'I'm sorry, who's this speaking right now?' 'It's the voice of reason, coming from downstairs.' I love Percy.

“You’re of marrying age, young Pike.” MATT SHIPS IT.

Most underrated joke this session: Scanlan: "I DO have a Napoleon complex!" Percy: "Oh yes I've seen it, it's huge."

Grog: *can barely count to 5 or spell his own name* Also Grog: *suddenly becomes Shakespeare when in persuasion mode*

Mercer's Mercy: "I could've made Theodor's parents super dead, and that would be quite an experience for you, guys. But I didn't"

Scanlan: Well, I'm not a ranger like you. Vax: ... There is no ranger like me. Ded

Staying at home is sure easy when u have about 200+ of episodes to watch through.

Taliesin's edgelord-y indignation over someone else coming up with a "robot" before he did just made my day.

"A rare ray of sunshine from the DM." "... Don't poke him."

"Percy is a paranoid rich person. " I'm laughing so hard

Liam's character: I hate all your decsions stop doing them Vax's actor: I love all yor decsions keep making them.

Taliesin: “I’ll try my dispel magic ability. It’s called BULLET. I shoot it until it doesn’t work anymore” CACKLING 😂

"He doesn't have a mind," said Scanlan "He has MY MIND," said Keyleth "We're in trouble," said Scanlan

"Is he drunk?" "He looks like he's.....coping"

DM: At the bottom at the chest you see a single brass-colored key. Vex: It's a key Vax: That's right you're smart

1:16:55 Vex: You're pretty heavy. Vax: I'm lighter than you. Vex: *horrified gasp* Matt: *surprised Pikachu face* Travis: Oh Jesus God... Vex: That's nothing to brag about, Scrawny! Vax: Look at my constitution! It's very low... Vex: Minus two! (Or "Mine is too!" Idk they both make sense) Vax: Oh, twins! That entire exchange is absolute gold. 💀

Percy: "Kevdak... er, Zanror... I'm sorry, you all look vaguely the same to me, I'm so sorry." Everyone: "Oooooooooh!!!" Vax: "Except for this one" /points at Grog/ Percy: "No, he's got the beard. And the ability to kill me in my sleep." Another swift recovery by Percy... :)

Liam and Laura could actually be brother and sister and nobody would fucking question it.

Sometimes you just need to rewatch a funny bit like 10 times to witness the full progress of Liam and Laura collapsing on each other in one corner of the screen and Taliesin and Marisha collapsing on each other in the other

Where's my COVID catch-up crew at? At this rate, I'll be current by the end of the year.

18:50 "We had spaghetti for lunch" -- those are the words of a father of two children. those are the words of a man who _knows_.

1:45:50 DM: you feel the cold probing into your head Percy: its installing windows Keyleth: not windows 10, not windows 10. damn it

"I wanna be a monstah...!" Ashley is so adorable.

Firstly, I love all the passive aggressive banter between Vax and Vex in this episode. Secondly, I feel a huge opportunity was missed while Percy was under the effects of the Slow spell. Someone really should've asked him to recite his full name at that time.

"I'm a unique, little snowflake. I take no offense." - Grog "Well, I find you charming." - Percival "Thank you." - Grog I wish my own party had this sort of dynamic, ha!

I'm 97% sure by this point that Ashley and Sam are actually gnomes.

"It's a thing I was working on but apparently someone else done it first so never mind!" "You were working-" "NEVER MIND!" :p

