Villains Gallery: Post-Conclave and Unlikable People

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Villains Gallery: Post-Conclave and Unlikable People

Thanks to @Takayuuki_art for the art piece!

We had an anonymous critter request a while back for us to create a list of villains and information about their intentions and deeds. There have been a lot of big bads over the course of 99 episodes, so many that we can't do them justice in one post. We're breaking them up by story arc, ending with the villains Vox Machina faced so far after the Conclave, as well as the folks who didn't quite make it to Villain status, but were still pretty unlikable.

After The Conclave

The Kraken

  • Kraken
  • Scourge of the rift between the Material and Water planes
  • Producer of lodestones that keeps Vesrah afloat
  • Attacked Vox Machina after Taryon spoiled their stealth
  • Killed Vax’ildan.
  • Was prevented from crossing into the Material plane.

Utugash, The Herald of Vassalage

  • Pit fiend
  • Ran a section of the City of Dis
  • “One of the prominent owners and taskmasters involved in moving souls and soul goods throughout this area of Dis. He is slovenly, he is lazy, he is powerful, and he needs to fall. [...] At this time, his laziness has left him a useless sack of demon s**t.”
  • Bought Tova from the Mentiri prison for his own entertainment.
  • Attacked by VM in his stronghold to fulfill the terms of Percy’s deal with Ipkesh, a cambion under his command.
  • Permanently killed by Tova
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Don’t Cry For Me, Vox Machina

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@BananaMcGee1 Here’s a stat for you to find: How many times have any of the players cried on the show?
Anonymous asked: It would be cool to have a list of all the times the cast and characters cried in the show.

Hey, this stuff gets emotional, man.

Thanks to agent-of-chaotic-order, Eric R., @GraphixDave, holpike, i-encourage-violence, icecream-s-coops, @jeritchie3, kevvinn, pbandfluff, Rosie-LostBetweenThePages, Rowena Highlander, @SilentEnGee, vysoren-of-vord, wallflowerwaitlist, and other fantastic critters for their help compiling this list!

Updated through Episode 62

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Birds of a Feather

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Qui11iam asked: How many birds has the cast flipped over the course of the show?

While the rogue has definitely been responsible for the most “daggers” thrown, the rest of the cast has shown that they can throw their own fair share. 

Number of party birds: 51

Number of Liam birds: 24

Thanks to agent-of-chaotic-order, @BabbaForrest, BillieblueJean, burdenedwithnopurpose, @EBalensuela, holpike, icecream-s-coops, @jeritchie3, rusty-diamond, and @SilentEnGee for their help compiling this list!

Updated through Episode 61.

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Sibling Rivalry

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Anonymous asked: How many times have Laura and Liam smacked, hit, or shoved each other on the stream?

Thanks to @BabbaForrest, @EBalensuela, Henry Mills, holpike, i-encourage-violence, icecream-s-coops, @jeritchie3, and @SilentEnGee for their help compiling this list!

Updated through Episode 60.

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Beard Check

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While wearing this belt, you gain the following benefits:

  • Your Constitution score increases by 2, to a maximum of 20.
  • You have advantage on Charisma (Persuasion) checks made to interact with dwarves.

In addition, while attuned to the belt, you have a 50 percent chance each day at dawn of growing a full beard if you’re capable of growing one, or a visibly thicker beard if you already have one.

If you aren’t a dwarf, you gain the following additional benefits while wearing the belt:

  • You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance against poison damage.
  • You have darkvision out to a range of 60 feet.
  • You can speak, read, and write Dwarvish

Total Beard Checks: 25
Successful Beard Checks (Percentile Dice Roll < 50): 11

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Critmas Episodes

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anonymous asks: Hi, quick question, what episodes are critmas episodes and at what time do they start?

