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The Briarwood story arc is dedicated to following Percival's backstory, and brings the adventurers up against Lord and Lady Briarwood who are ruling in Percy's ancestral home, Whitestone. The powerful couple turns out to be a vampire and a necromancer, and Vox Machina must stop them from completing a ritual that threatens to endanger the entire kingdom.

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Episode 24: The Feast

• Percy's lesson about messing with his things instils a temporary fear of water into Grog that episode. As the rest of the party try to clean him up and make him presentable for the formal event, he freaks when Tiberius approaches with Prestidigitation, but then comes to the conclusion that Percy's powder (probably baking soda or lime) made him "immune" to water. Tiberius tries to correct him and Vex cuts him off to say yep, totally, he's immune to water now.
• The entire catastrophe with the sigils to Kraghammer. First, Tiberius gets caught up in the Lyceum bureaucracy. Then he manages to piss off house Thunderbrand again. Then, when Vax gets them a way into Kraghammer, Tiberius manages to burn through all his spell slots by casting Fly on the journey over, so he can't cast the glyph spell anyway. When Tiberius does teleport there after a long rest, Lord Thunderbrand is even more annoyed.
  Thunderbrand: We waited all night for you to show up, then you interrupt my breakfast!
  • As Tiberius is getting the back-and-forth at the Lyceum:
    Marisha: It's like calling Time-Warner Cable.
• Keyleth's attempt to haggle with Sherri goes about as well as Grog's try in Vasselheim a couple weeks prior. Possibly worse. She rolled a 1 on Persuasion.
• This exchange:
  Grog: Does she get advantage because I was talking about testicles?
  Matt: There is no testicle advantage here.
  Liam: When would testicle advantage count?
  Sam: Gilmore's.
• While collecting their money in Kraghammer, Vex, Grog, Tiberius and Scanlan pretend that Vax, Percy, Keyleth and Trinket are dead to get a better deal.
• Vox Machina finally remembers to promote Gilmore's Glorious Goods on their travels and Notso Greyspine reacts like he's "seen an unexpected web popup".
  Notsoc: Get out of my office!
• Because Vex made Vax bear-sit Trinket, Vax and Keyleth are braiding Trinket's fur. And then Percy walks in on them...
  Percy: Keyleth, can I borrow you for a- what in good God?! Is Trinket comfortable with this?!
  • Matt's description on Trinket's expression:
    Matt: This low, mournful, guttural groan. You're pretty sure it just translates to, "Whyyyyyyyyy?"
• Tiberius cheerfully lets Percy test Diplomacy on him with a handshake, and then tries to congratulate Percy on his work while suffering after-effects of the shock.
• When Vax sneaks away from the party to go visit Kainen and rolls a total of 32, Tiberius decides to fart and rolls a Natural 20.
• "Hello, I'm Tiberius Stormwind! I'm from Draconia!" Said at least five times throughout the episode, to the point where some of the others finish his line. At one point Travis ostensibly sighs and squints on purpose, making him look extremely goofy.
• Taliesin describes the daggers that Vax buys from Gilmore as "so sharp they can cut the sexual tension."
  • Speaking of sexual tension, Gilmore literally dropping everything and teleporting in from another continent is both a heartwarming sign that he cares and a hilarious sign that he has absolutely zero chill where Vax is concerned.
• Vax pranking Grog once again by shaving half of his now glorious beard. Travis is so pissed by the Natural 20 Stealth check he breaks his mechanical pencil in half with his thumb.
  Laura: Why are you so evil?!
  Liam: Why did he trip me and make me eat shit two months ago?
  Travis: (dead calm) That's an appetizer for things to come, my friend.
  ...
  Travis as Grog: I say in a low, guttural growl...
  Liam: You have no idea it was me.
  (Beat)
  Travis: ..."Vax." I didn't have to wake up to know it was you, motherfucker!
  Liam: (Grog) is dumb as a post! Why does he know I did it?!
  Travis: Because you're the only fucking idiot stupid enough to do that!
  Liam: Magic is mysterious! Who's to say you couldn't grow half a beard due to magic?
  Travis: Maybe I don't know. Let's say I assume.
  • And the result of this, shared on Twitter.
• Vax, made invisible by Scanlan, decides to stand behind Vex making a weird face (which Liam acts out behind Laura). Without looking, Vex says "I can sense you, you dick," so he stops, thwarted, and gives her the finger. Prime sibling shenaniganry.
• The first time Tiberius (quite successfully!) flirts with Allura outside the dinner party, Sam tells him to "walk away, walk away!" (probably before he can put his foot in his mouth). Immediately, Tiberius walks away. Then, at the actual party, he strikes up another conversation with her that also goes surprisingly well. He says "I walk away again" — at which point Matt points out that he's walking away from the table in the middle of dinner.
  Matt: *squeaky chair noises*
• Taliesin making terrified squeaking noises as the game draws to a close and complaining that if the Briarwoods wind up being responsible for a TPK "I'm going to feel like such an asshole."
  Matt: (cheerily) Man, that'd be rough.
  Taliesin: (with his face on the table, muffled) I hate you.
  • As the Briarwoods confront Vax, at one point Taliesin hides his face behind Marisha's back.
• Sam spending much of the feast with only his head above the table. There are allegedly booster seats for gnomish guests, but Scanlan apparently still had to raise himself up to be acknowleged.

