riegel]

Bad boys.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I think she's just a little black.

[Laura Bailey]

So we don't know how this is gonna end, but have you had conversations with Liam and. Or your husband about. About how you would like this to end? Like, would you like this to end with Vax back and everything's back to normal? Or would you like this to end with Vax gone forever and you can turn to the next page in your life?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I haven't had any conversations. I have I think I've loosely been like, if we kill the gods or if the gods just go away, what does that mean for the champions?

[Marisha Ray]

Like, yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Speaking of.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I would imagine he would just die.

[Marisha Ray]

My hope, though, is that the matron, wherever they were to succeed, the matron's gonna be like, it's my parting gift. Here you go. And then he'll be alive forever.

[Sam Riegel]

Speaking of unanswerable questions, I think it's my hope from the tower of Inkworld.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, we're just. Oh, we're moving on.

[Marisha Ray]

All right.

[Sam Riegel]

We'll get back to this, because we can talk about Vox Machina forever. Because I know us. I know us. It is time. It is time for our game, which is very simple. We're going to take turns pulling blocks from the tower. Dani Carr. I have the tower card over here somewhere. No, I don't. Threw it away. Damn. Danny Carr is going to read us the corresponding fan question, and we each give our own answer. Darling, would you do the. Sure, darling. I'm giving you the first one because I love you. Because this is safe.

[Laura Bailey]

Can't wait till she spills the beans.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, no.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, no. It stuck. This was a mistake.

[Sam Riegel]

I believe in you. Come on.

[Marisha Ray]

Once I choose, do I have to stick?

[Laura Bailey]

Wait, why is it so straight? Did someone fall?

[Sam Riegel]

All right.

[Aabria Iyengar]

You know that I'll let you do whatever you want.

[Laura Bailey]

Did it fall?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I think so.

[Marisha Ray]

I feel like I. My tower rules, listen, are pretty strict. And the way I play when I.

[Sam Riegel]

Play this game is that you win.

[Marisha Ray]

House rules is that if you touched a block, you have to pull that block.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. You're committed.

[Marisha Ray]

That's how I play. Did you touch a block? I did. I touched here. I thought it would be far looser.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It looked looser.

[Marisha Ray]

It's not loose at all.

[Laura Bailey]

This is it.

[Marisha Ray]

So this could be detrimental, but I'm not going to cheat on my own rules.

[Laura Bailey]

I. I really applaud.

[Sam Riegel]

I appreciate your commitment to your. To your own.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You got it? Yeah. Just do the shock.

[Marisha Ray]

Look at how much this whole thing is moving.

[Sam Riegel]

Just give it a little shimmy and then lift the edge.

[Laura Bailey]

You can only touch your block. No.

[Marisha Ray]

Fucking hell.

[Sam Riegel]

Also, don't.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No.

[Marisha Ray]

I got two cock.

[Sam Riegel]

You can use two hands. Use two hands.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You can't use two hands.

[Sam Riegel]

I know you can't use two hands.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I'm gonna walk over here until you're ready.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm. This is everything I was hoping for.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Analyze it.

[Sam Riegel]

Why'd you start at the bottom?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's very in there. Cause she was trying to set Us up for disaster.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, no.

[Marisha Ray]

But look at it shimmy. It is really balancing on this one block.

[Laura Bailey]

Do a little shiver. A little shiver.

[Sam Riegel]

That's about a one point.

[Marisha Ray]

You know what it is on this tray and it's wedged on the lip.

[Laura Bailey]

Is that not regulation?

[Marisha Ray]

That's not regulation. And look at this one is so loose.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Coming with it.

[Marisha Ray]

What if I pull two?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I think that's allowed. But if sometimes one will come out.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, wow.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

I believe in you. I believe in you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

The suspense.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, no.

[Aabria Iyengar]

This is not good.

[Marisha Ray]

No, it's gonna be fine, you guys.

[Sam Riegel]

It's gonna be fine.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I believe so far over.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, my God.

[Marisha Ray]

It's taking so much longer than I thought it would. I'm so sorry.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Your nails look really pretty, though.

[Marisha Ray]

Thanks. I got to see like celestial.

[Sam Riegel]

That's enough of that. Pull the block.

[Marisha Ray]

Thank you.

[Sam Riegel]

See your nails when you're back.

[Marisha Ray]

Can I use my head?

[Sam Riegel]

Clearly not.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That feels okay to me.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, that feels okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

For some reason.

[Sam Riegel]

It's an applause.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

For some reason. I'm not mad about that. Maybe cause it's funny. Oh, yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Don't get your hair cut.

[Laura Bailey]

Any soft tissue?

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, Jesus. Please.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, no. Use your chin again.

[Marisha Ray]

It's important.

[Laura Bailey]

That's hard tissue. That's to be a cheek. Cheek and nose.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, I'm not okay.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm not okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, no.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, my God.

[Sam Riegel]

I thought I was. Well, that's all the time we have today.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, no.

[Sam Riegel]

One pull. One pull.

[Marisha Ray]

I got too confident. Here's the first question. What do you think?

[Sam Riegel]

Spotty?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

What does that mean?

[Sam Riegel]

I don't know.

[Marisha Ray]

Are there still consequences?

[Sam Riegel]

Consequences.

[Marisha Ray]

Consequences.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It stirs so much show left.

[Laura Bailey]

Answer the question.

[Marisha Ray]

Where's the damn consequence?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's on the box labeled consequence.

[Marisha Ray]

Look at it.

[Sam Riegel]

This is hilarious. Wow. That was amazing.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, God.

[Laura Bailey]

Just read it.

[Marisha Ray]

I cannot describe what. Read this aloud.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You read aloud?

[Marisha Ray]

Yes. Whomever destroys the Tower of Inquiry inquiry in episode 29, a four sided dive must reveal their five most used emojis.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh.

[Marisha Ray]

But cannot describe them verbally.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh.

[Marisha Ray]

How do I. What does that mean?

[Laura Bailey]

You have to act them out. Like charades.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Charades us your emojis, bro.

[Marisha Ray]

This is easy. Hold on.

[Sam Riegel]

You got, you got. You got saved.

[Laura Bailey]

It's gonna be the crying.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

The crying while laughing.

[Laura Bailey]

But is it tilted crying or straight crying?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, that's like rolling like Rothel. Like rolling.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. The same way. Like the like party hat.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay. These are my.

[Laura Bailey]

I bet she. I bet she uses the melty face one.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. Melty face is probably serious.

[Marisha Ray]

These are my.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's the. I'm serious.

[Marisha Ray]

These are my five hard. Oh, wait. These are just my most recent. How do I know what my top five are?

[Laura Bailey]

Just go with recent.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

There's a little. The first one, too.

[Marisha Ray]

Straight face.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Sobby face.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Sobby face.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah. All right.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

These are brilliant.

[Marisha Ray]

I feel like this is not. I don't want to do that one.

[Sam Riegel]

Too bad.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Nope, gotta do it.

[Laura Bailey]

The next one better be, like, the flag of Finland.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, I knew it would be.

[Laura Bailey]

What is this?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

What?

[Sam Riegel]

Poop.

[Laura Bailey]

Poop. Oh, I thought it was a rabbit tail.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Wait, poop is one of your most used emoji?

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, I use the shit emoji a lot.

[Laura Bailey]

And the bank one.

[Marisha Ray]

And then probably my other. It. It's between just this. Oh, you're a. I say thank you a lot.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, like, thank you.

[Marisha Ray]

And this one.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Face bomb.

[Sam Riegel]

Face bomb.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

That was good.

[Sam Riegel]

I knew the poop be.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm old, so there's.

[Sam Riegel]

There's.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't use crying, laughing.

[Sam Riegel]

There's some options out here. Do we have the number of the one that was. That was pulled?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I'm waiting.