According to our Running Times table, Critmases occurred on:

On a related note, we’re quickly approaching the one-year anniversary of Critical Role, as well as the nearest Critmas to it. We’re attempting to catalogue as many gifts as we can before that happens, but, it’s a sizable project in so short a time. If you’d like to volunteer to log through an episode of Critmas (or more!), shoot us an ask or an email, and we’ll set you up. Thanks!

How many times has Sam been late?

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anonymous asks: How many times has Sam shown up after the stream has started?

Thanks to work, LA traffic, and the character background video now playing prior to the stream, Sam arrived at Critical Role after the stream started 21 times.  Those episodes are:  

  • 11
  • 15-18
  • 23-31
  • 36-41
  • 43

Rat Queens Mentions

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@Marisha_Ray asks: I unabashedly need a favor from @CritRoleStats: How many times have we mentioned Rat Queens on #CriticalRole? You will forever have my <3

You’ve got ours, Marisha!  Critters, if you haven’t checked out Rat Queens yet, get on it.

She also asked using CRStats Rule 2:

Mighty @critrolestats,
Reveal our redundancies.
We’re Rat Queens obsessed.

05 The Trick About Falling

  • (0:15:26) Ashley wears a Rat Queens shirt throughout the episode.

17 Hubris

  • (0:06:40) Laura wears a Rat Queens shirt throughout the episode.

22 AraMente to Pyrah

  • (0:44:00) Ashley wears a Rat Queens shirt throughout the episode.

24 The Feast

  • (0:03:42) Liam wears a Rat Queens shirt throughout the episode.

30 Stoke the Flames

  • (0:04:44) Laura: We’re dressed as Rat Queens.  Marisha: We’re Rat Queens, I’m Violet.  Laura: I’m Hannah.  You should check it out, it’s an awesome comic book.  I’m conjuring up a little *flips bird* f*** you.  Marisha: And, what does Violet say? We’re going to put the kickass back in team. Yeah. Rat Queens!

33 Reunions

  • (p1. 0:02:33) Liam: We got a big, fat care package from Kurtis Wiebe he’s the writer of Rat Queens (Laura: YEAHHHHHHHHH!), so we have a collected volume…some t-shirts…obviously we love some Rat Queens.

42 Dangerous Dealings

  • (0:02:44) Liam: This is an impromptu announcement. Kurtis Wiebe just announced on the twitters-Kurtis Wiebe is the writer for the comic book Rat Queens.  Sam: Woo hoo!  Laura: Amazing!  Liam: We all are addicted to it. He works with Tess Fowler, who’s the artist right now, and, basically, they’re outfit and our outfit are in love. And, Kurtis kind of announced on twitter today that he’s going to be shoving Vox Machina in there some way, some how.

Special Q&A

  • Marisha wears a Rat Queens shirt throughout the episode
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anonymous asks: This blog is really entertaining, keep up the good work! As you were mentioning #LeaveTrinketBehind: How about the number of turns/spells/items that were used (wasted) on saving Trinket?

In an attempt to follow CritRoleStats Rule #6, the objective criteria we used to measure this one were:

  • Would this spell/turn/item have been used without Trinket’s presence?
    • The uses of Seeming in Whitestone aren’t on this list because Vox Machina needed Scanlan to cast it on them to walk around the city, with or without Trinket.
  • Likewise, could this spell/turn/item have been used on a member of Vox Machina, or to do something else, had it not needed to be used on Trinket?
    • Had Trinket not been there in Episode 13, Tiberius could have used one of his Fly castings on a member of VM, which is why it’s included on this list.