Episode 25: Crimson Diplomacy

• Sam is a little late, and texts Liam asking for someone to let him in. Matt and Travis have a little fun while Taliesin gets the door.
  Liam: Hey, the gnome is at the door, can someone let the gnome in?
  Matt: The gnome is at the door? (loudly) BRING IN THE GNOME!
  Travis: (English accent) Do you desire a gnome, sire?
  Matt: I would like the gnome brought before me...
  Travis: Bring the king a gnome, make sure he is of foul mouth and many a song!
  Liam: (silly voice) Oh, fetching the gnome!
• The reveal of Zac/Snugglelord's new dakimakura, which most of the bottom table were sitting on.
  Taliesin: God, I feel so dirty sitting on this pillow—ah! ...So comfy...
• Vax trying to talk his way out of the Briarwoods' bedroom. Note that this happens while he's pretending to be charmed.
  Vax: Gosh, you guys are good-looking.
• Liam rolls badly and is in desperate straits. He is about to request DM inspiration and catches himself but is ribbed for it anyway.
  Matt: What? What are you begging the DM for?
  Travis: Is it begging or praying at this point?
• Keyleth in eagle form makes a poop on a servant within the palace. Said servant turns out to be official Critical Role artist Kit Buss' character in disguise.
• Educational Critical Role:
  Liam: The universe is random and doesn't care about you and me.
  Marisha: Life lessons by Critical Role.
  Sam: Stay in school, kids.
• In pursuit of Vax, Sylas leaps from the window and makes a perfect three-point landing. Delilah follows... and blows the athletics roll, landing flat on her face and getting knocked prone.
• Laura scores two, consecutive critical hits on Delilah. The players celebrate (Liam hugs her!) but Matt makes this hilarious cringe. He must be wondering if his Arc Villain is going to be prematurely killed.
  Travis: She would like to rage!
• Combination this, awesome, and heartwarming: The group comes to rescue Vax from the Briarwoods, and Percy gets a Bad News hit on Sylas just as Vax regains consciousness.
  Liam/Vax: As [Percy] reloads, weakly, behind him, I go "(coughs)...Hi Percy..."
• Though her use of the Feeblemind spell is terrifying, Lady Briarwood's exchange before casting it is pretty funny.
  Tiberius: Hello! I'm Tiberius Stormwind, from Draconia!
  Delilah: [extremely dryly] Indeed you are.
• Sylas is about to grapple Vax, presumably to use him as a Human Shield, and suddenly Scanlan shouts "DISTRACTIOOOOOOON! Distraction! Feedle-deedle-dyddle-deedle! Distraction!" as Cutting Words.
  • Matt describing Sylas Briarwood getting briefly distracted by Scanlan, and then performing a "vampiric eyeroll".
• Scanlan finds himself at the forefront of the team facing off against the Briarwoods.
  Scanlan: Hello. What a lovely dinner we haLIGHTNING!
• When the group decides to repay Lilith for helping save their lives...
  Vex: Any... "watcher" who comes after you, we'll... fight them. We're very strong right now and full of health.
  (Vax immediately collapses onto his face with a very audible, healthy THUNK!)
• Kit's fumbling descriptions of the fight. It sounds like a Harlequin romance novel cover!
  Lillith: Oh! Quite a set of teeth he had. Oh, dreadful pale. And oh, terrible. Oh, flames everywhere and ripped dresses and heaving bosoms. Oh my lord! It was awful! [...] Oh, I am getting the vapors!
• In the aftermath of Vax and Tiberius' healing at the Church of Sarenrae, the group elects to tell the head cleric of Pike's endeavors back in the city of Vasselheim to restore the hall of Sarenrae recently discovered there. The cleric smiles, overcome with emotion at the news of his patron deity's influence reaching as far as Vasselheim...and then, in a glorious moment of Mood Whiplash, Vax suddenly pisses his trousers, in a moment of improvisation from Matt after an object loudly falls from the table on Liam's end, interrupting the solemn moment. To his credit, Liam rolls with it and apologizes to the cleric as Vax, saying it "must've been the holy water."
  • Scanlan also takes the time before the group leaves to shill Gilmore's Glorious Goods to the cleric, in addition to asking the cleric's name (which is Tristan) so that they'll know who to call upon "for the next time they have a dead ally."
• Percy has a brief Did I Just Say That Out Loud? moment about his "Your soul is forfeit!" line.
  Percy: That did come out, didn't it.
• Reduced to 1 Intelligence and 1 Charisma by Lady Briarwood's Feeblemind spell, Tiberius suddenly turns into something of a Team Pet, licking everyone on the face. At the end of the episode, Scanlan licks his face in return.
  Orion: (as Tiberius) I lick all of Vox Machina.
  • When Grog shows to be uncomfortable with the licking
    Orion: (as Tiberius) I lick Grog the most.
• Vax, post a very close brush with death, unburdens himself: he tells Tiberius that's he really smart, Vex that she's awesome and he loves her, Percy that he's totally willing to help him pursue vengeance, thanks Scanlan for saving his ass, acts hilariously awkward around Keyleth, lets Trinket lick his face and for Grog: free retaliation for the beard-shaving incident. Drawing a pair of testicles on his face, shaving his pubes, anything. Grog considers, graciously offers Vax his hand - and backhands him to the floor (which Vax just takes) and declares killing Vax his job. In a weird way, it's sweet.
• The Black Comedy jokes about the old witch who attacks them at the end. She works for The Broker and she is the Butt-Monkey. She doesn't get to do anything. First Scanlan puts her to sleep with Eyebite, then Grog shocks her with his magic javelin, Percy intimidates her into fleeing, then Tiberius counterspells her teleport and she has to run away on foot. Vex sticks an arrow in her back (mage=little armor) then Scanlan puts her back to sleep with the same spell. Out-of-universe, it is even worse.
  • Liam makes Monty Python "I'm not dead" jokes the whole time.
  • She tries to teleport away after the fight goes south, and Tiberius counterspells her. So Matt imitates her running for it.
• At the end, when Vox Machina has the final member of the Broker's party at their mercy, they have completely had enough after a long night of intrigue and combat, and are totally willing to humiliate their foe.
  Vax: I know what to do. Scanlan.
  Scanlan: Oy.
  Vax: This is your moment. Shit on his face.
  • Vex protests heavily at this, calling it disgusting. In fact, the protestations seem to come more from Laura herself, out of character. Scanlan protests too... because he can't just do that on command. Eventually, Vax gives into his sister's complaints.
    Vax: My sister is right. Do it on his chest.

