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

Episode Date: November 15, 2024

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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? This is just fucking weird. Welcome back. Let's begin the night with our open discussion segment. What the fuck was up with that? Was up with it?

Honestly, what the fuck was up with that? You made up the game, Taliesin. You should not get the name of it now. I did. 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. That was great. You're welcome. Robots have cursed your brain. It really did. I have the virus now. It is awful. Not a real virus. Well, it's a brain virus.

It's been a day, kids. So much has happened. So much. We talked to a god. We talked to the Matron. Oh, that's right. We fought at the Matron of Raisins. The Matron of Raisins. How bad was that? Meaning, how badass was that map that Matt made? How badass was that map that Matt made?

I realized I had so many M's, I had to think about what I was going to say. It was such a cool match! It was cool. It really has been a day. It was very cool. 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. I like how you've been with us for four days and you still took the mask from the matron when like, it was so meant for Laudna.

Of course it was. Can I have it? You already took it. You can certainly try. Didn't you already take it? I gave it back to you when you wanted it. You gave it to me and then you were like, give it back. Between Fearne and I, we can get that back.

I wanted to prey on it, which I don't think I've had a chance to do yet. No, well, we did, and it's all jimbley, jibberish. Don't keep it, because it's going to 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, what, did you do anything? Are you flaving yourself?

This is literally the arguments we have off camera. I think I do remember the flip. Wait, wait, wait. Just stick on one topic. We're immediately fighting about items. We're five minutes in. Where's Liam? We fight about items that existed eight years ago,

nine years ago, and we're all still bitter. I said I wanted to prey on it. I didn't mean cast identify on it, I mean prey. Yeah. I haven't done that yet. You cast identify on it and you saw some gibberish, or somebody did, right? Someone did.

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. Correct. So I would love the chance to prey on it, however, if you want it back, just ask. Are you their matron? It's me, Reyes. Uh-huh. Yeah. So wait, but you also, you have, you're just being a little god whore.

I know, kind of. Why do you need to prey on the matron when you already have the dragon and the bad guy? That's why I need to prey on it, to sort of offer it up to one of these gods. Not to give it to them, Jesus. What did 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 Brayus, would totally fucking give it to him.

How? He's down somewhere. I don't know you would give it to him, though, if he was like, give it to me. Then you better get it back soon. Because you don't know. Between Fearne and I, we can make that happen. Yeah, that's fair.

Thank you. We'll figure it out. You can just ask him, he'd give it all he has. I could also pray to the matron. You don't need a mask to pray to the matron. We talked to her, why would you need to pray to her? She was right there. That's a fair point.

I prefer texting. That's fully what it is. There's an app for that. I have so many things I wanted to say. Yeah. Does anyone really talk on the phone anymore? You have? Hey, I slept on it,

and these are all the things I should have said. Yes. Yes. What else did we do? Oh. We fought some shit. Well, we also, we went and talked to the council. We went to Alexandria,

and we were like, talked to the council. Yes, but before that, sorry, with the matron. No, bring it. The council. I was, while we were playing. Council. While we were playing that night. They're Muppets.

I texted Amy and I was like, we're fighting you right now. Oh, that's right. You did? We were talking about that. What did you say, even Carrero? And, who plays Opal on the show, if you don't know, everybody.

And she was like, oh my god, why? Am I going to die? I was like, I don't think you're real. And so she was okay with that. But then she was real. Did you tell Amy that she wasn't real? I touched her again. I was like, now we've really met you. And she's like, for real? I was like, yeah. And she's like, am I good or bad? And I was like, I don't really know. She's bad. She's got like eight arms, because she's like, am I good or bad? And I was like, I don't really know. She's bad. She's bad. She's got like eight arms,

because she's a spider. Does eight arms make you bad? Sure. Yeah. Okay. Sure. The more arms, the badder. That's true. For every arm, you up 10% evilness. So once you hit 10 arms, it's all over?

That's right. Do legs count as arms or no? Yes. Okay. Does it cycle back if you have 11 limbs? Does that mean you're better? Dr. Octopus has six arms, which always bothered me. It's only eight if you count his legs. Why isn't he Dr. Squid? I don't know. That'd be really cool, though.

Oh, because squid only have six? Boy. Does squid only have six tentacles? And then in some, he only has four. Guys, we are doing the weave right now. I'm sorry. Hell yeah. No.

What else do we have? Boo. What the fuck is up with you? What else? Amy was delighted. I talked to her yesterday, and she was delighted that she gets to be a bit of a baddie right now. Yes, I would love for her to come back and be a baddie.

I know. I feel like she would be a great baddie. I right now. Yes, I would love for her to come back and be a baddie. I know. I feel like she would be a great baddie. I was a little sad, I knew why, I was a little sad you weren't the matron. I was a little sad. Oh, when were you at the matron? I kept looking at you. There's no way.

I know. 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 ideas of the Matron. But the Archheart made it sound like she was gonna be simpatico with him, and she was not. Not fully.

Not fully, right? I got her vibe, she's like, yeah, we need to go. Just like he said, right? Yeah, because you're not dying, dying, you're leaving. And I think that's, I felt like that's, because I have watched the scene that happens in the bar in Eor like 30 fucking 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, as Abu is, oh, always. Yours, especially. Just what he's putting out there and then watching you absorb it. There's just a tiny hint of panic as you're watching it happen, because I've watched you role-play forever.

Yeah, well, there's a little panic of like, oh fuck, he is so good. He's so deep in there. He was so deep in there, and he dropped in so fast. We're backing up all the way. Now we're talking about downfall. Yeah, we're talking about downfall. Because he's talking to me like I'm the matron, even though I wasn't the matron in that scene. We're talking about Spider-Man 2. But I talked to Matt about it.

Not the one with the upside-down kiss? We're talking about Madam Web. But Spider-Man 2 was with Dr. Ock. I feel like Spider-Man 2 does have an upside-down kiss. It's just with the astronaut astronaut when she's trying to recreate her love for your partner with the astronaut. This is why Danny is here. I forgot about that. Just saying. He wasn't really upside down.

He was like kind of laying on a couch. He's like on a couch. It's definitely not the same vibe. It's not the same vibe. Listen, like I said, it's poor recreation. Matt, I talked to Matt about it beforehand and he's like, I can't make you the 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, 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. 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 when you just got into that scene, and I have to keep making sure that you're not texting. You know, and you know. Like, is she texting? Is she, she's not paying attention. She doesn't like it, shit. It's fair, though, because Abu being the Arch Heart,

we didn't know anything about the Arch, like there's been no portrayal of the Arch Heart. And what a, yeah, what a great pull, and I loved every moment of it. Yeah. And I loved him messing with you. Such a cool god. Just a great god.

He's such a cool god. Why haven't we, like, has anybody worshipped that god? I don't know. 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&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 the Snowing Mistress. I have a- Lame. I have an Arch Heart character.

It's not lame. I got one in the background. The Arch Heart would've been so good for them. I know, because the Arch Heart, forgive me, is the god of creativity. Art and magic. Magic. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and my kid was like,

well, but they don't know anything. I need to know a lot of information. Well. They know things. Your kid's right. I mean, knowing mistress is cool. Knowing mistress is cool. Yeah. Damn right she is.

Okay. They all know things, they're gods. Okay. Rest in peace. I'm going out for the girl. Yeah, I mean, we talked to a lot of people. Rest in peace. I'm going out for the girl. Yeah, we talked to a lot of people. It was fun. We talked to several gods. We talked to the council, which I know we're going to keep hitting, because I love any time Matt talks to himself. It really pleases me. Everyone was there. I was convinced something bad was going to happen, and it didn't.

Yeah. I was wrong. Yeah. Then we talked to the council again, or we talked to all of Vassalheim, and we're like, gosh, we've done so many things. We have. It's been a while. Because then you had to give a speech as Keyleth.

It was a good speech. It was a good speech. Thank you. Did you know you had to do something? I took a page out of the Sam Riegel handbook where— Which is? You prepped Justin Cain? I didn't prep it before the game,

but in the game, while we were playing, when it started, when the writing started to become clear. So literally two minutes before, I just started scribbling basically phrases. I didn't have time to write that. Because you get the sense like, oh shit, I'm going to have to make a speech in five minutes. I should probably have an idea of what I'm saying. I do the same thing.

It was like bullets almost. So I wrote whatever I ended up saying. It was good. It was very solid. I was like, beasts, behemoths, devils, demigods. It was like buzzwords that I just kind of like, I love alliteration. Who doesn't? It just sounds good. But anyway, but I learned that from, learned it from watching you, Dad. That's very flattering.