For those interested in Scanlan's letter to Pike.... Dearest Pike, My entire life, I've been half a man. Not in stature, nor confidence, nor certainly not in reputation, but you see, even though my heart has pumped blood for these 69 years, it has done so only as half a heart. The moment I first saw you was not a choir of angels singing, nor silly butterflies fluttering in my chest. No, the moment I met Pike Trickfoot the moment I met Pike Trickfoot was the tragic moment I realized that my heart, my soul, would be forever incomplete without you. For years, I've strived to mend to mend my incomplete heart. To join it with yours and find true bliss at your side. Though it may not have seemed so, everything I've done these past years has been to impress you, please you, protect you. I knew early on it was a futile effort, I'm not stupid. The entire world may be mad, but that doesn't nullify the laws of reality, one law being that you are, and will always be, too good for a poor penny-singer like Scanlan Shorthalt. But even though I would not win you, your love, I could never stop trying. Does the sun stop rising when the clouds blot it out? No. Like me, it knows its purpose. To illuminate the world so that mortals can witness such beauty as you. But now, as the sun sets on my life, I have discovered something new. I have a daughter whose heart beats my blood and whose life is my own. And she, unlike her father, can be good and right and one day worthy of your love, which is why, on my deathbed, I leave her to you. Don't you see? This whole time I thought I was chasing a lover, but instead, I have been chasing a mother for my child. You, Pike Trickfoot, are the savior to Kaylie that I could never be. Your wisdom and honor and goodness can give her the chance at redemption that I never had. Pike, take my daughter as your own, show her the light of Sarenrae. Guide her to be a kind-hearted gnome. Teach her to be everything her father was not. That way, in death, my heart will be complete. And it will beat inside Kaylie, by your side, like I always dreamed it would. With love and respect, Burt Reynolds, Esquire.

Keyleth: *holding the dark iron thing* "I...." Laura and Liam: " No... keyleth don't" Ashley and travis: *Nodding furiously*

"Maybe we should just sleep together and see what happens" I died

I love that the underlying joke the *entire* episode is mocking the idea of "At dawn, we plan!" only to LITERALLY plan at dawn. Laura calling it out was amazing!

Percy: “I could try MY Dispel Magic spell” Scanlan: “What’s that?” Percy: “It’s a bullet. I shoot it until it doesn’t work anymore” I swear, Percy is so underrated

Taleisin's face when Pike said "We should sleep together..." PRICELESS!!!

I love that the "Forearms like Popeye." "Years of use." exchange registered with the guys INSTANTLY and you can see the realization spread through the ladies five seconds later.

It's hilarious that they entirely forgot the Hunk of Quall in Quall's actual house.

Keyleth: "Step forward." Golem: goes to do that, naturally being intimidating Also Golem: immediately falls flat on its face Vex, while laughing: "He looked like a *moron* "

Liam and Laura should just adopt each other as brother and sister.

When Liam breaks character I love it every time because he turns from rouge edgelord to giggling mess/smiles and it shows the rping skills.

repost so you dont have to scroll 04:45 - Liam's Gift 08:48 - Part 1 begins 18:38 - vox machina deception 28:40 - awww pike 30:45 - "you do knock so strong" 31:10 - the real reason pike fails stealth checks 35:20 - Wilhand Trickfoot 35:50 - reunion (it warms my heart to see how different Grog's herd was to the home he had with Wilhand and Pike) 42:20 - these gnomes can handle anything 44:20 - scanlans best wingman (49:25 - wilhand coming in strong) 45:00 - AT DAWN, WE PLAN! 49:09 - "He has a mansion" 50:13 - Scanlan sings a song to create his mansion [base on Madness - Our House] 50:50 - the question!!!!! 54:27 - percy how could you say that 1:08:30 - A Gift for Trinket 1:11:00 - Twins Being Twins 1:16:54 - "I am equally as scrawny!" 1:45:40 - Awaken, Fassbender 2:00:06 - End of part 1 2:13:23 - Part 2 begins 2:15:48 - rogues aren't rangers, Scanlan 2:24:37 - Scanlan and Vax 2:25:00 - Scanlan is the ultimate rper. 2:26:57 - Lauras Fassbender comment and Travis replies with "Alright, calm down woman" 2:27:30 - Naming Things 2:44:27 - Pike becomes a monstaaah. 2:51:30 - "When shit goes down, we wait." 2:52:55 - Scanlan's Opertune Moment??? 2:56:05 - Wilhand's Cooking 3:01:36 - (You're welcome) 3:02:00 - 3:07:00 Is the best Pike/Scanlan interaction ever. Talisen Jaffe's face throughout is just joy... 3:03:38 - everybody outside of character must know what that letter says cause they are barely containing themselves. :) 3:13:30 - Grog bear herd 3:27:06 - only big men talk big big words and only fails in the battle fields. 3:35:50 - Part 2 ends

"I want to say if we get 'railroaded', but I don't know what that is." The 4th wall trembles before the power of Vax'ildan.

"I'll get the cups!" He opens up the cabinet and there's just shattered glass. "...OK, no cups!" Matt, you've set the DM bar so high!