[Sam Riegel]

All right, let's go with the number.

[Laura Bailey]

No rain.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Sorry, Danny.

[Sam Riegel]

Cats. Cats. Kittens.

[Marisha Ray]

Look, I just made this show a lot shorter, you guys.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Congratulations.

[Laura Bailey]

It's mostly that.

[Sam Riegel]

Here we go.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Y'all ready?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Marisha Ray]

Y'all ready for this?

[Aabria Iyengar]

All right. B. Kowalska on Instagram. Instagram. Do you have a favorite moment that was briefly or not at all mentioned in the original stream, but was expanded upon in the legend of Vox Machina?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, I mean, wait, is this coming.

[Marisha Ray]

Out after all of the episodes have aired?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

This will be in November.

[Sam Riegel]

November.

[Laura Bailey]

We. In the stream, we never got to. Well, we also adapted it a lot, but we never got to see the group meeting Percy in jail in the original stream.

[Marisha Ray]

We did adapt it a lot, particularly the part where you gave us all your money.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, that was the opposite of what.

[Sam Riegel]

I think I gave specifically you all my money. It was really. That was. Yeah. I was in a place.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

500 gold backstory moments.

[Sam Riegel]

I love that. You remember we kept going after the bottle of Courage, which kind of was like, wow, this is still happening. Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Not. Fade to black.

[Sam Riegel]

Nope. Nope. Still going. It went. Yeah. Fucking Giggler.

[Laura Bailey]

That was sexy.

[Sam Riegel]

It was. It was hot.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I liked, like, seeing Grog. His backstory with meeting Pike.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That was great. That's a good one. Scrawny Grog. That's a great one.

[Marisha Ray]

I liked getting to see more Kaylee and Scanlan yeah, sure.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's true. A lot of that.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah. Yeah. Because it was hard to keep convincing you guys to teleport to go visit her in the campaign.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

You didn't make it easy.

[Laura Bailey]

That's true. And then I was gone for a lot of that.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah. Those are good.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. That's a nice little collection. I mean, there's a lot. I really like how the show deviates in interesting ways just to give us a broader look at the world.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. Being able to see, like, how people gain spells or learn new things as opposed to just, like, I can turn into Earth elementals now.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Show the ritual of it.

[Laura Bailey]

I can make a mansion now.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

I found a special hat, and now I can fly.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Like a Mario game.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Think all that stuff is fun?

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, it is. Should we. Oh, you're the boss.

[Sam Riegel]

I think.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

What do we do?

[Aabria Iyengar]

I can just fucking pick some.

[Sam Riegel]

I was gonna say, like, we go. I think that. Or like, we go through pie at the moment. Like, you know, like, just go and grab 1 3, 1 4.

[Marisha Ray]

Here.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Number 50.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I did it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm amazing.

[Sam Riegel]

So happy.

[Aabria Iyengar]

From. What would be your character's go to midnight snack?

[Laura Bailey]

Which one?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Which one?

[Laura Bailey]

I guess current. Current.

[Sam Riegel]

We're currently in vox machina, so.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, for Breus, it would be a black and white cookie.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, wow. That was fest.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

For Scanlan, it would be ass. He would eat some ass.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Bitch. That's a full meal.

[Marisha Ray]

Why are you saying it like that?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Cause twice dessert.

[Sam Riegel]

Whatever. For Percy, it's whatever the cook would be willing to make after I wake him up.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Are you demonstrating your favorite emoji now?

[Laura Bailey]

Is that an emoji I would use? Sure.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You could make it one like. Like the. This emoji, the app, and then a peach immediately after. You know, There you go. What is this show?

[Laura Bailey]

It's the weave.

[Sam Riegel]

I mean, Jester's easy. I don't.

[Marisha Ray]

Jester's so easy.

[Sam Riegel]

So easy it's almost cheating.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, that's easy. That's obvious. I don't even need to.

[Laura Bailey]

Pastries.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, Just sweets.

[Laura Bailey]

Is there a specific kind? There's many pastries. There's profiteroles. There's Danish dessert. Those Mexican dessert cookies Jester wants.

[Sam Riegel]

Who do donuts?

[Marisha Ray]

Like. Yeah, she wants donuts with, like, icing on it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Pink icing?

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. Like, colorful things. It's maybe even less about the taste as the appearance.

[Sam Riegel]

Breakfast cereal on. Yeah. Instagrammable desserts.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Esther would be such an Instagram star, man.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, my God.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, my God. She'd Be an influencer.

[Aabria Iyengar]

She would be such an influencer.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, my gosh, you guys.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, my gosh, you guys. I just got this new.

[Marisha Ray]

Watch me open this.

[Sam Riegel]

Hold on.

[Laura Bailey]

Unboxing.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You guys.

[Marisha Ray]

I have to try it on for you. It's so cute.

[Sam Riegel]

I kind of want this to do.

[Aabria Iyengar]

An unboxing video starring Jester.

[Sam Riegel]

I kind of want it.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, because give me that makeup again, man.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Who's saying her doing makeup tutorials.

[Marisha Ray]

She would do it this way. Get ready with me, guys.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm going to read your tarot.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Ah.

[Laura Bailey]

She'd be so dances.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, my God, I hate this.

[Marisha Ray]

No, she. All of the dances.

[Sam Riegel]

This is how all our.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We'll call Ginny D. We'll fly her back again.

[Laura Bailey]

She would do that thing where you wipe the frame with your hand and now you're dressed for the night. Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. Like Kyle, too.

[Marisha Ray]

She would be.

[Aabria Iyengar]

She'd be able to, like, magically, like, change.

[Marisha Ray]

That's true. She wouldn't even need to do that.

[Laura Bailey]

No, you would.

[Sam Riegel]

You would have. You would make a duplicate and then the duplicate would be doing your makeup and like, doing the whole.

[Marisha Ray]

She would do the Megan dance and.

[Sam Riegel]

Then like.

[Aabria Iyengar]

All of the. With like, all of the people.

[Laura Bailey]

Because now she could be.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yes.

[Laura Bailey]

Ford would be in the background. Like Jesus.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Doing the couple thing.

[Marisha Ray]

So into it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Or like those really cringey staged couple videos where it's like pranking my husband by telling him I'm pregnant. Pregnant. Or some dumb. That people do call.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm pregnant. No, you're not.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay. I'm not.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Divine sense.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, sure.

[Sam Riegel]

I kind of.

[Marisha Ray]

Where did Howie get here?

[Sam Riegel]

I don't know. You've. You've dodged this.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I feel like I'll go with bo. I feel like BO would be like. Like a oatmeal with protein powder.

[Sam Riegel]

Caduceus would force you to just put some nutmeg in it or something.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, something.

[Laura Bailey]

He's not a sweets guy, is he? He's more of like a savory spice sort of thing.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, no. I mean like Caduceus. Like, not like that super sweet stuff, but definitely, I think definitely. It's more of that, like the, like Japanese red, but like the stuff that's. That's complex and not too sweet. Although I'm sure you've ruined him a little bit. Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

By interest.

[Sam Riegel]

Just a little.

[Marisha Ray]

Sure. Sweeter and sweeter over time.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Has slowly Caduceus really like chocolate liking chocolate covered pretzels.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Almonds.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

What about like, marzipan?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. No. Okay. You've ruined him.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I could see keyless, like, staying up too late and then, like, having a glass of wine to wind down and then maybe, like, going and just grabbing, like, a hunk of cheese. Like, not making yourself a cheese plate.

[Sam Riegel]

I can't believe we just, like, actually.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, I'm also holding cheese and cheese.

[Sam Riegel]

Passion is junkie.

[Laura Bailey]

Where did I come up with this idea?