Because you did that with Calamity. Yes, I did. I was writing for like 20 minutes before that moment. Thank God I had time to jot it down. I love that I've had two angry yells and every time everyone at the table goes, oh, please don't. And they've both worked out well. That was great.

They've both worked out well. But any time you're like, oh, just, no, no, no, no, no! I finally have an authority figure I'm going to yell at. I was puckered. I was puckered. Yeah, that was scary. I know. And I was like, poor Ashton's been waiting for an authority figure to yell at this entire game. He won, and I got two. It was, dare I say been, poor Ashton's been waiting for an authority figure to yell at this entire game. It was, he won and I got two. It was, dare I say, sexy.

Thank you. And to be fair, 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, please don't. So it's not out of character. No, I love that it happened twice though. Because the first time I knew it was coming,

I was like, I'm gonna open my mouth and everyone's gonna be horrified and I can't wait. time I knew it was coming, I was like, I'm going to open my mouth and everyone's going to be horrified and I can't wait. And then the second one happened, I'm like, they're still horrified, yes! I remember that happening all the time with Beau. Yeah. Where it'd be like, listen, and everyone's like, no, please don't.

Don't be a cop right now. Please don't be a cop right now. We've worked so hard. I loved it. It was also great just seeing everybody in one place, you know, all of Matt's creations and all of the campaigns past, all of the side characters and stuff all in one place. It was so great. And then all of our characters in one place. Oh my god. Yes. Revenge. Are we talking about that? I mean, we can.

The Mercer revenge. The Nine Hells. Oh gosh, the interaction. It is the Nine Hells. It is the Nine Hells. I mean, it was great. I was terrified of it. I really do think it was one of our better episodes. I had fun. It was kind of

the most fun I've had in ever. It's crazy. It was so fun. I think at one point while I was taking notes, I just went, this is impossible, and stopped for like 20 minutes. We thought about you a couple times. I'm glad someone has to.

I'm like, somewhere Nani is having a nervous breakdown. Well, the math of it was just so fun because there's so many characters, and each one is going to have a different opinion of all the other ones. And so there's just so many opportunities to just roll the dice, let's put these two characters together, see what they do. And it was always so fun. Brayus and Caduceus got a moment. I could not wait. The minute I walked in, Caduceus was like, you. I loved Caduceus's energy in contrast to Ashton.

Oh, they are monstrously different people, and then Ashton and Percy are monstrously similar. It's really, I love it quite a bit. I have missed Caduceus. Yeah, he brings an energy that nobody else has, and a wisdom that nobody else has. It's hard to play that character, and hopping between an idiot and a narcissist

and then Caduceus was really fucking hard. Yeah. Oh, God. And then, of course, Braeus. Braeus and Jester. Brayus and Jester. Brayus and Jester. Which by the way, it was pointed out to me on the interwebs

that Jester and Nott were in disguise the whole fucking time. I was an old man priest and Nott was somebody else. Brayus would have never even seen us. Brayus had exceptional perception checks. He had a fifth sense about everything. Do you have true sight? Magic, do you have true sight?

I have true sight. No, you don't. I have blind sight and true sight. I believe you. No, you don't. Yeah, deception check. I'm gonna see your character sheet right now. I will.

Yeah, I was an old man priest. Yeah, but not when you were trashing the place. All of it, I was always an old man priest trashing, but not when you were trashing the place. All of it. I was always an old man priest trashing the place. Then I followed you afterwards when you took off the disguise in the alley and I was like, that's what they really look like. I actually like that, that's pretty good.

I'll go with that, even though I dashed away invisible. You did leave a bunch of pamphlets also, if I recall. I did leave pamphlets. I could have been tracked. I tracked you down like the one-armed man. And I'm pretty sure I drew myself all over the pamphlets. I could have been tracked. I tracked you down like the one-armed man. And I'm pretty sure I drew myself all over the pamphlets, too. Yeah, that's actually a running joke in the Mighty Nein Chronicles of Exandria art book that I wrote, that the Mighty Nein are really easy to track because of Jester.

Just leaving a literal paper trail everywhere you go. Yes, and like graffiti everywhere. It's like, ah, yes, I know exactly where they've been. I was fully intending on attacking you. I know. I texted Matt before we started, I was like, I'm sure you got shit to do, but I'm gonna kill Jester. So make space for that.

Oh my god, what? Can you imagine, though, if Brace had killed Jester? It wouldn't have happened, but yeah. I mean, all of Mighty Nein would have immediately jumped to defend Jester. And none of Bell's Hells would have jumped to join. Honestly? Probably not. We'd all be like, well, it's not my business. I can literally hear Ashton going, everyone calm down.

We're about to learn a very important lesson. Let's just let this happen. But then we made buddies. It's hard not to like you. Yeah. It's true. As much as I want to. Jester's immediately disarming.

Yeah. Like I said, there's a reason why everyone ever has had a crush on Jester. That's true. Yeah. I was re-watching a little promo with the two jesters, and I forgot how much fun it was. It was so bad to be bad. You want to be bad! Let me be a bad guy! I know, you keep trying to be a bad guy, but you're just so darn likable, Sam and Michael.

No, it's you guys are all likable! I'm really not. I'm trying to be bad and evil, and you guys are like, but what if you are among friends now? And what if you have the support you've never had? Playing evil in a campaign is hard. Playing evil in a campaign is really hard. Yeah. Because you're doing noble things, for the most part.

I know. It sucks. You have to have a lot of bad people around you, I think, to be bad. Even then, it's interesting. I will say I've never been in a Mercer evil campaign, but 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.

Yeah, and that's no fun. No, you really have to... Honestly, the Mighty Nein, in my opinion, is the closest we've ever played to an evil campaign. Because everyone was, I keep saying this. Well, 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. And yeah, you were on the edge of Judge Dredd at that point.

And, you know. I'd also argue Vox Machina before Keyleth and The Rock. I wouldn't say that they would have gone evil, but I think that they could have gone down a very selfish path. Keyleth's fighting against The Rock? No, The rock! I'm sorry, this scene is in an LVM, so... Wait, no. What rock?

No, the flying rock. Whenever he was like, No, we have to do this at least slightly morally. The rock, ROC. The big rock. Yes, the big rock. The flying rock. I was picturing, yeah, one of those things.

Where do you think Exandria is? San Francisco? Speaking of. Speaking of. We were all Nick Cage. We were Nick Cage. Every Halloween, it just lands on the one episode that it shouldn't. It really does.

Why can't it just be a stopping episode? I did not want to be vexed as Nic Cage, y'all. And it happened. I did not want to do it. Let's talk, let's reveal to the audience how we became Nic Cages. A very cagey Halloween. A Force Cage Halloween.

Yeah. Oh, that is so cage. First we wanted to be villains. We were first talking about Batman. Yeah, we were all gonna be like DC villains. Cause we'd done that. We did wanna do comics again though. Yeah, and then we'd already done comics.

So then we were like, let's all be Classic monsters. But then we were like, There's no female classic monsters. Except for Bride of Frankenstein. Yeah, they're all kinda iffy. You wanted to be hot. So that's the ultimate joke of this whole thing.

I was like, there's nobody hot. There's no hot ladies. And then we all end up in a cage. Well then it turned into, which I was very excited about, and you were very excited about, just like 90s movies. Yes. Characters that we loved. But then I objected. And then you, motherfucker.

Because I was like, it's too broad a category. No it's not, it could've been amazing. It could, it was too, we needed to tighten it in a bit more. What were some of the ones that we were going to be? Leilu. Cher. Not Cher the singer. Cher from Clueless.

From Clueless. The Big Lebowski. That's just random shit. It's just too broad. Neo from The Matrix. It's going to be great. I'm with Sam on this one. The 90s are hot right now.

They are hot. We were like, let's contain it. And then I said, what if it's all Nick Cage? I'm as dumb as one that recommended Nick Cage. You are, you are the one who actually liked it. And I said it as a joke, and then everybody liked it. You knew that it would be relevant to the kids. Well, because I was like, well, with 90s,

we can tap into 90s nostalgia, and all the kids are wearing 90s clothes. Thanks, kids. And then we went the opposite way with a bunch of Nick Cage reference that nobody will get. They're going like, who's Nick Cage? Holy Girl is a seminal classic.

Do they Google anymore? TikTok it. I don't know what kids do. TikTok it. Hey, kids. Hey, kids. Will you tell us if you know who Nick Cage is? Just tell us if you know who Nick Cage is?

Just tell us. If you do. Just tweet us or go on Twitter. If you see us on the street. Hit up our hotmail. Just tell us. Send it to our Yahoo account. Yeah, we still have a Yahoo account. I have a Sierra online.