Pike and Grog's interactions are too cute I can't TAKE IT!

Matt is an explosion of adorableness as the kid when Pike gives him the doll.

I love how all the actors just are their characters at this point. Scanlan asks Pike to marry him: Pike gets flustered Keyleth doesn't know what to do with herself Vex's jaw drops Vax facepalms Grog laughs And Percy is just utterly unimpressed.

I don't even wanna see them fight dragons anymore I just wanna see the twins be like detectives together and fight the whole time

Thank you Kyshakk for compiling it all. Unbelievable that there's no good time stamps within the first page of comments. 04:45 - Liam's Gift 08:48 - Part 1 begins 18:38 - vox machina deception 28:40 - awww pike 30:45 - "you do knock so strong" 31:10 - the real reason pike fails stealth checks 35:20 - Wilhand Trickfoot 35:50 - reunion (it warms my heart to see how different Grog's herd was to the home he had with Wilhand and Pike) 42:20 - these gnomes can handle anything 44:20 - scanlans best wingman (49:25 - wilhand coming in strong) 45:00 - AT DAWN, WE PLAN! 49:09 - "He has a mansion" 50:13 - Scanlan sings a song to create his mansion [base on Madness - Our House] 50:50 - the question!!!!! 54:27 - percy how could you say that 1:08:30 - A Gift for Trinket 1:11:00 - Twins Being Twins 1:16:54 - "I am equally as scrawny!" 1:45:40 - Awaken, Fassbender 2:00:06 - End of part 1 2:13:23 - Part 2 begins 2:15:48 - rogues aren't rangers, Scanlan 2:24:37 - Scanlan and Vax 2:25:00 - Scanlan is the ultimate rper. 2:26:57 - Lauras Fassbender comment and Travis replies with "Alright, calm down woman" 2:27:30 - Naming Things 2:44:27 - Pike becomes a monstaaah. 2:51:30 - "When shit goes down, we wait." 2:52:55 - Scanlan's Opertune Moment??? 2:56:05 - Wilhand's Cooking 3:01:36 - (You're welcome) 3:02:00 - 3:07:00 Is the best Pike/Scanlan interaction ever. Talisen Jaffe's face throughout is just joy... 3:03:38 - everybody outside of character must know what that letter says cause they are barely containing themselves. :) 3:13:30 - Grog bear herd 3:27:06 - only big men talk big big words and only fails in the battle fields. 3:35:50 - Part 2 ends

I L-O-V-E LOVE Willhand. Also, it's taken me multiple episodes to realize this, but... When Vex was dead, Vax said "Take me instead". He was saying as in "take my life instead", but the Raven Queen took it differently. She didn't take his life, but instead took _him_ as her champion. Basically, I knew all of this info already separately, but piecing them together gives a more impactful picture.

1:12:11 Vox Machina: "If only there were a way to set a trap for this Dragon that we know will be arriving at one very specific location..." Matt: "You encounter a *GLYPH OF WARDING* as you try to descend the stairs." VM: "If only there were a way..."

And with the aid of a small child, Vox Machina Defeats a door!

Matt's face when Scanlan proposed... Priceless.

Geez, Liam and Laura play off of each other as siblings so goddamn well. I could spend a whole episode listening to their bickering

Anything happens Pike: “yeah!” My heart: 😩😩

I love that Percy's comment about the trapped house is "I want to live here."

I love how much Liam picks on the group for when they say real world things in the game as their characters.

I love how outraged the party got when the other tribe announces they're abandoning the fight that Vox Machina themselves agreed they would also abandon, to the point where Vox Machina just kind of gives up on their plan to run. It's like Zanror and Ivon set the whole thing up to guilt them into staying. :-)

It feels so weird to hear Matt say they're some nerdy ass VA playing D&D without Travis shouting "We play Dungeons and Dragooons"

That moment when the party full realizes that the bard... the BARD... is the de facto arcane authority.

"It was something I was working on but apparently someone else beat me to it, so NEVERMIND!!!" Oh Percy, the hipster inventor.

