#Save me little jester with a tragic backstory

[maru-alidades]

the coolest dungeon master

#art #my art #fanart #doodle #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #thistle dungeon meshi #Thistle #Save me little jester with a tragic backstory

[howlingday]

tragic backstory (tm) au) jaune teaches his firends about battlefield control via the medium of D&D. his main focus is on teaching ruby the value of pointing out enemies to her heavy hitter (barb yang) and having her rouge take out key targets (blake also learns she doesn't need to shout about faunas liberation like she did in the white fang it's okay not to let people know who did what now) and weiss needs to learn that her summoning is a great skill to help lock down grimm but her ability to use dust is far better if used well (WALL OF FIRE/ICE/DIRT IS THE FUCKING GOAT MY MAN) also her glyphs are pretty great buffs but it's all about timing.

GOLD & GUILDS

Jaune loved playing games. Compost King, Jester's Court, Hidden Grimm; many a weekend was spent playing with his sisters. However, when he arrived at Beacon, he learned of a game he had never heard of before: Grimm and Grottos, Remnant's number one role-playing tabletop game. After months of learning the mechanics, he's decided to step up and perform the most grueling of tasks: BECOME THE GRIMM MASTER!

Yang: You okay, Jaune?

Jaune: A little nervous. I never GM'd before.

Yang: Ah, you'll be fine! You played enough of the game to know how to be the GM. Just follow the rules, and make sure everyone else does.

Jaune: (Takes a deep breath) Thanks, Yang.

Yang: Of course! What else are sisters for?

Jaune: You walk into the cabin. It's old, and there's a faint smell of mold in the air. What do you do?

Ruby: Uh, I walk into the kitchen.

Jaune: The kitchen, much like the rest of yhe house, is old and damp. A cupboard door hangs off it's hinges, revealing it's empty shelves. There are pans in the sink.

Ruby: Hm...

Blake: I'd like to look in the dining room.

Jaune: You walk in the dining room, where an empty table sits with two chairs. By the window, a rusty fork sits all alone.

Blake: I'll roll for Vicinity. (Jaune nods, Blake rolls) Sixteen, and my modifier is two, so eighteen.

Jaune: The table is old, rotting in the legs with gnaws and bite marks. The chairs, however, look brand new.

Yang: Hello! Anybody home?!

Jaune: Do you say that?

Yang: (Smirks) I wouldn't if I didn't.

Jaune: Make a Vicinity check.

Yang: (Rolls) Nat 1.

Jaune: ...You hear a voice. The voice you're hearing sounds very handsome, like a blond man with blue eyes and shining teeth.

Weiss: (Everyone else laughs, Scoffs) I'll roll for Vicinity. (Jaune nods, Weiss rolls and looks at her sheet) Fifteen.

Jaune: You hear a shuffling. It sounds like it's coming from upstairs.

Weiss: I wave to the others, and when they see me, I put my finger to my lips.

Ruby: I see her, and I wave over to Vix.

Blake: I'm going to walk over to Thorn.

Jaune: Make an Agility check.

Blake: (Rolls) Thirteen.

Jaune: You make it over to Thorn, but you trip. Luckily, your nimble reflexes saved you from face planting.

Blake: (Sighs)

Jaune: Thorn, roll for Agility.

Ruby: (Gulps, Rolls) Seven.

Jaune: Surprised to see your friend trip towards, you back up into the sink, causing the pans to scrape and clatter.

Ruby: Whoops!

Jaune: The noise upstairs gets louder and you hear shouting now.

Ruby: Damn it! Ya- I mean, Busty, you and Witty go upstairs! Vix and I will wait down here.

Weiss: Wait, should we really split the party?

Jaune: Should you?

Ruby: ...It's not splitting the party. You'll both be upstairs while we'll be down here. If it looks bad, come back down to us. We'll regroup and hit them all together.

Yang: I nod, and I run upstairs.

Weiss: I... reluctantly follow her.

