The De Rolo Guide for Romance: - Step One, get your love interest killed. - Step Two, give them a title in your domain (previous nobility rights required). - Step Three, get yourself killed. - Step Four, kiss them when they least expect. 100% sucess rate everytime these steps were followed. Might require a cleric to solve possible problems with steps one and three. The cleric is not included with this guide and must be acquired separately.

Tooma: "My work here is done" Scanlan: "But you didn't do anything." Tooma: "*Dramatic exit*

Travis: *not a fan of romance and would rather kill stuff in D and D* Also Travis: *starts visibly fangirling when his wife's character gets a moment along with Percy*

Vax and Vex witnessing Keyleth and Percy during the elephant debacle has such 'these are the ones we've chosen to love' energy

now I wish someone would draw a picture of Vax stapling missing posters of Larkin on a tree

'The elephant in the room' i thought they were going to adress the big problems and ramifications of having allied themselves with Raishan, the fact they just killed another member of the conclave, the fact Thordak will now be super pissed...but now... They're literally dealing with an elephant stuck in thew room of the mansion...godammit Keyleth xD

They spent the whole episode really wanting a ship. And they got it.

"There is just snow and ice, and it's PISSING you off!" I love Matt. And Travis is THE biggest shipper of the group. The poor guy is eating that can in anticipation!

Don’t get me wrong, I love the dramatic battles and fights and things, but I think the role playing and dialogue moments are probably my favorite things about Critical Role

The way Travis immediately goes ":o" and hides his face when "romance-y" things are about to happen, that's a whole mood right there. xD

"That boy who felt it was justified to create those things? You have to forgive him, too." That hit me so hard. It's so hard to forgive yourself, even when you could forgive someone else for the same thing. Looking back and understanding that you were young and alone and in pain is hard, but it's necessary to grow. You have to forgive yourself and be kind to yourself. Man, I cry so much during this show.

For everyone who felt bad for Travis last episode, he saved two party members from that evil elephant, on his own. Still the greatest member of the team

Vax and Pike talking about gods is the cutest thing I've ever seen. Matt does a great job playing her!

Travis looked like all his dreams came true when the kiss happened.

“Can I talk to you?” “I’m just going to do nothing but stare at that bloody ship if I don’t, so sure.” There’s two kinds of ship in that sentence.

Today I learned that while Taliesin is the master of crow sounds, Liam has an absolutely perfect Gollum voice.

"I speak dwarvish!" "..wait I cant read"

Percival going from "YOUR SOUL IS FORFEIT!!!!" To "I forgive you" now that's growth :')

1:31:25 - This is how you organically fix issues your players are having. Travis is bummed about not being to reach foes, so Matt makes sure they find boots of leaping (that don't need attunement, mind you).

It says a lot about how good the cast of CR are that you can have an episode that's basically just divvying up loot and it's endlessly watchable.

Also i feel like Travis is literally the biggest Perc'ahlia shipper by those looks of his

I'm so proud of this episode's title. I love you guys. Plus, we needed a session like this one after the last month of intense sh*t... Travis' face in those final minutes was a "just-kiss-her-already" masterpiece of dork.

I love the fact that this is the second time they killed a dragon, then spent the next session messing around in the mansion. First a cannonball contest, now fighting an elephant. Amazing.

Seeing Sam get made fun of for owning a wine aerator: fun Thinking this is the reason Sam's ads are seemingly designed to slowly drive his friends insane: priceless

I love that whenever two characters have a serious moment, everyone looks away or into the middle distance. But Matt always stays with the two who are doing it and it makes it so much less awkward.

I love when Laura gets excited, her and Travis always seem to get legit excited over the game and it makes me super happy.

