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[dramatic music]
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: That's all I got. How are you guys?
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: There's too many people. Don't come out
here. There's too many people! Okay. Where's Tary?
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AUDIENCE: Over here!
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BRIAN: Stand up! Look at this!
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: What's your name?
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SARA: Sara!
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BRIAN: Sara?
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SARA: Yeah!
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BRIAN: You're fucking awesome. Okay. We've got to
get started. Hold on, I've got to move my fanny
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pack. Okay, rules for this panel. Really fast,
here we go. One question per person. Do not ask
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the full cast a question or we'll be here until
tomorrow.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: That's okay!
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BRIAN: They're really bad at answering in a timely
fashion, sort of like when a door is involved.
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There may be some spoilers. Let me save you some
time. Don't ask any "What's going to happen?"
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questions. Those tend to go unanswered as well.
Finally, if you ask Matt what time it is, you will
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find out just how Irish Liam O'Brien and I are.
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: Without further ado, I would like to
introduce the cast of Critical Role.
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: Travis Willingham!
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: Marisha Ray!
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: Taliesin Jaffe!
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: Sam Riegel!
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: Liam O'Brien!
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: Laura Motherfucking Bailey!
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: Your dungeon master, my dungeon master, our
dungeon master, Matthew Mercer!
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: Yo, you people are hyped up!
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: All right. What does yours say?
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TRAVIS: Mine says, "Travis Willingham eats
dicks."
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[laughter]
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SAM: I wrote that.
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BRIAN: Oh yeah? That's a shock. Well, we are about
to do the third Critical Role live.
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: The second at Gen Con.
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TRAVIS: Genken.
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SAM: Laura doesn't have a mic, but that's okay.
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LAURA: No, we're figuring out how we're going to
share.
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TRAVIS: You're twins; you share shit already.
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BRIAN: How are you guys feeling about CRL 3? I
don't know what to call this. #criticalrolelive.
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How are you guys feeling?
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TRAVIS: We're going to die!
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[laughter]
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TALIESIN: I'm really glad if we go out, we can be
with an audience.
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MATT: I-- [inaudible] mic working?
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BRIAN: It better be.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: I can hear you and you're
beautiful!
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[laughter]
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MATT: (yelling) I am excited for tonight's show!
You'll soon know why.
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BRIAN: Save your voice. You need it. We need it to
be beautiful and soft. Then immediately turn terrifying.
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MARISHA: Am I allowed to say this? I don't know,
whatever. He kept saying how he was excited
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because he had a lot of rules questions to ask the
Wizards of the Coast people.
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[laughter]
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MARISHA: I don't know what he's doing, but
something big is going on.
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LAURA: They're wrong anyways. We're not paying
attention down here. We're trying to figure out
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mic stuff. Whatever you were saying, Marisha.
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MATT: We will share that mic.
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BRIAN: I don't even see-- Oh, there is a sound
booth up there.
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MATT: Shame!
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[laughter]
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LIAM: We shared the womb!
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LAURA: That's right.
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BRIAN: Hey, Matt. What is the biggest difference
for you in planning a Critical Role regular
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Thursday night stream session than doing a big
live thing like this, which is so terrifying, and
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I don't know how you're going to get through it
without so much Xanax and horse tranquilizers?
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MATT: You hit the nail on the head there. It's
more the nerves of knowing that there's a lot of
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people watching live at home, and hearing a lot of
people watching it live right there. Having the
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space, and having to finagle the stage to work so
that we're all still comfortable playing, and also
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people can watch it. We've got some unique
challenges, but preparing for it, I am
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legitimately terrified.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you! You're great!
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BRIAN: How many of you are going tonight?
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[cheering]
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SAM: That was amazing.
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BRIAN: That was a wave that didn't even mean to
happen. It turned into a wave.
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MARISHA: I love Gen Con.
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SAM: I feel bad for the three people who aren't
going.
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[laughter]
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SAM: Who doesn't have tickets? We love you guys.
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LAURA: This is the real live show.
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[laughter]
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MARISHA: It blinds you.
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BRIAN: This is not the real live show because it
started on time.
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[laughter]
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BRIAN: Oh shit, we have more to talk about. Okay.
I'm having so much fun and I'm seeing so many
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people that I recognize, and many that I don't,
and I'm glad I don't. Why don't you guys start
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lining up for questions in an orderly fashion,
please? Be respectful of some of the beautiful cosplay.
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TRAVIS: Watch your wings.
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BRIAN: Watch your wings.
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[inaudible]
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LIAM: Before we start the questions, could
everyone who is wearing cosplay right now stand up
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so we can see you?
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yeah, we can!
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[cheering]
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Hey, Matt!
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: Vox Moochina!
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[laughter, cheering]
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[crowd noise]
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SAM: It's so beautiful!
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BRIAN: This is a lot to take in. While you guys
are lining up, Sam, what are some of the things--
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to get people teased for the show tonight, maybe
to whet their appetite, as they say.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Get naked!
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[laughter, wolf whistles]
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BRIAN: You got five bucks, I'll do it. Sam, what
are some of the things that we can expect in
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Critical Role Live 3 tonight?
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SAM: In the Critical Role Live show tonight, you
can expect to see accidental second base between
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Scanlan and Vax.
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BRIAN: You don't want to end up accidentally
getting to second base.
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SAM: You will see Cirque du Soleil-style
trampoline stunts. You will see technical
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difficulties. You will see a Marisha inspirational
leader speech about Macklemore's best song. Any
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other teases, Brian?
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BRIAN: If anything goes wrong technically, you can
turn around and literally watch the entire crew
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yell at you, "We know!" Tonight, you will see the
Twitch chat be pissed off that all of these
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beautiful people will be in the room.
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: Marisha. You got a pretty epic
How-da-der-da-der-dis.
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MARISHA: Oh man.
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BRIAN: Last year at Gen Con. How does that feel?
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MARISHA: It's still legit probably one of the top
three moments of my lifetime, because hearing
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everyone immediately erupt hit me like a fucking
nuclear bomb. I think I went like this-- and it
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was legitimate, amazing. Incredible. Shockwave.
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BRIAN: Well [inaudible].
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LAURA: We're not going to fight at all tonight.