Episode 26: Consequences and Cows

• As they’re wrapping up the announcements for the week, Matt asks if anyone else has an announcement to make; Travis immediately declares “I like cheese”.
• Matt mentions that neither Percy nor Lillith have come down for breakfast after the long, long night that was Episode 25. Grog and Scanlan immediately assume it's because they spent the night comforting each other. Even once Vex returns with a letter from Lillith, explaining that she's left for the sake of Vox Machina's safety, Grog and Scanlan basically react with "Nope, she's banging Percy" — and then Grog kicks Percy's bedroom door down without a second thought.
• The group confronts Tiberius about his actions in the last episode, and Scanlan puts it pithily as always:
  Scanlan: We love you very much, but you killed an old lady.
• During the five-minute break, there is a general Geek and Sundry commercial. Most of Critical Role's section is them laughing/cheering etc. with only one line. Wil Wheaton has "I rolled a one because it is what I do."
• A bit of Black Comedy when Matt plays a slightly BSODing Percy in Taliesin's absence:
  Keyleth: Everyone in the city hates us!
  Percy: (as played by Matt) ...Great.
• Despite it causing a lot of trouble for them, the group continues the Black Comedy jokes about the old lady from the last episode, claiming that "old people" are now Vox Machina's Favoured Enemy.
• Drunken Tiberius.
  Tiberius: I'm Tiberius Stormwind. (to Keyleth) You are Princess pretty-face. (boops her on the nose)
  • The brief confusion about where everybody is, resulting in the group trying to decide whether Keyleth has pushed a drunk Tiberius off the roof or not.
• Keyleth is so angry during this episode, and her rage culminates in:
  Keyleth: I conjure an army of bears.
• The entire group concocts a brilliant plan to attract a giant bird outside the city: Scanlan turns them all into cows with his Seeming spell. Matt points out a slight problem:
  Matt: You can't change a target's body type.
  Sam: No no no no, you can't change size, but we can all be Grog-sized cows or Scanlan-sized cows.
  Matt: It's gonna be an array of very strangely sized cows.
  Sam: What do you think?
  Matt: (tentatively) ...I'll allow it.
  • Grog tries to eat grass.
    Scanlan: It's cow-mouflage!
    Matt: ...I have to give you roleplaying experience for that.
  • Tiberius awkwardly trying to introduce himself in his usual manner, and is quickly informed that he is still speaking in Common.
  • Keyleth uses Speak With Animals to politely interrogate the real cows. Being cows, their intelligence is about 3 so they have nothing useful to say.
  • Vax decides to go stealthy, in cow form.
    Matt: Roll for cow stealth.
    Liam: (rolls) Twenty-three.
    Matt: You're still a cow.
    Travis: (as Grog) I go into a cow rage and start chewing faster.
  • And then the giant bird swoops down and captures Keyleth. Scanlan teleports up to its wing, and Tiberius casts fly on the group. Seeming is still active, which leads to Matt describing the beautiful image of six cows flying against the moon.
    Matt: I. Love. Dungeons and Dragons.
    • And then Keyleth Polymorphs the bird...into a cow. Which leads to Scanlan being "a cow [him], on a cow [the roc], with a cow [Keyleth]".
• The ending of the episode. Vox Machina watches a roc fly off into the sunrise. Grog realizes that this means a new day has dawned, and immediately rolls a beard check.

Episode 27: The Path to Whitestone

• While Taliesin and Matt discussed something about the battle, Orion spoke up to say that Tiberius wasn't going to use that information. The others praise him for refraining from meta-gaming. Even some in the chat room were surprised and impressed.
  Matt: I'm proud of you.
• What Vax'ildan said to Grog after getting the deathblow on the Invisible Stalkers.
  Vax'ildan: You softened the shit of him -
  Liam: That's terrible English.
• After the battle is over and Desmond is traumatized all over again for nearing being strangled to death, there are several funny moments.
  • He reminds Vox Machina that he warned them that the Briarwoods would try to kill him. Vex replies with a wink and "But hey, you're still alive!"
  • Tiberius offers him a sandwich that he happened to have on his person. Desmond takes it reflexively. "I encourage sandwich" spams the chatroom.
• At some point during their week to prepare, Vax goes to Keyleth's garden and clips a single flower to take with him. It's difficult to tell if Laura's response is in-character or not:
  Laura: HORK.
• Scanlan puts a vial of volatile holy water down his pants.
  Matt: What was once holy...
• Tiberius tries to throw his weight around in Draconia, and Matt gives him a fantastic response:
  Matt as Tiberius' father: You have one chance before I set aside this intrusion to my work as mere poppycock.
• Taliesin translates Keyleth's water-elemental language by gargling a glass of water.
  Liam's reaction: I love doing this show!
• The group describing Tiberius's weapon as "a stick with daggers taped to either end."
• A bit of squabbling and confusion happens over whether Keyleth is helping Percy or Tiberius with their errands before leaving for Whitestone.
  Keyleth/Marisha: I need to do shit too! I can't be everyone's bitch!
• Travis/Grog gets very impatient with all the shopping.
  Grog: Keyleth, I want you to summon an elemental and have it smash everything in the castle.
  • At one point, Travis starts tossing one of his dice up and down in his boredom. He eventually drops it on the floor by accident — Travis pretends that nothing happened, but Taliesin saw the whole thing and gives him a slow clap.
• Scanlan being invisible and sneaking on Percy and Keyleth's conversation.
• Vex trying to get Grog to throw something to distract a creature:
  Vex: Pick up something really heavy!
  Grog: I pick up Scanlan.

Episode 28: The Sun Tree

• Before the game starts, Sam is mentioning there's something he's in but can't remember what, and thinks Matt is in it too, and that their characters probably have sex. Matt just replies, "Probably."
• When Vex'alia casts Hail of Thorns and it'll hit Grog, Travis replies with a posh accent.
  Travis: Would that be considered piercing, bludgeoning or slashing damage?
  Matt: (equally posh) It doesn't matter, because you haven't taken your turn to rage yet.
  Travis: (still posh) Oh, fucking shit.
• Percy rolls two misfires in one fight, to the point where the barrel of the List breaks off, which prompts the comment:
  Percy: I swear, this never happens to me.
• Matt briefly takes over the role of Tiberius in order to give him a Written-In Absence. When Sam/Scanlan goes all Watsonian, grilling Matt/Tiberius about whether his departure is justified, Matt chooses to take a jab at Orion's metagaming tendencies by doing a dead-on impression of Orion breaking character to explain the Doylist reasons.
  Matt-as-Tiberius: *stuffy draconian noises* I...I feel like I did not gather enough materials. I don't think I am quite prepared enough for this.
  Vex: You prepared a lot.
  Scanlan: Tibs.
  Vax: You brought along a sack of mirrors. What more do you need?
  Matt-as-Tiberius: I have an idea. Back in a few days! *Matt describes him preparing a teleportation spell*
• Grog manages to roll a Natural 20 for Intelligence. How does Matt narrate this? The rest of the party baffled or dismissing this rock formation and (Professor) Grog nonchalantly saying exactly what it is and what it means.
• CSI Miami a la Scanlan:
  Scanlan: Looks like these giants were in...big trouble.
  Matt: In the distance, you hear "YEAAAAAAAAHHHHH"!
• Sam makes a quick jab at Matt for mispronouncing the word "sigil". Matt doesn't say anything, just starts making rolls behind the DM screen - and the rest of the group starts panicking and/or jokingly turning on Scanlan (i.e. offering him as a sacrifice to appease the vengeful god).
• Basically the entire conversation about weaponizing Scanlan's magical scrying poop.
• As soon as Matt and Zac started talking about how the subscriber count stopping at 420 was probably deliberate, the count immediately started rocketing upwards.