Jaune: You reach upstairs where two bandits are scrambling back and forth in the bedroom. They're stuffing gold and jewels into a bedsheet tied to act as a sack. They look at you, and tbey look just like the thugs from the tavern.

Weiss: (Gasps) It's them!

Jaune: (Accent) Aw, shivva! It's those dames from efore! (Different accent) Ah, cock it all! Just git yer gun an buck em! (Normal voice) Roll for First Strike! (Rolls twice)

Ruby: (Rolls) Twelve!

Yang: (Rolls) Six.

Blake: (Rolls) Eighteen.

Weiss: (Rolls) Nat 20!

Jaune: Okay, and what's your modifier, Weiss?

Weiss: Wha- But I rolled a nat 20!

Jaune: So did Gubber.

Weiss: (Gulps, Looks at her sheet) Uh, plus one.

Jaune: Plus two. (Weiss groans) So, the order goes Gubber, Witty, Vix, Thorn, Busty, and Hatty.

Ruby: How bad did Hatty roll?

Jaune: (Accent) Ah rolled me natural ones!

Ruby: (Laughs) Oh, Hatty! (Smiles wickedly) I'll regret killing you most of all.

Jaune: And Hatty and Gubber manage to escape. What's your plan now?

Ruby: Is it too late to Snipe?

Jaune: They're already between the trees, past the treeline.

Ruby: (Sighs) Dang it.

Yang: Ah, you'll get 'em next time. Now, about that gold.

Jaune: What gold?

Yang: The gold those two chuckleheads left when they ran?

Jaune: Oh, you mean the gold floating in the air?

Yang: ...What?

Jaune: Yeah, the gold and jewels, and all the furniture are floating around in the air.

Blake: I'd like to roll for Folklore.

Jaune: Of course.

Blake: Nineteen.

Jaune: Based on your experience as a Night-Stalker, you know from your past experience how terrifying Grimm can be. The one Grimm you have yet to encounter only haunted your dreams until now. You have heard the stories of the terrifying Geists, and now one has found it's way to you.

Blake: Great. Guys, this looks like a Geist!

Yang: Cool! What does that mean?

Blake: It means we're under attack from a Grimm!

Weiss: What do we do?

Blake: Do I know how to fight it?

Jaune: Based on your roll, you know how to identify one, and how to kill one, based on the stories you've heard. Find the head and destroy it.

Blake: We need to find the head!

Yang: How?!

Ruby: Blak- I mean, Vix! You know the most, do try to find the head, we'll back you up. Busty, you can still fight, right?

Yang: Yeah, those punks earlier barely scratched me. What do you need?

Ruby: Break everything.

Yang: Don't need to tell me twice.

Weiss: We'll back you both up, right, Thorn?

Ruby: Right!

Jaune: The house falls silent as the Geist screeches into oblivion as Vix cleaves it's head in twain. Furniture and debris fall to the ground. The battle is won. What's your plan, everyone?

Yang: Get the gold!

Weiss: I should have expected as much.

Jaune: And that should do it for our game for tonight. You guys did a great job.

Yang: Well, so did you, little bro! Not bad for your first session. Hopefully we can keep doing this.

Jaune: We should. I plan to do something over the weekends.

Weiss: Well, if you don't mind, I'd like to get some rest.

Jaune: Right. Have a good night, girls.

Ruby: Uh, Jaune, before you go.

Jaune: What's up, Ruby?

Ruby: Well, I need to talk to you in private, so...

Jaune: Oh, sure. (Steps out with Ruby) What's up, Ru-

Ruby: I want to go out again!

Jaune: Huh? You want to start dating again?

Ruby: Yeah, I just... After you broke things off with Scarlet, I feel like... Well, I want you to be my boyfriend again.

Jaune: I mean, I'm not against it, but are you sure? Is Yang going to okay with it?

Ruby: She will.

Jaune: Did you talk with her?

Ruby: Well, not yet, but...