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AUDIENCE: Shopping!
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TRAVIS: Fuck shopping!
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[laughter]
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BRIAN: There's so much anger behind it. That's
what I like, man, that it's legitimate hate.
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TRAVIS: We didn't fly to Indianapolis to shop!
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[laughter]
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LIAM: Why don't we all turn on one of the cast and
kill them to give somebody that rush? I'm a good
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candidate, I'll--
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TRAVIS: You're already dead.
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BRIAN: Liam, you weren't able to be here last
year, very sadly and under sad circumstances. We
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are so glad that you are this year. I didn't
really have anything planned to say about that. I
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just wanted to say that I'm glad you're here this
year.
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LIAM: Thank you.
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BRIAN: She's not coming. Yeah, Ashley's not
coming. I was hoping it would be a surprise, but
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she is working very, very long hours.
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LIAM: It was real hard to be on the outside last
year, so we are thinking about our cleric.
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TRAVIS: Yeah! Ashley Johnson!
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MATT: If you want to get the hashtag
#releaseourashley going.
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[laughter]
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BRIAN: Yeah, tweet at NBC Blindside. No! Don't!
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LAURA: Pretty sure we'll get her fired.
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BRIAN: That's okay, there other jobs. Near all of
us. Okay, who's up first? Please state your name
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so that we can say hi to you too.
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AMBER: Hello, my name is Amber.
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BRIAN: You look so good.
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AMBER: My question is between Liam and Matt.
You're both Lord of the Rings fans. Who would be
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the better Sméagol? Who would be the better
Gollum?
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BRIAN: Starting off with an epic question! Gen Con
is bringing it.
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MATT: You're easily the better Gollum.
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LIAM: I mean, darkness and light.
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LAURA: I know. I feel like you're Sméagol, you're
Gollum.
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[laughter]
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MATT: By the way, you only have 36 more minutes
with those wings.
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[laughter]
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BRIAN: And you've got how many bonus actions left?
Oh okay, if you guys didn't hear what Matt said,
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he said, "You only have 36 more minutes in those
wings."
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: We heard!
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BRIAN: Okay, sorry, didn't realize he had the mic
fixed. She was all mad. She's like, "We heard!"
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MARISHA: You look awesome.
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KATIE: Thank you.
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BRIAN: What's your name?
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KATIE: My name is Katie. I actually have my twin
that I'm with. My question is for Liam. Vax's
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relationship with the Raven Queen at the
beginning, it was more like he had to fulfill his
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obligation [inaudible]. Has that changed recently?
Especially with the things you do with the Raven Queen.
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LIAM: I only caught the tail end of that.
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BRIAN: Yeah, we might need that, a little bit more
volume. Or if you have fills, you can throw that
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mic in for me.
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SAM: Deep down, has your relationship changed with
the Raven Queen?
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LIAM: Yeah. It was making a deal with a gangster,
as far as he knew in the beginning. He didn't know
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shit about her. He never cared about gods and
didn't trust magic, didn't trust religion. Didn't
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know anything about religion. Now, he's faithful,
now. He'll probably always be a little weirded out
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by it, but I think he has the feeling of kinship
with her now. But he doesn't talk about it.
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MATT: I think the rest of that question was, how
do you feel-- no, not yet. How do you feel the
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dynamic's changed based on the original choice was
to-- Anyway.
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[cheering]
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: We can see your ankles!
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[laughter]
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BRIAN: They have probably never seen your ankles
or feet. You might have Shaquille O'Neal-sized feet.
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MATT: As far as the original deal was made to save
Vax's life.
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LIAM: My sister is Vex.
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BRIAN: Is CritRoleStats in the room?
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AUDIENCE: Yes!
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BRIAN: Ah! Write it down!
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: CritRoleStats, by the way.
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MATT: There are only two people responsible for
that confusion.
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: As I said on Talks Tuesday night, Matt and
I, we had to have a talk because, no pun intended,
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but no characters with one letter off names the
next campaign. Can we set a rule so this doesn't
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happen again?
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MATT: They can do it. They're just going to die in
the first session.
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BRIAN: Yeah, exactly. Andrew hasn't seen his wife
in six months. He's been counting the number of
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times we fucked up your name.
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MARISHA: Is it the same with 14 syllable names?
Percy.
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TALIESIN: Oh, I'm bringing it way down. My next
one's easy.
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BRIAN: You're going to be Bob. Okay, next
question. Thank you so much.
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MARISHA: Hey, come here. Keyleth. Catch!
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BRIAN: Oh yeah. If you ask a question, we have
pins. Who has them? Who in my gang has them? Oh!
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Rachel, right here. Get a pin from Rachel, after
you ask a question. We have "Thanks, Keyleth," we
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have some made specially for us by a Critter. Yes.
If you see us around later, we also have some.
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LIAM: Also, is the one Critter in the audience who
I am carrying a pin for here? Right now? He'll
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know what I'm talking about. They're not. Okay.
Next question!
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: My question is for Laura. Because
you use a lot of dice, sent to you by fans, do you
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ever worry that the dice are unbalanced or even
loaded?
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LAURA: I don't really care.
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[laughter]
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LAURA: I roll them so little, each one, really.
It's an average of, like, 300 dice a game.
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TRAVIS: Guys, we got to the airport and TSA was
like, "Ma'am, only two carry on items."
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BRIAN: One of them cannot be--
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TRAVIS: A small child can not come with you.
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LAURA: Travis didn't realize I brought my whole
giant ass bag of dice. I didn't bring my dice tray
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because I wanted to bring my dice bag instead.
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BRIAN: Oh my gosh, it's a serious problem. Hey.
What's your name?
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JESSICA: I'm Jessica, AKA ShandraVdeG. I'm one of
the admins for the Critical Role Facebook group.
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I wanted to let you guys know that last night we
hit 25,000 members.
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: Give the URL. What's the URL for it, in
case these people haven't found it yet?
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JESSICA: facebook.com/groups/criticalrolefanclub.
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BRIAN: Awesome. How many?
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JESSICA: 25,000.
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BRIAN: Thank you, guys.
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JESSICA: This is for anyone who wants to answer
it. Outside of the show, what is the best thing
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that has happened because of the show? Whoever
wants to take it.