"We'll need her to restart civilization." *Percy literally starts dying of laughter*

18:49 - Masquerada promo 20:50 - Choking Liam/Sam's word game 22:05 - Sam's Game 31:30 - Start 37:13 - Calling dibs 39:48 - Words of warning/Negotiations 44:41 - Grog's hunt for loot 45:39 - Read lips time 46:29 - End of read lips time 46:30 - Scanlan's commission 48:16 - Found it! 54:46 - Ravenites' generosity 56:00 - Investigation inspiration 57:24 - Grog's find 58:21 - Vex's find 1:00:10 - Scanlan's find 1:02:49 - "'Tis clean." 1:04:14 - Plans for the future 1:05:15 - Set for Life 1:05:52 - Fun buns 1:07:09 - Keyleth's find/Making room 1:08:00 - Cleaning Out the Bag of Holding 1:17:51 - Keyleth's yard sale 1:20:15 - "Anything interesting?" 1:29:57 - Paydirt 1:31:30 - These Boots Were Made for Killin' 1:35:00 - Kima is happy 1:39:00 - Teasing Sam 1:39:58 - Keyleth's new toy 1:43:59 - Stout Grog 1:48:17 - Le Whitemeat/Ship tease 1:50:36 - Twins start talking business 1:52:30 - Percy breaks the 4th wall 1:56:47 - Backblaze ad 2:14:29 - Break ends 2:14:45 - It's HIIIIIIIGHLY Fashionable 2:16:23 - Grog's mask/Namesake 2:17:35 - Fuckin' with Grog 2:19:33 - Round 2 2:22:56 - "We must destroy this beast!" 2:25:51 - "I have to go to the battle music for this now." 2:27:22 - Saving the Princess 2:30:40 - Scanlan's urban dictionary 2:32:10 - SCAMlan 2:34:16 - Precious ringtones 2:37:04 - Excavation 2:42:45 - Timber! 2:48:11 - "Boop"/Echo chamber 2:50:08 - Keyleth's parting gift 2:55:32 - Bored Vox Machina 2:57:19 - Ship ahoy! 3:04:39 - "We'll talk later." 3:05:09 - Mic Drop

I sure wish we will have more moments of Grog cleaning up shit in the bag of holding. My sides hurt XD "A Dwarven studded plate armor, a decomposed orc head... Two elf head... a random arm...beef jerky strips....One greatsword" .

"We might need her to restart civilation."

Pike NEEDS to attune to that Invisibility Ring to cancel out her stealth disadvantages from her plate armor.

"I encourage peace." A most beautiful eulogy. Thank you Sam.

The episodes where the characters recover and just dick around with each other are just as great as the nail biting, emotional, action packed ones. Cheers guys. You kill that fucking pesky pachyderm!

3:00:19 Vex: "In the fight with Ripley... Your last words to her were" My Avast Antivirus Software: "Threat Has Been Detected"

It's really kind of hilarious how the druid is basically the party butcher.

"Boots of Feral Leaping" Travis' eye light up.

"All we have in this life, are moments with each other." holy shit that quote hit home

It never occurred to me before. Vax likes Keyleth, Vex likes Percy, and Keyleth & Percy are basically best friends. Funny how things play out.

Oh boy I can't BREATHE..."ask Larkin" should just be universal lingo for whenever someone misses some common knowledge on this show

This is my favorite kind of episode: there’s very little stress about impending battle, it’s just a bunch of people enjoying being their characters

"Flowbreaker": a throw away item the DM mentions in passing that the characters obsess about so much that it becomes a fundamental piece of lore.

At the end of the episode and was like "That episode title sums up the Vex and Percy thing great" and then I realized they literally had a elephant in the room at one point.

Taliesin: **nods to Matt** Matt: **nods to Travis** Travis: **gets all giddy and shoves a can in his mouth** Matt: **nods back to Taliesin** Laura: **casually applying lip gloss** Taliesin: **mic drop** Everything about that was was so good....from the acting, to Travis and Matt smirking the whole time. These people never cease to amaze me.

It's strangely satisfying binge watching this and watching their twitch sub count growing.