Episode 29: Whispers

• After everything Vox Machina has been through, their most daunting obstacle or enemy turns out to be a church door.
  • Scanlan may have taken more damage from the door than he did in the fight at the end of the episode.
• While rolling for initiative in the fight against the banshee, Sam declares he rolled a 7, and and Taliesin answers that he got an eleven, so technically they can get a Slurpee.
• Scanlan pretending to be a little orphan boy and Vex as his crazy-eyed grandmother.
  Scanlan: I'm her seeing-eye boy.
• Scanlan's Metaphorgotten re: Vox Machina's "once a day" hit list:
  Scanlan: Like a Flintstones vitamin, but with assassination.
• Grog's idea of how to ambush Sir Stonefell, being a missionary of axe in the face.
  Grog: Hello, I'd like to share the news of our lord and saviour MY AXE IN YOUR FACE!
• The boss fight at the end is surprising comical for how dark it gets.
  • Sir Stonefell is telling Vook, a lackey, that they will not be caught flat-footed by Vox Machina. They will have extra guards, traps, alarms, "whatever it takes" to be ready for them. Vax is listening to this from beyond a door. Everyone is chuckling.
  Marisha: This is about to get hilarious.
  • The look Travis makes what Vax says they can finally start the killing is one of childish delight, like Vaxil-dad saying it is playtime.
    Travis: It's opening night and I'm so excited!
  • Right before they bust open the doors to start the fight, Vax grabs Keyleth and Grog by the hand and leads them up to the front with no small amount of indignation from Vex for Vax choosing Keyleth over her.
    Vex: (sotto voce) I hate you so much right now.
    Vax: (sotto voce) I'm alright with that.
    Vex: (sotto voce) Really? Really? (full voice) I'm hurt, and I'm offended.
    (Keyleth looks back apologetically as if to say "I didn't know he was gonna do that")
    Laura/Vex: I give Keyleth the worst evil eye ever.
    Liam/Vax: But they're going off in either direction, so...
  • Vox Machina ambushing Sir Stonefell...while under an illusion spell to make them all look like a bunch of dirty peasants.
  • Matt narrates Grog crushing a guard's head as "like a Gallagher performance".
• Vook attempts to escape by jumping out a window but Keyleth clotheslines him with her staff just before he does. It knocks him to exactly 0 hit points.

Episode 30: Stoke the Flames

• This is a Halloween episode, so all the players are in costume. Sam is dressed as Burt Reynolds and Travis is crossdressing as a bar wench who "loves only one man...Scanlan."
  • Liam Corpsing in the middle of a dramatic scene because he can't take Sam's moustache seriously.
  • Matt is dressed as Geralt, and wonders if he's ever slept with "Helga the Bar Wench". Travis tries to take advantage of the joke:
    Travis/Helga: Do I get advantage all night long?
    Matt: (smiling beatifically) No.
  • Scanlan asking "Helga the Bar Wench" if they've ever been together. Travis plays it up, pointing to his Scanlan tattoo, but Matt's response is the best part:
    Travis: I carved it into my arm with a pen after our night together...where have you been my whole life? (sees Matt glaring at him) Sorry.
    Matt: (Beat) It's canon.
• Vax and Grog watching Percy sleep and trying to figure out what the smoke came out of.
• Vex's Call-Back to Percy's pyjama rampage in Episode 18:
  Vex: Is your buttflap down again?
  Percy: The buttflap of my soul is down. I am well-dressed at the moment.
• Scanlan's entire turn where he simultaneously pees on the wall and fires a wand of magic missiles, prompting comments about him "dual-wielding". Liam is laughing so hard that Vax has to hold his turn.
  • And then (thanks to Mercer using Rule of Funny on the vampiric "running water" weakness) he kills the last vampire in that same fight by using Vicious Mockery and pissing on it.
  • This gets retroactively even funnier when it's revealed that Sam's mother was in the studio that session.
• Everybody trying to say Percy's full name and getting it completely wrong. Then Percy says it... and also gets it wrong (when he's usually able to recite the whole thing on a dime).
  Vex: Only one person would know the entire name of Percival de...something—
  Percy: (starts laughing hysterically)

  Taliesin: Percival Frederickstein Klossowski FUCK von Mussel de Rolo III
• The entire time Vax and Scanlan are disguised as father and son in a tavern and spreading the word, Scanlan plays the part of a little boy whose father is a bit rough with him so well to spread the word to an NPC named Patrick, who completely buys it. Everyone is just laughing their asses off the whole time and Matt's trying so hard not to.
  • Matt has Sam roll both a Persuasion and a Deception check in that order to keep up his disguise. He adds up the math on his Persuasion roll wrong, coming up with a 39 (in reality he rolled a 29, which is still extraordinarily good), and the look on Matt's face is absolutely priceless.
    Matt: (flabbergasted) What's your bonus to Persuasion?!

Episode 31: Gunpowder Plot

• When Scanlan Polymorphs into a Triceratops, Matt says, somewhat embarrassed, that he doesn't have a Triceratops mini... but he does have a Stegosaurus (or rather a "Bloodspike Behemoth") and decides to use it since it's about the same size. Taliesin complains that "that's kinda racist", while Matt counters saying it's not like the dinosaurs are around to argue.
• During Scanlan's rampage through the house, the other players have to be reminded several times that they cannot give Sam advice, since they are not physically present, which comes to a head when Sam (mistakenly) tells the others he has no source of fire and thus cannot accomplish the mission he was sent there to do:
  Marisha: How did this plan happen, then? Why didn't you say "I don't have fire"? I said, "Hey Scanlan, I should come with you," and you said, "Uh, I can take care of myself! How many times to I have to tell you guys I don't need your help?"
  Matt: ...Says the echoing voice in the back of your mind as you imagine this is what Keyleth would be saying right now.
• This glorious line, when Scanlan rolls a 25 Strength check for Bigby's hand and Vedmeyer gets a natural 1:
  Sam: I'M GONNA KILL EVERYONE IN THIS MO'FUCKIN' HOUSE!
• Travis saying that Scanlan is a legend and like Rambo. Sam, in turn, wears his tie like a bandanna.
• As Vex is shooting three retreating guards in the back:
  Sam: Don't forget to tell them about Gilmore's Glorious Goods.
• As Matt geeks out over the woodcarved map of Tal'dorei...
  Travis: Not the only wood at that table, is it Matt?
  Matt: No, not anymore.
• Probably the last person you'd expect falling victim to Accidental Innuendo:
  Matt: (referring to Keyleth trying to Retcon her movement) You can't get halfway in and be like "wait, this didn't happen!"
  Taliesin: (snorts)
  Travis: (realizes what Taliesin's laughing at, and starts laughing)
  Taliesin: (to Travis) Thank you for coming with me on that journey.
• Grog gets a little mixed up when he finds a secret hatch and calls for Vex or Vax to check for "boobies". Post trap-check, he declares that there are "no boobies." It's the way no one bothers correcting Grog (and Travis' straight-faced delivery) that make it.