Two things I took away from the infamous Scanlan/Pike scene. -While at this point Sam is a proved RPer, I barely had any notice how good Ashley was...until now. With her gone for work so much, she barely got the time to do anything or grow Pike. This however....holy shitballs on a bagel, she just owned this scene AND destroyed everyone else not named Matt. Talisen almost died there! The woman nearly murdered him! He looked like he was having a heart attack, he was laughing so hard. -Matt Godsdamned Mercer. How in the Nine Hells he was able to keep control of himself and manage the group so they don't talk or laugh too loud over that scene I will never know. I could see him getting redder by the second trying not to burst out laughing, but he kept his cool and warned the others to keep it down so we could hear every awkward sentence. It was more impressive than the 3,817 voices he has invented for characters.

Vex's bickering casting away Vax's angst is everything I needed

At dawn we we schedule a tentative session to get feedback for the best time to set a meeting to set a time table for discussions on the plan of attack

It's great to see more roleplaying from Ashley, especially since she's often absent from the show. Really wish Pike could stay somewhat permanently.

keyleth: "aww look, they're doing it together! awww. so cute." percy: "it's adorable, isn't it?" i'm OBSESSED with keyleth and percy lovingly teasing the twins. i hardcore ship keyleth w vax AND vex w percy, so i'm imagining the two just standing back, huddling together and giggling to themselves as they watch their significant others bicker their way through obstacles. really hoping percy and vex end up becoming canon because my GOD would percy and keyleth's dynamic be incredible.

Just noticed that Vex has started calling Keyleth Kiki. Really nice character detail as Vex accepts Keyleth and Vax's budding relationship.

Scanlan is honestly the most insightful and clever character remaining in the cast, and the player is probably the best of making full use of his character as well. He jokes a lot, but he really does deserve to be the leader. And that confession on killing the civilians- he's the first person to actually self reflect on his own actions

I wish they would listen to Scanlan. They have a 40 strong force, three vestiges, and the advantage of surprise. The dragons might be incredible but they aren't gods. Unless they Scry for the black dragon to discover his fate, or they fly over to Westrun and find his corpse, they aren't instantly going to start massacring civilians. Vax seems to forget that if they beat the black dragon, they can rest up for a few days and through Keyleth pretty much go where they need to go that has trees.

I love It when Matt does crazy old man voices. It warms my heart. Victor and Wilhelm are my favorite voices of his

Keke: "step foward" Me: aren't his legs tied together? Not disappointed

I love watching Matt's reaction during the Pike and Scanlan scene. I'm just so impressed by their improv and ability as actors. That they can make even the DM, who created the world, nearly cry with laughter is so incredible. Like, Matt has chuckled and laughed before at some good in-character moments (a lot of Scanlan stuff), but this was really special. Sam and Ashley are such a good comedy duo.

"Only big men... talk... big words" "Lose 50 experience"

For someone who doesn't like romance for his characters, Travis gets very invested in other people's ships and it's the very cutest thing.

Matt fuckin hands them a small army of barbarians, gives them the complete and total element of surprise, and they’re still like “nah, this isn’t the best opportunity we’ll have to kill one of the dragons. Let’s wait till later when it’s just the 7 of us and we happen to be yet slightly stronger than we currently are. That’ll totally go better!!”

The banter between the members of Vox Machina is just superbly amusing this episode. Particularly the twins steal the spotlight, so natural, you'd think Liam and Laura are actually brother and sister. Loving the RP.

Okay, that Scanlan and Pike interaction was amazing, and not even for the belly full of laughs it gave me. It really felt like it was PIKE and SCANLAN talking, not Sam snd Ashley. And it makes it better that Scanlan was being 100% real and honest during that conversation, from babbling incoherently, to flustered embarrassment, to confused hair pulling, that was probably the best little segment in the entire episode. But man, poor Scanlan. Pike really put the poir Gnome on a rollercoaster there. X,D

Oh god. I can't stop watching these. It's been almost a month since I started. I watch it at work, I watch it every morning while I have breakfast, I watch it before sleep, I watch it when I *should* sleep instead. And there are still freaking 3 years of catching up. It's awesome and anguishing to think the amount of episodes that only grows after every week. Goddamn, it even hurts my soul when I hear them talking about limited stuff.

That guy's never going to get his Golem back is he?