[Sam Riegel]

Some sort of cheese. Like a cheese.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I feel like you really want cheese.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I swear, everyone's not smart.

[Laura Bailey]

I just came up with it.

[Sam Riegel]

Danny, I feel like you need to get into this. What is your. What is your dessert of choice?

[Aabria Iyengar]

Sweets Fiends. I want sweets all of the. All time. My favorite snack in the entire world is donuts.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I grew up across the street from the greatest donut shop in the world. I could go and get Gibson's Donuts at 3 in the morning whenever I wanted, and I would never get in trouble as long as I brought my dad a donut.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, okay. That would make sense.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Alton Brown's favorite donut shop. Literally grew up across the street from it. All right, I am a donut snob.

[Sam Riegel]

I have to check that out.

[Aabria Iyengar]

All right, 31.

[Sam Riegel]

Last one, last one, last one.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

All right, last one for this round, maybe for this episode. I don't know.

[Marisha Ray]

Sorry about that.

[Aabria Iyengar]

This is Chaos Children from Joe the Ewok on Instagram. You are all impressive actors. All right, Joe. But when was the time the crew did something that caught you off guard with its amazing slash impressive execution?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, the time it was powder and not confetti in the. In the cannons.

[Laura Bailey]

I don't know.

[Marisha Ray]

This crew is when they dressed up as board game.

[Sam Riegel]

I love that we've actually assembled a crew that is also chaos goblins.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. Every Halloween, they dress up. They dress up.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

So good.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

They don't follow our theme. No, they have their own theme.

[Sam Riegel]

Better themes out there.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, it's better than our theme.

[Laura Bailey]

This time it was cowboys. Gay cowboys.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It was great.

[Marisha Ray]

They were so good.

[Sam Riegel]

They were so good that one time that they hid the spooky Santa Claus in the grid.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's true.

[Sam Riegel]

Like hanging like a Die Hard film. And it took like three weeks before I looked up and went, oh, fucking God.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, that's fun.

[Sam Riegel]

That was a fun one.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm impressed. Every week I come, I do these ad bits.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, God.

[Laura Bailey]

And I usually. Kyle usually has to remind me, like, day of or day before to write the thing, and then I write the thing and then they just come. They have all the stuff. They have all the Cat costumes or whatever.

[Marisha Ray]

And they come out as cats.

[Laura Bailey]

And they come out as cats.

[Marisha Ray]

That's the line.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Coming out as cats. Coming out in the among us costumes.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, it's so good.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

There's. We. We make our crew do a lot.

[Sam Riegel]

The producers genuinely yell at us, which I really appreciate. We finally trained them to be like.

[Laura Bailey]

Ashley Middlebrook's voice is the loudest thing I've ever heard.

[Marisha Ray]

Loudest yeller I've ever heard.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

She's like a kindergarten teacher. I freeze up.

[Laura Bailey]

Kirby is an amazing singer.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

And she always gets our attention with the.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yes. That's how. Huh?

[Sam Riegel]

That's her wrangling device. Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

We need wrangling. We are awful. As you can clearly see. We are awful.

[Marisha Ray]

Next question.

[Sam Riegel]

Actually, I'm gonna. I'm just gonna say. Yeah, thank you to Koloska. I should be able to pronounce that P. Koluska. Why do you all have weird. Like Delani and don't move the thing and Joe the. Is that Ewok? Ewok. Joe the Ewok. My God, what's wrong with you? I was like. I for a second was like, that's my. That's Percy's last name.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Let me just. I'm blind here. Thank you, Please to be Kowalska.

[Sam Riegel]

Thank you be Kowalska, folks. And so I'm not taking the full.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And also, thank you to our crew.

[Sam Riegel]

And thank you, crew.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We love you so much. Everyone, all the producers, everyone.

[Sam Riegel]

If you have a question. If you have a question for our pile of inquiry, you can enter [e-mail] tower or I can't say critrole.com Pyle anymore.

[Marisha Ray]

Probably not.

[Laura Bailey]

That's not probably. Make that URL.

[Sam Riegel]

Hey, Ed, it's time to go to the deep dive where lorekeeper Danny Carr passes out.

[Aabria Iyengar]

This is the part that I work on. Yes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

This episode is so unhinged.

[Sam Riegel]

This episode is brought to you by. Sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation, where most of our ads come from.

[Laura Bailey]

Amazing.

[Marisha Ray]

We're going to go around the circle and take turns pulling some questions out of cups. Out of cups.

[Sam Riegel]

That's what we're going to do.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Laura's doing your job for you.

[Laura Bailey]

I don't know.

[Sam Riegel]

She was beating me to it.

[Marisha Ray]

She wasn't doing it.

[Sam Riegel]

I was vamping while I waited for the pendant. We're gonna go around the circle and take questions by pulling them from cups.

[Marisha Ray]

Who would you like to go first?

[Sam Riegel]

You. Because you've been giving me guff.

[Marisha Ray]

No, but I take my you're giving me guff.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It just taking all the wind and creativity out of the sails by just saying what it is. You don't have to just say what it is.

[Sam Riegel]

I love my cup. I'm not going to do anything. I love this. This is great.

[Marisha Ray]

That is a good cup.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

This is a great cup.

[Marisha Ray]

Everybody's got good cups. He already. He gave me a command to start.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, because she read my copy.

[Marisha Ray]

Imogen chose to contact her father for a goodbye. What did she think of his response and lack of a returned. I love you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, my God. That's right.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

He didn't say it, but you know what? She wasn't expecting to hear it. Yeah, it kind of. It wasn't. She didn't contact him to, like. Cause she was hoping to get anything from him. It was more of a contacting him because mom up and left with no, like, final word. And she just wanted to give him something closure and to say, like, hey, you tried your best, even though, you know it was what it was. I don't hold that against you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Very big Vimogen losers tried this.

[Marisha Ray]

She's, like, a really good person.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

She's so much fun.

[Marisha Ray]

Have you noticed? Yeah. Oh, my gosh.

[Laura Bailey]

The second she. When we have to kill her.

[Marisha Ray]

I know.

[Sam Riegel]

Close. Close. Yeah. Like in. Yeah. In the running for the best person in the group, which is a little sad, but, you know, Marisha, you're not.

[Laura Bailey]

Supposed to read that.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I know. They hate it.

[Sam Riegel]

I love it, and I have to.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Do it every time. How does Beau feel about teaming up with Belle's Hells? Did their work in the Hellcatch last time not impress her? Well, I was trying to protect you.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I know.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I was trying so hard.

[Sam Riegel]

I love you so much.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Dani made the one mistake that she will make for all of 2024. Which this? Yes. Which this technically says. How does Beau feel about teaming up with the Mighty Nine on there?

[Sam Riegel]

Honestly, I wonder that as well.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I actually just really wanted really deep introspection.

[Marisha Ray]

Just break your cup.

[Laura Bailey]

You broke the cup.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No, it's fine.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, Consequence. No, it's fine.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We can fix it.

[Marisha Ray]

Top five emojis.

[Sam Riegel]

We are.

[Laura Bailey]

This is the question.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, how does she feel? Did they not. Yeah, Well, I mean, it's Beau. She hates everything, so I think, like, in. Well, also, I wasn't playing as Bo when we were in the Hellcatch. Matt was puppeting Beau.

[Marisha Ray]

That's true.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And I feel like Beau was so distracted with, like, all the shit she had going on with Caleb that she was like, oh, yeah, you guys go be helpful, please. So now that she's teamed up with them, I think she's very skeptical. She always is. I wouldn't say. Was she impressed?

[Aabria Iyengar]

Takes a lot to impress Beau.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Takes a lot to. Exactly. Takes a lot to impress Beau.