Episode 32: Against the Tide of Bone

• Scanlan's attempts to show off for Pike upon her return, using... creative ways of casting Lightning Bolt. Matt even snarks that it was an arcane display of virility if there ever was one.
  Vex: How can you even aim like that, Scanlan?
  Scanlan: I have practice aiming things with my ass in this campaign.
  Matt: Very true, sadly.
• Speaking of creative ways to use spells, Keyleth concentrates on using Heat Metal to make Vax's daggers super-hot and deal additional fire damage as a nod to the Pathfinder days where she used that game's version of the spell on Grog's great axe all the time. Unfortunately, he drops his daggers due to failing his Constitution save.
  • It's funny enough that he dropped them and burnt his hands, but what sells it is Keyleth having such a smug look on her face, unaware of what happened until she looks at Vax again.
  • The funny continue when she holds Vax's hands in order to cast Cure Wounds on them. Vax continues holding her hands after the spell has completed. Vex physically breaks them up.
• When Pike's explaining how she knew she had to help the party, she says she felt a disturbance in the Force. Matt then tells her Allura sent her a letter and she amends "I got a letter!"
• Grog ruins a rather touching moment between Vax and Percy by farting in his sleep. In retaliation, Vax takes some of Percy's black powder and draws a ballsack on Grog's forehead, complete with pubic hairs.
  • When Vax asks for some black powder, Percy initially refuses as he's running really low... until he smells the fart, at which point he immediately holds out the bag for Vax to take some.
• When the party has a Heroes' Feast prepared by Pike, Laura excitedly asks if that means they all do holy damage. Matt replies, "No... but holy shit it's delicious!"
• Pike alone moves a statue out of the way when the rest of Vox Machina pushing together didn't budge it. To add to the funny, Grog rolls a Natural 1 on Strength and throws out his back!
• In the dungeon of Whitestone Manor, Vox Machina encounters their two worst enemies: doors and old people.
• The entire group freaks out about the fact that the old woman in the cell is Ripley in disguise, and then:
  Pike: Wait, who's Ripley?!

Episode 33: Reunions

• Before the game starts, Zac interrupts to tell the viewers about the giveaway happening if they get to 11,500 subscribers. Matt asks him what's in the giveaway and he replies "tons of shit." The others run like crazy with this.
  Matt: You will get tons of shit. (Beat, then Matt starts laughing)
  Taliesin: (grinning) www.tonsofshit.com
  Matt: Exactly!
  Taliesin: (to the audience) Don't try to look that up, it will just make you unhappy.
• Also before the game starts, Travis has fun with the stream layout by pretending to high-five Sam below him. He does it a bit too hard the second time, and Sam reacts appropriately.
• Taliesin revealing that the second cantrip Percy gained via Magic Initiate is — of all things — Friends.
• Percy's grievance with Ripley is one hundred percent legitimate and understandable, but that doesn't stop their sniping at each other every single moment from being darkly hilarious.
  Percy: Anna. I'm going to take a leap of faith. And I'm going to assume, contrary to all evidence, that you're a smart woman.
• Vax suddenly kisses Keyleth seconds before break and proclaims his love for her. The cast reacts.
  • Laura has wide bug-out eyes.
  • Taliesin has a coughing fit.
  • Matt's DM-poker-face is at full power.
  • Marisha hides behind her book. By the time they've returned from break, Marisha is still clearly flustered in real life to the point of having trouble even figuring out how to do her basic spells like Cure Wounds.
    • Taliesin peeks behind her book to see what color she turned. "OH MY GOD, YES!"
  • Meta example — Will Friedle found out about Vax admitting his love for Keyleth and kissing her almost immediately.
• After the battle, Percy gathers Vex's arrows into a switch and smacks Vax with it for going into battle by himself, again.
  Percy: DON'T! GO! IN! TO! ROOMS! BY! YOURSELF! GOD! DAMNIT!
  • He checks Vax's hit point level first.
• A moment of heartwarming from the last episode gets turned on its head when Percy reunites with Cassandra.
  Keyleth: Percy, you have a sister.
  Percy: (facepalms) Oh god, yes I do.
• Scanlan's amazing Shout-Out Pun after Ripley escapes:
  Scanlan: That Ripley is very talented.
• Scanlan says "My shit saw no movement".
• Scanlan recounts the story of him pushing a Goliath off a roof, and Cassandra seems rather impressed.
  Cassandra: It's a shame you're not as tall as your tales, small one.
  Percy: No. No.
  Scanlan: Don't worry, don't worry -
  Percy: No. (facepalms)
• Seeming is the gift that keeps on giving. Scanlan uses it this time to make all the men of Vox Machina (including Trinket) look like Percy while all the girls look like Cassandra.
  • First of all, the group realizes that Seeming doesn't change body shape, which means that Grog looks like a 7-foot-tall hulked-out version of Percy.
    Marisha: Percy's been hittin' the 'roids.
  • Vex, of course, asks what Trinket looks like:
    Scanlan: Trinket's a bear...a bear with two streaks of white hair!
    Vex: And he's wearing the little circle glasses, too!
  • Keyleth tries to have a brief Ship Tease moment with Vax before they go to battle, only for Vex/Laura to immediately kill the mood by pointing out 1) she doesn't know which Percy is Vax (Scanlan tries to take advantage of this) 2) it's really creepy due to the two of them looking like brother and sister.
    Taliesin: Is there anybody who is not made uncomfortable by this?
    Marisha: This was supposed to be a passing comment and it's turned into a thing. (starts laughing)
  • Then when she actually says it...
    Keyleth: Vax, be careful.
    Percy: Of course, Keyleth.
    (both crack up)
  • Then Scanlan takes advantage of his "Vax impersonation" by trying to get Vex to give him back Ripley's gun. He fails.
    Scanlan: (Vax impression) Sister, do you mind giving me that gun again?
    Keyleth: (still cracking up) Shut up, Scanlan!
    Vex: No, you can't have it.
    Scanlan: (Vax impression) Why, because I'm three feet tall?
    Vex: Because I want it.
    Liam: (Grog impression) Uh, is this the body switchin' episode?
  • Then the group gets into a fight in which several party members are possessed, meaning that the room is full of a whole bunch of Percys and Cassandras beating the crap out of each other.
    Marisha: Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!
• Related to the above, Sam Riegel's comment on that fight.
  Sam: We are too strong. We could never fight ourselves.
• For the second time in 4 episodes, Scanlan has a How Do You Want To Do This moment via Vicious Mockery. Matt's Corpsing and tone while he says his Catchphrase just screams You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!.
  Percy: Which one of my ancestors did you just shame to death? Again?!
• Taliesin's reactions to his seven natural twenties:
  Taliesin: I'm the devil and I have come to do the devil's work.
  Matt: So all of you going to meet Taliesin at conventions in the future, make sure you get a nice long hold of his hands.
  Laura: Heal me, because I'm rolling like shit!
  Taliesin: I will lick your die, that is how I bless them.
  Travis: Have him lick both your dice.
• Taliesin, who's very nervous during the fight against the ghosts, lets out a weird squeaky sound.
  Marisha: (giggles) Did you just squeak?
  Taliesin: Maybe. You don't know! Shut up!