Jaune: (Places a hand on Ruby's shoulder) Ruby, I think we should try again, but only when everyone is comfortable with it. I don't want Yang screaming at me in front of my mom again. Just talk with her, and then... we'll take it from there.

Ruby: Right. Good night, Jaune.

Jaune: (Smiles) Good night, Thorn. (Walks into his dorm)

Ruby: (Sighs) What would Thorn do? ...Probably skin a deer and eat it's heart, but that doesn't help me.

#rwby #tragic backstory (tm) au #rwby au #jaune arc #yang xiao long #ruby rose #weiss schnee #blake belladonna

[terezis]

something that (lovingly) bugs me about cr is like, all these characters have tragic backstories centered around dead loved ones... but they also live in a world with magic that can bring people back to life. and like it’s one thing if it’s not possible immediately after the fact, or even if they (for w/e reason) choose not to do so. but i don’t think it’s ever discussed as a possibility?

like it might not have been feasible for vex and vax to rez their mother at the beginning of the campaign, but by the time they defeated vecna... why not??? 

they know clerics. the world owes them big time. if pike was busy then i'm sure percy, the literal lord of his own city-state, could figure out how to fit the cost of a his family's true resurrections into whitestone's budget. tbh i'm more surprised that nobles in this world don't have anything written into their wills for situations like that. like, "if assassinated, get a cleric to cast raise dead, here’s some money i’ve set aside" ???

"but that takes away the narrative depth" i hear u saying. "sometimes it's better to leave the past in the past"

and to that i reply, matt was fully prepared to throw it all away and let caleb reverse time to save his parents. why couldn't he have just asked jester for a favor instead. he knows where their graves are. why can’t it be that easy

like i'm not saying yasha has to get back together with zuala if she's already moved on, but in a world where she and her friends are flush with the obscene income of adventurers, why wouldn’t she bring her wife back to life? guilt? because she's too afraid to face her after running, and then finding happiness with someone else??? i would love to explore the implications of that!!!

this is mostly said in jest but also it is a little silly to me. like caleb just get some diamonds. no need to unravel the fabric of time. it’s fine

#cr spoilers #not rly but u kno #unfridge that wife yasha. let her find a hot monk to date if she's so inclined

[kimabutch]

I'm so sorry if you've gotten a similar question but just out of curiosity: What are your favorite things about each of the M9? (It can be just the first thing to come to mind, I just really like hearing your takes on them)

Oh thank you, that’s such a compliment!! Ok, going in alphabetical order (and excluding Molly not because I don’t love him, but because I feel like I don’t have a great handle on his personality anymore):

Beau:

Oh god I love her so much, it’s hard to even know where to begin! Maybe with the fact that Marisha might have my favourite sense of humour of all the cast. Beau makes me burst out in laughter at least once per episode. 

I love her strong instincts to help others — it’s been there from the beginning, with her attempts to stop the circus people from getting arrested, or her tucking in Jester. I feel like her decision to be a better person was a turning point not so much in her care for others, but in how much she admitted that to herself.

That being said, she’s tried so hard to keep that promise to herself, and to keep being better. She tries so hard to be more social. She tries so hard to treat her friends with tenderness that’s never been shown to her. She tries to hard to be an expositor, and to be patient, and to investigate shit. She tries so hard not to lie, and to be more emotionally vulnerable. And she’s succeeding! I’m so proud of her. 

I love that she’s a gnc lesbian, and that this is a big part of her story, and important. I literally cannot tell you how much it means to me that she’s a lesbian. 

Caduceus

Cad has been such a calming, loving presence in the show since his arrival in e28, but most of all I love his cracks — the times when he’s not as “good” as he first appears.

I love that he’s so incredibly judgmental, and has such strong opinions even though he initially appears quite humble and mild. It’s such a cool character choice, and 100% makes sense.

He also genuinely has no idea what he’s doing so much of the time, and I think that’s very cool and relatable of him. 