[Aabria Iyengar]

And really, what did they. Didn't see y'all do anything?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, not really.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Yeah, well.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And Bowen, Caleb. We got captured.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Yeah. Frankly, Bo and Caleb fucking screwed the pooch on their end.

[Sam Riegel]

Wow.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Bell's house shouldn't be impressed with the mighty Nine.

[Marisha Ray]

Rolled better.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I know. That's right, because we came down to your 20.

[Marisha Ray]

You both rolled like shit.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yes, we did. Like, under 10.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

But then as far, the only thing that Bo really knows that happened with Bell's Hells is them dropping an airship on Ludinus and probably causing 40 casualties. So, anyway, yeah, we'll see.

[Laura Bailey]

Sam, how much did you and Ashley work together to plan pike and Scanlan's tumultuous romance? Does Scanlan still carry a torch for Pike? For sure he does. And we didn't work together that much. In fact, before we started playing, Ashley was like, we're divorced, right? And I was like, yeah, I think so. And then she was up first, and she was like, yeah, we've been divorced, like, three times or something. And I was backstage like, oh, okay. Well, that means we got married and divorced a couple. Okay, sure. So we didn't really plan that, but I figured that part of the reason Scanlan was on his. His trip, his vision quest, his. Whatever it was, his midlife crisis was that he didn't know what to do after divorcing from Pike. And is he.

[Marisha Ray]

Your midlife crisis?

[Sam Riegel]

You went to find yourself his quarter life crisis.

[Laura Bailey]

It's so weird with gnomes, right? I live, like 400 years, but he's 100 now.

[Marisha Ray]

So is his quarter life crisis.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, but does that mean that he looks like a 25 year old?

[Sam Riegel]

No, no, you.

[Laura Bailey]

I think he looks like a 60 year old.

[Sam Riegel]

I think you dye your hair.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Frankly, I love. I love Scanlan's Jason Momoa look. It's so hot doing it for me. It's the only time I've ever found Scanlan, like, super hot.

[Sam Riegel]

That has not occurred to me.

[Marisha Ray]

That's great for Scanlan. He doesn't really have to, like, you know, keep his body in shape. He can just.

[Laura Bailey]

He can do imaginary.

[Marisha Ray]

He can make him look however he wants to look.

[Laura Bailey]

And for now, he wants to look a little older and rugged.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

And horsey.

[Laura Bailey]

And horsey. There was. We went back and forth about whether the horse was gonna be just horse color or purple. We went with purple. And then the last note I gave was, please give him a big horse dick.

[Marisha Ray]

Is it on there?

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

I didn't look at it.

[Laura Bailey]

It's visible.

[Marisha Ray]

His horse stick is visible.

[Laura Bailey]

Because if without it, it looks like it's missing something.

[Marisha Ray]

Wait a minute. Your dick has just been flopping around the whole time?

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Wait, that is true.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

Horse dicks are out there. What do you think horses wear underwear?

[Sam Riegel]

No.

[Marisha Ray]

But as a centaur, as a like a sentient being, shouldn't you have like horse underwear on?

[Sam Riegel]

What does that look like in your head?

[Marisha Ray]

Does it go up over the four legs, like halfway up the horse body? Or is it just.

[Sam Riegel]

How do you take your underwear down if you need to do anything?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, that's true.

[Sam Riegel]

You have not thought this through.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, no, you have hands though. You have hands and horns, but they can't reach that.

[Laura Bailey]

I have four legs and two hands. I can't reach them.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

But can you?

[Laura Bailey]

I'm an octopus.

[Marisha Ray]

You're that much more evil now.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Technically a squid.

[Marisha Ray]

20% more evil than.

[Sam Riegel]

We've all been to medieval times. We've all seen things. I think we're okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yes, but it's true. There's no way you can reach around to wipe your ass.

[Sam Riegel]

No horse ever does.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No way.

[Marisha Ray]

That's true. Disgusting. Ass to horse ass.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh God.

[Aabria Iyengar]

That's how the joke.

[Laura Bailey]

We've all ridden horses behind other horses.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Where their asshole like turns inside out.

[Sam Riegel]

Stop.

[Laura Bailey]

God.

[Sam Riegel]

Next question, next question, next question.

[Laura Bailey]

That's what Scanlans are anyway.

[Sam Riegel]

I love that people think we plan. I love that people watch this show and think we are capable of planning anything.

[Aabria Iyengar]

People who think that, don't watch this show.

[Sam Riegel]

No. That's madness.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh no.

[Sam Riegel]

Moving on. I'm gonna try. Did Ashton find Jester's relationship advice helpful? Yes. Why did he seek advice on Fearne at the time? Honestly? Because, like between guilt, which has been kind of festering forever in Ashton's head, and also that they don't really like. They don't hit on people normally. They like when they hook up with people, people hook up with them. They're not really. They're not the initiator, they're just willing to be cool and then nonchalant about it and like, whatever. Like it's not. There's not a lot of. And like, not that this was commitment either, but I'm like, I don't hit on people.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Uh huh.

[Sam Riegel]

And also I feel really bad about a bunch of shit. Which also then adds a bunch of like, I don't want it to be guilty and I don't also want to be going, hey, babe, it's the end of the world. Want it like, no, no, no, no, no. I'm into this. It just happens to be the worst time that there is for this.

[Marisha Ray]

Has Ashton ever pined for someone before? Is Ashton pining for Fearne?

[Sam Riegel]

No.

[Laura Bailey]

What is it about her that turns him on most?

[Sam Riegel]

It's. Honestly, it's the. It's. It's a mirror of the. Of. Of their own recklessness. Yeah, well, that. It's the pouch too. But no, it's. It's. It's very rare for them to meet somebody who is just as irresponsible, like, who has that same irresponsibility. And like the way, the way in his. That it pops up is like she really hits him in the best of the worst of him. Like very much. You bring out the best of my worst. Which. The worst is never going away and I kind of know that. So I feel like my chaos is better around you and I'm not used to really liking people that way. Like it could. It's always a little messy because family is just designed to disappoint you and go badly. So yeah, it's a hole. They are not healthy at all.

[Marisha Ray]

No.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You just said a lot of really sad things.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, they're sad. They're sad. Yeah. Life has not been kind. They're doing the rest.

[Laura Bailey]

Talking about horse assholes.

[Sam Riegel]

Back to horse. Yeah, yeah, back to horse.

[Marisha Ray]

What does Laura. What does Jester think of Grayes assertion that she ruined his life? Does it make her look back on her other moments of mischief with any concern?

[Laura Bailey]

Probably not.

[Marisha Ray]

No, no, I was just doing what I was supposed to do. Look, no, she does feel bad that her actions had consequences.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

And not on her, just on somebody else.

[Laura Bailey]

Does she?

[Marisha Ray]

Yes, she does. She does. She feels bad that she ruined his life, but at the same time she doesn't think she did. Do you know what I mean? It's kind of like, I'm sorry that your life changed, but it's definitely not ruined. So maybe I gave you what you needed in that moment.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm sorry that you didn't feel this way.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, it sounds like one of those apologies of like, I'm sorry if you feel that way.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, but she is sorry that he hurt. She is sorry about that. But she, I think she.

[Laura Bailey]

She's a sociopath.

[Marisha Ray]

But she. She thinks that it will it will all turn out better than it was. You were just living, like, a little life, and you were just like, you know, what were you doing there? Look at you now.

[Sam Riegel]

She's right.

[Laura Bailey]

She's probably right.

[Sam Riegel]

Three days from a villain. All of them. Three days from a villain. Yeah. I mean, you wouldn't be here if it weren't for true. Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Wouldn't be meeting the kings.

[Marisha Ray]

You wouldn't be on the moon.

[Laura Bailey]

Wouldn't go to the moon. Wouldn't meet Gods, boy. I mean, within one day of meeting you guys, I got like, oh, no, I'm not gonna say I got a shot at. I got to talk to Ludinus and maybe even kill him. But we didn't.