And then you'll get a reply saying, we don't recognize this address. Wait, what else did we do? Other than the cave. Just in life. What else is up with that? What the fuck is up with that? Well, wait, there was some other conversations

that we should talk about. Orym and Dorian got to fucking. Oh my god, they're not on this episode. People are gonna be like, why aren't they? Did they fuck? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It seemed like they cuddled. They cuddled.

I think Robby was very specifically like, we just hold each other. We just. Like, hold each other? It was just a really beautiful cuddle. Can we hold each other with a? Yeah. What part do we hold?

Oh yeah, we don't know. We don't know how air tenacity dicks are. Orym has like vines that grow. Wow, wow. Danny's face. No. I also, like. Oh, Danny's not happy.

No, Autumn is not happy. Dorian chokes himself with Orym's vine dick. That's what happens. That's exactly what happened. That was canon. This is why I don't release any of the smut, guys. You gotta let me. Yeah, no.

It was a very beautiful moment. It was. It was so wonderful. Thanks to Yasha, Ashton and Fearne finally hooked up, although it was like, she immediately kicked him out of the church. And by hooked up, did they cuddle? No, they shagged. Yeah, there was not cuddle, there was just shag.

We'd already cuddled. Give Jester some of the credit. She gave you some really good advice. You did. Yasha was just mean. Just said, shut up, deal with it. I'm like, oh wow. And then after the fact, Matt was like,

oh, by the way, you're all sleeping in the same room together. No. We buggered out. Liam had totally said that. Oh, we just missed it? Because it's weird? Well, maybe we just...

You have a whole fucking tower. It was like the level of the tower you put us on, it was like separate beds, like with curtains between. It's a tower? Like a bunch of yours. Why not put walls? I think Ashley and I decided that we just stole

one of the Mighty Nein's bedrooms and then just, yeah. I don't know how this spell works. Poof, walls. Cast walls. Endlessly magic spell. It's like, no, there's a hospital sheet. This is a hostel. We'll all have to share a bathroom.

Sorry. Check out this at 10. You have to leave your backpacks downstairs. Please make a bed. Make alterations to his tower. You chuckle. All he's been doing is making alterations for his tower.

That's like his train set. Yeah, but for you guys. For Belle's health. This is Liam's brain. He at least should have made it for Orym, because he knew that something was going to happen with Dorian. I know. He didn't know, but he had to have suspected. I don't know.

I heard him say if Robbie hadn't made the move, then he was going to go knock on his door. Oh, really? Yeah. He did talk to his own character. But there's no door! So are there Yeah, so I think he's like. He did talk to his own character. So wait, but wait, there's a door? So are there doors but then sheets in between? How does this work? Is there one door and a circular wall

but then one big donut room? What the shit? We got a bone to pick with Liam. Next time we see him. We were in a yurt inside the tower. He built us a yurt. His imagination sunk. Caleb phoned that one in.

I don't know, sheets from walls, whatever. The cats are bored. What else did we get? Well, we're all Vox Machina now. Yeah. Yes, that was so fun to be Vox Machina. It really was. It was fun. It was so exciting. My heart was beating really fast when everyone was out there

being Vox Machina. Oh yeah, and you coming to find me. Me and Liam were backstage, and so was Robbie for a while. Yeah, how was it, watching? It was so fun. We were just, oh, were you back there too? Yeah, I was the first one to go out. That's right. Because they all went to Whitestone.

Oh, that's right, that's right, that's right. It was fun back there. It really was. Just watching you guys be you guys. Yeah. It just jumped in so fast. I was like, oh! God, Ashley was on point.

Because we've all been playing these characters now in the animated series, so it was so easy. It's fresh, yeah. Yeah. God. It was so easy. It feels like a hot cup of cocoa in a warm blanket. Just so cozy. Going back to them. I can tell Matt thought we would be

moving a lot faster, too, because we would just not stop talking at all. You've got to have conversations. I was like, how much have we already talked? How much have we... you know what I mean? About all the things that are happening in the world? So I don't know what you guys look like. What do you mean?

I haven't seen any of the art. Do you want me to show you? Yes. Are we gonna be able to like, is this gonna be weird or? Yeah, I was gonna. I haven't, no, I have seen yours, because you're a centaur.

Yeah. Yes. Yes, we all saw yours. I've seen your art. We all saw yours. I think the only ones I haven't seen. I haven't seen Grog. Are Grog and Pike. I've seen Pike. I saw Pike.

I haven't seen Grog, I haven't seen you. But then I, Ashley was like. She changed her, she's a rolling ball. Yeah, because she saw, I showed her Vex, then she was like, wait a minute. Didn't she make a super old Pike? She made Pike all old, and I'm like, you're a gnome. And she's like, yes I am.

She gave her super gray hair. Yeah, she was really wrinkly. I was like, you're still young. Just like Vex, you're still young. Percy's the only one who should have aged, really. Yeah. He's gonna be the first to go. Percy looks good, though.

I'm gonna pull it up. Percy looks good. I wanna see these. I was not on the Lore Keeper, by the look good. I want to see these. Not on the Lorekeeper, by the way. I was not included on these. Wait, you haven't seen it either? No, I saw them once. The finals were good. My note originally was that she didn't have enough cleavage showing. Vex looks so fucking good. Vex's is my favorite.

It's really great. There we are. I was going to show you, and I realized I didn't have her face at all, I was just showing you her cut. It was just boobs there, I looked and was like, that's real. That was just boobs, I had zoomed in. Oh wow. Yeah, isn't she?

She's gorgeous. And regal. I love the pose. That's great. That's great. Love it. It's like, look at my color. It's the same color palette but reversed.

Yeah, we matched. Me and Percy matched. Oh nice. I actually don't reversed. Yeah, we matched. Me and Percy matched. I actually don't think this is the final final. We're that close enough. Oh yeah. Damn. I mean, we have royal colors. Yeah.

Damn. I wanted to go for like, Wait, let me see. The leaves almost look like spikes. Yeah, it's cool. Oh, yeah, that's right, you're battle ready. I really hope that we're putting those up right now, because I feel really bad.

Otherwise it's like, watch this. That's battle ready. And I gave her, I wanted to have some, a little bit of raven elements, and then. Ooh! So if you see. You look a little bit like a He-Man action figure there, but not because it's, but like the armored.

Yeah. Well, a lot of the, if you look, a lot of the concepts, and I was chatting with Producer Kyle a lot about this, and he actually put it very succinctly, trying to have her represent that moment, that last moment of fall right before winter comes, and that first frost. Shout out to Kyle for producing these.

The land doing such an amazing job. Coordinating everything. Those also sort of look like raven feathers. It was absolutely nuts. It was supposed to be a little raven feathery as well. Yeah also sort of look like raven feathers. It was absolutely nuts. Yeah. So anyway. Talk about mental states now as we're Vox Machina. Oh, as Vox Machina. Okay.

Because we're still in the battle. Oh shit. Like what's important to us as Vox Machina? You know? I feel like we're a little, like, there's, half of the group is like,

we're here solely on, like, a very straight trajectory that is a rescue mission for Vax. Mm-hmm. And I know there's more in the world, blah, blah, blah, but that's the important stuff right now. 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.

While secretly. Pike probably, she still worships the Everlight. I still have that, I'm not the champion. No, you're not the champion. I'm not a champion. No, you're not the champion, but you are. I'm not a champion. You are blessed. I have this blessing. Yeah, the blessing of, yeah.

Blessed by? You're chosen. I guess, was Scanlan 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. Don't you have like a blessing from the Knowing Mists? Sure, sure, sure. You can still have a third eye. Scanlan's, gosh, I guess so. Wow. It's not always there. No, no, no, it's just when you need it.

I think Scanlan just cares about 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 mini-series 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. Stop setting me up, Karina. I feel like Vox Machina is like, we're the OGs. We better succeed, or else, what are we even doing? Right? I mean, y'all are really old now.

We're all, we've been doing it for so long, like, what if we die? What if Vox Machina fucking TPKs? Yeah, dude. I'm into it. No, I'm not into it. We have children. I mean, I don't want it.

Well, no, I mean, like, my, I will. Our poor children. Oh, Percy is country and family. That is, Percy is country and family. These are the only two things that matter. And Gwendolyn's still very young. Yeah, Gwendolyn. She needs us.

Gwendolyn's young. She's like 11. Yeah. Yeah, she's in that 10 to 11. You have five kids? Yes. And two of them are twins. Gwendolyn.

Oh. Yeah, no, that's no secret. No, I have a favorite, but I don't say it. I just undermine the rest secretly. Nice. Like all parents. Like all parents. Especially, yeah, like, the Dorolos were not huggers.