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[cheering]
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MATT: You guys. I mean, the community you guys
have built around this. Our show, in my opinion,
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has taken a backseat to the good that you guys put
out there amongst yourselves and other people. I'm
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always happy to be a small little sparking point
for that. It's gotten so much larger than anything
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we do now. That's really incredible, I think.
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LIAM: Can we get a show of hands? How many people
in this room started playing Dungeons & Dragons
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after having watched Critical Role? There you go.
There is your answer right there.
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[applause]
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BRIAN: Wow, thank you. Thank you so much.
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REY: Hi! I'm Rey from [inaudible] last night. I'm
here [inaudible].
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BRIAN: Oh man, that guy was also drunk last night.
GenCon, baby. Go ahead.
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REY: My question is for Matt. I really want to
know, why did Jarett get kicked out of Marquet?
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MATT: The game's not over yet. That's a good
question, but I don't know what's going to happen.
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If that ever comes up in the story line, I don't
want to spoil it here. When the campaign's over, I
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do want to do a retrospective Q&A. A lot of
[inaudible] campaign were started and never came
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to fruition, as you all know happens a lot in role
playing games. We can talk about things that
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aren't going to impact necessarily the next
campaign. You can ask those questions and I can
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go, "I can tell you now!"
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BRIAN: Yeah, we're going to do a full cast plus
Matt retrospective on the campaign after. Probably
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like a very extended Talks episode. Or something
like [inaudible] talk for Critical Role, yeah.
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LAURA: Yeah, but some of the things that you still
won't be able to answer because we'll still be in
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the same world.
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MATT: Yeah. [inaudible]
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LAURA: Jarett got kicked out for being too damn
fine.
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MATT: I said not to spoil it.
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BRIAN: Okay. Who's next? Thank you.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: I am meepsandsheeps.
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BRIAN: Oh nice.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: My husband is [inaudible].
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BRIAN: Oh yeah, he always asks really great
questions. Tell him I say "Hey" and "Stay turnt."
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Oh that's you? What's up, dude? How are you? Come
get a pin from Rachel. Be careful though, she can
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be mean. What's your question?
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Well, my question is for Matt. If
you were to have an NPC of a flumph, what would
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said flumph sound like?
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MATT: Oh man. That's going to be a messy one. I
think it's going to sound something like--
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SAM: "Oh hello. It's nice to meet you."
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MATT: Marisha's dwarf?
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LAURA: So he's celestial?
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MATT: I'd imagine it would be something like, "Hi,
I want to come with you guys." They seem like the
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DnD; blobfish. Just this wonderful, flat creature.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't
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know what a flumph is, look it up. Oh yeah, that
sounds like a flumph.
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LIAM: It's like the inside of an oyster, much
bigger and floating on a [inaudible].
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MATT: (flumph noises) Thank you for that.
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BRIAN: Sounds like Laura when she's hungry.
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[laughter]
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: I want to thank Matt for the
retweet last night, for the Larkin sign. My phone
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died pretty much from all the Twitter
notifications. For whoever wants to jump in first,
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new campaign means new characters. Is anyone going
to try to top the majesty that is cock lightning
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for an intro?
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[laughter]
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BRIAN: We're going to have to have someone with
machine gun boobs that shoot lightning.
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SAM: The next intro should be all of us doing
various forms of cock lightning. Just come walking
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out of a room (explosion sound).
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TALIESIN: In a circle, and the lightning rises in
the middle.
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SAM: [inaudible] cross the streams.
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MATT: Most awkward episode of Captain Planet
ever.
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TRAVIS: All our hands are up like a roller
coaster.
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LIAM: That's how they sealed up the Chained
Oblivion.
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BRIAN: Oh my god, we have only been here for 23
minutes and my stomach hurts from laughing. You
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guys are amazing. What's your name?
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CJ: Hi, my name is CJ. [inaudible] on twitter. My
question is for Taliesin. Sorry, I'm a little
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nervous. With Vex'ahlia getting more interested
with Pelor and Percy's experience with Ioun, and
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this overall Vecna arc, is he possibly going to be
more interested in deities, overall?
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TALIESIN: No! I'll say he's come to terms with his
place and what that will actually mean may come
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out in the next few episodes or not. He's
definitely not seeking the approval, really. He
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definitely figured out that there is something
that he does have admiration for while he's mildly
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irritated, but he's not that mad it didn't love
him back. No. He walked out of there going, "Well,
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"that's just fine."
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[laughter]
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TALIESIN: If it had been anybody other than
Scanlan, but because it was Scanlan, he was like,
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"I don't care. Fine. This is so dumb."
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MARISHA: This end of the table is Team
Non-Exalted.
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TALIESIN: Yeah.
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[cheering]
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BRIAN: [inaudible]
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TALIESIN: He doesn't have animosity towards it,
but it's definitely not his thing. He's figured
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out that he's just not cut out for it. Good
question, though.
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CJ: Thank you.
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BRIAN: Thank you. Hey, what's your name?
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WILL: My name is Will. This is a forward-looking
question. One thing we have seen in the world of
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Exandria is the development both magical
[inaudible] and airships, but also
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technology-technology. My question is once the
current campaign ends tonight in a TPK.
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[laughter]
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WILL: When the new campaign begins after the timeskip,
how do you see those trends continuing to develop? If you
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have time for an in-character question, I wanted
to ask some of the-- technologically minded
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characters to talk about what inspires
them to do what they do, Taliesin's Percy, Sam's
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Tary, and Matt's NPCs like Dr. Ripley and Victor.
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MATT: Right.
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LIAM: Okay, everyone have a seat for the radio
play that will be the rest of the panel.
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BRIAN: Yeah, we might need to sell tickets for
that question.