'Flowbreaker' sounds like a dwarven brand of tampon. 'The Good Ship Maxipad'

Vex and Percy's rp at the end of the episode is just beautiful. Watching them speak (especially Laura) you can tell how much they care about their characters. It makes them feel so much more real and it really is a joy to watch and listen to. :)

travis is such a gem of a human, he really knows to how to let grog make anyone shine and he's always cool about the game, even if he's not involved be like travis

I know I should be focusing on Laura and Taliesen, but oh my god Travis's face is even more fun to watch.

I'm so far behind so I'm late getting to this episode, but Scanlan's "I encourage peace" thing may be the single most heart wrenching but yet heart warming moment of the entire series so far. That level storytelling coming out of what is basically improv is absolutely mind-blowing.

I cant stop laughing at "one random arm". I'm just picturing Grog going through the bag of holding, looking at the arm in confusion, tossing it behind him and going back to the bag. Yes I'm aware its just a pile of sludge at this point, but the image is just too funny to me.

I love the fact that Travis is the biggest Perc'ahlia shipper.

Recap begins at 29:42. Game starts at 31:29. Break from 1:56:25 to 2:15:16. Game ends at 3:05:06. [I've been doing this for every episode. If you find them useful, or think others might, please comment so they stay near the top where people can find them. Thank you.]

Matt: "The potion has another name: Safeword." Travis: "Oklahoma..." Their quips to each other are honestly my favorite thing they do out of character on this show

Someone has to animate the emptying of the bag of holding

*_I just want to THANK whoever did the captions._* Thank you. :)

and shout out to Vax for perhaps being the biggest Perc'ahlia shipper of all of us. Thank you for encouraging our ship to sail.

Masterlist, for my own rewatching purposes: 18:49 - Masquerada promo 20:50 - Choking Liam/Sam's word game 22:05 - Sam's Game 31:30 - Start 37:13 - Calling dibs 39:48 - Words of warning/Negotiations 44:41 - Grog's hunt for loot 45:39 - Read lips time 46:29 - End of read lips time 46:30 - Scanlan's commission 48:16 - Found it! 54:46 - Ravenites' generosity 56:00 - Investigation inspiration 57:24 - Grog's find 58:21 - Vex's find 1:00:10 - Scanlan's find 1:02:49 - "'Tis clean." 1:04:14 - Plans for the future 1:05:15 - Set for Life 1:05:52 - Fun buns 1:07:09 - Keyleth's find/Making room 1:08:00 - Cleaning Out the Bag of Holding 1:17:51 - Keyleth's yard sale 1:20:15 - "Anything interesting?" 1:29:57 - Paydirt 1:31:30 - These Boots Were Made for Killin' 1:35:00 - Kima is happy 1:39:00 - Teasing Sam 1:39:58 - Keyleth's new toy 1:43:59 - Stout Grog 1:48:17 - Le Whitemeat/Ship tease 1:50:36 - Twins start talking business 1:52:30 - Percy breaks the 4th wall 1:56:47 - Backblaze ad 2:14:29 - Break ends 2:14:45 - It's HIIIIIIIGHLY Fashionable 2:16:23 - Grog's mask/Namesake 2:17:35 - Fuckin' with Grog 2:19:33 - Round 2 2:22:56 - "We must destroy this beast!" 2:25:51 - "I have to go to the battle music for this now." 2:27:22 - Saving the Princess 2:30:40 - Scanlan's urban dictionary 2:32:10 - SCAMlan 2:34:16 - Precious ringtones 2:37:04 - Excavation 2:42:45 - Timber! 2:48:11 - "Boop"/Echo chamber 2:50:08 - Keyleth's parting gift 2:55:32 - Bored Vox Machina 2:57:19 - Ship ahoy! 3:04:39 - "We'll talk later." 3:05:09 - Mic Drop

Scanlan: We might need her to restart civilization. Grog: True, true. That reaction was priceless. 1:05:45 I don't know where Grog ends and Travis begins.

Vax and Vex are having an intense conversation and opposite of them Taliesin is just making faces at Marisha. I love them.