Sure. It was just not what was done. Are you huggers now? She is. I am a hugger. I'm not. Well, I've become a hugger with my babies. Well, you're very outward that you have a favorite. Yeah, well, I mean, I love them all,

but I feel like she needs special care. And also she's the baby. It's like, you know, as it gets progressively younger, that last kid is just like a wild child. She has my demon's eyes. I know. That's like really fucked. I was like, what happened?

Percy is aware that I don't want to quite say the worst of him is in her, but 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. So she is his vanity project? Yes, very much. But the twins are great. The twins are great. I love Wolf. And yeah.

And little Vaxie is a mess. Are the twins your favorite or is Vex like, I love all of my children equally? I love all of my children equally. And Vesper is responsible. But Vesper is who I rely on the most. Vesper is going to take Cassandra's place.

And Vax Jr., my little Freddy, is probably like, who am I? place. And Vax Jr., my little Freddy, is probably like, who am I? It feels like Vax, Percy, Scanlan, Pike, to some extent, have changed. But Grog is the same. Yeah, Grog hasn't really changed. Why would he? And Keyleth is, I mean, she's grown.

She's more confident, more mature. Yes, certainly. But in terms of life stuff, she hasn't moved on. She's just heavier, emotionally. Yeah, that's kind of... That sucks. Yeah, she can't move on. Correct.

And we've joked about it before on the show, how Vax visits her and like. That's not good. Not really great. No, it's not great. That's probably very unhealthy. You need to get on Tinder. You need to get on Tinder real bad. Like 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.

No, she's like, it's probably comforting. Does she go to therapy? Does she have a therapist who's like, hey, maybe you should close the window and- You can't close the window! That's Vax! I know we would talk regularly. And then a raven is like, I know Keyleth and Percy talk regularly.

Can you imagine if Keyleth just moved on and kissed somebody? I would freak out. Did she even go on a date once and then she was like, this is weird, this is weird? I feel like, correct. I think she might be like, okay, I should try this. Maybe I should try it. Yeah.

I have these wings. This guy sucks. Put these on. Like I can see her. Can you just put these wings on? Yeah. I like how you went all black. Yeah, I don't know why.

Bad boy. Yeah, I think she's just a little stuck. We don't know how this is gonna end, but have you had conversations with Liam and or your husband about how you would like this to end? 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? I haven't had any conversations. 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? Like, I would imagine he would just die. My hope, though, is that the matron,

wherever they were to succeed, the matron's gonna be like, ah, it's my parting gift, here you go. And then he'll be alive forever. Speaking of unanswerable questions, I think it's time to pull from the Tower of Inquiry. Oh, we're moving on! We'll get back to this, because we can talk about Vox Machina forever, because I know us. I know us. Same, bro. It is time for our game, which is very simple. We're going to take turns pulling blocks from the

tower. I have the tower card over here somewhere. No, I don't. You 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 first one? I'm giving you the first one because I love you, because this is safe. Can't wait till she spills the beans. Oh no. Oh no, it stuck. This was a mistake. I believe in you, come on.

Once I choose, do I have to stick? Wait, why is it so straight? Did someone knock it down? Laura, you know that I'll let you do whatever you want Once I choose, do I have to stick? Wait, why is it so straight? Did someone knock it down? Laura, you know that I'll let you do whatever you want. Did it fall? I think so. I feel like I, my tower rules, listen, are pretty strict. And the way I play, when I play this game.

Is that your win? House rules? Is that if you've touched a block, you have to fucking pull that block. Yeah, you're committed. That's how I play. Did you just touch a block, you have to fucking pull that block. Yeah, you're committed. That's how I play. Did you just touch a block? I did.

I touched here. I thought it would be far looser. It looked looser. It's not loosed at all. So this is it. So this could be detrimental, but I'm not going to cheat on my own rules. I really applaud that.

I appreciate your commitment to your own rules. You got it. Yeah, just do the shimmy. Look at how much this whole thing is moving. Just give it a little shimmy and then lift the edge. You can only touch your block. No fucking hell. Also don't-

No, I got too cocky! You can use two hands, use two hands. You can't use two hands! I know you can't use two hands. I'm gonna walk over here until you're ready. This is everything I was hoping for. Analyze it. Why'd you start at the bottom?

It's very in there. Cause she was trying to set us up for disaster. Oh no, Laura. But look at it shimmy in. Oh no. It is really balancing on this one block. Do a little shiver, a little shiver. That's about a 1.2 on the Richter scale.

You know what it is? It's because there's a lip on this tray, and it's wedged on the lip. Is that not regulation? That's not regulation. And look at this one. It's so loose. It's coming with it. What if I pull two? I think that's what is allowed. But sometimes one will come out. Oh my god. Oh wow!

Oh no. I believe in you. I believe in you. Oh no! The suspense. Oh no. This is not good. No. It's gonna be fine, you guys.

It's gonna be fine. I believe in you, Laura Bailey. It's so far over. Oh my god. This is taking so much longer than I thought it would. I'm so sorry. Your nails look really pretty. Thanks, I got the celestial.

That's enough of that, pull the block. See your nails when you're back. Can I use my head? Clearly not. That feels okay to me. Yeah, that feels okay. For some reason. For some reason, I'm not mad about that.

Maybe because it's funny. Don't get your hair cut. Use any soft tissue. Oh, Jesus. Please. Oh. Oh no. Use your chin again. It's important. That's heart tissue.

That's gonna be a cheek. Cheek and nose. Oh, I'm not okay. I'm not okay. Oh no. Oh my god. Well, that's all the time we have today. Oh no.

One pull, One pull! I got too confident! Here's the first question. What does that mean? I don't know. Are there still consequences? Consequences. No! Where are the consequences? There's so much show left!

Ask her the question! Where's the damn consequence? It's on the box labeled, Consequences? Wait, what? There's so much show left. Answer the question. Where's the damn consequence? It's on the box labeled consequence. Look at it. So funny. This is hilarious. Wow.

Oh. That was amazing. Oh god. Just read it. I cannot describe, what? Read this aloud. You read aloud? Yes.

Whomever destroys the Tower of Inquiry in episode 29 of Foresighted Dive must reveal their five most used emojis. Oh. But cannot describe them verbally. Oh. How do I, what does that mean? You have to act them out, like charades.

Charades us for emojis, bro. This is easy, hold on. You got, you got, you got, save. It's gonna be the crying, the crying while laughing. But is it tilted crying or straight crying? Well that's like, like rolling, like Rothel, like rolling on the floor laughing. Yeah, the same way like Party Hat.

Okay, these are my... I bet she uses the melty face one. Yeah, melty face is probably serious. These are my five. Heart. Oh wait, these are just my most recent. How do I know what my top five are? Eh, just go with recent. Okay.

There's a little, the first ones, yeah. Straight face. Okay. Sobby face. Sobby face? Yeah. All right. That's up.

Okay. These are boring. I feel like this is not, I don't want to do that one. Too bad. Nope, got to do it. Your next one better be like the flag of Finland or something. Yeah, I knew it would be. What is it?

What? Poop. Poop. Oh. I thought it was a rabbit tail. Wait, poop is one of your most used emojis? Yeah, I use the shit emoji a lot. And the bank one.

And then probably my other, it's between just this. Oh. I say thank you a lot. Oh, like thank you. It's a thanks. I say. And this one. Oh, face balm.

I knew the poop would be interesting. I'm old. I don't use crying laughing. There's some options out here. Can we have the number of the one that was cold? Yeah, I'm waiting. All right, let's go with the number. Okay, sorry, Danny. Cats, cats, kittens. Look, I just made this show a lot let's go with the number. Okay, sorry, Danny. Y'all are good. Cats, cats, kittens.

Look, I just made this show a lot shorter, you guys. Congratulations. It's mostly that. Here we go. Y'all ready? Yes. Y'all ready for this? All right. B.Kowalska on 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 series. Oh. Oh. I mean... Wait, is this coming out after all of the episodes have aired?

Yes, this will be in November. November. In the stream, we never got to see... Well, we also adapted it a lot, but we never got to see the group meeting Percy in jail in the original stream. We did adapt it a lot, particularly the part where you gave us all your money. Yeah, that was the opposite of what we wanted.

I think I gave specifically you all my money. It was really, that was, yeah, I was in a place. Yeah, 500 gold. Backstory moments. Aw. I love that you remember. We kept going after the Bottle of Courage, which was like, wow, this is still happening.

Okay. That still did not fade to black. Nope, nope, still going. It went, yeah. Fucking Giggler. That was sexy. It was, it was hot. I liked seeing Grog, his backstory with Meeting Bullhand and Pike.

