Q & A

• 03:23:40 Marisha:"God, I got asked this question at the panel over the weekend, too. It's a hot topic. Everyone wants to know how I killed the kid. Well, we were fighting-- well tell us about the fight [indicating to Matt]
  Matt:"So, over the course of the first major arc of their campaign, every town they went to, there seemed to be this recurring theme of children disappearing, so they kept trying to follow this thread and asking around, and these kids kept vanishing, and the one common thread they were discovering was, shortly before each kid disappeared, they began playing with a new kid who had long black hair and golden eyes. And then they would disappear within a week of playing with that child. And towards the end of the campaign, during a celebration, after they managed to save the city of Emon, they looked over and found that the Sovereign Uriel's child was talking to this black-haired golden-eyed child. So the party, in the middle of a platform, grandstand, bowing before the townspeople, they all just pulled their weapons out and jumped off after this child, who grabbed the sovereign's son and pulled him into this pocket dimension. And what it turned out to be was this entity, which is a variation of the Dread Emperor, for those who are familiar with that character. The Dread Emperor essentially had created this pocked dimension world, this giant bramble forest that surrounded a gothic castle, where it existed. This weird, messed-up individual that brought children there because it loved to be around their innocence and their naivety, their sense of play."
  Marisha:"So basically, a sorcerer Neverland Ranch."
  Matt:"Yeah. It was kinda messed-up. But once the children got too old, they were no longer useful, so he just killed them and put them in a basement. So, the party gave chase, they fought their way to the castle, and they discovered that whas was dangerous about fighting this Dread Emperor in his library was it was wearing golden armor, and attached to this armor via four chains were four children by collars, and if anyone attacked him directly, he shared the damage he took with the children."
  Marisha:"And we actually found these clippers for the chain."
  Laura:"Like, big golden scissors, but we put them in our pocket and forgot that we had them."
  Marisha:"We were like, 'sweet clippers!'. Pocket. Keep going.' And then we get to this emperor with these giant gold chains and we're like, 'Augh! How do you break these gold chains? If only we had like, clippers. Oh well, we don't.'"
  Matt:"However, you guys started attacking the chains with your weapons, and you were doing enough damage during the first few rounds to save most of the kids."
  Laura:"But there was one kid left..."
  Marisha:"So there was one. So, we were trying to get these kids away from us because we dont want to hurt them, but we wanted them away, so I used a Grasping Vine, and I was trying to yank the kid away, but the Grasping Vine attached to the chain instead of the kid, and so with the chain at the collar around his neck, when the vine yanked...it kind of, uh..."
  Matt:"You broke the kid's neck."
  Laura:"I thought you grabbed around the kid's waist and like he got pulled towar the thing, but the chain was still around his neck."
  Matt:"That's what happened. The vine wrapped around his body and it broke his neck, and it pulled him, because he was still attached to the armor."
  Laura:"That's maybe a little worse."
  Marisha:"Oh, that's right. I should've grabbed the chain."
• 03:30:33 Ashley:"I got a wicked streak, man."
  Liam:"On a related note, somebody wants you to say, 'fuck you, Dylan' for some reason."
  Ashley:"FUCK YOU, DYLAN!"
  Travis:"That was amazing, actually! That had a lot of conviction behind it."
• 03:32:39 Matt:"As a note, guys. For those of you that have seen Mr. Mom? The little kid with the woobie?"
  Taliesin:"This is how everything goes wrong."
• 03:33:20 Liam:"Either high school or my birthday two and a half years ago. It was my birthday request to play a one-off, and it turned into this."
  Matt:"Yeah. This is Liam's fault."
• 03:47:32 Taliesin:"Erika Ishii, Yuri Lowenthal."
  Matt:"Yeah, he [Yuri] guested once before the show. As Ghost Fist, the dwarven monk."
• 03:47:55 Laura:"That's what I want to be if I die. I want to roll as a tiefling." (echoes of Jester)
• 03:51:48 Marisha:"How much do we write and how much do we improv? I mean, everything the players do is improv."