I really respect how much Taliesin has developed him since his initial creation. Tal has talked a bunch about how much lore he’s made for Cad since that one weekend where he created him, and I think it really shows in the way he’s played him. Having caught up about 5 episodes after he was introduced, I feel like I’ve gotten the chance to watch him being fleshed out in real time. 

Caleb:

Liam has said this too, but I love how even though Caleb is a serious, tragic character in many ways, he can be as much the source of gags as anyone else. He’s hilarious, and you can see his sense of humour shining through even when Caleb is trying his best not to show it.

I like that his story is one of healing. Not necessarily clear, linear healing, but gradual, realistic progress. Even if he “breaks” again — and he might — there have been times when he’s laughed with friends, times where he’s gone a little easier on himself, and times when he’s let other people help. There’s no taking that away, no matter what happens later. 

Despite the last two bullet points, I’ll admit that part of the reason I started listening to CR was for the angst, and boy has he delivered. Sometimes you need sad characters, y’know?

But beyond angst, I’m so glad Liam is playing Caleb with a sensitivity to how trauma works and consideration of real-life mental illness. I don’t relate to Caleb’s story, but I see parts of my own mental illness experiences in him, portrayed in a genuinely thoughtful way. 

Fjord:

Ok so I relate a lot to Fjord and it’s very difficult for me to talk about him without talking about myself 

With that being said: I appreciate that as a character, a lot of his issues stem from him being bullied as a kid. I’ve said it before, but it really helps me when I feel ashamed of being so affected by childhood bullying

I love that he’s simultaneously charismatic/smooth and nervous/awkward, and somehow those two things are both believable and don’t negate each other at all. He can be a bit of a disaster of a person, and yet people will believe what he says. 

I fucking adore warlocks. The first character I ever played was a warlock and they’ll probably always be my #1 spellcasting class.

Jester:

I love how dedicated Laura is with her Jester pranks. Both how she roleplays them even when there might be serious consequences because that’s what Jester would do, but also how they can turn into really cool moments that drive Jester’s character arc forward — from her Bahamut prank to “get out of my temple!”

Every time she cries or is sad, I feel my soul trying to leave my body and enter Exandria through my screen so that I can give her a hug. Laura plays the chinks in Jester’s well-crafted happy armour so well.

Combat clerics are so, so much fun, and so is the entire concept of the Traveler, and Jester’s relationship to him. It’s really different than a lot of clerics I’ve seen. 

Out of all the characters, I am maybe most interested in finding out where Jester’s character development is going. I feel like there’s still a giant dam to break, and I don’t now how it will happen or what it will look like. I think she’s already changed so much in how she thinks about the world and relates to others, but it’s clear that she’s not yet at peace. 

Nott:

It took me a solid dozen episodes to warm up to her voice and now it’s one of my favourite parts of campaign 2. Particularly when she screams. 

Ditto what I said about Fjord and childhood bullying — her backstory is so important to me. Also ditto what I said about Caleb and mental illness: Sam has clearly given a lot of thought to how trauma has shaped Nott, and I’m so glad that her journey through mental illness isn’t straightforward. 

Like with Jester, I find her to be a very cool take on her class, as a rogue who’s terrified to take the lead and who, despite her sneakiness, is among the most willing to use her own body as a distraction to save her friends. I also love the trope-defying fact that she’s a mom. 

I love that she has all of 5 CHA and tells the worst lies, but pulled a lying long con for 49 episodes, both on the M9 and on viewers… but somehow, it still felt realistic that she’d be able to pull that off, because Nott’s deception wasn’t based so much in outright lies about her backstory (she definitely did lie, but many of the lies contradicted each other or fell apart on close examination), but on evasion, her speciality as a rogue. 

Yasha:

She’s soft! She’s so soft! She’s tender and quiet and loves the beautiful things in life, and for me it’s not just about the contrast between her toughness and her softness (although I do appreciate that, especially as someone who’s been told they’re intimidating, both online and irl), but also about how genuine it is: you can feel it in the way she talks and how Ashley moves when she plays her. 

