Many hearts will be happy, but mine will be sad
When I think on the joys that my family had
When I mind on the time that we gathered so free
There was none in this world more happy than we.Listening to Health to the Company results in CR campaign 1 feels, and also death by details due to wanting to add everything I love about CR into one drawing.
→ [3/5] episodes: “Would you look at that. The pup yet lives.” Crimson Diplomacy, Episode 25
Heck yeah, let’s get this list done for the whole series!
Tried to keep the descriptions as spoiler-free as possible so people can just jump in wherever, but I’d skip this if you’re really worried. Every link leads to the exact timestamp, some of which are obviously very spoilery. Here we go!
Episode 3: Vex and Keyleth say “fuck it”. (Note: early episode means v. loud at times and sound quality is pretty rough.)
Episode 4: Laura gets to the episode a bit late, just in time for an elaborate and extremely well-thought-out plan to go into play.
Episode 17: Grog mopes after a rough fight.
Episode 18: Matt gets a subtle revenge after Percy absolutely wrecks shop with multiple natural twenties… while wearing buttflap pajamas.
Episode 19: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn has a helluva moment as Zahra during a particularly nasty fight in her first-ever D&D game.
Episode 22: Vex is Not Pleased.
Episode 23: Matt invents Victor the blackpowder merchant on the spot.
Episode 24: The party refuses to let Percy face the Briarwoods alone.
Episode 24: Vax gets revenge on Grog for tripping him several months ago.
Episode 25: Vax alone.
Episode 25: Vex charges in with the most dramatic dice rolls possible.
Episode 26: “Here’s my plan… we’re all cows.”
Episode 28: The show takes on a distinctly different and more disturbing tone. Welcome to Whitestone.
Episode 31: [Jurassic Park theme intensifies]
Episode 34: The sixth barrel.
Episode 34: To quote an earlier post: the walls are people and magic is dead. Everything is fine.
Episode 35: Scanlan casts a spell on Percy.
Episode 36: Percy gives Grog a sentient sword. What could go wrong?
Episode 36: Keyleth, Scanlan, and Percy take in a magic show during the festival. They’re… still a little frazzled.
Episode 38: Scanlan’s flirtatious relationship with Kaylie takes a dramatic turn.
Episode 39: Everything changes.
Episode 40: The party starts to fracture under the strain.
Episode 41: Finding Gilmore.
Episode 42: Vex’s limerick for Scanlan.
Episode 44: Matt is DMing a room full of twelve-year-olds.
Episode 44: Half the party’s character arcs turn on a single roll of the dice…
Episode 45: “I like you people, okay?”
Episode 47: Vex seeks help with a magical artifact.
Episode 47: Vax and Grog slip into nightmares.
Episode 48: Vex does some flying target practice over breakfast. Things escalate.
Episode 49: Grog escapes the portal in the most heartbreaking possible way.
Episode 51: Scanlan coaches Kaylie through a distraction.
Episode 52: Unbe-fucking-lievable sequence of dice rolls.
Episode 53: Bickering twins being bickering twins.
Episode 55: “Left.” Chills every time.
Episode 56: Grog gets his hands on a magical artifact. Experimentation ensues.
Episode 56: Percy and Keyleth talk about cities and lifespans. Unbelievably good improv.
Episode 57: Chatting with trees.
Episode 57: Vax has an unexpected late-night visitor.
Episode 58: Scanlan to the rescue. (”I don’t do these things!”)
Episode 59: Percy has a couple of late-night conversations after a charm wears off.
Episode 59: Pike commissions a family portrait.
Episode 60: Vox Machina is a close-knit group.
Episode 63: Saundor and Vex. Link is to the fixed audio, because the background music times up perfectly and it’s a little uncanny.
Episode 64: A belated discovery and farewell.
Episode 65: The perils of mist-walking in a desert environment.
Episode 65: Scanlan looks for someone to help him out with a drug deal.
Episode 67: Keyleth, the airship, and the storm.
Episode 68: Scanlan and the Onyx Dog.
Episode 69: A letter for Keyleth.
Episode 69: An ominous meeting.
Episode 71: “I sing at it.”
Episode 72: Vex and Percy talk about forgiveness.
Episode 74: Senokir introduces himself. Things get a little weird.
Episode 75: Pike teaches Grog to read.
Episode 76: “I’m so amazing!”
Episode 78: Kashaw the strategist.
Episode 81: Grog finds a famous (infamous) D&D magical item.
Episode 82: “Gravity is fuuuucked.”
Episode 83: Critical Role in a five-second soundbite.
Episode 83: Keyleth’s Hail Mary.
Episode 84: Kima asks the party to lie on her behalf.
Episode 85: Taryon Darrington makes his debut.
Episode 86: “You’ve never played Boulder, Paper, Shears?”
Episode 87: Vax and Grog play hide and seek.
Episode 89: Doty does some sketching and Taryon gets some flash cards.
Episode 90: Taryon and Grog go shopping and things… escalate.
Episode 93: Everyone belatedly realizes that the entire campaign was one dice roll away from ending.
Episode 95: Grog completely changes the course of a stranger’s life.
Episode 97: Dealing with the mechanics of your canon Coffee Shop AU.
Episode 100: Commune with Ducks.
Episode 100: Grog feels replaced.
Episode 102: Ninth-level spells are terrifying.
Episode 102: Sam plans ahead.
Episode 103: The return.