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MATT: Yeah, that's actually a great question, and
could be a much longer discussion. I'll try to
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keep it precise. Much like, for instance,
oil-based gasolines, fossil fuels, we have
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technology that far exceeds what [inaudible]
Whoever controls the technology can control the
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rate at which it expands and is used. I think it's
a very similar circumstance that people who can
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create high-end magic technology also very
strongly control the use of it to the best of
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their benefit, both monetarily and for political
power. That is very much how I see that it is
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controlled through Exandria. I don't see
necessarily a perpetual kind of coming singularity,
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if you will, of magical technology in Exandria to
where it would rapidly change in the next
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campaign. You may see elements of it used more
often. As far as more mundane technology, that's
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going to be interesting because that is a threat
in the hands of the common man, being able to do
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what a mage could possibly do with years of
training. Then you have this at-odds circumstance
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of technology that empowers the little man versus
those that should be in power, from their mindset,
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so I'm curious to see where that goes.
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SAM: In character. (as Tary) Doty, take this down.
I have an idea for a hat that holds two bottles of
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aerated wine with a tube into my mouth so that I
could always be lubricated. Also, put this down
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just as a note. A 56k baud dial-up modem.
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[laughter]
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TALIESIN: Sadly, Percy's answer would actually be
a spoiler at this point. I'm going to have to hold
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that. If I die, we'll have a conversation about
it, but if I don't die then I'll save it.
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LIAM: Oh, okay. Follow up question. Does Scanlan
worry about the mass weaponization of cock
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lightning and it being in the wrong hands across
the world?
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MATT: I think it's called the baby arms race.
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[applause]
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BRIAN: That's Tal'dorable.
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[groans, laughter]
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ERIC: My name's Eric. Matt--
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BRIAN: What boots are these? Don't get kicked by
this guy, he's got spikes on them.
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ERIC: Matt, your show is the best. You are such a
wonderful storyteller. "There Will be Brawl" is
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amazing, when is there going to be a sequel?
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[laughter]
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MATT: Oh man, for those that haven't seen "There
Will be Brawl," it's a webseries that I directed
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and co-created back in 2008 or 2009.
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BRIAN: It's on YouTube.
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MATT: On YouTube. Super low budget, it's a live
action film noir, HBO crime drama version of
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Nintendo's Smash Brothers universe.
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ERIC: It's every bit as ridiculous as it sounds
and it's wonderful.
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MATT: Well, thank you. I was really proud of it.
It took itself super seriously and that's what was
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wonderful about it. Donning costumes and
prosthetics, I played Ganondorf in it. Anyway,
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that process almost killed me.
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ERIC: Because you don't have enough free time as
it is.
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MATT: Exactly. A sequel, oh man. We'll say if
somehow a crazy windfall were to hit and the rest
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of the industry burned down, and I'm like, "I got
nothing else better to do," then yeah, maybe a
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sequel. Right now, I'm a little busy. We had plans
for a sequel, but it never quite came to fruition.
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We had a prequel too, with the actual Kirby
murders, because Kirby in our universe is a
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cannibalistic killer. He wants to eat people and
wear their skin! Hats. When he eats Sonic, where
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does that come from? That's his scalp. Good
question!
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ERIC: What's your favorite 16-bit RPG?
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BRIAN: No second questions. Plus, that was too
close to the one at Comic Con. They asked 8-bit,
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16-bit JRPG at Comic Con. Right?
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AUDIENCE: Yeah.
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BRIAN: We all got shit for answers. Hello, what's
your name?
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RASHEEK: Hello, my name is Rasheek, I'm from Czech
Republic.
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BRIAN: You came all the way out here? Awesome.
Here, you get Travis's name tag.
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[cheers, applause]
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RASHEEK: My question is for Travis. I have some
Czech beer. Do you want some?
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SAM: Yes!
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RASHEEK: Czech beer.
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TRAVIS: Man, fuck yes!
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[laughter, cheering]
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TRAVIS: It's just Kool Aid and pilsner.
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BRIAN: Thank you so much.
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SAM: That is the best question we have ever been
asked.
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BRIAN: Thank you so much.
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BRIAN: What is your name? Look at that outfit. How
long did that take to put together?
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ASHLEY: I don't know.
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BRIAN: Okay, what's your name?
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ASHLEY: I'm Ashley.
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BRIAN: That's a beautiful name. Just tilt it down.
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ASHLEY: I can't.
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ASHLEY: I'm Ashley, I'm the Raven Queen. My
question is for Matt. I was wondering: when the
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Raven Queen was ascending to godhood, was it her
intention to be the goddess of death and replace
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the old god or was that an accident?
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MATT: I will say that what the myth and lore that
currently exists of the Age of Arcana speaks, many
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of the poems and stories say it was intentional.
Out of eventual distrust and disapproval of the
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god who at the time held the portfolios. Whereas
previously, the individual whose name has been
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scrubbed from history who held that office, if you
will, the portfolios, was destroyed because she
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felt that she could do a much better job.
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[applause]
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: I have two things if you will
indulge me for a moment.
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BRIAN and TRAVIS: Maybe.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Hey crowd. You want to join me on
this magic carpet ride? On the count of three, if
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we could all say, "Fuck you, Brian Foster." One,
two, three.
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AUDIENCE: Fuck you, Brian Foster!
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BRIAN: Can we do one more for my Instagram? I
don't want to make this all about me. One, two, three.
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AUDIENCE: Fuck you, Brian Foster!
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BRIAN: My mom will love that. Okay, I can indulge
another one then.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Matt and Marisha, congratulations
again. Question! Taliesin, you have said before
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that Percy is a few bad decisions away becoming a
villain.
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TALIESIN: Yeah.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Now after the Vecna fight, if
Vex'ahlia were to die, because--
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LAURA: How dare you.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Delilah has something for
Vex'ahlia. For some reason, that Finger of Death
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has always targeted you. For some reason-- I don't
know why. Should she die, will that be the last
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straw or the last tipping point for Percy? That
might make him go crazy? Because he is a mad scientist.
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TALIESIN: There is naturally an answer to that,
and I am not answering it here. [inaudible] I have
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thought about that, there is an answer to that.
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BRIAN: Thank you so much. You're really funny.
Hey, what's your name? I wasn't saying that
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sarcastically, either.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: [inaudible] I wanted to say thank
you, I'm sure I speak for everyone, for everything
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that you have done Matt, and everyone on the cast.
I appreciate it, by [inaudible]. I drove 14 hours
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to come here.
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BRIAN: No way! Where from?
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Boston.