She is awkward as hell, and it’s so good. Yasha’s dialogue, both with NPCs and with other PCs, is consistently some of the funniest stuff in the show. Ashley really lets that 7 CHA, 9 WIS shine through in all its glory. 

I think her backstory reveal was the first time I bawled while watching CR, but it was fun because of the rising anticipation as she revealed that she’s a wlw. 

Her rage is so interesting! Every barbarian so far in the show (Grog, Lionel, Yasha) has played rage slightly differently, and I appreciate them all — but I think there’s something special about how rage is so clearly emotionally fraught for Yasha. I hope and believe that they’ll explore this more after she’s saved from Obann. 

#Anonymous #critical role #I limited myself to four points about each character #please appreciate how much self-restraint that was #my stuff

[loquaciousquark]

Talks Machina Highlights - Critical Role C2E49 (Jan. 29, 2019)

Hey hey hey, we’re on the internet! Filling in for @eponymous-rose​, it’s time to fake my way through a Talks without having quite caught up yet. What could possibly go wrong?

Tonight’s guests: Sam Riegel & Liam O’Brien!

Announcements: The second season of Between the Sheets debuted last night, ft. everyone’s friend Bobby. It’ll be on Youtube tomorrow morning & is already on the CR Twitch. Next week will feature cinematographer Quyen Tran (aka Sam’s wife!)! Everyone agrees Sam married up. It’ll air Monday night on the CR Twitch.

And now, episode 49: A Game of Names

Brian comes back prefacing some comment with a mention that Matt names the episodes, which Sam immediately derails because he thought Taliesin named them. Poor Matt.

CR Stats: The M9 have cast Disguise Self 97 times. Liam: “What a bunch of lying motherfuckers!” 20 were by Nott; 17 were by Caleb.

Sam’s found it interesting that his in-game persona has been a bit of a facade, but Nott as a character is in an in-between place between who she was and who Nott purports to be. “It might be weird to be called Veth, actually, because it’s just not in the course of her experience in the last couple years. She’s gotten used to the name if not the body.”

Caleb doesn’t like to think about Bren or the old self that came with it; he winged the name “Caleb” the moment he met Nott, but now he has a lot of good memories associated with that name. Brian asks if it was a name of someone from his past; Liam points out you can always retcon anything. Sam’s surprised it was the day he met Nott; Liam says he’d actually been using different names everywhere he went, and Caleb happened to be the one that happened to keep being used by people he never left.

Sam and Liam goggle that they both picked characters with false (very similar) names, that their questlines are so accidentally intertwined, and that they’re so linked despite the fact that they’d decided they’d traveled together right before the first show. Sam wonders who else has fake names.

“Nott the Brave” and “Veth Brenatto” being anagrammed was a purposeful decision out of an accident. He was originally going to be Vix off a gag he made in Campaign 1 re: Vex & Vax, but decided he’d better scrap it & just go with a V name instead as homage. He created the anagrammed names together (without the help of a fantasy name generator, he points out).

Everyone thinks Fjord still has secrets to reveal. “What if it’s Ferrrd?” “What if it’s Fred?”

The water issue for Nott grew out organically in the game. He knew she’d been turned into a goblin (and assumed she’d been killed in the process), but wasn’t sure exactly how she’d died until a few months into the campaign. Then he emailed Matt and asked if it was okay if the way Nott had died had been by drowning, and Matt said, “Yep!”

Liam agonizes over the fact that they all can email Matt, asking if something can be added to character history based on how plots are going in-game, only for him to say “Yes!” and then be silent for six months before walloping someone over the head with a barbed-wire bat. Ha!

Liam reminds everyone that Caleb canonically does not know Beau’s last name. Liam knew it and was talking in third person (even though it was in an accent). It was not meant to be metagamed knowledge.