Episode 34: Race to the Ziggurat

• Travis attempts to repeat his pretend high five with Ashley.
• Grog manages to "bargain" with Vax, trading a healing potion for giving Vax a smack to the nads.
• Everyone is trapped in the acid pit except for Vax, who's been charmed by Sylas and led away with the Briarwoods and Cassandra. Right as Laura rolls a zero for a strength check:
  Liam: Guys, the Briarwoods' personal quarters are really plush. They're sick.
  • And then later:
  Liam: I am having some fabulous dark chocolate right now. It is so good. They're feeding it to me.
• Percy tries to get Scanlan to break the gem on his side of the door; unfortunately, the glass is rather thick:
  Percy: (muffled) Just fucking break the gem!
  Scanlan: I think Percy wants us to kiss, Pike!
  Percy: (muffled) Kiss?! No, I just want you to break the goddamn thing!
  Scanlan: He said the power of love will inspire him?
  Percy: (muffled) Fuck the power of love!
• Scanlan's poem of inspiration to Pike:
  Roses are red
  Violets are blue
  We are both gnomes
  And you are so FOXY!
• Somehow, Scanlan including Trinket in his Seeming manages to confuse Delilah enough that she doesn't attack anyone in the first round! She could see through the illusion; she was just totally befuddled why anyone would try to disguise a bear to look like Percy.
• Taliesin's reaction to Scanlan's latest inspiration song.
  Sam/Scanlan: Percy's got a gun...^note  Sung to "Janie's Got a Gun" by Aerosmith—a song about a woman killing her father in revenge for raping her as a child.
  Taliesin: Really?!
• Keyleth gets the HDYWTDT on Sylas Briarwood. How does she want to do this?
  Keyleth: I want him to eat a bag of holy dicks. (Sylas is hit with "strangely phallic" sun beams.)
• As the group make their escape from the temple with an unconscious, one-armed, captive Delilah Briarwood in tow, Laura is not pleased when Vax foists carrying her onto Grog.
  Laura: (Annoyed) I'm laying on top on Lady Briarwood right now.
  Liam: Yes, yes you are.
  Laura: Great.
  Taliesin: 70% of her, at the very least.

Episode 35: Denouement

• Before and after the game portion of the stream, Sam refers to the patron saint of Critical Role as "Jesus Crit."
• Pike does a Mass Cure Wounds to heal the party 26 hit points. In unison, with the exact same intonation, the entire table replies "OoooOOOOOOoooo" excitedly, and then all (including Matt) immediately crack up.
• Grog screaming when Delilah wakes up and slapping her unconscious again.
• More of Matt sensually whispering into players' ears. It's even suggested that he fly to New York just to whisper in Ashley's ear.
• As Percy begins talking to Orthax, Grog (who, like the rest of the party, can't see the creature) begins to answer Percy whenever he asks a question.
  • After the conversation is over, Taliesin realises the party only heard his side of the conservation, so he must have looked like he was arguing with himself like a lunatic.
• Taliesin's reaction to fighting Orthax, the smoke demon in his head.
  Taliesin: THERAPY!
  • Followed by:
    Taliesin: Matt, do you have a mini for the dark specter of my soul?
    (Matt pulls out a mini)
    Taliesin: I love you.
• Scanlan's Cutting Words succeeding: "You're right! He ain't no hollaback gnome!"
• Marisha accidentally using the phrase "I'm going to throw up" without finishing her thought leads to her imitating a drunk college girl Keyleth and Scanlan promising to hold her hair back.
• The prelude and aftermath of Scanlan throwing the Pepperbox into the acid, culminating in Cassandra slapping her brother while he's under Hold Person. He's so dismayed.
  Percy: You were never Mother's favorite! She told me!
  • Even funnier? Due to the Hold Person spell, Matt says that Percy could only mumble and so Cassandra didn't understand it.
  • Sam rolls a natural 20 on Persuasion, defeating Percy's Insight. Matt describes Scanlan's innocent face in solemn tones, and then, just as solemnly...
    Matt: (to Percy) In your head, you're like, that fucking gnome.
    Percy/Taliesin: (wailing) That was so expensive!
  • The last lines before the break: Keyleth trying to console Percy by telling him that he's alive. He wails back, "I'm not alive!" like the drama queen he is.
  • He's still smarting over an hour later.
    Scanlan: If I may, Percy, may I make a suggestion?
    Percy: Is it going to be throwing the rest of my guns into a pit of acid?
    Scanlan: No, but it will be spending some of your kingdom's money—
    Percy: Replacing the guns that you threw into a pit of acid.
• As Vox Machina leaves the castle and the people of Whitestone pour into the streets to celebrate, Scanlan tries for Comforting the Widow on a random woman. He immediately gets egg on his face when Vex points out that "Pike is right here."
  • The woman's husband also walks up, kisses her cheek and gives Scanlan an odd look.
• As Keeper Yennen is praising Vox Machina, Ashley's microphone makes a crackling sound that kind of sounds like a fart. In itself not a Moment Killer, but it certainly becomes one when Yennen pauses, then says "Pardon me." The cast starts Corpsing immediately, and while Matt tries to keep his composure, he eventually dissolves into giggles as well. Taliesin is the only one who keeps a straight face as he waits for the laughter to die down...and waits...and waits...and waits some more...
  Taliesin: Two years on a sitcom. I can hold this all day.
• When the two remaining Briarwood nobles are brought before the party, Scanlan proposes they let them live as a gesture of goodwill. Then...
  Jazna: Come closer...I've never tasted gnome!
  Scanlan: Okay, so maybe we'll kill her.
• The citizens of Whitestone naturally begin celebrating, bringing out what food they have for an impromptu feast. Taliesin snarks that they must have been keeping it all in Tupperwares somewhere.
• Scanlan finally gets his beret—a raspberry beret, as Matt starts singing.
  Laura: Make it look cooler on him, 'cause he made it dorky.
  Taliesin: It's a beret; I don't think he made it dorky.
  • Scanlan gets the beret by giving some money to a young boy. When the boy comes back, Scanlan tells him to keep the change, and to use it to buy "the biggest goose in town".
• Another case of a touching scene becoming funny, Keyleth uses Commune with Nature to talk to the Sun Tree, and senses a spark of life has re-awoken within it.
  Keyleth: I just say "Good morning, old friend!"
  Matt: You sense the tree saying: "The sun just set. It's not morning."
  Kayleth/Marisha: Oh SHIT.
• Just before the awkward Vaxleth moment, Grog tries to prevent it by pantsing Vax. He fails to grab him thanks to Vax's very high Acrobatics check.
• During the Vaxleth moment, all of the other players are hiding their faces. Even Ashley, who isn't even in the room. Laura is hiding her face behind the screen Ashley's skyping in on, and Sam's hiding behind his notebook, which causes Marisha no end of muffled laughs; but Taliesin wrapping his face and shoulders with his scarf so he looks like a turtle is the highlight.