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BRIAN: Shout-out to Boston.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Go Patriots.
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BRIAN: Anyway, you can ask your related question.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: You guys are probably going to
say no because I missed the signing thing and I
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have the [inaudible] poster with me.
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00:36:09,832 --> 00:36:17,372
BRIAN: Yeah, the only reason that I am going to be
the bad cop here, only because we get thousands of
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tweets every time we do a con, from somebody
that's like, "My grandmother fell when the tickets
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"were on sale and her Life Alert, the battery was
dead--" and we just can't, unfortunately, we can't
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do [inaudible]
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LAURA: It's very specific.
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00:36:31,682 --> 00:36:39,262
BRIAN: Yeah, but if you give me $150, I will no--
I'm sorry. Did you have a question, though?
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MATT: If you see any of us wandering the hall,
very discreetly nudge our shoulder and say, "Need
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"you to sign this, hoping to get out of the middle
of this crowd here." And we'll try to do that.
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00:36:49,483 --> 00:36:54,283
BRIAN: Yeah, that's actually a really good tip,
Matt. If you see somebody and you want to say hi
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or whatever, just be really quiet. "Hey, can you
sign this?" Because if you are like, (high-pitched
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00:36:59,533 --> 00:37:05,243
scream) "Oh my god, it's Matthew Mercer!" You have
a thousand girls with a McCree body pillow come out.
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[laughter, applause]
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MATT: (as McCree) He is not kidding.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: My question kind of ties into the
last question. Taliesin: would that, or something,
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push you to make you use that contract?
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TALIESIN: I am aware that the contract exists.
I've read it.
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MARISHA: You creep me out sometimes. You freak me
out. Because every once in a while you're like
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Frodo with the ring. Every once in a while, you
pull it out and you just stare at it [inaudible].
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I swear to god, all the time, you'll be like
[inaudible]
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LIAM: If you make it to the end of this campaign
and resist pulling that trigger, I will be impressed.
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TALIESIN: Yes.
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LIAM: [inaudible]
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TALIESIN: I'll be impressed make it to the end of
the game without pulling it.
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LIAM: Any week now, any week.
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LAURA: We have another Raven Queen.
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BRIAN: Yes, what's your name?
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BRITTANY: I'm Brittany. I actually only drove like
20 minutes to be here.
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[laughter]
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TRAVIS: Shout-out 20 minutes!
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BRITTANY: Actually, I have something from the
Raven Queen for her paladin, as well as something
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for the rest of you guys. I apologize, I am hoping
they're good luck charms. I have a skull for each
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of you.
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LAURA: A skull? You're going to give us a skull?
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BRITTANY: My question is for Marisha. I don't play
too many druids, but I love them because they are
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badass in general. What is your favorite spell and
what's a spell you wish you had that you don't have?
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MARISHA: Oh! Oh. I mean, I am a little partial to
Feeblemind. That's pretty great. Call Lightning is
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a go-to classic Keyleth favorite. I wish I had
Counterspell.
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MARISHA: [inaudible]
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MATT: That spell is bullshit.
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[laughter, cheering]
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Vecna used it!
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BRIAN: Hey, what's your name?
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KAT: Thank you, there is only 15,000 of us in
here. My name is Kat. My question is for Marisha
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and Taliesin. Will the Whitestone industrial
revolution be environmentalist?
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TALIESIN: Actually, yes.
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MARISHA: We have the stocks.
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00:40:01,292 --> 00:40:08,938
TALIESIN: We have the stocks. No, I think that a
lot of-- just to make it a little quicker than the
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way I discussed it a bit with Matt-- a lot of how
technology evolves is usually due to either
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warfare or desperate need. When you have magic in
play, there are a lot of things that you just
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don't need, so you don't really build it. I think
a lot of it is going to be trying to find cheap,
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easy ways of doing things without magic that are
not complicated and not natural. Which is why we
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are doing the steam-powered heating that we are
putting in Whitestone. It's quite useful.
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00:40:36,159 --> 00:40:43,529
MARISHA: Yeah, he has a plan for steam-heated
roads so that the snow will melt and not clog up
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the roads, which is great.
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KAT: You don't have to answer, but can Percy make
anything nice and uncomplicated?
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TALIESIN: What?
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BRIAN: Can you make anything nice and complicated?
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KAT: Uncomplicated.
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00:40:57,155 --> 00:41:03,066
TALIESIN: No! There will be a specific answer to
that if he lives as well.
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00:41:03,066 --> 00:41:10,195
BRIAN: Hey, voice actors, talk into the mic, by
the way. It's amazing with these guys
497
00:41:10,195 --> 00:41:14,865
how often you have to tell them,
but you have to tell them that, and they do this
498
00:41:14,865 --> 00:41:15,984
for a living. I'm just kidding. What's your name?
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00:41:15,984 --> 00:41:22,021
AUDIENCE MEMBER: I'm [inaudible]. valianteffort.
Matt, you mentioned before that you said that you
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had the Chroma Conclave arc planned for two years.
How much of that has evolved into the Vecna arc
501
00:41:27,432 --> 00:41:31,533
going into that? How much of all of that
specifically did you have planned?
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00:41:31,533 --> 00:41:36,514
MATT: Oh man. I knew that I wanted Vecna to be the
final villain if we ever made it this far into the
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campaign. Because he is just your classic DnD
villain that I never had the opportunity to do.
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00:41:40,296 --> 00:41:46,125
And [inaudible] Since that is has kind of been
building up to this arc, and recently coming to
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00:41:46,125 --> 00:41:51,801
realize that I am going to have to represent Vecna
in front of a lot of people who have a lot of
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00:41:51,801 --> 00:41:53,454
expectations with this character.
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00:41:53,454 --> 00:41:54,744
AUDIENCE MEMBER: You are doing great!
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00:41:54,744 --> 00:41:58,715
MATT: Aww, thank you.
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00:41:58,715 --> 00:42:00,481
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Vecna, stand up!
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00:42:00,481 --> 00:42:21,010
[laughter, applause]
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00:42:21,010 --> 00:42:26,883
MATT: Like any major arc, those DMs out there can
attest to this, you build out the structure in a
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00:42:26,883 --> 00:42:30,834
basic narrative arc until you get to that point.