Liam was surprised by the “Fuck him!” comment but was not surprised Nott had had something chambered, so out of game he recognized this was the beginning of Nott’s story & was ready for it. Caleb still feels like he’s walking a tightrope and juggling plates, but Liam points out it’s his own fault if anything drops.

Everyone marvels at Nott’s use of “Bren” as a false name in episode 2. Sam remembers looking over at Liam as Liam gave him “the weirdest look! Liam looked at me like I had just said the c-word.” Liam: “I was staring holes into your skull.” Sam thought Caleb was judging Nott for being deceptive. Liam sat there for a hot minute wondering if Matt had let something slip, if Caleb was talking in his sleep, if Sam had seen a sheet from Liam’s binder... “Anything but this impossible fucking coincidence.”

GIF of the Week: @winteristboi with an incredibly topical GIF of Liam revealing his name, Sam commenting “That’s why you looked at me,” and including a flashback of the just-mentioned episode 21 moment.

The intertwining of Nott’s & Caleb’s backstories has been fun for both of them. Sam finds Liam an excellent actor and likes doing scenes with him. Liam and Sam both talk about how they actually prefer bumps in the road and complicated relationships instead of everyone being friends & peaceful. They had a conversation months ago about how they’re looking forward to things falling apart within the group. Liam reminisces about how much he loved the bowl argument with Beau. “That’s the best part of the show.”

Nott is very excited that part of Caleb’s backstory is out so that he can get some healing, maybe.

Caleb is closer to Beau than the rest of the M9 at this point. In the moment of his backstory, “he was wanting to borrow her spine. And Beau had rested her hand on his shoulder just moments before, and that was reassuring to him because he knew things could get ugly, so he was looking for that again.”

Very quickly, Nott saw something in Caleb that reminded her of her son. “A boy who was scared and alone in the world and needing someone to take care of him.” Even in game zero, Caleb was knocked out and Nott had to save them, kill the gnolls, and get them out of there singlehandedly.

Sam finds out onscreen that halflings live much longer than humans. It’s hilarious. “I thought they lived the same as humans!” He’s worked it out with Matt that Veth is not older than Caleb, who is 32. Veth got married at 20ish (childbearing age), spent a couple years happily married, goblins intervened, escaped, and is now about 25 years old (a young mom). “Similarly, as I understand it, when you are reincarnated, you are given an adult body, so goblin Nott is 7-8 years old.” Liam gasps that if she doesn’t get changed back, she’s taken a 200 year lifespan and violently compressed it to only a fraction.

Many of Veth’s quirks (collecting things, general nervousness, and enjoyment of wine) were badly exacerbated and heightened in goblin form. Where she enjoyed a nip of sherry wine before, she’s now a raging alcoholic. Where she enjoyed collecting baubles before; now she’s compulsively stealing. She was a nervous Nellie before; now she’s ratcheted anxiety. Sam discussed this with Matt. Liam again: “Her lifespan was condensed down into this dense little ball; her habits were condensed into a dense little ball too!” Sam, brightly, dancing: “It’s a saaad episode!”

Liam’s asked about his arm-scratching as Caleb. (Sam’s stunned; he never realized!) In Liam’s mind, the scars are extremely faint and old, and it’s cold in Wildemount. He doesn’t imagine them as large or even visible gashes unless you knew where to look.

Sam envisions his goblins as just generally amped up. Not angry, but murderous. Sam also has been playing it that Veth has been becoming a bit more goblin & less halfling over time just because she’s being overwhelmed by the physiology. It would have been different if she’d been in a different body. She’s very eager to get back, but she is also aware that her “perceived vehicle” who might be able to get her back to her original form is not quite ready yet. She’s anxious for that to get cooking.

Early in the campaign, when Caleb wakes up from a fight and screams, “Take them out!” he was talking about the crystals Trent put in his arms.

Fanart of the Week: @queddajaw​ with a gorgeous Nott drowning portrait.

