Highlights

• 00:01:00 “The Luscious Ring of Ass” theme song is born.
• 00:03:55 Cerritos Groupon (cerritos are popular spicy peppers on the lower end of the Scoville scale)
• 00:10:30 Brennan:“It (Loquatius being from the Fae Realm) gave us a really awesome connection storywise, not only for the game contained within itself, but also very timely with Ashley’s character in C3, the conection to the Seelie Court.”
  Sam:"Yeah, that was a well-researched connection that I definitely spent a lot of time researching and talking to Ashley about…
  Or maybe it was Brennan saying, “Hey, who’s your warlock patron?” and me going to the Critical Role Wiki and just looking up 'fey creatures/characters in Critical Role lore, and seeing the word Seelie and being like, “Great, done.”
• 00:15:25 “Ewf Wawwiow.”
• 00:17:47 Greaves cover the legs, Travis meant vambraces for Fjord’s forearm armor.
  Travis:“There’s this Navy Seal named Jack Carr that has these hawks, these Winkler RnD hawks, that look like the craziest things you’ve ever seen and I looked em up and they’re part of this Sayoc Kali fighting system in the Philippines which led to the Philippine Eagle, and so it just like rolled and rolled and rolled and that’s just how it started.”
• 00:19:55 Everything is nasty.
• 00:23:17 Brennan:"So, you guys are like, “We’re corrupt city officials.” and (indicating Luis) this guy’s like, “It could all burn. Maybe it burns today? Tomorrow? Who knows when it burns.”
• 00:48:15 Brennan:“If it’s not you, it’s going to be fucking Kevin.”
• 00:49:37 Brennan:“People are like gems, right? They have facets to them and some of them only get exposed within certain relationships. So, you need certain things to see certain sides of people.”
• 00:53:05 Brennan:“All I’m saying is everyone loves it when Matt says two-thirds of Exandria is gone, but when it actually starts to happen and we’re making saving throws for an hour of game time, all of a sudden, people got some shit to say.”
• 01:03:55 Sam (reading text chain with Aabria):

“How about Loquatius Seelie, implying that Im from the Seelie Court, like Elmenore? Wasn’t that something you did with Fearne on ExU?”

• 01:04:43 Aabria:"Look, I’m just mad because, from our text conversation going, “What a fun bit this will be.” and then you proceeded to fucking knock me out with an emotion every 20 minutes. Whenever I covered my full face with my hands, it was because I was fully actually crying, “What is he doing?”
• 01:06:55 Brennan:“First of all, I don’t know if I even want to know, but whether that quaver in your voice when you say, “And to Laerryn, the Architect Arcane, the most beautiful woman in the world” it makes me almost cry every time I’ve watched it, of the hundred times I’ve watched it. It makes me almost want to cry. It’s so profoundly beautiful. Whether that was honest emotion or performance, it’s equally magical either way.”
  Sam:“It was definitely honest, I am not a very good actor, as opposed to what I said earlier.”
  Aabria:“I love you.”
  Sam:“But yeah, I fell in love with her during the game, it was amazing.”
• 01:09:08 Brennan:“I don’t say this lightly. From that beautiful moment of Laerryn, where you’re like, “Oh my god, this is someone who’s literally grappling in the moment with the fact that moments ago he made the decision to die. Made the decition to go down with the ship.” and is speaking about the reason that he chose to do that. Then the moment after that, “And remember the Market of Wonders.” I just need to say, that is-- and I’ve been lucky enough to see a couple of them in my life-- that is a perfect joke. Because to do something that funny-- Cambpell says: “Comedy completes the realization that drama begins.” I have not contradicted the depth of my sorrow, I have not contradicted the meaningfulness of my sadness, but I have introduced something profoundly absurd, and wonderfully silly, and I am not uncommitted in the moment of doing it. In the moment of doing it, this is exactly what I would do, and it’s hysterical and it also makes it even more sad! It makes the sad even worse!”

• 01:31:56 Brennan:"What’s so scary about manipulators is that they actually have-- there’s a whole article that talked about the neurology of it. They said for that kind of manipulative behavior, it’s like high cognitive empathy, low emotion but emotion’s not the right word-- but in other words, you don’t feel it when you hurt people, but you know what will hurt people. Those type of people have profound understanding, The idea of, “No, no, I really get you and I know what I need to say to.”
• 01:34:23 Brennan:“There was a whole plot about the Septarion coming after tyou guys.”
• 01:37:39 Aabria:“Oh! That’ would’ve been so good! I should’ve died, I’m sorry.”
  Sam:“Yeah, you shoulda died.”
  Aabria:“My bad.”
  Sam:“Gimme my moment!”
• 01:39:23 Marisha:(laughing)"Travis, when you texted me, ‘What did you just do to my daughter?’…“in part, my inspiration for Patia was like, 'What if we hadn’t lost the Library of Alexandria? What if we had a record of all of that and all of this knowledge that hadn’t been lost?”
• 01:40:44 Aabria:

"You’ll get the moment, Brennan, at some point, something will pop up in C3, and you’ll just be there and be like, “(tearily) It happened and it mattered. Why do we tell stories?”

• 01:41:13 Marisha:“(fan theory) The library going to the daughter of a master detective, and then getting all of this library information was the origin of the Cobalt Reserve.”
  Sam:“If that ends up being true, we came up with that idea. This fan did not do it.”
• 01:44:16 Marisha:“Fan favorite, standout NPC, stole the show. Brennan, is Bolo okay? What happened to Bolo from Aeor?”
  Brennan:“…then what you get to do is conscript Matt Mercer into doing Slavic accents for any Aeorians. I don’t know why in that moment, but we were improvising it and there you go. And that’s Bolo. Bolo’s dead.” (shouts of disaproval) “Or! Or! She dies 12 hours later because she gets hit by a wagon…Or Bolo is an incredibly dangerous Aeorian spy who goes into Avalir during the chaos and finds a necessary piece of arcanotech for Aeor’s later work with all the shady things that we know that they were working on. Or there’s also a world where maybe Bolo was a polymorphed dragon and she just flew away.”
  Marisha:“Who was this bitch?!”
  Brennan:“She is Bolo and she want to be a reporter. Eventually.”
  Marisha:“You were fuckin a dragon!”
  Aabria:“I would allow that.”
  Sam:“That’s how the dragonborn race was born.”
  Brennan:“We remember back our progenitor, Bolo. Dragon fuckin! Thanks folks!”