Talks Machina 118: The King's Cage

is the one hundred and eighteenth episode of Talks Machina. Matthew Mercer and Travis Willingham discuss with host Brian Wayne Foster.

Cosplay of the Week
Winner: Kiley Knott (@kiley_knott on Twitter); Molly (photo by Aime E. aka @amiephotos, coat by @resabeans)

Prize: Wenge pride-colored dice vault from Wyrmwood Gaming.

Fan Art of the Week
Winner: Jayson Jenkins (@SON_ofa_JAY); "No Yasha!!!!!!"

Prize: Wenge pride-colored dice vault from Wyrmwood Gaming.

Quotations
Dani: "Same!" Travis: "I don't want to. I...No. Uk'otoa took my shit for like a whole half a day."
 * Brian: "Tonight, the Mighty Nein enter the tomb's final dungeon, battle a terrifying unkillable monster, and lose their barbarian to the dark side, AKA National Broadcasting Corporation."
 * Brian: "We're also taking a few weeks off from Game Ranch and will return on Tuesday, August 6th. We have to clean up a lot of blood. It's gonna take us some time."
 * Matt: "Mimics come in all shapes and sizes."
 * Dani: "I don't like this conversation."
 * Matt: "It wasn't designed to be an entirely unwinnable encounter, just very stacked against them, especially if Yasha turned."
 * Dani: "I don't like it, please no."
 * Travis: "It's nice, the birth of our child also heralds the death of one of our player characters. Out with the old, in with the new! Kidding."
 * Dani: "That was about when I started sobbing...I cried for like an hour."
 * Travis: "I don't have a backup...I am a committed player, I don't cheat on my characters."
 * Dani: "These are all very personal attacks against me."
 * Travis: "It was so much worse than you could have imagined."
 * Matt: "I'm proud of gigglefist."
 * Travis: "I'm still so traumatized by giant laughing wound death machine running at us."
 * Matt: "The circumstances that all led to Molly's death...Things went really poorly that episode."
 * Brian: "We lost a Molly but we gained a Sumalee."
 * Travis: "Well, like two things. Is it sweet, flower-pressing Yasha peeking out through being controlled and saying 'I heard you, but Yasha's not home right now'? Or is it real Yasha coming forward and going 'yeah, I heard you. I don't give a fuck.' I think it's the latter...How much of your life do you not know? She's evil. She's evil."
 * Matt: "Whether or not you know something about somebody, it's a power play to say you do."
 * Brian: "Aw, it says nice on the pup."
 * Brian: "I don't want another episode like this for a while, I want smut."
 * Travis: "Fjord has control issues."
 * Matt: "You could still go back and talk to Uk'otoa. You've just got one more orb."