You flesh out, change things based on where the
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00:42:30,834 --> 00:42:35,277
story goes. Things you can tie into it like, "Oh
it would be cool if this worked." I didn't have
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the whole thing plotted out. I had the basic three
act structure set. As they played through
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00:42:40,682 --> 00:42:44,687
Whitestone, as they played through the Chroma
Conclave arc, as things began to happen, it began
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00:42:44,687 --> 00:42:49,512
to solidify my idea of how to bring elements back
in and also try and make it different than
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00:42:49,512 --> 00:42:55,133
previous arcs that have been played. The Conclave
was very much a cataclysm has happened, now it's
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trying to rebuild and eventually when you're ready
you go after the villain. This is a very different
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00:42:59,832 --> 00:43:04,154
circumstance. The cataclysm is coming, but you
don't know when, and you don't know what's going
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to happen. I wanted to mix it up a little bit.
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00:43:07,282 --> 00:43:10,015
BRIAN: Great question. Hey, what's your name?
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00:43:10,015 --> 00:43:15,662
HANNAH: Hannah X. Hi guys. Quick question--
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BRIAN: Great shirt. It says Whitestone.
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00:43:17,983 --> 00:43:26,955
HANNAH: Whitestone, everything is totally fine.
[inaudible] de Rolo. Quick question for the
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00:43:26,955 --> 00:43:37,764
significant others, Travis/Laura, Marisha/Matt,
Sam and Liam? After a game, when you guys get
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00:43:37,764 --> 00:43:42,360
whispers-- because this has happened to me where
the DM is plotting against myself, my husband--
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00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:47,083
are you interrogating each other in the car, like,
"What the eff was that all about? Why won't you
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00:43:47,083 --> 00:43:49,404
"tell me what the whisper was about? Come on, tell
me."
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[laughter]
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00:43:55,645 --> 00:44:05,094
TRAVIS: I don't say shit. No, we don't spoil it.
Even recently, when we all left the room and it
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was just Liam and Matt, I have not gone back and
watched what was said.
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00:44:08,585 --> 00:44:09,753
LAURA: No, none of us know.
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00:44:09,753 --> 00:44:10,794
TRAVIS: We don't want to know.
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00:44:10,794 --> 00:44:11,805
MARISHA: Yeah, that's true.
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00:44:11,805 --> 00:44:13,595
HANNAH: Laura, level up dicers?
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00:44:17,325 --> 00:44:21,994
MARISHA: I will say that there are a lot of times
that people think that whenever Matt, almost every
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00:44:22,004 --> 00:44:29,904
game, they are like, "Aww, shit. Marisha's going
to make Matt sleep on the couch tonight!" It never happens.
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00:44:37,114 --> 00:44:40,100
MATT: It's good for the back posture.
539
00:44:40,100 --> 00:44:43,760
TRAVIS: I was in genuine trouble after making
Trinket run through that minefield.
540
00:44:44,842 --> 00:44:45,812
LAURA: He really was.
541
00:44:45,812 --> 00:44:50,542
TRAVIS: Everybody left, the door closed. Then the
face that turned to me.
542
00:44:50,542 --> 00:44:57,423
MATT: That is burned in my memory. That is the day
I learned never cross Laura Bailey.
543
00:44:57,423 --> 00:45:00,302
TRAVIS: She'll kill me in my sleep!
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00:45:00,302 --> 00:45:01,653
LIAM: It took you that long?
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00:45:01,653 --> 00:45:06,033
MATT: Look, you've known her longer than I have.
That was my moment.
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00:45:06,033 --> 00:45:16,894
BRIAN: That night Travis approached the Taco Bell
with sad Hulk music playing. Okay, you look amazing.
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00:45:17,233 --> 00:45:18,287
MARISHA: Yes!
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00:45:18,287 --> 00:45:20,361
MATT: (as Gilmore) No, they don't: they look
glorious.
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00:45:20,361 --> 00:45:28,231
[cheering]
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00:45:28,231 --> 00:45:35,022
WINCHESTER: I am Winchester, currently
partygilmore on Twitter. My question is for the
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entire cast, but mostly for Laura Bailey. Speaking
of whispers, some time ago you went snooping in my
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00:45:43,226 --> 00:45:49,864
room. You found a box under the bed. You found
letters in the box. You never told us what was in
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00:45:49,864 --> 00:45:53,114
those letters, and I would like to know if you
would tell us what what was in those letters.
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00:45:53,114 --> 00:45:58,074
[laughter]
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00:45:58,074 --> 00:46:10,754
LAURA: I never told anyone, did I? I don't know,
can I tell? They were love letters, between
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00:46:10,754 --> 00:46:16,064
Gilmore and his first boyfriend. They were really
sweet.
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00:46:16,064 --> 00:46:18,344
WINCHESTER: That's all I needed, thank you.
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00:46:18,344 --> 00:46:23,854
[applause]
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00:46:23,854 --> 00:46:25,904
BRIAN: [inaudible]
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MARISHA: Party Gilmore, You didn't get a pin,
catch!
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00:46:29,652 --> 00:46:31,607
BRIAN: You're drunk, get over here.
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00:46:35,347 --> 00:46:36,657
MATT: Okay, take it!
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00:46:40,337 --> 00:46:41,671
SABINA: Hey, Kiki.
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00:46:43,365 --> 00:46:45,389
MARISHA: [inaudible] Sun Tree!
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00:46:45,389 --> 00:46:54,939
[cheering]
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LAURA: That is amazing.
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00:46:58,471 --> 00:47:00,251
TALIESIN: Oh my god.
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00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:06,272
SABINA: My name is Sabina. I am from Michigan. As
you guys might not know, I met Matt and Marisha
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last night. It's a question for all of you, but
it's super quick. If you could put your characters
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into a Hogwarts house, what house would it be?
Matt, your characters are Allura and Gilmore. Sam,
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both Tary and-- Scanlan.
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00:47:24,949 --> 00:47:28,209
BRIAN: Tary, and the other guy.
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00:47:28,209 --> 00:47:36,670
MATT: I'll say Allura is Ravenclaw, most
definitely. I would probably put Gilmore in
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Gryffindor. Borderline Hufflepuff, but more
Gryffindor. I'm Hufflepuff, by the way.
