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When Yankee Doodle went to town a-riding on a pony, he was being a poser. The British wrote the song ‘Yankee Doodle’ to ridicule Americans’ lack of class. The term ‘macaroni’ described those sophisticated, worldly, and upper-class people with a stylish sense of fashion, so when that Yankee simpleton (doodle) put some random feather on his hat and called it classy (macaroni), it was just a failed attempt at trying to look cool. Source
In 1997, 14-year-old Nathan Zohner got 43 out of 50 9th graders to vote in favor of banning dihydrogen monoxide, also known as water. The hoax was a science fair project, which he titled ‘How Gullible Are We?’ He not only won the science fair, but also inspired the term 'Zohnerism,’ defined as 'the use of a fact to lead a scientifically ignorant public to a false conclusion.’ Source Source 2 Source 3
Had a dream about a wolf boy trying to find the Queen of Light, who looked like she was made of glass and refracted all the light into rainbows around her.
Everything had a Ghibli animation look to it, and apparently my dream came in half way through the “movie” because he was approaching the place the Queen was supposed being guarded. One of the guards telling him “his place by the fire was about to get a whole lot closer”, which evidently meant his status was about to go up??
And a friend he thought he’d lost on his journey(who looked like a young Gilmore from Critical Role) was there and he ran to him and embraced him and kissed his cheeks and it was super cute.
But some other higher ups didn’t want him there, saying it was an embarrassment he was allowed to get so far. Racist against wolf people i guess. So the night before he was to meet the Queen, they basically ambushed him and tried to use magic to torture him into lashing out so they could muzzle him and claim he was too violent to be in the presense of the Queen. And I had to listen to him scream and cry out for his brothers and his friend, but it looked like no one was coming and THAT’S WHEN I WOKE UP???
WHAT THE HELL BRAIN YOU CAN’T LEAVE ME ON A CLIFF HANGER LIKE THAT??!
Superfriends D&D
I know I literally just posted about this, but I have ideas now.
So, the friends decide one game night to try Dungeons and Dragons. They convince Vasquez to be DM.
(There really wasn’t much convincing required, honestly, but Vasquez just wanted to give them a hard time because D&D, really Danvers?)
On their first session, Winn sets it up so they’re streaming, with the camera staying on the map. They don’t give out their actual names, only referring to each other by their character names on Alex’s instance. The stream slowly gains popularity, but when it accidentally gets out that one of the players is Supergirl?
Holy fuck, it blows up.
Like, it’s the Critical Role of their universe.
So, their characters (the basics of this thanks to @likeaduck and @superspies-and-apple-pie)
Kara plays a lightfoot halfling Cleric, Kithra Treebark. She follows Rao, the Greyhawk deity of peace and reason and her domain is Life. (As @likeaduck said ‘she’s The Tank IRL and the vicarious thrill for her is in healing and helping’). As she travels, she heals who she can, and spreads the knowledge of healing to those who need it.
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Liam just posted this to twitter. A little insight on Vax’s extra attacks.
Highlights from Talks Machina (Episode 105)
Again, covering for @eponymous-rose while she continues her international vacation! Sorry for missing last week–things got crazy! Tonight’s guests: Darin de Paul, Taliesin sporting a lovely scarlet mohawk, and Travis. Brian starts a story that ends with him forging several signatures, and off we go.
The new campaign guide comes out soon! Taliesin is now worried about messing up the history of a character he invented.
Darin loves D&D as a long-form improv exercise and is happy he was able to get moments with each of the cast members.
Right after college, Darin was an apprentice at the Burt Reynolds Theater in Florida (a year-long program for theater students). One of his co-apprentices was Matt’s mom, and Matt’s grandmother was the director’s assistant. Matt’s father was part of the writing room. During the run of Darin’s last show (Fiddler), a clarinet player said they were going to play D&D and invited Darin. Matt’s mother was also in the group; they were all new to the game, so they rolled on a table for names and played four sessions. Last year, Darin was hired by Blizzard to do various voices, which is where he and Matt became friends. Later, Matt realized his mom had a picture of herself with Darin de Paul, and discussion of that picture led to the conversation of their D&D game. It’s been 37 years since Sprigg’s original campaign.
Matt was worried about fitting Sprigg in until Darin mentioned he was a hermit. The hobgoblin TPK was canon! Sprigg, a chaotic evil illusionist thief, was the only one to survive; the last moment of that campaign had him fleeing on a cart with wolves chasing him, abandoning the rest of the party to their deaths. Travis and Taliesin ask if he really was chaotic evil; “Why do you think he was so interested in redemption, dear boy?”
The first episode Darin saw was the Trials of the Take episode when the carpet was destroyed. He’s wanted to be on the show ever since.
Symmetra’s voice actor, Anjali Bhimani, also plays D&D. My heart skips a few beats.