Yes! That was great. That's a good one. Scrawny Grog. That's a great one. I liked getting to see more Kaylie and Scanlan. Yeah, sure. That's true.

A lot of that. Yeah. Yeah. Because it was hard to keep convincing you guys to teleport to go visit her in the campaign. Yeah. You didn't make it easy. That's true. And then I was gone for a lot of that. Yeah.

Yeah, those are good. 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. Yeah. Being able to see how people gain spells or learn new things as opposed to just like, I can turn into earth elementals now. Yeah. Da-da-da-da.

Show the ritual of it. I can make a mansion now. Yeah. I found a special hat and now I can fly. Yeah. Like a mansion now. Yeah. I found a special hat and now I can fly. Like a Mario game. I think all that stuff is fun. Yeah. Cool. Oh, you're the boss.

What do we do? Do we scavenge from the floor? I can just fucking pick some. I was going to say, I think that or we go through pie at the moment. Just go and grab one? Three, like, we go, I think that or like we go through pie at the moment, like, you know, like. Just go and grab one? Three, one, four. There. You're at number 50.

I did it. I'm so happy. Amazing. From Thalani, what would be your character's go-to midnight snack? Which one? Which one? I guess Currents? We're currently in Vox Machina, so.

Yeah. For Brayus, it would be a black and white cookie. Oh, wow, that was fast. Yeah. For Scanlan, it would be ass. He would eat some ass. Bitch, that's a full meal. Why are you saying it like that?

Because it's dessert. Whatever, for Percy, that's a full meal. Why are you saying that like that? Because it's dessert. Whatever, for Percy, it's whatever the cook would be willing to make after I wake him up. Yeah. Are you demonstrating your favorite emoji now? Is that an emoji? I would use them more if they had that. Sure, you could mitigate one.

Like this emoji, the ah, and then a peach immediately after. Oh, that's nice. You know? There you go. What is this show? It's the weave. I mean, Jester's easy. Jester's so easy. Jester's so easy, it's almost cheating.

Yeah, that's easy, that's obvious. Pastries? Yeah, just sweets. Is there a specific kind? There's many pastries. There's profiteroles, there's Danish. There's the dessert, those Mexican dessert cookie things. Jester wants, yeah, she wants donuts with icing on it. Pink icing. Yeah, like colorful things. Jester wants donuts with icing on it.

Pink icing. Yeah, like colorful things. It's maybe even less about the taste as the appearance. Breakfast cereal on Instagrammable desserts. Yes. Jester would be such an Instagram star, man. Oh my god. She'd be an influencer.

She would be such an influencer. Oh my gosh, you guys. Oh my gosh, you guys, Oh my gosh, you guys. I just got this new makeup. Watch me open this. Hold on. Unboxing. You guys, I have to try it on for you.

It's so cute. I kind of want this. You need to do an unboxing video starring Jester. I kind of want it. Yeah. Just give me that makeup again, man. Is this her doing makeup tutorials? She would do it. She would do it.

She would do it. Get ready with me. Guys, I'm going to read your tarot. She'd be so good. She'd do dances. Oh my god, I hate this. No, she'd do all of the dances. This is how all our bullshit starts.

We'll call Ginny Di, we'll fly her back again. She would do that thing where you wipe the frame with your hand and now you're dressed for the night. Yeah. Kyle! She'd be able to magically change her outfit or something. That's true, she wouldn't even need to do that. No, you would make a duplicate and then the duplicate would be doing your makeup and doing the whole... She would do the Megan dance.

She would just dance with dance. And then like, yeah. She would just dance with all of the people. Because now she can make the more duplicate. Yes. Ford would be in the background like, Jesus. Doing the couple thing. He'd be so into it. Or like those really cringey staged couple videos

where it's like pranking my husband by telling him I'm pregnant or some dumb shit that people do. Cora, I'm pregnant. No, you're not. Okay, I'm not. Divine sense. Where did Howie get here? I don't know.

Desserts. Marisha, you've dodged this. I feel like I'll go with Beau. I feel like Beau would be like a oatmeal with protein powder. Something. Oh, gross. Caduceus would force you to just put some nutmeg in it

or something. Yeah. Something. He's not a sweets guy, is he? He's more of like a savory spice sort of guy. Oh no, I mean like, Caduceus, like, not like that super sweet stuff, but definitely, I think definitely it's more of that,

like, Japanese red, but like the stuff that's complex and not too sweet, although I'm sure you've ruined him a little bit. Yeah, by interest. Just a little bit. Sure, sweeter and sweeter over time. Yeah, has slowly developed. I see Caduceus really liking chocolate-covered pretzels. little bit. Yeah, by interest. Just a little bit. Sure, sweeter and sweeter over time. Yeah, has slowly developed. I see Caduceus really liking chocolate-covered pretzels.

Oh fuck. Yeah. Or chocolate-covered almonds. Uh-huh. Oh yeah, oh yeah. What about marzipan? Yeah, no, okay, you've ruined him. I could see Keyless staying up too late

and then having a glass of wine to wind down, and then maybe going and just grabbing a hunk of cheese, like not making yourself a cheese plate. I can't believe we actually can go deep into this. Well, I'm also holding this cheese. It's actually just junk food. Where did I come up with this idea? Some sort of cheese, like a cheese. I feel like she really wants cheese.

I swear I was not. I'm so smart, I just came up with it. Uh, Dani, I feel like you need to get into this. What is your, what is your desert of choice at late night? I'm a sweets fucking fiend, man. I want sweets all the time. My favorite snack in the entire world is donuts. I grew up across the street from the greatest donut shop in the world.

I could go and get Gibson's donuts at three in the morning whenever I wanted, and I would never get in trouble as long as I brought my dad a donut. It was great. This was back home? Yeah, okay, that would make sense. Alton Brown's favorite donut shop. Literally grew up across the street from it.

All right. I am a donut snob. I'm going to have to check that out. All right, 31. Last one. Last one. Last one. Last one for this round. Maybe for this episode. I don't know. Sorry about that. This is chaos, 31. Last one. Last one. Last one. Last one for this round.

Maybe for this episode, I don't know. No, sorry about that. This is chaos, children. From Joe the Ewok on Instagram. You are all impressive actors, hooray Joe, but when was a time the crew did something that caught you off guard with its amazing slash impressive execution?

The time it was powder and not confetti in the cannons. I don't know. This crew is when they dressed up as- Kyle Shire made a board game! The fucking party party in there. I love that we've actually assembled a crew that is also Chaos Goblins. Yeah.

Every Halloween, this is- They dress up? They dress up. Oh, it's so good. They don't follow our theme. No. They have their own theme. Better themes. Oh, it's so good. They don't follow our theme. No. They have their own theme. Better themes.

Yeah, it's better than our theme. This time it was Cowboys. Cowboys. Yeah. It was great. They were so good. They were so good.

Oh, that one time that they hid the spooky Santa Claus in the grid. That's true. Like hanging like a Die Hard film, and it took like three weeks before I looked up and went, oh fucking god! Yeah, that's fun. That was a fun one.

I'm impressed. Every week I do these ad bits, and Kyle usually has to remind me day of, or day before, to write the thing, and then I write the thing, and then they just come, they have all the cat costumes or whatever. And they come out as cats. And they come out as cats. That's the one. Coming out as cats, coming out in the Among Us costume. Oh, so good. Amazing. We make our crew do a lot.

The producers genuinely yell at us, which I really appreciate. We finally trained them to be like, go, Ashley Middlebrook's voice is impressive. It's the loudest yeller I've ever heard. Oh yeah, she's like a kindergarten teacher. I freeze up. Kirby is an amazing singer. Yeah. And she always gets our attention with the...

Yes. Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Yes, that's how... That's her wrangling device. Yeah. We need wrangling. As you can clearly see, we are awful. Next question! Actually, I'm just going to say, yeah, thank you to Kowalska. I should be able to pronounce that P. Kowalska. Why do you all have weird, like, uh, Kalani? No, don't!

And don't move the thing! And Joe the, is that Ewok? Ewok? Joe the Ewok, my god. What's wrong with you people? I was like, I for a second was like, that's Percy's last name. Let me just help you out here.

Thank you to B. Kowalska. Thank you, B. Kowalska. Filani and Joe the Ewok. Thank you. I need glasses now, and so I'm not taking the full. Also, thank you to our crew. And thank you, crew. We love you so much.

We do. All the producers, everyone who hosts. All of our subcontractors. If you have a question for our pile of inquiry, Our pile of inquiry. You can enter it at critrole.com slash tower, or I can't say critrole.com slash pile anymore. No, probably not. No.