Episode 103: Grog and Scanlan go to run an errand and things… escalate.
Episode 104: Keyleth talks to a disgruntled tree.
Episode 104: What does Vex mean to you?
Episode 105: The chat knows where Laura’s item card went.
Episode 107: Singing to the librarians.
Episode 109: The love potion. (headphone warning: live audience is LOUD with very good reason)
Episode 110: Reverse math.
Episode 112: The narrowest escape.
Episode 112: Summoning help via dick pics.
Episode 112: Things get a little weird (terms & conditions may apply).
Episode 113: The most vicious and cruel trick.
Episode 114: Fighting with one hand tied behind your back.
Episode 114: An end, once and for all.
Epilogues:
The Very Straight Adventures of Vox Machina
Percy and Vex get a book in the Mail.
Word Count: 695
The Daring Trials and Tribulations of Ser Taryon Darrington
“Darling?” Vex asked.
He looked up from his armchair and his heart warmed just a bit. In the many years they’d been together, few things would ever make him happier than the sight of Lady Vex’ahlia, Baroness of the Third House of Whitestone and Grand Mistress of the Grey Hunt, wearing an elegant (and low-cut) evening gown in the grand library of Castle Whitestone, sitting cross-legged on the carpet next to a giant, hulking brown bear, hair falling out of her bun and wearing no shoes as she gleefully tore through the day’s packages and correspondences like a little girl on Winter’s Crest. Trinket had bits of brown paper scattered in his fur. There was a box on his head.
“Yes, dear?” He closed his book and leaned against the armrest. “Something interesting in the mail?”
She raised an eyebrow up at him, and the beginning of a grin played against her lips. “You could say that.”
“What is it?”
She lifted a heavy-looking book into the air. “Would you like to guess?” she asked.
“Is it from Scanlan?” Percy hazarded.
“No, dear.”
He perked up. “It’s not the book on glassblowing I wanted, is it? Because I think the tower could use some—”
Vex waved a hand. “No, dear. It’s not your blowing book.”
His cheeks colored. “I do recall asking you to stop calling it that.”
“I do recall refusing, darling. Now come on, for a smart man you’re quite awful at this.”
Percy shrugged. “It’s the tome of leadership,” he said, knowing full well that it wasn’t.
Vex sighed. “Alright, alright, I’ll give you a hint.” She cracked it open and read:
Then, as the saltwater rose dozens, no, hundreds of feet into the air, the half-elven druid turned to face me. I could see in her eyes she trusted me to protect her. I could see the battle raging on in the distance; the massive goliath cutting down foes like blades of grass, the white-haired fighter felling enemies with his strange contraption, the dark-haired half-elf girl stringing arrow after arrow, and up above, far above, a black shadow dancing across the sky on raven’s wings.
These were my friends. My family. They needed me.
Vex lowered the tome and gave her husband a patient look.
He was staring at her, mouth agape, which was not an uncommon expression. “It’s a book about us?” He asked. “But you said it wasn’t from Scanlan.”
She sighed again, and in a quick movement threw it at him. He caught it, but just barely.
“Read the cover, darling.”
Percy adjusted his glasses and peered closely at the cover. In bright gold leaf against a black cover, it read, “The Daring Trials…and Tribulations of Taryon Darrington, my gods! He actually wrote it!”
Vex gave him a smug look. “Read the inside cover.”
Percy flipped it open. “Dedicated to my mother, Marianne Darrington, as well as…the band of heroes and my dearest friends…”
“Finish it, darling.”
“…my dearest friends, Jumbo, Antlers, Daughter of Sarenrae, Little Elf Boy…Little Elf Girl, and Percival Frederickstein von Mussel Klossowski de Rolo the Third.”
After a while, Percy asked, “Did he send a note with it?”
Vex smiled. “Sort of.”
“Sort of?”
“Look at the back cover. On the inside.”
He did. In an ostentatious, looping scrawl it said, Let me know what you think.
Percy got out of his chair, and sat down on the floor next to his wife. “Well,” he said, “we should probably get started, then.”
Vex giggled. There were tears at the corners of her eyes. “Blondy probably wouldn’t want to be kept waiting,” she said.
They both leaned against Trinket, who had fallen asleep and was breathing deep, slow breaths. Tomorrow, there would be meetings to preside over and duties to attend to and preparations to be made for Midsummer’s and children to watch over and documents to sign, but for now?
For now:
“Chapter One,” read Percy.
In my travels through Anh’karel, I have never seen so many magical items in one place. But then I saw them, walking up to me, and I knew I had met some very special people.
Oh man Vox Machina making sure to tell Gilmore’s parents that he’s doing well, and showing off about him, and Scanlan pointing out that right now he’s defending an entire city. Vax saying that he’s brave.
Things that have not changed with the new characters:
Travis is The Big Guy.
Marisha should maybe leave the social encounters to somebody else (but almost certainly won’t).
Laura is adorable and has some kind of trouble with her dad.
Liam wants to protect the lady he’s traveling with and exudes a quiet sadness.
Sam is a tiny bundle of vices who you will probably nevertheless grow to love.
Ashley can probably throw a truck at you.
Taliesin is a sarcastic bastard who’s never heard of dialing it down a notch.
I very much enjoy the whole of Vox Machina immediately reassuring Vex, telling her she made the right choice and that Saundor is a fucking dick. Like, all at once and enthusiastically telling her she did nothing wrong
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