04:45 - Liam's Gift 08:48 - Part 1 begins 18:38 - vox machina deception 28:40 - awww pike 30:45 - "you do knock so strong" 31:10 - the real reason pike fails stealth checks 35:20 - Wilhand Trickfoot 35:50 - reunion (it warms my heart to see how different Grog's herd was to the home he had with Wilhand and Pike) 42:20 - these gnomes can handle anything 44:20 - scanlans best wingman (49:25 - wilhand coming in strong) 45:00 - AT DAWN, WE PLAN! 49:09 - "He has a mansion" 50:13 - Scanlan sings a song to create his mansion [base on Madness - Our House] 50:50 - the question!!!!! 54:27 - percy how could you say that 1:08:30 - A Gift for Trinket 1:11:00 - Twins Being Twins 1:16:54 - "I am equally as scrawny!" 1:41:49 - Windows 10 update 1:45:40 - Awaken, Fassbender 2:00:06 - End of part 1 2:13:23 - Part 2 begins 2:15:48 - rogues aren't rangers, Scanlan 2:17:29 - Travis catches the joke 2:24:37 - Scanlan and Vax 2:25:00 - Scanlan is the ultimate rper. 2:26:57 - Lauras Fassbender comment and Travis replies with "Alright, calm down woman" 2:27:30 - Naming Things 2:44:27 - Pike becomes a monstaaah. 2:51:30 - "When shit goes down, we wait." 2:52:55 - Scanlan's Opertune Moment??? 2:56:05 - Wilhand's Cooking 3:01:36 - (You're welcome) 3:02:00 - 3:07:00 Is the best Pike/Scanlan interaction ever. Talisen Jaffe's face throughout is just joy... 3:03:38 - everybody outside of character must know what that letter says cause they are barely containing themselves. :) 3:13:30 - Grog bear herd 3:27:06 - only big men talk big big words and only fails in the battle fields. 3:35:50 - Part 2 ends

The subtitles are a life saver and greatly appreciated. Thank you to whichever person put their time into them. Nonetheless, I can't help but desperately want captions of the perfect quiet quips between percy and keyleth's side conversations. Underated and one of my favourite friend-ships.

ashley johnson is a gift and i treasure every episode we have with her

"You probably just feel that way because we could all die - For sure, for sure!" The most romantic scene I have ever witnessed xD :D

Grog should seriously have a higher intimidation bonus. For a huge, well armed goliath (who comes up with some great lines) he fails way too often.

"At dawn, we Microsoft Excel" is an underrated gem of a joke, thanks Marisha.

First thing that came to mind upon seeing the broom is: " I hope that Chris Chadwick gets invited again and steals the broom back"

18:26 I have the strange mental image of Grog saying "We're under new management now" and Scanlan just going "Yeah someone came down from corporate"

Ashley's hair legitimately makes me happy every time I see it.

“Grog, meet Fastbender. Fastbender, Grog.” “I don’t understand what you’re telling me right now.” Best exchange! XD

2:53:06 Matt's faces during Scanlan's proposal are... legendary

I love how Laura has to giggle when Liam says "I'm coming" around 3 hours in haha

Seriously, every time Matt does a kid's voice for an NPC, I die inside. He murders me with the cute. When Matt characterises kids, I just want to curl up in a ball and cry because it's so heartwarming. ALL THE FEELS.

I just love how done Pike looks in the intro after Scanlan's crotch lightning

3:01:05 lol! I love Laura's reaction when she realizes that he's basically had Vax mirror Vex's blue feathers. xD

For a split second, I thought they were going to be defeated by Pike's home door... while she had the keys in her kit. :P

3:01:20 The Scanlan and Pike conversation that nearly killed me XD That and Taliesin build-up reaction from wide eyes to small chuckle to complete destruction of body and soul.

Liam’s reaction whenever Matt does the “cork noise” makes me so happy.

scatlan taking the wrong twin with him when trying to track someone is hilarious DAMN GROG THAT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT JUST IN THE FEELS

2:34:49 "Put...the candle...back!" I fucking died at the Young Frankenstien reference, I love Taliesan.

I swear to god, Scanlan's letter better be released when the series finishes, I want to know what he said

I love Scanlan and Vax's interactions, they happen rarely but are honestly kind of the heart of the series

"I gotta protect you because you protected me." That explains everything going forward in this campaign. And in the next one.

I'm crying at Pike & Scanlan's conversation omg I almost laughed so hard I threw up jfc just "Thank you for clarifying???" I DIED.