Episode 36: Winter's Crest in Whitestone

• Scanlan composing an epic poem of the events of the Whitestone arc.
  Scanlan: I compose an epic poem to commemorate the Rebels rising up against the Empire that had kept them down for so long. Sort of a Force that had awakened. I call it... Resident Evil, I don't know why. Because there were residents and there was evil, I couldn't come up with another name for it. They're residents of the town, and there was an evil. I'm looking for a publisher.
  • Also, Scanlan commissions a painting making himself look like the leader of the revolution. His lies are so convincing they actually end up inspiring the artist. The portrait is of himself and Pike on a horse, big enough to cover half the wall of the dining room back at Greyskull Keep. The description he gives is...something:
    Scanlan: You may not know him, but there was a folk hero in my town growing up. His name was Fabio. He would frequently pose with windblown hair and an open shirt on a horse. I was thinking something like that, and also I have this figure of Pike. She's a friend of mine. I'd like her on the back of the horse, arms around my waist, looking super hot. If that's possible.
• When Taliesin is examining Craven Edge's stats, he realizes the brooch he gave to Vax is a lot more helpful to him than it seemed.
  Taliesin: I may ask for that brooch back.
  Liam: You can certainly try.
• Craven Edge will not consent to Grog giving it the name Bacon. Nor does it have a female setting for its sinister whispers. The growing exasperation of the sword is what really sells it.
• Keyleth having a hilarious, yet also kind of sombering moment of PTSD.
  • The concept that a spellcaster is totally awed by a street magician.
  • Also, the magician "reading Percy's future". He spends a while feeling up Percy's face and head (while Taliesin makes some very interesting faces), then declares that Percy has had a long, hard life working in the fields, but will one day make his father proud by becoming a celebrated smith of horseshoes.
  • Matt making ridiculous dramatic flourishes with a magician's wand he got from somewhere.
• Classic battle music for the festival games! Doubles as a Moment of Awesome.
• As the Vax, Grog and Scanlan approach the arm-wrestling station, they find that the entry fee is 25 gold.
  Vax: I slap down 25 gold on behalf of Grog.
  Grog: (Excited gasp)
  Scanlan: You’re paying for his entry?
  Vax: I’m paying for his entry.
  Scanlan: And mine as well?
  Vax: No.
• During Scanlan's arm wrestling match, Vax thinks it's a good idea to yell that Pike's here to boost his morale. It ends up costing him—Scanlan's next roll is a 1.
• For that matter, their incredibly blatant cheating. Such as Grog convincing his arm-wrestling opponent he has "hand herpes".
• Trisha gravely telling Grog before they arm-wrestle that she's honored and grateful for everything Vox Machina have done—but she is still going to "destroy" him.
• Polymorphed Trinket antics! (Or maybe they're shenanigans.) Trinket is polymorphed into a human for a pie-eating contest, but he retains a bear's intelligence and they keep having to pretend he's just really drunk. Matt can barely keep a straight face through the whole thing; even he is utterly bewildered that they did this.
  • After the second pie, Vex, Vax, and Trinket all have to make constitution saving throws.
    Liam: I got a biiiiiiig 6! (uses the Luck feat to re-roll) I got a biiiiiiig 7!
  • Trinket makes several mournful growling sounds and Liam demands to know how Matt can be such a convincing sad bear.
  • Vex, although feeling guilty, keeps trying to get Trinket to finish the pies, and Marisha remarks that she's "like a Toddlers & Tiaras mom".
• When Percy proposes that Whitestone be run by a council:
  Percy: A religious leader, someone from the farming communities, someone from the economic community, someone from the trade community—
  Scanlan: Someone from the gnome community.
  Percy: From the citizenry.
  Scanlan: From the gnome community.
  Percy: ...From some known community, yes.
  Scanlan: I accept.
• After two very touching scenes of gift exchanges (Vax and Vex/Percy and Keyleth), the following line from Scanlan:
  Scanlan: Grog. I got you an Amazon gift card. It's a forest called the Amazon, and you can go there and get a gift.
  Grog: Is it-is it far?
  Scanlan: Oh really far. You'll never use it.