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00:47:44,095 --> 00:47:52,477
LAURA: I am also Hufflepuff, I would put Vex, I
have seen a lot of people put her in Slytherin.
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00:47:52,477 --> 00:48:01,629
Okay, it's a toss up between Gryffindor and
Slytherin. [inaudible] Don't shake your head!
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: I'm a Slytherin.
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00:48:03,098 --> 00:48:04,158
LAURA: What?
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00:48:04,158 --> 00:48:05,308
AUDIENCE MEMBER: I'm a Slytherin.
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00:48:05,308 --> 00:48:05,828
LAURA: Okay.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: I'm a Gryffindor,
it all works out.
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00:48:11,869 --> 00:48:13,400
LIAM: Vax is Gryffindor.
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LAURA: Hide!
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LIAM: I don't know, I'm in either Ravenclaw or
Hufflepuff.
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LAURA: Hufflepuff!
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00:48:19,092 --> 00:48:30,253
[audience debating]
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BRIAN: Okay, we need to move on from this Harry
Potter. I love Harry Potter, but we got to keep moving.
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00:48:35,445 --> 00:48:40,651
SAM: I don't know anything about Harry Potter
shit, so I am going to say: Scanlan is Team Valor
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and Tary is Instinct.
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00:48:41,952 --> 00:48:50,012
[cheers, applause]
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TALIESIN: Ravenclaw for Percy.
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00:48:51,531 --> 00:48:56,204
MARISHA: I'm confused. I feel like they asked the
question and people have answered it in four
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different ways. Marisha is Ravenclaw, Keyleth
would probably be Hufflepuff.
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TRAVIS: I am in Slytherin, but I think Grog would
probably get kicked out, so he would just be
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Hagrid's understudy.
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[applause]
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SABINA: Thank you all so much, you are amazing.
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BRIAN: You're amazing, [inaudible] that was great.
Hey, what's your name? Don't forget to get a pin
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from Rachel there. What's your name, man?
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Hi, I'm [inaudible]. I was at the
live show last year and I loved it. Laura, since
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you forgot your dice tray, I'm sure if you went
down row 2500 in the exhibit hall to the Wyrmwood
602
00:49:34,487 --> 00:49:38,253
booth I'm sure they would loan you one. My
question, what--
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BRIAN: Do you work for them or is that just free
advertisement? Very sly.
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00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:49,449
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Free advertising. I was going to
ask Matt about Raven Queen patronage for blood
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00:49:49,449 --> 00:49:53,340
hunters, but I am going to give some love to the
nameless man between Marisha and Brian.
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BRIAN: [inaudible] You drop your wallet every
panel. Comic Con, San Diego, Wondercon-- I have
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00:50:06,867 --> 00:50:08,117
picked up your wallet.
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00:50:10,867 --> 00:50:16,677
AUDIENCE MEMBER: If you were to DM a one shot,
what genre would it be? Like horror, like Liam, or
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something more fun or lighthearted, or maybe even
like magical girl?
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00:50:21,999 --> 00:50:29,455
TRAVIS: Oh man, you are giving me way too much
credit. I have no idea, it would be some stream
611
00:50:29,657 --> 00:50:33,252
of consciousness bullshit [inaudible].
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00:50:33,252 --> 00:50:34,548
TALIESIN: You have never heard of Blood Bowl, have
you?
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00:50:34,548 --> 00:50:35,281
TRAVIS: No.
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TALIESIN: Like that Schwarzenegger film where you
kill everyone in a video game, except it's football.
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00:50:45,452 --> 00:50:52,203
TRAVIS: Oh my god. I'd do that. Then I would make
all the characters play their Vox Machina
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characters and I would find a way for Vax to die
immediately.
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LIAM: I'd just get back up again!
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00:50:58,434 --> 00:50:59,223
TRAVIS: I know.
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BRIAN: I get knocked down again. Thank you so
much.
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00:51:02,022 --> 00:51:04,402
MATT: Stress ball, Vox Machina style.
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BRIAN: Hello.
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00:51:10,023 --> 00:51:19,296
HANS: I'm Hans, [inaudible] on Twitter. My
question is for Brian and Matt. How long until
623
00:51:19,296 --> 00:51:21,363
Brian gets to guest on Critical Role?
624
00:51:21,363 --> 00:51:25,105
[applause]
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00:51:25,105 --> 00:51:33,062
BRIAN: Can I answer this? Okay. I talk about this
sometimes on Reddit. I feel weird, the after show
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00:51:33,062 --> 00:51:42,393
guy being on the show. Like if you saw-- not to
compare myself to Chris Hardwick-- but if you saw
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him walking around on The Walking Dead, some of
you may be like, "Aww, that's funny," but the rest of you
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would be like, "I hate this." I like to watch it
as a fan. I am also not a voice actor or an actor,
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so I feel like that is part of the excuse is that
you all are voice actors and Jon Heder. I don't
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know. Sam, can we make an announcement?
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SAM: It puts a lot of pressure on me. I will be
running a one-shot in a week and a half.
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[cheers, applause]
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SAM: One of my special guests is young Brian
Foster.
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[cheers, applause]
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BRIAN: [inaudible] as close to a Critical Role
one-shot thing.
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HANS: I have to ask a follow up. In that one-shot,
will you play a cabbage farmer named Larkin?
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BRIAN: I cannot answer that question. Thank you.
What's your name?
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CHRISTINE: My name is Christine. I am really
nervous. I left Fenthras over there, I was afraid
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to run into people with it.
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MATT: You are now unattuned.
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[laughter]
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CHRISTINE: It happens. Thank you guys so much for
doing what you do. I have a question for mostly
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Laura and maybe Matt. Ever since that episode with
Fenthras and Saundor, I have been thinking what
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would have had happened if Vex had gone with him.
Would she have gone like evil Galadriel, or what
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would have happened?
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LAURA: You can say, he's dead, anyways.
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MATT: To be fair, shortly after the episode, I
filmed the episode of GM Tips about notes and the
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internet zoomed in really close to my sheet and
found out elements of it. It's not super secret.