Vex and Percy eloped over the year break. Laura and Taliesin kept it secret out of pique at first (Taliesin doesn’t remember why they were piqued). He’s not surprised the others are annoyed.
Grog was extremely impressed by Sarenrae and hasn’t thought much about Kord giving him any boons.
Darin has been a fan of the show and watching for some time. Taliesin says he is the most prepared guest they’ve ever had.
Very few people were present at Vex & Percy’s wedding. They did not intend to ever bring it up on their own.
The plane of books is the worst possible plane for Grog. Only the plane of shopping would be worse.
As soon as Darin walked into the studio last Thursday, Travis immediately asked him if he was a god. Travis still thinks he might be.
Percy would rather have a thousand years with Vex than a thousand years with Ioun’s library.
Travis wants a “positive, upbeat resolution to all the drama that is a-hanging in the air.” Me too. Travis does not read the Player’s Handbook to help keep Grog dumb, so he never knows what’s going on.
Travis loves how prepared Darin was. He offered the Deck because he thought Darin was looking for something specific after Sprigg deflected the weaker offerings.
Darin loved the emotion in the room during the plane shift and the strong moment with Marisha in particular. He also likes the movie Gargoyles.
The hardest thing about playing Sprigg after so long was finding him again. Brian gets very sentimental about the long journey that brought Sprigg back to life, including Darin becoming friends and colleagues with Matt so many years later.
Darin will be back on the next episode and is visibly excited about it.
Darin used to read tons of D&D books (mentions Drizzt by name) and used to paint minis as a hobby. He still has some of the figures and wants to donate them to the show.
Darin’s wife was part of Taliesin’s parents’ circle, so he’s known her for a long time. Taliesin and Darin exchange memories of meeting Roddy McDowall, and Darin says part of Sprigg’s concept of memories being the most important came from a conversation he had with Roddy while Roddy was dying of cancer.
Percy’s current distrusting attitude towards the gods came directly from his interaction with the Raven Queen. However, he didn’t know there was a god of knowledge and has been “chewing on it a lot, and what it means to have faith in knowledge.” He sees the library as a testament to faith in humanity and the good works of life and how important memory is and is blown away by it. “Books have always been about finding meaning and this whole library thing has changed him.” Taliesin expected Percy to be much more resistant to Ioun and was surprised at how quickly the books sold him.
Darin felt as the scenes progressed that his role was to “illuminate” CR as to where they were and what they could be. Taliesin and Percy both wondered if he was Scanlan from the future. Darin had the choice of being Scanlan’s dad, but declined.
Percy picked Vesper because her namesake was the last person he’d talked to in real life.
The only place Travis can think of worse for Grog is if the books were replaced with clothing & a For Sale sign. “Grog has a beatnik poet inside him waiting to get out.”
Darin’s advice to Keyleth was total improv. He almost cried when she touched his hand. He loves funny characters that can become sad and/or touching.
Marisha has no idea how to get Keyleth out of her emotional nosedive. Watching Marisha break character from Keyleth at the end of an episode is one of Taliesin’s favorite things because they’re such different people.
Percy would seek out the lifebooks for all his family & ancestry because he’s fascinated with legacy, and Whitestone is full of ghost stories. He had lots of stories he’d planned to give as part of the gnomes’ tour, and tells one about a woman forced into a marriage who slowly poisoned her husband over a number of years.
Sprigg feels he is what Scanlan might become. He did not expect to survive the episode.
If they were really in Ioun’s halls, Travis would love to see the books of his family and of JFK. Darin would like to see his father’s book. Darin also likes wearing suits, which is why he wears suits. He only wears t-shirts at the gym. (At one point Darin’s family also owned 20 horses???). He wishes his parents could see him now because they were so supportive when he was growing up.
Honor! Justice! After Dark, After Dark, After Dark!
If the challenge for Ioun involves any physical activity, Grog will fight Percy for it.
Bucket lists: Travis wants to swim with a great white shark. (Darin’s biggest fear is great white sharks.) Taliesin wants to travel to India. Darin wants to learn to tap dance, and casually drops that he used to dance with Cirque du Soleil.
Darin’s favorite color is black. His favorite season is winter.
There’s a video somewhere of Darin de Paul and Steve Blum pretending to be zombies and running towards the camera.
Travis and Darin do Reinhardt “impressions” by talking in high-pitched baby voices. Taliesin does a pretty decent actual impression! Darin likes that there’s heroes for every playstyle.
Darin hasn’t told Matt’s parents he brought back Sprigg. He also used to have a crush on Matt’s mom.
If Darin could pick any character from VM to play, he would play Scanlan. Brian teases the entire world by saying he would play “the character Pike’s in love with.”
Darin’s twitter flooded after last Thursday and he wishes he could respond to all of the kind messages.
