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*THE* SHIPS' FIRST GLANCE ♡ [6/?]

The Search For Grog: 

Fate Rolls

Grog killing his guard? Poetic.

*SPOILERS*

First off, my apologies for not updating as soon as I usually do, but life is a thing. As much as I would prefer watching Talks Machina to studying for AP Stats, life comes first. Without further ado, this was the episode:

Sam, Matt, and Brian start off by discussing the success of the Kickstarter campaign.

Comparing the number of whispers between campaign one and two.

Taking a moment to appreciate a beautiful new coffee table.

Matt gives some insight into how he shapes NPCs in player backstories by taking into account both the worldbuilding and the information the players have given him. It’s all about trust between the player and DM, keeping in mind the intent of the player, and coming up with good ways to surprise them with it.

Nott is capable of recognizing beauty (even if not in her species), and “when the minotaur strutted by with, uh, with his, I don’t know, shanks?” she definitely saw it there. Nott feels freed up to “look around” knowing that her man is out there.

As a DM, expect your players to thirst after the NPCs.

Matt is enjoying populating the city of monsters since he can switch up common scenarios with more monstrous races (hence the kobolds in a trench coat; there are five of them, and they all have names).

If anything happened to Caleb, Nott would see Caduceus as the new leader (anybody but Fjord).

Prodding about Fjord’s alignment.

If Beau had won the brawl, Dairon’s true form would have been revealed. She wasn’t planning to get involved in the fight until Beau did.

A description of Matt’s brainstorming process.

Nott has thought about how Yeza might react to her when they find him. She is terrified of it and doesn’t want him to see her the way she is, but desperately wants to see him safe again.

Matt had lots of fun using a monk and spamming stunning strike. The fight was a good way to show the progression of the Cobalt Soul monk subclass.

Matt’s favorite class to play as an NPC is wizard.

Nott still gets the “itch” but hasn’t for some time due to the group’s circumstances. She only tried to get the diamond after the fight because it was shiny and seemed important (she doesn’t necessarily know that it could be used to save on of their lives in the future).

When Beau walked into the Four Corners, she had a “wtf are you doing here?” moment. Dairon thought Beau would get herself killed and felt the need to intervene.

Nott’s opinion on goblins has changed since coming into the city. Meeting Zorth specifically has helped ease some of her biases, but she is still fairly anti-goblin.

Nott puts flowers in other people’s hair because it’s a halfling superstition.

Matt did not practice Madame Musk’s character voice in advance.

Nott just enjoys messing with Fjord. However, deep down, Nott thinks that she and Fjord are not so different from each other, and that bugs her.

Most of the stuff below is about “The Search for Grog.” You have been warned.

Matt misses the camaraderie of Vox Machina. The Mighty Nein is getting there, but there is still a long way to go. He does not miss the level 20 combat.

Every time they describe how gross the campaign one mug was it GETS WORSE.

Matt wanted to throw shade on Vox Machina for giving Grog the deck of many things right when things were ending with the campaign.

“The Search for Bob” stretch goal has been met, so we’ll be getting to that eventually.

Sam enjoyed signing inspirations as Scanlan again.

Matt decided Percy was going to lose his arm during the one shot weeks before it began. Sam thought it was funny because he has never seen Matt do anything like that before.

Matt took Liam and Ashley’s components to introduce a new level of challenge to the party.

Matt had no idea Liam planned to twist the knife of Vax’s death that much with his new character.

Scanlan wiped Grog’s memory at the end to keep the continuity of him not knowing what happened and to mess with him.

CR SPOILERS

FOR SPOILER TAG REGARDLESS IF IT’S CR2 OR THE SEARCH FOR GROG FOR EXAMPLE.

just for any new piece of critical role content that very probably not everybody got yet the chance to see