Livetweets of 2-36 O Captain, Who's Captain?
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“I'm tired, but I'll go to work if I need to.”
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Monster Analysis: The Mist Captain and Crew
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Thanks to @cerigg for this art piece!
The midnight encounter on the Restless Wharf is a great example how players (and their dice) can determine both the type of encounter they are going to have, as well as how they can set their own difficulty for it. What could have been either a simple spy mission, attempted diplomatic conversation, or even silent assassination quickly turned into... well, what it turned into.
Read MoreTalks Machina Episode 83 Highlights: 2-35
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Tonight’s guests are Marisha Ray and Liam O’Brien!
Announcements:
The NYC live show is one week from this Thursday (October 4)! Tickets are available now, and an NYCC badge is not needed to attend. There is much speculation over what on earth Sam’s going to wear this time around.
Travis’ episode of Between the Sheets is available for CR Twitch subscribers now and will go up on CR’s YouTube channel tomorrow! Marisha: “He’s like the big brother to us all.” Laura Bailey’s up next!
All Work No Play premieres (returns) this Friday night at 7PM Pacific at twitch.tv/criticalrole!
Stats for this episode:
It has been 61 days since the party found the Cloven Crystal, and 45 days since they first learned of Marius LePual. (The party’s been together about 87 days total.)
Beau has avoided 126 points of damage by using Deflect Missiles.
Caleb’s top speed in this episode of 120 feet is still a quarter the speed of a hasted and flying Vax: 480 feet. Liam points out that he mostly used the speed last campaign to rush at problems. This campaign, it’s more for rushing away from problems.
Media References and Puns of 2-35 Dockside Diplomacy
/Yo ho, yo ho, a failed attempt as a diplomat straight into a pirate’s life for me.
Media References
(0:25:26) Marisha: Tell Edér...Algar. That’s Pillars of Eternity.
(0:33:41) Liam: He’s hungry and so am I. Marisha: It puts the lotion on its skin. (Silence of the Lambs, NSFW)
(0:39:33) Liam: … children’s birthday party Nick Fury.
(0:55:13) Marisha: Do you guys remember in Tomb Raider 2, the butler that you had who would follow you?
(1:07:16) Sam: Use your spatial Beautiful Mind techniques.
(1:21:37) Liam: ...rub his head like a Bond villain, staring at Beau.
(1:26:01) Liam: F***ing Hermione Granger up in this s***. Travis: She had a cat.
(1:44:25) Liam: Belly flop, s***y dolphin, Masterpiece Theater...
Crash Pandas: Too Trashed, Too Curious Masterpost
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Thanks to @sephiramy for this art piece!
Car Names
Select your vehicle. Then poison the driver.
(0:15:00) R.E.V. Speedwagon: Burnt umber 1978 caprice station wagon
(0:15:09) Taxicab Concussions: Beat-up NYC Taxicab with the doors painted shut.
(0:15:16) Victor von Vroom: Green Corvette that looks zippy but hard to control
(0:15:24) The Exterminator: Royal blue exterminator van with Pest Control emblazoned on the side
(0:15:33) Mr. Fastee: A huge ice cream truck
(1:38:02) Sasscar: An adorable little mini roadster racer.
(1:38:32) Mothah Truckah: A tweaked-out GMC pickup that looks steady but slow, but very firm.
(1:38:50) Actual Vin Diesel: A supercharged engine.
(1:39:32) The Champion, a.k.a. Roadkill: Yellow and blue customized Ferrari with claws out front, its hood ornamented with a raccoon skull.
(1:40:30) This Guy On A Motorcycle.
Livetweets of 2-35 Dockside Diplomacy
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"Worst case, we kill him." "Maybe best case scenario."
Read MoreWhat Does The Mighty Nein Have Left: Sluice Weave
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As The Mighty Nein wait to see what happens now that they’ve cut off Algar’s hand, they’re all standing, though some in much better shape than others. As a reminder, these stats are based on what we tracked. If something is presented otherwise in-game, what happens in-game is canon. We always defer to them.
Read MoreWhat We Know About The Mighty Nein's Time in Nicodranas
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This attack isn’t happening in a place that’s isolated from the rest of society, like the merrow or Siff Duthar battles. There are a lot of people intertwined in The Mighty Nein’s quest to get Algar Dyomin to leave Marion and her clients alone.
Read MoreMonster Analysis: Zsundie the Marid, Algar, and Water Elementals
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Marid
First Appearance: 1-87 Onward to Vesrah
Armor Class 18 (suggested 17)
Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft., swim 90 ft.
Resistant to Cold, Acid, Lightning
Suggested Average, Max HP: 229, 306
10 damage taken
Water Elementals
First appearance: 1-22 AraMente to Pyrah (as Keyleth)
Suggested Armor Class 13 (medium), 14 (large)
Speed 30 ft., swim 90 ft.