Vex: "I think he isn't thinking that way at all, honestly." Taliesin *quick flash of a smile* Vax: "You're a dummy." 1:52:14

2:20:00 I swear that I can predict the plot twist comming already: Nob the Ancient Demon of doors, is slowly but surely wearing Vox Machina down

Travis's face for the whole end of this episode... maybe the whole episode... is all of us.

Good thing Scanlan lied about Tibbs when it came to unifying the dragonborne because the only statement I remember is him calling a tailless one lowborn filth.

Love it when players consult the DM for clarification for perception. "Were they near the area that it collapsed?" "Were they near the area that it collapsed?" "One of them was yeah" "One of them was yeah"

laura was putting on lip balm right before the kiss happened it's too much

I always love the heart to heart scenes between Vax and Vex. Every time they play it well.

I never thought of Matt as a shipper, until I saw his face during the Vex/Percy conversation.

Liam's portrayal of Vax is so unique. It's such a pleasure to watch on an RP standpoint.

"Anything can happen in the woods" KILLED ME

So at the end, Vox machina was literally watching grass grow for 8 hours

Vax: hey Fredrickstein the science guy! Percy: thats Dr. Fredrickstein thank you.

Vax being the parties hairstylist is both so funny and so incredibly heartwarming

Every ep is so good. There are TV shows and movies with the highest paid, most talented people writing them and they(crit role) do this week in and week out and somehow it is so so much better than TV or movies

2:57:47 - Matt changes the mood music and fucking winks

i think those boots were Matt's way of apologizing to Travis for being stone in the fairy battle and the other two of the last 3 major boss battles being flying type enemies that rendered Travis pointless

Sam: receives The One Ring "I don't need this, who wants it?"

I CANNOT EVEN - YOU ACTUALLY NAMED IT "THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM" - AMAZING

Proof that our party here are not your typical DnD players - they just gave away a Holy Avenger to an NPC.

Aww Laura was going to learn a spell for Travis so he'd have an easier time in battle

The conversation at 1:54:50 Talisen's face. "Thinking about it... no shit, he's actually right, Percy and Keyleth are BFFs, but Vex is the only one Percy really listens to." Also the Fun Buns at 1:06:00 is totally Liam being a Dad with little girls, also it's kinda perfect for Pike.

I love that, all during the twins' discussion, Taliesan is just staring into the camera making weird faces as if to say "wait for ittttt..."

Travis' face during the whole exchange between Vex and Percy is probably the best thing out of this episode. He's so into it. :)

"IT'S CHICKEN WINE!" killed me dead.

The sexiest "We'll talk later" I have ever heard oof

new idea for a cr shirt: my sister came back from the dead and all i got was this lousy oath.

"I encourage peace" :'(

Am I the only one who pictures Percy as the type of guy who has those little ships in bottles?

Ooh, in the previous episode we had Taliesin's [unnervingly realistic crow noises] and this episode we have Liam's [shockingly good elephant noises]! A treat for the ears!

to complete the awkward relationship triangle, grog needs to fall in love with an NPC.

25:15 Matt talks about a game that's akin to his favorite rpg's including Baldur's Gate, flash forward to present year, Matt is in Baldur's Gate 3 as a fan favorite character.

I absolutely love the way Marisha moves! She's like a sentient bowl of spaghetti, with long twisting limbs that seem to move in all directions

So that just leaves scanlan and grog to get it on

Every time they go to the combat room I think of grog punching a cow 😭😭

2:39:08: "I speak dwarvish, but I can't read" Grog summerizing again again what it is like to be a Barbarian

Friendly warning to people who are binge watching this: don't be drinking anything when you open the next episode. You're welcome.

And the ship has sailed.

Taliesin's goddamn face through the Twins' exchange. I can't deal with this.

Travis trying to eat an aluminum can out of anticipation has me dying

"Wheres the battle map Matt"? Matt Internally:.... I wasn't expecting an elephant battle in a mansion..... 🤣🤣 By far one of my favorite interactions ever!

I like how Laura casually applies lip balm just seconds before Percy kisses Vex