  Matt:"Yeah, there's no pre-planning."
  Liam:"Matt's writing plot points, but he's improvising too and we have no idea what the hell's going to happen."
  Sam:"I write all my songs from scratch." (all laugh)
• 03:52:51 Matt:"...and I think if 1s were critical fails the classic way, we would have TPK'd by now."
  Travis:"What's that?"
  Matt, Sam, and Orion:"Total Party Kill"
  Matt:"Because in some rule sets, when you roll a one, it's a serious-- In old campaigns I used to run, if you rolled a one attacking somebody, your weapon would go flying across the room and you'd fall on the ground. Or, like, if you were trying to life a boulder, the boulder would then fall and crush you and you're dead."
  Travis:"Why do you want us to die? What a shitty question."
• 03:56:00 Marisha:"Question. Worst possible enemy to fight? Probably a beholder."
  Laura and Taliesin:"A beholder."
  Matt: [laughs and looks directly at the camera and grins]
• 03:36:48 Matt:"The very first game we played, you all had come together as individual mercenaries in the city of Stillben, which is kind of a swamp town on the far Eastern side of this continent. You, all, for your own reasons, had come there because you needed money, you were trying to establish some way of making your skills useful, and there was a job board, and all of you came together in a tavern, saw there was a posting, and you decided to combine forces and try it out. That's how that started. And then they met Percy along the way, in a prison in the Umbra Hills."
  Taliesin:"We've never really discussed what I was doing down there. That's a story for another time."
• 03:58:00 Matt:"In what was the final boss battle for the first arc, they were going towards the center of the city because a glabrezu, a treachery demon, had infiltrated the Sovereign Uriel, the king of the area, and his family. Filled their bodies with shades, as opposed to their souls. They managed to recover the family, but they got into a conflict with the glabrezu, and as the fight was ensuing, Pike got too close, the glabrezu took a swipe at her, and rolled a critical hit, and did enough damage to bring her to death instantly..."
  Ashley:"I had already taken some hits, and then I realized at a certain point, because, in the Pathfinder edition, if you're negative your constitution, and then I wasn't keeping track, and I looked down and it was way past my constitution, and I was like, 'Oh, Matt? So what does it mean if you're this?' The look that he gave me, he was like, 'Oh.' And he just paused because he was like, 'Oh, that. You're dead.' He was trying to figure out a way to say it."
  Matt:"It was awful."
  Ashley:"And I instantly started crying. I was like, 'No! No no no!'"
  Travis:"There's video of it."
  Laura:"All of us are crying."
• 04:01:57 Travis:"Fucking Burt Reynolds."
  Sam:"He's coming back soon."
  Matt:"That's one of my favorite deterrents. You avoided essentially what would have been a throwdown with the entire Thieves' Guild of Emon by bluffing your way by pulling out a silver star and a fake moustache and convincing them that you were part of the customs department."
• 04:02:31 Historic Crit Moment Gilmore is revealed on stream.
• 04:19:20 Matt:"One of our biggest fears when this thing came to our attention, when Geek & Sundry contacted us, was we didn't want it to change the game for us. We did this together for fun. We enjoyed it, and it was just a wonderful thing for us for two years. And so our biggest fear was it changing that dynamic, and so we tried to be very careful that we didn't alter how we played, and didn't change the format, really, other than having cameras."
  Liam:Yeah, we didn't want it to turn into a reality TV show."
• 04:31:12 Orion:"...and the way Clarota interacts differently. I don't see Matt doing it. I see (creature noise) doing that."
  Laura:"Isn't that crazy that it's instantly Clarota and it's instantly Kima? It's not Matt anymore, as soon as it's that character."
  Orion:"So it is that sense of, like, realistic magic that exists every single game."
• 04:34:18 Marisha's dwarf accent attempt.
  Taliesin:"(imitates the Swedish Chef)"
• 04:34:50 Historical Crit Moment Fans of the show are officially known as Critters.
• 04:37:19 #BondageFriends