Vox Machina is forced to split due to a teleportation spell gone awry. As Grog, Pike, and Scanlan deal with Craven Edge once and for all, Vex, Vax, Percy, and Keyleth venture into the Fey Realm, a land where logic works in strange and incomprehensible ways, in search of the fabled bow Fenthras.
Tropes
- Aesop Amnesia: When Pike compliments Scanlan on his caregiving, Scanlan is so flustered that he disregards the previous episode's lesson about sincerity and responds with a half-hearted attempt at a crude joke, leading Pike to storm away in anger. Scanlan realizes he screwed up, and Pike happily watches from a distance as Scanlan continues to tend to Grog, making it clear that his growth is happening, just not instantaneously.
- Animals Hate Him: Because Vax is the Matron's champion, everything in the Fey Realm tries to attack him.
- But I Read a Book About It: Percy read a lot of books about the Fey Realm and is sure he can handle it. He can't.
- Butt-Monkey: Grog in this episode has lost his strength and has to be carried by Scanlan and Pike, leading to many Amusing Injuries.
- Call-Back: When Keyleth notices one of many jellyfish-like animals she says that they're pretty "which means they're probably super deadly." This is a nod to "The Terror Of Tal'Dorei Part II" when Keyleth looks at a giant rock with what looks to be bright jewels on it to which Keyleth says "Those are pretty, but also ominous." before it turns out to be a giant eye which we later learn belongs to Raishan.
- The Cameo: Trinket has only two lines of dialogue in Vex's Mushroom Samba, but they are provided, quite appropriately, by Cheech Marin.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: Pike is actually charmed by seeing Scanlan take care of Grog, but he ruins it by making a joke.
- Eldritch Location: The Fey Realm is quite unlike any other realm, and the laws of logic and physics seem to work at random.
- Fate Worse than Death: Played for laughs. Craven Edge curses Grog to lose all his strength out of spite. Grog is very upset at the loss of his muscles and spends the rest of the episode mourning that being weak is worse than being dead.
- Fauns and Satyrs: Garmelie is a furry, goat-legged, horned forest dweller, who likes to draw pervy sketches of unaware travellers, so he certainly ticks all the classic Satyr boxes of being horned, hairy, and horny.
- Fighting from the Inside: Craven Edge makes one last attempt to control Grog and nearly succeeds, but Grog manages to regain control and shatter it.
- Gag Penis: Another one of Garmelie's drawing is a rather terrifing picture of Percy with three massive penises with the heads of the rest of his current team on the tips.Percy: Why do I have three peni?
- Groin Attack: One of the many misfortunes Grog suffers during the Travel Montage is getting bitten in the crotch by a ravenous wolf.
- Implausible Deniability: Garmeli tries to claim he did not draw the perverse images in the book he was holding when the group pass it around, even though Vex caught him right when he was in the middle of scribbling in its pages.
- Mushroom Samba: The spores from the slime monster send Vex and Keyleth on the mother of all trips, with Keyleth communing with the flowers and Vex chatting up a talking Trinket.Hallucination of Trinket: Dayum, girl, you are super fucked up!
- Musical Slapstick Montage: The Travel Montage where Pike and Scanlan sing "I'm Makin' My Way" over their various misfortunes trying to drag Grog cross-country, which include using him as a boat, dropping him into thorns and quicksand, and getting into a tug-of-war with a wolf that has its jaws clamped around Grog's balls.
- Mythology Gag: The "Makin' My Way" song in the Travel Montage is a massive one - at some point in campaign 2, Matt's and the rest of the casts' overuse of the phrase "making your/my way" led to some of the players chiming in with the first line from "Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton. In this show they turn it into its own song!
- When Grog sees that destroying Craven Edge has left him in a far punier state than is normal, he exclaims that what has befallen him is "-worse than death!" This is a nod to the fact that in the campaign, the event that led to Grog's ultimately giving up Craven Edge was it killing him.
- Non-Humans Lack Attributes: Averted; at one point Garmelie mockingly talks to Percy via his butt, and as he's a pantsless satyr, we can clearly see his rectum while he does so.
- Perspective Magic: Percy sees a mountain off in the distance, and says they should head towards it. Keyleth tries to measure how far it is with her fingers, accidentally grabbing it and breaking it. Percy says it's common in the Fey Realm.
- Rainbow Puke: After coming out of a Mushroom Samba, Kayleth starts throwing up multicolored vomit. She also remarks that she can taste the colors, much to Vex's disgust.
- Shock and Awe: Percy's "Diplomacy" hand prosthetic — which he fashioned for himself after blasting a hole in his hand to exorcise Orthax — allows him to generate an electric current, which he uses, in conjunction with water, to destroy the slime monster.
- Taking You with Me: Craven Edge decides to kill Grog with its final act, blowing up, spewing a fountain of blood, and cursing Grog.