[Marisha Ray]

We didn't.

[Sam Riegel]

Can't be a bad one without some dead parents.

[Marisha Ray]

We're going to.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

What was your fiance's name? Or whatever?

[Laura Bailey]

Susie Green.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, Jester was like, she's so busted now. I was like, oh, God, some woman on woman, violence happening.

[Marisha Ray]

I was just trying to make him feel better. Yeah, no, I just talked to her.

[Laura Bailey]

And within 25 words, you were like.

[Marisha Ray]

I was like, oh, she's.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

She's like.

[Marisha Ray]

She sounds like shit. You don't want any of that.

[Laura Bailey]

Suzy Green is based on a real person. Yeah, I didn't know his name is Suzy Green.

[Marisha Ray]

What?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Samuel, there's gotta be.

[Laura Bailey]

She doesn't know that.

[Marisha Ray]

She will.

[Laura Bailey]

She doesn't know I exist.

[Marisha Ray]

You think nobody's gonna look up a Suzy Green and find her from your past? And, like, be like, by the way.

[Laura Bailey]

She broke one twist.

[Sam Riegel]

She's a critic.

[Marisha Ray]

Broke her heart.

[Laura Bailey]

And I've been thinking about it for 40 years.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, God. That's a mood.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Wait, so she broke your heart when.

[Laura Bailey]

You were, like, five, third grade.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

There's gotta be, like, at least a hundred Suzy Greens, right?

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

You said. Oh, that sounds.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Marisha, Marisha, pull up, pull up, pull up. Give a cut.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We're on a show.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Sued by Susie Green. Defamation, slander. I can tell you the story.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I do want to know the story.

[Marisha Ray]

After I grade, it was.

[Laura Bailey]

It's stayed with me for so long.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, my God.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, just do it. Just do it.

[Laura Bailey]

I left notes in her locker, like, secret admirer type notes. My locker was, like, right next to hers or very close. And every day, she would get one of my notes, and sometimes I left little presents in them, too. And she would get them, and her friends would gather around. She'd read them, and they would be so excited. And she was like, I wonder who it is. And she was so happy. This went on for a couple weeks, and then finally I was like, okay, I'll reveal myself to you. Meet me in the library.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, doubt.

[Laura Bailey]

At 2:00 or whatever. And I was in there, and she walked in, and I walked up to her. I was like, are you waiting for. Are you looking for someone? And she looked at me. She was like, nope. And then she left.

[Sam Riegel]

Yep. Saw it coming.

[Laura Bailey]

And I was crushed.

[Marisha Ray]

She never knew it was you.

[Laura Bailey]

No, she knew it was me. She chose not to acknowledge it.

[Marisha Ray]

Maybe she.

[Sam Riegel]

No, sorry.

[Laura Bailey]

She would rather. She would rather not confront that ever. She rejected me in the worst possible way.

[Marisha Ray]

Sorry.

[Laura Bailey]

And it's been haunting.

[Marisha Ray]

Deserves to be put on this show and called out on blast.

[Sam Riegel]

Now you're being put on blast.

[Laura Bailey]

Susie, please do not find Suzy Green. Do not give her any hate. She's probably. I loved her at the time. She's probably a great person.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm sure.

[Sam Riegel]

We'll let the audience find 5.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Spell the name differently.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, I'm sure. It was spelled.

[Sam Riegel]

You don't remember.

[Laura Bailey]

I know exactly how it. But it was spelled the other way. Whatever way you're thinking it's the other way.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So you're revealing that it's the other way.

[Laura Bailey]

Yes. If you think there's an e at the end of green, there isn't. And if you don't, there is.

[Aabria Iyengar]

We have captions.

[Marisha Ray]

Sam, I sent a boy.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, just. We'll spell it different every time.

[Marisha Ray]

Please don't do that to me. Don't do that to me. To a boy. And I was like, do you. Do you want to go out with me? Yes or yes. Thinking I was being super clever. And he circled the oar.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, oh, oh.

[Laura Bailey]

Do you know his name? Wow.

[Marisha Ray]

Brian. Oh, I could say the whole one.

[Laura Bailey]

But I. Susie Green also.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, wow. That hurt.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, I once had a crush. And we're just telling.

[Laura Bailey]

This is what the show.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Elementary school crushes. His name was Travis, and he. On Valentine's Day, we harbored secret crushes. And he taped a diamond ring to one of those little, like, valentines.

[Laura Bailey]

A real one?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yep. That's.

[Marisha Ray]

I had a boy do that. Gave me earrings.

[Laura Bailey]

What grade? Where?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Second grade. It was missing a couple stones. So clearly, like, in the. In the band. So clearly. His mom was like, oh, no, I gotta take this to get repaired.

[Marisha Ray]

He was like.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And he yoinked it and put. Taped it with scotch tape.

[Laura Bailey]

What'd you do with it?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Never said a word.

[Laura Bailey]

You just took it?

[Marisha Ray]

Did you keep it?

[Sam Riegel]

Do you still have it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I guarantee.

[Laura Bailey]

You stole a diamond from a guy.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I didn't steal it. He stole it and he gave it to me.

[Marisha Ray]

Look.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And then I was really embarrassed and I didn't know what to do. So we just never talked about it, ever.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, my God.

[Marisha Ray]

You just took a diamond ring and never said, I didn't take it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It was given to me.

[Marisha Ray]

I was given a pair of diamond earrings by a boy also in second grade. And then his mom called my house and was like, listen, those are my earrings.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Can you have them back?

[Marisha Ray]

Give them back.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

How many boys are stealing from their mom's jewelry? I think this is probably common.

[Sam Riegel]

Wow, you all have really sad stories about this.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I guarantee you, you're.

[Laura Bailey]

You're just totally scot free.

[Marisha Ray]

I never, ever, ever got rejected.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, I have. I like. No, I like. I've had some bad ones.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

I gave a girlfriend a VCR in college. Then she dumped me and she kept the VCR.

[Sam Riegel]

I had. I asked a girl out. We were like, at a. Like at a restaurant, like, at a diner one night. And I like, I like. I asked a girl out who I had a crush on for ages when I was young. And literally she just did that. I was like, so, yeah, like, I think, you know, let's. Let me take you out. Let's go for coffee. I just wanna, like, I'm really into you. And she just did this anyway and just kept going. Like, I watched it process, and then she just decided it didn't happen. She just edited those eight seconds. It was like she.

[Laura Bailey]

Suzy Greened you.

[Sam Riegel]

It was just clearly. I suppose we're still friends then. That's okay. I'll be fine. Well, I dated half her friends at some point.

[Laura Bailey]

I like how the teleprompter says answer the questions, but, like, they put a.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Little heart to be like, we're doing great.

[Marisha Ray]

Sorry about that.

[Laura Bailey]

Speed round.

[Sam Riegel]

So this is what happens when you put me in charge.

[Aabria Iyengar]

You better not let me get through two of these.

[Sam Riegel]

I'll kill you.

[Marisha Ray]

Sorry, Dani. We're doing it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Why did Keyleth choose to reach out to Serkonos out of everyone in Vasselheim? What is their relationship like as fellow leaders of the Ashari? Well, the above table answer is Robbie was playing as zirconos.

[Marisha Ray]

That's not what the question is about.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Obviously, the above table answer is that.

[Marisha Ray]

Robbie is playing zirconos.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Obviously, the above table answer for why somebody chooses fireball is it's a great fucking spell.

[Sam Riegel]

What the fuck?

[Laura Bailey]

The above table reason was I was Holding a piece of cheese. So I thought.

[Sam Riegel]

Man, we should hang out more. We really should.