Episode 37: A Musician's Nostalgia

• Matt and Marisha found out over Christmas that his parents watch Critical Role and are Critters.
  Matt: My parents are Critters. (Matt looks kind of embarrassed)
• While the party is discussing sending someone with a letter to the Sovereign to exonerate them:
  Grog: What, we can't go find that boy you abused in Emon and have him send the letter?
  Vax: Who?
  Grog: That little kid you smacked around who wanted to join—
  Vax: He's long gone, man. I don't know where he is.
  Grog: He's probably back, drawing pictures of you on the city walls and crying.
• Checking in on the Keep.
  Sam: Can I shit-scry?
  Matt: (brightly) For those of you just tuning in, I'm going to give you no context.
• Taliesin accidentally flubs the name of Whitestone Castle:
  Percy: I would like to have him be the official letter carrier for any—the first set of correspondence to the new rulers of Whitecastle, so since he—
  Scanlan: Stone.
  Taliesin: Whitestone. My god, I'm hungry.
  Liam: Oh no! So if you could send an order of sliders—
  Taliesin: About 12.
  Marisha: Don't forget the mustard.
  Taliesin: I'm coming up with this shit. It's not easy.
  Travis: Might need some gut healing after those.
  Taliesin: I know. Constitution roll.
  Travis: -fart noise-
• When Percy suggests that Desmond (the carriage driver whose hand he crippled) learn a new trade, Vex cuts him off with "Probably not lute playing, I'm just throwing that out there," and then immediately looks horrified at herself while the rest of the table starts laughing.
  • Matt notes that while everybody else in the throne room is looking at Vex in awkward horror, Seeker Asum is desperately trying to stifle laughter.
    • Travis adds on that even Grog is standing in stunned, jaw-dropped silence.
  • Vax then gets revenge on Desmond's behalf by mentioning that Vex promised to match Uriel's reward. The not-amused look Laura gives off is wonderful.
• As Laura is given a perception whisper from Matt, the guys impersonate him.
  Liam: "I'm making this up as I go! I don't know what I'm doing."
  Taliesin: "Look surprised."
  Sam: "I'm a fraud!"
  Taliesin: "I've got a Reddit page open behind my DM screen."
  • Although the camera doesn't catch it, Ashley apparently chose to, in Marisha's words, "massage Laura's rear" as she leaned up to receive the whisper.
• Grog rolls a Natural 20 on Arcana.
• Surprisingly, Craven Edge has a sense of humor!
  Grog: No, not on the blade...
  Craven Edge: No, keep the tears coming.
• After the Good Cop/Bad Cop routine and literally scaring Jeffrey shitless, Scanlan tells him to shop at Glorious Gilmore's Goods. Matt needs a minute to before he can manage a properly scared and eager agreement.
• Scanlan and Kaylie engaging in Snark-to-Snark Combat. Also, Pike serving as a wingman to "inspire" him. Becomes a lot more Hilarious in Hindsight.
  Pike: The man, the myth, and the legend... is true. So, in case you wanted to... find out...
  Scanlan: We're close. We're tight, she and I. She's come back from work.
  Kaylie: A holy woman?
  Marisha: (laughing) Oh, shit.
  Scanlan: She's got holes in all the right places.
  (Kaylie laughs uncontrollably)
• While catching up with each other, Scanlan tells Dr. Dranzel that his new party's name is "Vox Machina". Dr. Dranzel scoffs that it sounds formal.
  Vex: Or you can call us the S.H.I.T.
  Dr. Dranzel: HA! That's the Scanlan I know. Well, S.H.I.T.s...
• Matt prepares to play Jethro Tull for Scanlan's bard duel, but he manages to pick a Jethro Tull song that has no flute in it:
  Matt: You have failed me, Tull!
• Sneaking into the Thieves's guild underneath the tavern
  • Laura wants Vex to sneak Trinket through a crowded room.
  • Pike failing her stealth check and has to pretend to vomit in order to avoid notice.
• During Vax's attempt to enter the thieves' guild...
  Grog: [The Belt of Dwarvenkind] lets me read Dwarvish!
  Matt: If ... you could read...
  • Just trying to enter the guild by unlocking another door overall is hilarious. Poor Vax...
• Scanlan immediately regrets playing the ladies' man and letting Kaylie win their flautist duel when Dr. Dranzel reminds him he bet his entire purse (over 2,000 gold!) on the outcome.
  • And as per usual when large amounts of gold are lost for trifling reasons, Vex has a hilariously gobsmacked look on her face upon hearing this.
• Poor, poor Jeffrey. The guy gets so scared he practically wets himself, but Matt playing a crying half-elf scared out of his mind (and the good cop/bad cop/oh god no cop routine of Scanlan, Grog and Craven Edge) sends it right back to being funny.

Episode 38: Echoes of the Past

• Laura stopping the game after only about five minutes into it, realizing that the stuffed Trinket is not anywhere near her. She doesn't just stop the game either; she goes out to get the life-sized plush bear from its storage area and then asks for help when she can't get it through the opening onto the set.
  • Just the sheer grins of prankster glee on everyone else's faces, especially that of her husband Travis's, who just sits there while his wife is trying to lug the giant stuffed bear onto the set.
  Laura: Travis, move your butt! I gotta get Trinket through!
  Travis: Nope.
• Sam making a joke about the Cowboys, earning Travis' ire. It's suggested that instead of Vax, Grog will now be out to get Scanlan. Travis even mimes pummelling him.
• The party literally has Daxio begging for death, as they, Keyleth in particular, come up with some... creative interpretations of his answers.
• Vox Machina decides to get to know Emon better and go on a pub crawl. Scanlan Yelps it. Which is to say, he stands outside and makes high-pitched yelping noises for a moment or two. The entire group reacts with shame and despair - Taliesin says he feels better about every pun he's ever made; Travis believes he might be dumber for having heard it, and Matt says he might have to look into homebrewing anti-inspiration rules so he can properly punish them.
• Grog and Pike matching each other's shots, which is also adorable.
  • Somewhat reminiscent of the time Travis got drunk doing twice as many shots as Monica Rial.
• Keyleth throwing up after four shots of "firewater." Gross and hilarious, unless you ship Percy/Keyleth, in which case it's both of those and a brilliant dirty gif opportunity.
• Scanlan and Kayley's scene together is rather sad because she's angry and upset that she never knew him and abandoned her and her mother, but Scanlan is just hilarious at the same time as he apologises.
  Scanlan: I haven't been to a whore house in months! That's a big step for me! Big step.
  • Equally hilarious is the rest of Vox Machina hardcore corpsing in the background as they one-by-one realize who Kaylie is. Appropriately, Travis/Grog seems to be the last to figure it out.
• Vex trying to locate a chest of gold that was delivered to Greyskull Keep - and then "borrowed" for "safe-keeping" by Scanlan's old troupe.
• Percy's moment of self-awareness when examining a possibly evil skull.
  Taliesin/Percy: I am a little evil magnet.
• Matt trolling the party as only a DM can at every possible opportunity while they explore an abandoned house.
• Vex and gold.
  Vex: [Grog and I are] pulling the gold out of the walls.
  Grog: No, I'm not.
  Vex: I'm pulling the gold out of the walls.
• When introducing the Purple Worm, Matt uses the phrase "toothy maw" and then makes an Aside Glance and says "Deal with it! This is the perfect circumstance for the term".