That's not a link. You could probably make that URL. Hey, Ed. It's time to go to the deep dive where Lorekeeper Danny Carr passes out our mugs. This is the part that I work on. Yes, the questions. This episode is so unhinged. This episode is brought to you by sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation, where most of our ads come from.

We're gonna go around the circle and take turns pulling some questions. Out of cups? Out of cups. That's what we're gonna do. Laura's doing your job for you. I don't know, she was beating me to it. It's because he wasn't doing it.

I was vamping while I waited for you to do it. We're gonna go around the circle and take questions by pulling them from cups. Who would you like to go first? You, because you've been giving me guff. Oh no, but I... You're giving me guff. Fuck 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. I love my cup. I'm not going to do anything. I love this. This is great. I love my cup. That is a good cup. It's a great cup. Everybody's got good cups. He already gave me a command to start. Yeah, because she read my copy. Imogen chose to contact her father for a goodbye. What did she think of his response?

And lack of a returned, I love you. Oh my god, that's right. Yeah, he didn't say it. But you know what? She wasn't expecting to hear it. 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 And to say like like, hey, you tried your best.

Even though, you know, it was what it was. I don't hold that against you. Very big Vimogen. Boozers try their best. She's like a really good person. She's so mature. Have you noticed? Yeah. Oh my gosh. She's gonna suck when we have to kill her.

I know. Close, yeah, like in the running for the best person in the group, which is a little sad, but you know. Marisha. You're not supposed to read that. I know, they hate it. I love doing it. And I have to do it every time.

I love it, it's the best. I'm not supposed to do that. 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. I know. I was trying so hard. I love you so much.

Dani made the one mistake that she will make for all of 2024, which this technically says, how does Beau feel about teaming up with the Mighty Nein? Honestly, I wonder that as well. I actually just really wanted really deep introspection. Did you just break your cup? You broke the cup. No, it's fine.

Consequence, no. It's fine. We can fix it. Top five emojis. We are. Answer the question. 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 Beau

when we were in the Hellcatch. Matt was puppeting Bo. That's true. And I feel like Bo 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?

Takes a lot to impress Bo. Takes a lot to, exactly. Takes a lot to impress Bo. And really, they didn't see y'all do anything. Yeah, not really. Yeah. And Bo and Caleb, we got captured. Yeah.

Frankly, Bo and Caleb fucking screwed the pooch on their end. Wow. Bell's Hell shouldn't be impressed with the Mighty Nein. It rolled better. I know. That's right, because we rolled the D20. It came down to your rolls. You both rolled like shit.

Yes, we did. Like, under 10. Yeah. But then, as far... The only thing that Beau really knows that happened with Bell's Hells is them dropping an airship on Ludinus and probably causing 40 casualties.

So... But anyway, yeah, we'll see. dropping an airship on Ludinus and probably causing 40 casualties. Anyway, yeah, we'll see. 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. 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 three times or something. And I was backstage like, oh! Okay, that means we got married and divorced a couple of, okay, sure. So we didn't really plan that. But I figured that part of the reason Scanlan was on 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 I was trying to. Is he your midlife crisis? You went to find yourself? Your quarter life crisis? That's so weird with gnomes, right?

They live like 400 years. But he's 100 now. So it's his quarter life crisis. Yeah, but does that mean that he looks like a 25 year old? No, no you're. I think he looks like a 60 year old? No, no you- I think he looks like a 60 year old. I think you dye your hair. Frankly, I love Scanlan's Jason Momoa look. It's so hot. It's doing it for me. It's the only time I've ever found Scanlan super hot.

That has not occurred to me. I guess that's true. That's great for Scanlan. He doesn't really have to keep his body in shape. He can do it magically. He can make him look however he wants to look. And for now, he wants to look a little older and rugged. Yeah. And horsey. 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. Is it on there? Yeah. Oh yeah. I didn't look at the dick. It's visible. big horse dick. Is it on there? Yeah. Oh yeah. It's visible.

His horse dick is visible? Without it, it looks like it's missing something. Wait a minute, your dick has just been flopping around the whole time? Yeah. Wait, okay. Horse dicks are out there. What do you think, horses wear underwear?

No, but as a centaur, as a sentient being, shouldn't you have horse underwear on? What does that look like in your head? Does it go up over the four legs halfway up the horse body or does it just open up? How do you take your underwear down if you need to do anything? Yeah, that's true.

You have not thought this through. Well, no, you have hands, though. You have hands and hooves. I have four legs and two hands. You can't reach that. I'm an octopus. You're that much more evil now. Technically a squid.

20% more evil than the world. We've all been to medieval times. We've all seen things. I, we've all seen things, I think we're okay. But it's true, there's no way you can reach around to wipe your ass. No, there's no way. That's true.

Disgusting ass. Horse ass. Oh god, we've all ridden horses behind other horses where their asshole turns inside out. Stop, oh god. Next question. Next question. Next question.

That's what Scanlan does. Woo! Anyway, I love that people think we plan, I love that people watch this show and think we are capable of planning anything. People who think that don't watch this show. No, that's madness. Oh no.

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 between guilt, which has been kind of festering forever in Ashton's head, and also that they don't really hit on people normally. When they hook up with people, people hook up with them. They're not really the initiator. They're just willing to be cool and then nonchalant about it and whatever. Not that this was commitment

either, but I don't hit on people. And also, I feel really bad about a bunch of shit, which also then adds a bunch of, 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. Has Ashton ever pined for someone before? No.

Is Ashton pining for Fearne? No. What is it about her that turns him on most? It's honestly, it's a mirror of their own recklessness. Yeah, well, that is the pouch, too. But no, it's very rare for them to meet somebody who is just as irresponsible, who has that same irresponsibility. And the way in his head that it pops up is, she really hits him in the best of the worst of him. 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. 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! No, you just said a lot of really sad things. Oh, they're sad. Life has not been kind. They're doing the rest. Talking about horse dick. Horse assholes. Back to horse, yeah, yeah, back to horse.

What does, Laura, what does Jester think of Brayus' assertion that she ruined his life? Does it make her look back on her other moments of mischief with any concern? Probably not. No. No, he's just doing what they're supposed to do. Look. No, she does feel bad that her actions had consequences.

And not on her, just on somebody else. Does she? 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.

Sorry that you feel this way. Yeah, it sounds like one of those apologies of like, I'm sorry if you feel that way. Yeah, but no. I'm sorry if I with you. Yeah, it sounds like one of those apologies of like, I'm sorry if you feel that way. Yeah, but no. I'm sorry if I hurt you. She is sorry that he hurt. She is sorry about that, but I think she... She's a sociopath.

But she thinks that it will all turn out better than it was. You were just living like a little life. You were just living a little life, and you were just like, you know. What were you doing there? Look at you now! She's right. She's probably right. 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. That's right. Yeah. Wouldn't be meeting in the kings and queens of the world. You wouldn't be on the moon. Wouldn't go to the moon, wouldn't meet gods. Boy. I mean, within one day of meeting you guys,

I got a shot at I got to talk to Ludinus and maybe even kill him, but we didn't. We didn't. But we will. We're going to. What was your fiance's name or whatever? Susie Green. Oh! Jester was like, she's name or whatever? Susie Green. Oh!

Jester was like, she's so busted now. I was like, oh god! Is this some woman on woman violence happening? I was just trying to make him feel better. No, I just talked to her. And within 25 words, you were like, she's garbage. She sounds like shit. You don't want any of that.

Susie Green is based on a real person who broke my heart. I know, you said. I didn't know that. Her name is Susie Green. What? Samuel. Beau. There's got to be.

She doesn't know that I exist. She will. She doesn't know I exist. You think nobody's going to look up a Susie Green and find her from your past and be like, by the way. Twist, she's a critic. You broke her heart. And I've been thinking about it for 40 years. God, that's a mood.

Wait, so she broke your heart when you were like five? Third grade. Oh. It's been just saying. There's gotta be like at least 100 Susie Greens, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You said Dark Green so fast!

That seems tough. Yeah. Marisha. Marisha, pull it, pull it, pull it from the cup. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're still on a show. Yeah. I've been sued by Susie Green. Defamation, slander.

I can tell you the story. I do want to know the story after I'm in third grade. It stayed with me for so long. Oh my gosh. Okay, just tell us now. Yeah, just do it. I want to know, I'm like. Just do it.

I left notes in her locker, like secret admirer type notes. My locker was like right admirer type notes. My locker was 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 at 2 o'clock or whatever. I was in there and she walked in and I walked up to her. I was like, are you looking for someone? She looked at me and she was like, nope. Then she left.