[Marisha Ray]

We never get to talk.

[Sam Riegel]

I want to. If we keep doing this, she'll pass out from laughing too hard. The only sleep you'll ever get is if we make you laugh till you pass out.

[Marisha Ray]

It was a great question. What do you think, Marisha? Yeah, it's Ricardo.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

She's the best.

[Sam Riegel]

Who else?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm not gonna go. Well, once again, I wouldn't go to Leah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Tell.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I told Liam that afterwards. I was like, sorry, I just. No, wouldn't go to you.

[Marisha Ray]

There was no way it was gonna be like, let's go to Leo. Tell.

[Aabria Iyengar]

So I'm.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm glad that Matt had her.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Intersect us.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm gonna.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Which was great.

[Sam Riegel]

Circumst is the caduceus now of mighty Nein.

[Aabria Iyengar]

It's true.

[Laura Bailey]

I love circonos. I love what Robbie's doing with him.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

He's so good.

[Marisha Ray]

He is.

[Laura Bailey]

So he's the. He's like the straight man.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

But hilarious.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. How fast was it when I was, like, looked at him, like, with Pike? Would you. Would you hit that? He's like, no.

[Aabria Iyengar]

However, smash leaf.

[Marisha Ray]

Leo tell.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Dude, he's got a little goth girl crush.

[Sam Riegel]

Who doesn't?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

But, yeah, you know, we're. You know, we're from the. Our same. Same people. And I think. I think Keyleth is also thinking, like, who can I go to who's not overburdened and over encumbered with everything else and who isn't, if we go and die, isn't gonna leave, like, a lot behind outside of Vex and Percy, who's just as.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Who's just as sad as Keyleth is.

[Laura Bailey]

Ouch.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. Who's the loners? Who's the loners?

[Laura Bailey]

He doesn't have a family, I guess. Right?

[Sam Riegel]

I don't know.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't think so. If he does, then he might soon.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

He's in an open relationship.

[Sam Riegel]

No, I think he's divorced, Dad. I think it's just an apartment with a lot of a key.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I actually, like, right before y'all started shooting, I sat down with Robbie and was like, hey, so talk to me about circonos. Let's, like, just give me, like, a little bit of backstory that you've come up with and everything. For him. I was like, is. Does he have a relationship? Does he have, like, what's. What is his life like? And stuff like that. He was like, I think he's kind of. He's. You Know, he's not really settled down with anybody ever. It's not really a thing for him. Same episode, he was like, leave town.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I love.

[Sam Riegel]

He's been traveling, going to fish concerts.

[Marisha Ray]

For like last year.

[Sam Riegel]

It's the vibe.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It is the vibe.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Anyway, we know what Veth thinks of Breus. What does Breus think of Veth? Wood smash. I think Breus is just very lonely. That's why he wants to be with everybody. He just.

[Marisha Ray]

You can't make a villain. You just can't make a bad guy.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm just softie.

[Sam Riegel]

You are very soft.

[Laura Bailey]

But I think he would have. I think he thinks that Veth is interesting and weird and. Cause she is. And if he wasn't so focused on jester that day, I think he would have been like, oh, okay, sure, let's do this. But he had other shit on his mind. And I'm glad they didn't because that would be bad for Veth. Veth is. She's horny, but she still. She's a monogamist. She loves her husband.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Feels like she's going through it.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah. You know when you're a mom and you've been with the same dude for a while and you got two, like, sweaty men living with you and some blink dog or something, it's.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, that's.

[Laura Bailey]

And you're running a fucking summer camp with all these whiny kids. Like, she's probably like, yeah, I want to get out of the house. And she want to feel attractive again. Go on an adventure.

[Marisha Ray]

Horny little halfling.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Sometimes you want that male gaze.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Laura Bailey]

Well, I don't know. I'm not a woman. But yes, as a woman, that's what I want. Sometimes I just want people to see me and be a sexual cr. Creature. I'm not gonna act on it. I just want that. The thrill. The thrill of the chase.

[Aabria Iyengar]

As my southern belle mom used to say, it's fine to window shop as long as you don't buy anything.

[Marisha Ray]

Exactly.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm into that. Let's go for one. What are caduceus thoughts on the situation with the gods? Has he noticed seedling being blessed by the wild mother? Oh, boy. What can I say? That I'm not going to be saving for later. He has noticed seedling and feels that that is a conversation for later. Because most of his concern in that group was, you sure?

[Laura Bailey]

Sure.

[Sam Riegel]

Because he was taking everything and going, oh, the weak link. Hold on. Because. Yeah, he doesn't really. He doesn't. He doesn't really Feel like that's an issue yet. Like he was spending a lot of time just trying to identify the group dynamics of the new group so that could situate everybody. I love having a perception that is so. And wisdom that is so high that it's hateful. So I can just sit and just. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I get all this. Clearly Caduceus is pro God is there for the wild mother. Because that is. And also I might add through extension. I don't know how many people remember this. Also the. He is a two God priest. Because that Caduceus.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, you can do that.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. The.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

The wild mother and the arch heart.

[Sam Riegel]

The. The grove is a gift to the arch heart from the wild mother.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, that's like.

[Sam Riegel]

It is a temple to the wild mother. But it was. It was conceived as kind of a. Oh, that's right.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Cause the arch heart and the wild mother, did they have a thing?

[Sam Riegel]

No, it. This is just my. My version of the. Of the wild mother has always been a little pompous. Just. Just a little.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Who did the wild mother fuck?

[Aabria Iyengar]

The Law Bear.

[Sam Riegel]

Law Bear. So this was.

[Aabria Iyengar]

And like using your Abu Bakr Saleem with your no shirt alone.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. Thankfully, because of downfall, it kind of. It kind of ended up working out real well of this kind of being. Hey, I made you this thing. But it really. If you like think about it, it's less I gave you a gift and more I made you this thing that proves how important I am to you. Because that's her vibe. Occasionally, which we did that round table where we all. That we all talked about the relationship between the gods and everyone kind of eventually agreed that nature is kind of a catch all. And the fact that you've decided that that's your thing feels a little.

[Marisha Ray]

A little bit much.

[Sam Riegel]

A little much. Yeah. Because the Allfather was like, I'm a God of farming and that's its own thing. And it was just.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Is it though or is it mine?

[Sam Riegel]

I think it's kind of mine. I think I'd give it to you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I give it to you.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. So there's a bit of that.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

On Tuesdays and Wednesdays you get farming.

[Sam Riegel]

So I mean, Caduceus is prepared for any eventuality. And I think there will come a point where his real feelings on it are kind of put together. But he knows that if things go badly, this is not the end and that there is a world in which his feelings and his philosophy would not change. If the Wild mother left.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

It would just be a different Set of responsibilities.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, that tracks.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. I have a really nice, pretty way of thinking of it that hopefully we'll get into in the game.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Love it.

[Marisha Ray]

Laura.

[Sam Riegel]

I didn't.

[Marisha Ray]

What did Imogen think of Caleb's speech to her in the top of the tower? You know, she sees Caleb and she sees like, oh, this guy is. He's probably as powerful as Ludinus. I mean, like, he's right up there, you know, like, she sees him like, what is this tower he was able to make? So the fact that he was giving her encouraging words was pretty special, but also just like, he was kind of saying. I'm trying to remember what only said. He was trying to say, like.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

He.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Was like, trust your instincts.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, he was like, trust your instincts.

[Aabria Iyengar]

There's so many possibilities.

[Marisha Ray]

That's where I was gonna go with it. Danny, I swear.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I'm here to help, babe.