Immune to poison, exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious
Resistant to acid; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical weapons
Suggested average, max damage: 114, 168
Medium Elemental 1 (first battle): 64 damage, 4 killing blow by Caleb
Medium Elemental 2 (first battle): 79 damage, 17 killing blow by Nott
Large Elemental (second battle): 135 damage, 17 killing blow by Yasha
While we’ve analyzed both water elementals and marids previously, the marid in this particular encounter had significant less self-agency than the one Vox Machina encountered in the previous campaign. While all genies prefer to be the slaver rather than the enslaved, powerful mortal magic can bind them to servitude in turn (and marids are the most powerful of all genies… at least, according to them). Commands granted to a marid must be made very carefully, lest the commanded find loopholes that match the letter of the order but fail to match its intent, often at the downfall of the commander.
Quick Answers 67
/Can you keep track of how many times the dodecahedron has been used, and how many of those times it’s been used to reroll something?
Done and done; we now keep this list regularly updated on the Wildemount Running Stats page.
How can Beau buy extra reactions with her ki? Is it homebrewed?
As we stated in our Level 6 Update, Beau now has Mind of Mercury, allowing her to spend a ki to gain an additional reactions (max 2 reactions based on her INT mod). This is all part of the most recent class update to the Monk of the Cobalt Soul.
I am currently watching some of the one-shots done after campaign 1, and I was wondering if there are stats about those episodes!
There are! The easiest way to find information about past one-shots is using the One-Shot tag, especially if you’re looking for articles. If you’re looking for running times or who was present for each of CR’s one-shots (or just need the complete list), the links to those pages are always kept on our Running Stats page under the General Archives.
Is there a comparison to the number of times players rolled with advantage versus disadvantage in Campaign 1?
Vox Machina rolled with disadvantage a total of 351 times across 114 episodes. They rolled with advantage 984 times, or about 3 times more often than they rolled with disadvantage. By contrast, the Mighty Nein have rolled with disadvantage 152 times and advantage 246 times (only about a factor of 2!).
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Tonight’s guests are Laura Bailey and Matt Mercer (and Dani’s mom, offscreen, who confirms that we are indeed on the internet)!
Announcements:
The Rook and the Raven Kickstarter campaign ends Thursday! Brian: “If you’re a good note-taker–” Laura: “You can draw a bunch of dicks!”
Thursday, October 4 is the NYC live show! Some tickets are still available. Everyone is so happy that Laura and Travis will be there this time!
VOD of the first episode of Between the Sheets is available for CR Twitch subscribers now and will go up on CR’s YouTube channel tomorrow! This week’s features Taliesin Jaffe; next week’s is Travis Willingham!
Brian will be doing a Reddit AMA this coming Friday at 2 PM Pacific.
CR is raising money for the Pablove Foundation and has already raised $68,000. If they hit $100,000, Sam will do a Fireside Chat. Matt and Laura are excited, because for all that they consider Sam to be one of their closest friends, they feel like they don’t know too much about him. Everyone loves his wife, but Sam might be a spy-and-or-assassin. Theories abound.
Sam’s Crash Pandas one-shot will be streamed on Friday at 7 PM Pacific on the CR Twitch channel!
Stats for this episode:
Jester has dealt over 600 points of damage so far in the campaign.
She has cast Cure Wounds 40 times. Matt: “That’s like once an episode.” Laura: “Matthew.” Brian: “You’re like an AFK Zenyatta. You’re a Mercy who’s just using her taser gun the whole time.”
Jester has used Blessing of the Trickster 26 times.
Matt announced his 40th natural 20 of the campaign. Matt: “Honestly, I think the Snitch, as much as I like to build the mystique, I think it has to be in Taliesin’s hands to become magical.” Dani: “If you’re not a paladin wielding the Holy Avenger, it’s just a sword.”
Media References of 2-34 Encroaching Waters
/We also like long-haired Sam.
Media References
(0:02:41) Sam: No, seriously, my username is Forrest Gump and my password is 1Forrest1?!
(0:02:53) Sam: Well, wakka wakka wakka! (Fozzy Bear)
(0:02:59) Sam: Saying, “Go Dallas!”?!
(0:06:08) Matt: Species level, just tears him in half.
(0:47:24) Liam: Give me the Two Buck Chuck please!
(0:49:43) Nott: Are you like Super Goth Santa or something?
(0:51:04) Marisha: Sisterhood of the Traveling Dodecahedron.
(1:01:16) Liam: speaking from experience, sometimes when you’re focused on something, it can create a blindspot.
(1:03:20) Liam: This is totally the diner scene in Pulp Fiction.
(1:11:18) Taliesin: Literally probably look a bit like Shaggy from Scooby Doo.