Yep, saw it coming. I was crushed. She never knew it was you? No, she knew it was me. She figured it out instantly. She chose not to acknowledge it. Maybe she... No. Oh.

Sorry. That's really not. She would rather not confront that ever. She rejected me in the worst possible way. Sorry. And it's been haunting me for decades. She deserves to be put on this show And it's been haunting me for decades. She deserves to be put on this show

and called out on Blast for that. Yeah, now you're being put on Blast, Susie. Please do not find Susie Green. Please do not find Susie Green. Do not give her any hate. She's probably, I loved her at the time. She's probably a great person. I'm sure.

We'll let the audience find five Susie. Spell the name differently. Yeah, I'm sure. We'll let the odd child find five cities. Spell the name differently. Yeah. I'm sure it was spelled... You don't remember. I know exactly how it was spelled. But it was spelled the other way. Whatever way you're thinking, it's the other way.

So you're revealing that it's the other way. Yes. If you think there's an E at the end of green, there isn't. And if you don't, there is. We have captions, Sam. Just keep changing it. I sent a boy a note. We'll spell it different every time.

Please don't do that to me. Don't do that to me. Don't, mm-mm. I put a locker note to a boy and I was like, do you wanna go out with me, yes or yes? Thinking I was being super clever. And he circled the or. Oh!

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Do you know his name? Wow! Brian. Oh.

I could say the whole one, but I won't. Don't do it. No, no. You're gonna get sued by Susie Green also. Oh wow, that hurt. Oh. I once had a crush, and we're just telling you. This is what the show is now.

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. A real one? Yep. Uh-oh. That's, I had a boy do that, gave me earrings. What grade?

Where? Second grade. It was missing a couple stones. So clearly, like in the band, so clearly his mom was like, oh no, I got to take this to get repaired. And he was like, boink. And he yoinked it and taped it with scotch tape. What did you do with it? Never said a word.

You just took it? Did you keep it? Uh-huh. You still have it? I guarantee you. You stole a diamond from a guy. I didn't steal it. He stole it and he gave it to me.

Look. And then I was really embarrassed and I didn't know what to do. So we just never talked about it ever. Oh my God. You just took a diamond ring and never said anything to a boy? I didn't take it. It was given to me. 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. Give them back. Give them back. How many boys are stealing from their mom's jewelry? I think it's probably common. Wow, you all have really sad stories about this. I guarantee you.

You're just totally scot-free. You never ever ever got rejected. Oh, I have. I've had some bad ones. I gave a girlfriend a VCR in college. Then she dumped me and she kept the VCR. I asked a girl out, we were at a restaurant, at a diner one night, and I asked a girl out. We were at a restaurant, at a diner one night, and I asked a girl out who I had a crush on for ages when I was younger, and literally she just did this. I was like,

So yeah, I think, you know, let me take you out. Let's go for coffee. I just want to, 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 Susie Greened you. Yeah. 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. I like how the teleprompter says, answer the questions. But like, they put a little heart to be like, we're doing great. Sorry about that.

Speed round. So. This is what happens when you put me in charge. No, we better not only get through two of these. Sorry, Annie, we're doing it. Why did Keyleth choose to reach out to Sir Konos 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. That's not what the question is about! Obviously, the above table answer is that Robbie is playing Zirconos! Obviously, the above table answer is that Robbie is playing Serkano. Obviously the above table answer for why somebody chooses Fireball is it's a great fucking spell. What the fuck? The above table reason was I was holding a piece of cheese.

What do you want from me, you lice? I'm holding a piece of cheese. So I thought cheese. What do you want from me? Ah! Man, we should hang out more. I really should. I never get to talk. I wanna... If we keep doing this, she'll pass out

from laughing too hard. It's the only sleep you'll ever get is if we make you laugh until you pass out. It was a great question. What do you think, Marisha? Yeah, it's so cool! She's the best! I'm not going to go, well, once again, I wouldn't go to Liebtel. I told Liam that afterwards. I was like, sorry, I just wouldn't go to you. There was no way it was gonna be like, let's go to Lieve Tell.

I'm glad that Matt had her intersect us. I'm gonna put you in Sarkonos, is the Caduceus now of Mighty Nein. It's true, I love that. I love Sarkonos, I love what Robbie's doing with him. Yes, he's so good. He is so good. He's like the straight man. Yeah. Yes, but hilarious

Yeah, 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 He's got a little goth girl crush. Who doesn't? Who hasn't? But yeah, you know, we're from the same people. And 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 going to leave like a lot behind outside of Vex and Percy. Who's just as sad as Keyleth is?

Ouch. Yeah, who's the loners? Who's the loners? He doesn't have a family, I guess, right? I don't know. I don't think so. He might soon. If he does, then. He might soon, yeah. He's in an open relationship, is he?

No, no. No, I think he's divorced, Dad. I think it's just an apartment with a lot of a key. Hilariously, I actually, like, right before y'all started shooting, I sat down with Robbie and was like, hey, so talk to me about Zirconos. 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, does he have a relationship? Does he have, like, what is his life like? And stuff like that. And he was like, well, I think he's kind of, 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 tell. I was like, yes, I love this. He's just been traveling, going to fish concerts for like, last year. It's the vibe. It is the vibe.

Yeah, anyway. It's the vibe. It is the vibe. We know what Veth thinks of Brayus. What does Brayus think of Veth? Wood smash. I think Brayus is just very lonely. That's why he wants to be with everybody. You can't make a villain. You just can't make a bad guy. No. I'm a softy. You are very soft. But I think he would've, I think he thinks that Veth is interesting and weird, and, because she is,

and if he wasn't so focused on Jester that day, I think he would've 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's still... She's a monogamist. She loves her husband. Feels like she's going through it. Yeah. You know, when you're a mom mom and you've been with the same dude for a while, and you've got two sweaty men living with you, and some blink dog or something, and you're running a fucking summer camp with all these whiny kids, she's probably like, yeah, I want to get out of the

house and want to feel attractive again and go on an adventure. Horny little halfling. Yeah. Sometimes you want that male gaze. Yes! 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 creature.

I'm not gonna act on it, I just want the thrill, the thrill of the chase. As my southern bell mom used to say, it's fine to window shop as long as you don't buy anything. Exactly. I'm into that, oh, let's go for one. What are Caduceus' thoughts on the situation with the gods? Has he noticed seedling being blessed by the Wildmother? 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. Because he was taking everything and going, oh, the weak link, hold on. Because, yeah, he doesn't really feel like that's an issue yet. He was spending a lot of time just trying to identify the group dynamics of the new group so that it could situate everybody. I love having a perception 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, and also, I might add, through extension, I don't know how many people remember this, also, he is a two-god priest. Caduceus? You can do that? Yeah. The can do that? Yeah, the... The Wild Mother and the Archheart? The grove is a gift to the Archheart from the Wild Mother. Oh, that's right. It is a temple to the Wild Mother, but it was conceived as kind of a...

Oh, that's right. Because the Archheart and the Wild Mother, did they have a thing? No. This is just... My version of the Wild Mother has always been a little pompous. Just a little... Who of the Wild Mother has always been a little pompous. Just a little. Who did the Wild Mother fuck? The Law Bearer.

Law Bearer. The Law Bearer. So this was, and like. Confusing your Abubakar Selim with your no-shirred law bearer. Yeah, so thankfully, because of downfall, 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 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. We did that round table where we all talked about the relationship between the gods and everyone eventually agreed that nature is a catch, and the fact that you've decided that that's your thing feels a little... A little bit much? 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, is it, though? I think it's kind of mine. I think I give it to you.

I give it to you. Yeah, so there's a bit of that. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, you go farming. Yeah. So, Caduceus is prepared for any eventuality, and I think there will come a point where his real feelings on it are 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. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It would just be a different set of responsibilities.

Yeah, that tracks. Yeah, I have a really nice, pretty way of thinking of it that hopefully we'll get into in the game. Love it. Laura. I didn't. 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 I only said. He was trying to say just like, he was kind of saying, I'm trying to remember what I only said. He was trying to say like, Jesus Christ, I'm sorry for the text. It was like, trust your instincts. Yeah, he was like, trust your instincts. There's so many possibilities. That's where I was gonna go with it, Dani, I swear.

I'm here to help, babe. I know it, you're doing great. 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, 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 and your outfit is fire,

I'm like, it means so much! For sure, it's like, oh, you see me. You notice the work that I put in. Thank you. Yeah, so it's kinda like that. I'll go, because I'm next! All right, is this our last round? I think this is our last round.

Not that I, yeah, no spoilers. A good one then. We can talk about that. Hem and hem and hem and hem and hem. Hmm. Hmm, this is a good one. What does Laudan think of the matron's assertion that anything is possible 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. 60 years, right? 30. 30, just kidding. You look great.