[Laura Bailey]

I know it. You're doing great.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. So it was kind of nice just to have that outsider. Right. Saying the same thing. Because, you know, when you're friends, like, it's like, if Travis compliments me, I'm like, you have to say. All right, you have to say it. You're my husband. You have to tell me that. But if, like, it's a total random stranger, like, a girl in a bathroom is just like, your outfit is fire. I'm like, it means so much for sure.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's like, oh, you see me. You notice the work that I put in.

[Marisha Ray]

Thank you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. So it's kind of like that.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'll go. Cuz I'm next. All right. Is this our last round?

[Sam Riegel]

I think this is our last round. Not that I. Yeah. No spoilers, but good one, then.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We've kind of talked about that. Ham and ham and ham and ham and ham.

[Sam Riegel]

H.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

This is a good one. What does lan think of the Matrons assertion that anything is possible in regards to. In regards to her becoming human again? Is this something that Laudna wants? I think there's a fear because it's like she's. Laudna's been like this for so long.

[Marisha Ray]

60 years, right?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

30.

[Marisha Ray]

They're just kidding.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You're 30? 40. 30. Somewhere in there. Technically, 31.

[Marisha Ray]

Have you seen that video? It's like a spoof on 32. Technically.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Sorry.

[Marisha Ray]

On the Twilight thing, where it's like saying, like, I'm a vampire and, like, how old are you? How long have you been alive? And he's like, 47 years. And she's like, you're just a 47 year old.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

It'S like, not as. That's weird.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

200 is cool, but 47.

[Laura Bailey]

Just going to the wheel.

[Sam Riegel]

The wheel has to make a full circle, doesn't it?

[Laura Bailey]

You just haven't made the full circle.

[Sam Riegel]

Yet where it's okay.

[Laura Bailey]

Gross. That's weird and gross.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. Come back in 80 years.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, but yeah, like, if. No, if Laudna.

[Marisha Ray]

I was thinking Laudna is almost 60.

[Sam Riegel]

She's.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, she's going on 60.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So there's nothing sexy about that. Not really. So if she, like, goes back to being human, does she age rapidly to be suddenly 60, suddenly 60, or, like, will she reclaim lost years? Will she reclaim these, like, 30 years? Hold up, hold up.

[Sam Riegel]

I think physically nothing changed. I think it just.

[Aabria Iyengar]

She, you know, is dripping with ooze.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

And her fingernails come off, but you draw the line. It's 60.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, no, it's just the ooze isn't the problem.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's just.

[Sam Riegel]

Do I keep it tight is really all you said, so. Sorry.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I'm sorry. I couldn't let that pass.

[Sam Riegel]

No, thank you, Dani.

[Marisha Ray]

No, thank you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, I don't know. We'll see. She's not against it, but I think it's like, I don't want it to become a death becomes her type of situation.

[Sam Riegel]

I have a weird. I have a weird quandary and I kind of want to ask it, although I'm afraid it will actually come up in the game.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We'll ask and then I'll answer. Or not.

[Sam Riegel]

Would you be willing. Would you want to become human? If the price was. Delilah escapes. Not in you anymore. But Delilah gets like. You could become a normal, real live girl, but Delilah gets to go back out into the world.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Probably not.

[Sam Riegel]

Interesting.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You would say yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, yeah. Thank you.

[Marisha Ray]

As these characters.

[Sam Riegel]

I agree.

[Marisha Ray]

I would say, yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I don't know. I guess we'll see.

[Sam Riegel]

The boys. The boys know. Just saying.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

The boys know.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. We will let her out.

[Laura Bailey]

Fuck that.

[Sam Riegel]

I want to be pretty. Not. Not that. Not that she is. She's, you know, Goth. Goth princess.

[Marisha Ray]

No, that's fine.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm into it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I get it. Ashton.

[Sam Riegel]

Mm.

[Laura Bailey]

Sam, is Scanlan committing to full time centaur life? Does he plan to write his version of on the Road? Yes. I mean, it's pretty cool being a centaur.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I asked a question, and it was really tough.

[Laura Bailey]

He moves twice as fast. He can poop wherever he wants. He can roam free. He.

[Marisha Ray]

What if. Yeah, what if pike wants to get back together?

[Laura Bailey]

He can make her a centaur.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay. I feel like your Your boning sessions are a little. She would, but I feel like. I don't know.

[Sam Riegel]

Limits your options.

[Marisha Ray]

It limits ya. If you're both horses.

[Laura Bailey]

It limits the positions.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, you're right.

[Marisha Ray]

I feel like Scanlan would appreciate multiple. Yeah, you've got the one. You could try. You could certainly try.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Because you're. Because. Can you lay on your back? Because your torso.

[Marisha Ray]

Lay on their back. Horses don't lay on their back.

[Laura Bailey]

We can make.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

But even, like. Because horses. Heads are in.

[Sam Riegel]

You don't have a horse standby.

[Laura Bailey]

It's hard to talk about this without getting into position.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I know. It feels like you'd have to be on a platform so that your human body can hang over.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Cause your human body is human, but.

[Marisha Ray]

Your human body is up.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

So if she's laying down, then you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Guys are forming, then she's gonna be like.

[Laura Bailey]

There's also the issue. Forget about that. There's also the issue of mouth stuff. How does that work?

[Sam Riegel]

I hate this so much.

[Laura Bailey]

If there's two centaurs and you do mouth stuff, I hate this. How does that work?

[Sam Riegel]

I hate this.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You said you like eating ass as a midnight.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, but that's a horse ass.

[Marisha Ray]

That's different. That's this thing.

[Aabria Iyengar]

God damn it.

[Sam Riegel]

This is all your fault.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

This is all your fault.

[Laura Bailey]

I don't think I can do that.

[Marisha Ray]

Then you gotta turn into a regular old gnome again. Yeah, it's gonna be you or something else, but something that doesn't have a horse ass.

[Laura Bailey]

What about a reverse centaur?

[Sam Riegel]

I'm kind of surprised you didn't.

[Marisha Ray]

Just a human.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, wait, a horse head on a human body.

[Marisha Ray]

But would it be a human body or gnome body?

[Sam Riegel]

Gnome body.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. But then you still couldn't do mouth stuff.

[Sam Riegel]

I don't know. At this point, it's just BoJack Horseman. I don't know what happens.

[Marisha Ray]

Could you imagine that?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, I'm imagining it. I hate it. I gotta stop.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, one question left.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. Well, are you doing one last question?

[Marisha Ray]

Well, I started the circle.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, that's right. So this is the last question. I'm reading it sideways.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Make it good.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, Now I'm going. Another one. We kind of covered some of that. All right, if you were a horse. Ooh, talk about your new designs for the Mighty Nein and Vox Machina. What are the key elements you keep in mind when updating your character's art? I overcooked.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We'll be here for another 45 minutes.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, you are.

[Laura Bailey]

Allison and Ashley spend a lot of.

[Sam Riegel]

Time I am very particular.

[Marisha Ray]

You are.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You're particular. Ashley's indecisive.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

There's a difference.

[Sam Riegel]

There is a difference.

[Marisha Ray]

You are so pretty.

[Laura Bailey]

We love you.

[Marisha Ray]

Ashley, anytime we're doing Percy merchandise. Molly merchandise. Anytime it's, like, going out for, like, we're hiring artists to do. I'm like, almost everybody else. I can be like, yes, yes, yes. And then I always go, you guys send it to Taliesin.

[Sam Riegel]

You know why? Because I know that that shit's going to be on. Like, I know that these things have to live on in toys and shirts, and I want to make sure that it is that. I like making sure that these designs are really where they need to be. And specific. More than just specific, but, like, are actually, like, have weight and, like, iconography. That is.

[Marisha Ray]

I appreciate that.

[Sam Riegel]

Thank you. I knew you would.

[Marisha Ray]

Did you. Never mind. I can't talk about that.

[Sam Riegel]

No. Which one can we.