Darin once shared floss with Gilbert Gottfried as part of an old bit.
Darin feels his whole history has led to this moment last Thursday where he had the chance to create a story with people he loved.
Laura read the Game of Thrones books as they came out, well before the show started. Brian just found the copy of the first book she lent him in 2010, which he still hasn’t read.
If Sprigg could fight any D&D monster, it would be a hobgoblin.
Critical Role episode 105 - The Obnoxious One
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I’ve never seen Scanlan this freaked out.
RIP liam // episode 88
Knowledge Revealed
Sprigg could be his old character (spoilers)
Katsucon February 2017 - Darrin de Paul
“I was an apprentice at a group in Florida and I was an apprentice at Burt Reynolds Theater with Matt’s grandmother (was Burt Reynolds’s assistant), Matt’s mom (which was an apprentice with me - had a crush on her, don’t listen to me), Matt’s dad was in the lights and I played my first DnD game at the Burt Reynolds apprenticeship with Matt’s mom BEFORE HE WAS BORN!
And so hopefully one day I will get on Critical Role cause I watch it every week, I think it’s amazing. Now, this is the thing, Matt knows this. If I do get on Critical Role, I’m going to play the character I played 30 years ago with his mother because that character didn’t die and he’s just been existing for 30 years, let’s see where that goes.”
the aftermath
Marisha: That was a three hour battle.
Matt: Yeah.
Marisha: We did nothing but fight.
Matt: And honestly? Kinda mucking it up with archers kinda helped too, because they were all about to just start focus firing on whoever was visible.
Laura: Yeah. So I’m glad we split them up. Getting Grog out…
Matt: Getting Grog out was key.
Matt to Laura: If you hadn’t have pulled him out and taken all those attacks of opportunity-
Travis: That was it.
Matt to Travis: -you would be gone.
Travis: I was at 20 and then- I was like “that’s it.”
Matt: They weren’t gonna stop when you hit zero.
Travis: Yea-no that would’ve been it.
Matt: They were going to cut you up until you were dead.
Matt’s face immediately following that statement:
Liam to Laura: Look at that guy, look at that guy-
Travis: LOOK AT THE FACE
Travis, to Liam: You saw it too didn’t you!?
Liam, laughing: I saw it
Travis: The shadow of a man that wished he could have butchered someone and didn’t quite get to.
Taliesin: That is the face of the fucking devil.
Travis: The shadow of Craven Edge lives behind those eyes!
Don’t you fucking DARE, sir!
Me, a functioning adult, out loud, at 2 AM, screaming at a Dungeons and Dragons show (via cantfakethecake)
Pelor: What does she mean to you?
Keyleth: I told you that I was faithless, which might be true when it comes to the gods. But not with Vex'ahlia. Not with Vox Machina. She gives me my power.
Scanlan: Her name is Vex, and she is greedy, and mean sometimes, and she can steal a lot. She's a little bit - not the greatest person. But - her flaws highlight everything that is right about her. Which is, she does all these things to protect her friends and family. She would give her life for any of us, and for anyone who was truly in need. She's not perfect, but she's the most perfect of all of us.
Grog: She believes in me. She tries to teach me to use my brain, which I don't do very often. Tries to teach me to learn from the world. And she always cheers me on, which not a lot of people do. I believe in her.
Pike: I don't have a real sister. But I consider her more of my sister than I've ever had. She's family.
Pike: And if you take her from me - **there will be hell to pay**.
Percival: She is Mistress of the Grey Hunt of Whitestone, Baroness of the First House of Whitestone. She is my heart, and my judgement, and the future that I have chosen. And she is the one - that I have betrothed to.
Vax'ildan: She is every hope I have. When I am gone, she will make the world right. She has the intelligence and the savviness and the heart to make real-world decisions. She is me, but better. She is your champion.
EPISODE 65 || EPISODE 104
→ the cards of lady vex’ahlia, betrothed of percival and champion of the dawn father, come to pass
...Silly Thought
So, god recruitment, huh? This kind of popped in my head last night, and I dunno, it’s dumb, but I like it.
So the group meets Pelor and kinda push Percy forward because, you know, patron god of his city and all that. And Percy tries, he tries so hard not to get all passive-aggressive at him. “Oh, yeah, nice tree you put there. Love what it did when everything went to shit. Absolutely nothing.” Because it’s Percy and he does not do well with this.
Pelor may or may not roll his eyes, but is kind of amused because there is a puny mortal sassing who might just be the most worshipped god in this setting and then lean over and smile at him. “Yes, well, I can tell there is not much ground for a connection between us. So why don’t you just go next door and talk to my wife while I talk to yours and see what we can do.”
Everyone: O_____O
Vex: “…Surprise?”
Percy: “…Yeah, that’s fair.”