Nott has a general tendency to want to see people connect (Astrid’s letter, Jester & Caleb). She knows time with a loved one is not eternal. It’s not really a projection of her own relationship. Augh.

Caleb didn’t give the whole truth because a) it’s too humiliating & heartbreaking to talk about and b) the first confession to Beau/Nott was only out of need, and he was just excruciatingly lonely. He’s gotten it out once and knows that it’s completely awful, and he doesn’t want to dump it on the rest of the group unnecessarily, such as “sunflower” Jester. Liam also didn’t feel it was all pertinent information in the moment since he didn’t want to trample on Nott after she’d just bared her soul to the group. Liam mimes opening a door over Sam’s face: “But alsooo myyy story is super tragic!”

Sam thinks VM was more familiar with each other at this point in their campaign, but not as vulnerable/connected. It’s a very different story.

What makes Sam keep picking goblins as backstory villains? “They’re gross.” Actually, it’s more coincidental this time as Liam was the one who picked his goblin race. Sam talks about how he’s gotten tweets wanting to know why goblins can’t be nice, is he racist against goblins? Sam: “Yes. In your campaign, you can do what you want. Veth might be horribly misguided!” but in his/Veth’s mind at the moment, there’s nothing redeemable about them. She is curious about the butler goblin, but didn’t really get a chance to talk to him.

Caleb is very relieved they’re not going to Rexxentrum.

Sam thinks it was a good time for Nott’s reveal. Caleb had thought it would take longer for him. Matt had asked Sam how long he wanted to play it out, if he wanted the reveal to be early or late game, and Sam told him it would be fine for him even if it never came out in the whole campaign. He’s excited to see how this will change the group dynamic for everyone. 

Liam comments that he always tries to make character decisions that feel true, even if it leads to things that are sad.

Sam did tell his kids how Nott became a goblin. As soon as he was done, his daughter asked him to tell them the story one more time. I have flashbacks to Travis saying “Let’s do it again” at the end of C1.

Sam hasn’t given up on the shirt gag, but he gave away 20 shirts for a donation prize. When he has the shirt, he will wear it. Sam also points out that he’s also tracking the facial hair from C1 too.

After Dark: Secret Secret Names Edition:

Everyone marvels again at how cool Quyen is. Sam tangents full circle into a discussion of Mr. Yuck. Brian tries to get us back on track talking about drinks, and I don’t even know what’s happening right now. Sam drinks a (I think!) Miller Lite on screen and almost throws it back up. You dramatic fool.

Quyen is a big wine nerd, just like Sam. “Now, we enjoy a burger and a beer once in a while, we’re not awful people.” Then he tells a story about how when people bring them wine bottles at their homes as gifts his wife has a terrible poker face if she doesn’t approve of the wine. Don’t buy her wine, is what I’m getting from this.

They discuss Mame Drop from today, which featured some laser discs and old games.

Nott’s favorite reality show would be whatever is the opposite of Hoarders, like maybe Storage Wars. Dani suggests Caleb might be into dating shows. Brian takes great offense at the word “smut” as a descriptor and talks about his 30-person Bachelor watching parties. Dani suggests he [Caleb] might be into the sordid melodrama of that and Real Housewives. Liam: “Tell me more about my character. You too, internet.”

This entire segment has devolved into an almost rabid discussion of reality shows and I legitimately cannot keep up with it. GBBO has come up, cat judging shows, documentaries about Scientology...

Liam & Sam try to have a man date once a year where they have a good dinner and glass of wine together and catch up on their years.

Travis apparently really got into David Blaine like eight years after he was relevant. Brian puts out a call to send him David Blaine gifs. “He’ll know exactly why.”

We end with an incredible moment of tiny Sam’s head being shopped live onto the cutout of his Emmy acceptance. “We go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is hard, hard, hard.”

And we’re out! Have a lovely evening, everyone, and is it Thursday yet?

#critical role #critical role spoilers #talks machina #talks machina spoilers #long post for ts