[Marisha Ray]

I can't. We can't. I can't talk about it. No, we have microphones on.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. They're gonna mute it. Don't mute it.

[Marisha Ray]

You're the host. We gotta keep it.

[Sam Riegel]

So for Percy. I will say for Percy, Please keep him hot. That was a big one. He's hot, and it never goes away. I wanted him to wear his paranoia on his face, like. And especially. There's nothing worse than someone who is, like, deeply paranoid, who's proven right. They are so smug. And I wanted him. I wanted to, like, let him kind of lean into. Because he's not ruling Exam. He's not ruling Whitestone. He's kind of a spy almost. It's not quite a spy. He's, like. Almost, like, runs a version of the CIA where he's like. We're talking in back channels, the two of us. Yeah. I mean, honestly. Yeah, it's. It's. Cassandra and Vex are kind of running the place as far as things go, and then he's just kind of moving all the pieces around in the back and. Yeah. And has just been prepared.

[Marisha Ray]

That's why she was at.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Vasselheim and he wasn't.

[Sam Riegel]

He just. Yeah, he's not part of the. You know.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, I know he's not ruling, but I didn't know he had a private Grey Hunters Green Beret group.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Max was technically running them.

[Marisha Ray]

She is.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

That's what I thought.

[Sam Riegel]

But he also. There's a lot of what he does in there to, like, help move them around. Yeah, but they're. They're very specifically designed to be, like, single people. You can send out to be like, we're doing this big thing and we need, like, we're moving an army. Like, you get one of our people or two of our. Like, we have those. We have our very. Yeah. So I wanted his costume to be very harsh and a little clearly dark. And there's, like, that. We have. I have that. Weird.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, that's really great.

[Sam Riegel]

Which is the sun tree roots.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, that's cool. Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

So it's very crisp and a little mean.

[Marisha Ray]

I know. I like that you went really dark. And so I wanted to have Vex and her really light colors balance.

[Sam Riegel]

I really. I love the way that they. Because we were. We were bouncing off each other. Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Adorable.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

But what would Percy look like if he were a horse?

[Aabria Iyengar]

White horse, blue horse?

[Sam Riegel]

He would. No, I think he would. Yeah. I think he would be like, you know, like this nice golden brown. But he would have a white stock of hair.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Would he be dappled?

[Marisha Ray]

Would he have little glasses?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. And the white stone logo on the butt, like a mouth? Yeah.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Okay, now everybody say what they would look like as a horse.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You could have, like a little My Little Pony cutie mark.

[Sam Riegel]

I was gonna say. What would be your cutie mark? What would be your character's cutie mark? What a great way to end the episode is like, pick a character and let's put a cutie mark on their butt.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

If it's. Well, we're keyleth right now, so I feel like it'd probably be like antlers, right?

[Sam Riegel]

Little antlers.

[Marisha Ray]

Wouldn't your just horse have antlers?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I guess it'd be weird if my butt had antlers.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Double animal Ashari symbol.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, yeah, the Ashari symbol. Or like leaves. That's weird, too.

[Aabria Iyengar]

Pot, leaf leaves.

[Marisha Ray]

Just like a few leaves, like, flowing down. Yeah, that sounds like a My little p. Sort of a butt mark.

[Laura Bailey]

I could see that Scanlan has one on his current design. It says, I break for hot chicks.

[Sam Riegel]

That's right. That's right.

[Marisha Ray]

Wow.

[Laura Bailey]

It's tattooed on his ass.

[Sam Riegel]

I would probably. I would probably just have the little. Little sun with a little, you know, with the little stars. I wouldn't do the whole thing.

[Marisha Ray]

The whole thing?

[Sam Riegel]

No.

[Marisha Ray]

I feel like I would probably.

[Sam Riegel]

I know. It's rough, isn't it, whether or not.

[Marisha Ray]

To have the same thing or like.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I've always liked Texas pop.

[Marisha Ray]

I know. The paw print with the crossed arrows.

[Sam Riegel]

The paw print's pretty cool. Yeah, that would be fun.

[Marisha Ray]

That's like her.

[Sam Riegel]

If you have ideas for cutie marks, please share Them, share them and tag them on whatever you see fit. I love Instagram. It's where I see all my fun stuff.

[Laura Bailey]

Nice.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. And I think that's about quarter past the hour. So I think that's it for four side. What the.

[Marisha Ray]

Anybody ever knocked on that door before?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh my God. What? Someone say quarter past it is four sided die producer and bad boy game designer of Queen by Midnight, Kyle Shire.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Kyle.

[Sam Riegel]

That's right.

[Marisha Ray]

What's up, Kyle?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, I'm a bad boy now. Yeah, yeah. So bad. And ooh, get that drink. Oh, God, there was.

[Laura Bailey]

Lady, that was a burp.

[Sam Riegel]

Queen by Midnight, Quarter Past. The new standalone expansion to Queen by Midnight features a new two player ruleset, tons of awesome new bizarre cards, and four new princesses with amazing cool new strategies that are fabulous and wonderful. Ah, yes, it's great. I can't read with these.

[Laura Bailey]

Last Slim Jim. Step into a Slim Jim.

[Sam Riegel]

It's available tomorrow.

[Marisha Ray]

Tomorrow?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes. At our critical role shops at Derek Depress Guild stores and other friendly local game stores.

[Laura Bailey]

And what?

[Marisha Ray]

You can hold it?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, you can hold it. And you can catch Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jack, Amy Carrero and Aabria Iyengar playing Queen by Midnight Quarter Pass next week, November 20th at 7pm Pacific on Twitch YouTube and Beak.

[Marisha Ray]

It's a rematch, baby.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. Anyway, I got like a motorcycle to ride away on. Lock up for me, will you, Marisha? Okay. Smell you later, nerds. What?

[Aabria Iyengar]

Oh, what is this motorcycle?

[Laura Bailey]

What's happening there? Are you being helped him out in post?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Are you gonna post?

[Sam Riegel]

I wanna thank our guests, Rich Ray, Laura Bailey, Sam Riegel, and of course, our lovely lore keeper, Danny Carr. I'm Taliesin Jaffe, your 29th tavern keeper, apparently. And I guess that's my outro. What is happening here?

[Laura Bailey]

Friends around the table, time to celebrate. It's a party, hit the lights, here we go. Go, go waste the night away With a little escape? It's a chance to lose control? So let's just leave this world behind.

[Marisha Ray]

Everybody come on, take a D.

[Sam Riegel]

One.

[Laura Bailey]

By one we roll the dice? Come on, let's go critical for another round? Your friends are here to cheat? Throw it back, it's good time all night long? Let's go critical. No way to lose when you're having this much fun. It's your turn. No way to lose when you're having this much fun.

[Sam Riegel]

You got a quick. Wait a minute. Sorry.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Sorry.

[Aabria Iyengar]

I cut you off like.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's it for the podcast version of this episode of Four Sided Dive. If you've enjoyed this deep dive into the campaign. Be sure to drop us a rating and a review on whatever podcast platform you're using. Your thoughts may just encourage a new critter to take the plunge. Four Sided Dive normally airs on the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm Pacific on our Twitch and YouTube channels, with the VOD available on YouTube the very next day. And of course, each episode releases right here on the Critical Role Podcast Network the following Friday. We'll see you again next month.

[Laura Bailey]

Hey everybody, it's Rob Lowe here. If you haven't heard, I have a.

[Sam Riegel]

Podcast that's called Literally with Rob Lowe.

[Laura Bailey]

And basically it's conversations I've had that really make you feel like you're pulling up a chair at an intimate dinner between myself and people that I admire, like Aaron Sorkin or Tiffany Haddish, Demi Moore, Chris Pratt, Michael J. Fox. There are new episodes out every Thursday, so subscribe, please and listen.

[Sam Riegel]

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