01 Arrival at Kraghammer

  • Keyleth (1:17:55) Fog Cloud
  • Keyleth (1:18:15) Wild Shape (Bear)
  • Keyleth (1:18:15) Polymorph (Mouse)

08 Glass and Bone

  • Keyleth (1:27:58) Polymorph (Kitten)
  • Keyleth (2:38:09) Grasping Vine (already cast previously)
  • Vex’ahlia (2:43:31) Healing Potion
  • Pike (2:47:15) Cure Wounds

11 The Temple Showdown

  • Tiberius (2:35:21) Fly

13 Escape from the Underdark

  • Tiberius (1:32:28) Fly

17 Hubris

  • Keyleth (3:01:13) Cure Wounds

19 Trial of the Take Part 2

  • Lyra (1:19:30) Stoneskin

27 The Path to Whitestone

  • Tiberius (3:00:28) Fly

28 The Sun Tree

  • Keyleth (0:28:42) Cure Wounds

36 Winter’s Crest in Whitestone

  • Keyleth (2:01:12) Polymorph (Human)

40 Desperate Measures

  • Grog (0:45:27) Spent his turn moving frozen Trinket
  • Pike (0:47:57) Cure Wounds

41 In Ruins

  • Keyleth (0:50:00) Polymorph (Red Panda)

Time Fighting Kern

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anonymous asks: How long did Grog's fights with Kern last?

2 minutes and 18 seconds altogether, or 23 rounds. The first fight lasted a minute and the second a minute and eighteen seconds.

In real time, it was more like an hour and fifteen minutes; 28:56 for the first fight and 46:03 for the second, but Vox Machina was attempting to help more from the sidelines during the second fight, lengthening the time it took to describe the encounter.

For information on this fight and more see the Running Times table.

HUNTER’S MARK.

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Can’t forget Hunter’s Mark. Updated through episode 38.

Thanks to BurdenedWithNoPurpose, ClericofKord, Luscinias, TheSingingBadger, TrenchantWit, and Tux3d0_Mask for their contributions to this list!

Total Hunter’s Marks cast: 31

Total Hunter’s Mark targets: 38

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Trinket is Useful

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Anon asked: How many times has Trinket been useful at all?

We here at Critical Role Stats are a team divided between #LeaveTrinketBehind and #NoBearLeftBehind.  Here are our bipartisan findings. Updated to Episode 41.

02 Into the Greyspine Mines

  • (2:11:12) Trinket protects Scanlan during Vex’s attack phase

07 The Throne Room

  • (3:47:23) Trinket provided the needed assistance to Pike to drag Vax from the incoming magma.

17 Hubris

  • (2:41:29) Trinket damaged the hydra

18 Trial of the Take Part 1

  • (1:56:13) Trinket killed an orc

19 Trial of the Take Part 2

  • (2:48:56) Trinket damaged Rimefang

24 The Feast

  • (2:43:10) Trinket learned how to Cannonball attack

25 Crimson Diplomacy

  • (2:50:27) CANNONBALL! Missed The Broker, hit the monk.

26 Consequences and Cows

  • (2:27:24) Trinket sat on comfort-watch for Percy

27 The Path to Whitestone

  • (0:27:11) Trinket helped defend the keep and Desmond when the stalkers attacked

30 Stoke the Flames

  • (1:30:00) Trinket stayed on night watch with Grog in the tavern and kept him awake

31 Gunpowder Plot

  • (p1. 1:14:14) Trinket did damage to Tylieri
  • (p1. 1:32:13) Got the initial kill of Tylieri.
  • (p2. 0:56:42) Carried Vex away from the skeleton army.

32 Against the Tide of Bone

  • (0:18:41) Quickly carried Vex back to the skeleton army so she could get in an early attack

33 Reunions

  • (p1. 1:38:42) Grappled Ripley
  • (p2. 1:30:40) Successfully cannonball-attacked in the crypt

35 Denouement

  • (2:01:38) Part of the kill of Orthax

36 Winter’s Crest in Whitestone

  • (2:10:54) Won Vex some gold by tying for first in the pie eating contest

37 A Musician’s Nostalgia

  • (4:18:59) Trinket carried the unconscious body of Daxio back to the palace

38 Echoes of the Past

  • (2:11:47) Gave a solid perception check in Krieg’s house

41 In Ruins

  • (1:42:32) Trinket beheads a looter at Gilmore’s