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LAURA: He told me this like right after
[inaudible]
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MATT: Yeah, because at that point, you couldn't
get it, so I was like, oops.
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LAURA: [inaudible]
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MATT: Both would have been interesting things. The
heart of the tree would have taken her into this
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embrace and she would have been turned into a fey
creature. She would have partially bark skin, much
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like Saundor had. It would have given her a bonus
to her armor class, a couple other things. It
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would have given her a few other bonuses, but I
can't remember all the things, more general fey
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abilities and such.
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LAURA: Like it gives [inaudible] right?
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MATT: Yeah, but also gives you vulnerability to
fire.
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LAURA: Which would have been real bad going into
the--
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MATT: Thordak fight. Plus, you would have had
Saundor as a patron, which would have been real interesting.
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LAURA: Yeah, that would have sucked.
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MATT: When I was designing that, my thought was
that probably won't be long term, because yeah.
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LAURA: If I would have gotten with Saundor, would
I be dead right now? Would Vex have been gone by now?
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MATT: I don't know if you would have been dead,
but you would have been a very different person.
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LAURA: Ugh.
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MATT: I don't know if any of the Percy stuff would
have happened.
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MARISHA: [inaudible] You don't want male
aggression as your patron.
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[cheers, applause]
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MATT: I didn't expect you to choose it, but I had
a backup just in case you did. It would have been
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its own unique interesting character arc for you.
I like what you did. I like what you chose.
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LAURA: Me too!
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CHRISTINE: Laura, I also bought dice in your
honor.
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SAM: This next cosplay is so good.
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[cheers, applause]
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Hello everyone. I have a question
for Brian, because I keep hassling him about it on Twitter.
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BRIAN: Okay.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: I'm a huge Brian W. Foster fan,
and since y'all support each other I thought you--
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BRIAN: Y'all, both of you?
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Brian has an EP on iTunes called
"Odessa" and it's amazing and you should listen to
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it. He also has the book, "Blackened White" which
I'm going to get him to sign tomorrow. I would
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like for you to sing for us, Brian. Everyone knows
[inaudible]
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BRIAN: Oh man, what do you want me to sing?
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Preferably, just the beginning of
"The Wine."
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BRIAN: Oh man, okay, what are the lyrics? This is
an old one. The beginning of it? ♫ Tommy
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♫ Barlo, relieved of his sorrow, there's blood on
the roadway, where he died. ♫
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[applause]
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BRIAN: [inaudible] ♫ Every word you ever spoke.
Thirty years in silence smashing stones, holding
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♫ onto holy roses. ♫
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[applause]
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BRIAN: You, wait over here and I'll sign
that book.
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LIAM: Matt, Matt, Matt! How do I kill Vecna?
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MATT: Don't tell him anything.
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TRAVIS: We only have four minutes left, so we have
to lightning round.
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LAURA: Seriously, go check out "Odessa" because
[inaudible]
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ETHAN: Hi, I'm Ethan. This is for Mr. Mercer, if
this violates the GM no note things that you have
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just tell me and I'll ask later. Back in the
Sunken Tomb episode when Vex had that temporary
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leave of absence, you said something to Kash along
the lines of, "If you revive her, then you might
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"draw Vesh's attention." Did you have any sort of
mechanics in play for that, or was that flavor text?
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MATT: Well, flavor text. There's a difference
between mechanics and story elements that you will
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then bring mechanics in for. I hadn't plotted that
to happen; I didn't expect her to die. I didn't
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think to plan ahead in case Kashaw resurrected
her. In the spur of the moment, that made sense
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and then words happened. Then it would have
brought Vesh more towards the story, more than she
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currently is. Vesh is an interesting god-- that
may be in future books-- who is not in the
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Tal'Dorei guide because Vesh and the relationship
to Kashaw is more based in another continent.
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Eventually the system will be expanded.
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BRIAN: Lightning round, who's up?
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DANIELLE: Hi, my name is Danielle. My question is
for Matt. One of the great things about being a DM
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is we get to come up with lots of characters while
PCs only get to play one. If you could pick one
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character who you have played as an NPC to carry
as your own PC in another campaign, who would it be?
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MATT: Ooh, man. Yeah, that's a lot to pick from.
No, Victor is fun for short bursts. For a long
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term campaign, someone who is interesting and a
little bit different from myself. Senokir would be
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great. (as Senokir) Because this is how he would
be speaking the entire time.
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LAURA: Then you would be able to see the other
side of Senokir. That would be so cool.
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MATT: (as Senokir) That would be a lot of fun.
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BRIAN: Okay. This is going to be the last question
because over here, someone just put a blow dart in my--
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: My question is for Mercer. As a
fellow DM--
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BRIAN: Little closer to the mic so everyone can
hear you.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: As a fellow DM, this is directed
at Mr. Mercer, when you have a near-TPK, or
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potentially have a TPK, how do you deal with that?
I noticed that a lot--
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TRAVIS: Why are you asking that tonight?!
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MARISHA: All these people [inaudible]
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BRIAN: Okay, let's go, speed it up. Speed it up
because we got to wrap up.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: How do you deal with that? I know
that there is a lot of anger. Is there like a
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pizza party at the end to hopefully mend
relationships?
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MATT: Well, one of the roles of a GM is a
therapist, in a lot of ways. When things happen,
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you have to be emotionally available for those
players to help them through it and other players
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in the game as well. If a character dies, or if
it's a TPK, you have to prepare to like, "All
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right guys, I'm going to take us out for drinks.
We are going to have a little wake for the party."
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If the party feels really attached to characters
and you don't want to actually ruin their lives,
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you can try to think of story elements to bring
them back. Like, all of a sudden they wake up as
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undead in the control of this mage and now the
campaign is to try to shed the shackles of undead.
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Or perhaps the [inaudible] brings them over into
another plane when their souls were to traverse,
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but there's something wrong when their souls go to
another plane. Now their story is being in the
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spirit realm fighting. You continue the story and
the players are really connected and you feel like
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they got robbed of a proper end. If you think they
are mature enough to handle it, then you buy them
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some drinks.
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BRIAN: Thank you all for coming out. Give these
guys a round of applause.
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[applause, cheering]
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[elevator music]