30, 40, somewhere in there. 31, technically. 31, technically. Have you seen that video? It's like a sp Somewhere in there. 31, technically. 31, technically. Have you seen that video? It's like a spoof 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, uh, like 47 years. And she's like, you're just a 47-year-old? Yeah. It's like not as, it's weird. Yeah. 200 is cool, but 47? The wheel has to make a full circle. You just haven't made the full circle yet where it's okay. That's weird and gross.

Yeah, come back in 80 years. Yeah. But yeah, like if, you know, if Laudna, I was thinking Laudna is almost 60. She's, yeah, she's going on 60. Yeah. 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. I think physically nothing changed. Laudna is dripping with ooze.

Yeah! And her fingernails come off, but you draw the line at 60. Well, no, it's just. The ooze isn't the problem, it's just do I keep it tight is really the issue. So sorry. I'm sorry, I couldn't let that pass.

No, thank you, Dani couldn't let that pass. No, thank you, Dani, no. Thank you. 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. I have a weird quandary, and I kinda wanna ask it,

although I'm afraid it will actually come up in the game. We'll ask, and then I'll answer or not. 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. Probably not. Interesting. You would say yes?

Oh yeah. As these characters? I agree. I would say yeah. I don't know. I guess we'll see. The boys know. Just saying. The boys know? Yeah, we will let her out. Fuck that. I want her to be pretty. Not that she is, she's goth princess.

No, that's fine. I'm into it. I get it. Ashton. 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. It was really tough.

He moves twice as fast. He can poop wherever he wants. He can roam free. He... What if Pike wants to get back together? You can make her a centaur. Okay. Oh.

I feel like your boning sessions are a little... She would. But I feel like, I don't know. Limits your options. It limits ya, if you're both horses. It limits the positions? Yeah. Yeah, you're right. I feel like Scanlan would appreciate multiple... The one.

Yeah, you've got the one. You could try, you could certainly try. Because can you lay on your back? Because your torso goes higher. But horses don't lay on their back. Horses don't lay on their back. We could make sense of that. But even like, because horses heads are in,

you don't have a horse heads body. It's hard to talk about this without getting into position. I know, it feels like you'd have to be on a platform so that your human body can hang over. Yeah. Cause your human body is upwards. But your human body is up. Yeah.

So if she's laying down, then you guys are forming an L. Then she's gonna be like, ugh. You can't even smooch. There's also the issue, forget about that, there's also the issue of mouth stuff. How does that work? I hate this so much. If there's two centaurs and you do mouth stuff?

I hate this. How does that work? I hate this. You already said you like eating ass as a midnight snack. Yeah, but that's a horse ass. That's different. That's this thing.

God damn it. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't.

I can't. I can't. I can't. This is all your fault. This is all your fault. I don't think I can do that. 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. What about a reverse centaur? I'm kinda surprised you didn't. Just a human, a gnome head. It's a horse head on a human body. But it would be a human body or gnome body? Gnome body.

Yeah. But then you still cut new mouth stuff. I don't know. At this point, it's just BoJack Horseman. I don't know what happened. Wait a minute. Could you imagine that coming? Yes, I'm imagining it. I hate it. I got to stop. Okay. One question left. Are you doing one last one?

Well, I started the circle. Oh, that's right. So this is the last question. I'm reading it sideways. Make it good, Thomas. Yeah, no, 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 overcook. Oh, God, we'll be here for another 45 minutes. Yeah, you are. Allison and Ashley spend a lot of time on this. I am very particular. You are. You're particular, Ashley's a lot of time in this. I am very particular. You are. You're particular, Ashley's indecisive. Yes.

There's a difference. There's a difference. You are so particular. We love you guys. I am. 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. 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, I like making sure that these designs are really where they need to be.

And specific. More than just specific, but are actually like, have weight. Yeah! And like iconography that is. I appreciate that. Thank you, I knew you would. Did you, nevermind, I can't talk about that.

No, which one can we not? I can't, I can't talk about it. Which one? No, we have microphones on. Oh, they're gonna mute it. Don't mute it. You're the host, we gotta keep on. Oh, they're going to mute it. Don't mute it. You're the host. We've got to keep it in the discussion.

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. And especially, there's nothing worse than someone who is deeply paranoid who's proven right. They are so smug. And I wanted to let him lean into, because he's not ruling Whitestone, he's kind of a spy. It's not quite a spy. He almost 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, 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. Oh. Yeah, and it's just been prepared. That's why she was at Vasselheim and he wasn't. Yeah, he's not part of the camp. Yeah, I know he's not ruling, but I didn't know he had a private...

Gray Hunters. Green Beret group. Oh yeah, there's... Rex was technically running them. She is. That's what I thought. But he also, there's a lot of what he does in there to help move them around.

Yeah. But they're very specifically designed to be 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. That's super cool. 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. Yeah, that's really great. Which is the Sun Tree roots. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah, so it's very crisp and a little mean. I know, I like that you went really dark

and so I wanted to have Vex and her really light colors to balance it. I love the way that they, because we were bouncing off each other, yeah. Adorable. But what would Percy look like if he were a horse? White horse, blue horse? No, I think he would be like this nice golden brown,

but he would have a white stock of hair. It would look kind of like a wig. Would he be dappled? With little glasses? Yeah, and the Whitestone logo on the butt, like in that little pony. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, now everybody say what they would look like as a horse. You could have a little Milo Pony cutie mark. I was going to say, 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. If it's, well, we're Keyleth right now, so I feel like it'd probably be like antlers, right? Little antler. Wouldn't your just horse have antlers? Horse antlers, I guess it'd be weird if my butt had antlers too. Double antlers.

You need the Ashari symbol. That's fair. Oh yeah, the Ashari symbol. Or like leaves, that's weird too. A pot leaf? No, leaves, just like a few leaves flowing down. Yeah, it's really down. That sounds like a My Little Pony sort of a butt mark.

I could see that. Scanlan has one on his current design. It says, I break for hot chicks. That's right. That's right, wow. It's tattooed on his ass. I would probably just have the little sun with the little stars, I wouldn't do the whole thing. The whole thing? No. I feel like I would probably just have the little sun with the little stars. I wouldn't do the whole thing. The whole thing.

No. I feel like I would probably... I know, it's rough, isn't it? Whether or not to have the same thing, or like... I've always liked Jax's paw. I know, the paw print with the crossed arrows. The paw print's pretty cool. That would be fun. That's like her.

If you have ideas for cutie marks, please share them and tag them on whatever you see fit. I love Instagram. It's where I see all my fun stuff. Hotmail. Yeah. I think that's about quarter past the hour, so I think that's it for four. Uh-oh. Anybody ever knock on that dog before? quarter past the hour, so I think that's it for four-sided- Uh-oh. Anybody ever knock on that door before? Oh my god, what?

Did someone say quarter past? What? It's four-sided diaper for producer and bad boy game designer of Queen by Midnight, Kyle Shire! Kyle! That's right. What's up, Kyle? Yeah, I'm a bad boy now. You're so bad. Yeah, so bad.

And, uh. Ooh, get that drink. Oh, God. There was little beer. That was a burp. Queen by Midnight quarter passed. The new standalone expansion to Queen by Midnight features a new two-player rule set,

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 glasses on, fuck it. Debbie, who's like you? It's available tomorrow, tomorrow! Yes, at our Critical Role shops,

at Derek to Press Guild stores, and other friendly local game stores, and. What? You can hold it. You can hold it. And you can catch Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Aidy Guerrero, and Aabria Iyengar playing Queen by Midnight Quarter Pass next week,

November 20th, at 7 p.m. Pacific on Twitch, YouTube, and Beacon. It's a rematch, baby. Yeah. Anyway, I got like a motorcycle to ride away on. Lock up for me, will ya, Marisha? Smell you later, nerds! What is this? What is happening there?

Is he being posted? Are you going to post? I want to thank our guests, Marisha Ray, Laura Bailey, Sam Riegel, and of course, our lovely lore keeper, Dani Carr. I'm Taliesin Jaffee, your 29th tavern keeper, apparently, and I guess that's my outro. What is happening here? It's a party, hit the lights, here we go. Wasting that away with a little escape. It's a chance to lose control. So let's just leave this world behind. Everybody come on, take a dive.

One by one we roll the dice, come on Let's build a critical road For another round, your friends are here to cheer you on Critical road Throw it back, it's good times all night long Let's build a critical road 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. You have a quick play to get. Sorry. Sorry, I cut you off. No, no. Okay, okay. That's it for the podcast version of this episode of Foresighted 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.

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