Talks Machina 77: The Stalking Nightmare

is the seventy-seventh episode of Talks Machina. Liam O'Brien and Marisha Ray discuss with host Brian Wayne Foster.

GIF of the Week
Winner: @seraphinedreams; gif of Ashly Burch: The Anti-Wheaton.

Prize: Critical Role "Nott the Best Detective Agency" t-shirt.

Fan art of the Week
Winner: Emilie Tousignant (@emtousi12 on Twitter); drawing of the guest characters of the second campaign

Prize: Hickory tabletop dicetray from Wyrmwood Gaming.

Quotations

 * Liam: "Starring: Marisha Ray, the disaster lesbian!"
 * Liam: "Caleb had a cat when he was a little boy named Frumpkin. That cat was a girl. But he decided once he was out of the asylum and he was alone—He wanted to have a piece of his childhood. So he recreated his cat using magic, except when he did it that one kept having balls, which is why Caleb is occasionally confused whether Frumpkin is a she or a he...That was a 'yes, and' improv thing because Liam also had a cat named Frumpkin as a little boy and that cat was a girl. But I decided when I was creating my character that Frumpkin was a boy. But because I have real memories as Liam with my cat as a girl I kept messing up the gender of the fucking cat in the game. So then I retooled my story..."
 * Liam: "It wasn't dedicated to Frumpkin, Caleb was exhausted and bleeding out. He was on the fuckin' verge of death. So that line was the equivalent of 'fuck this day.' It was an awful day. And to say like 'that was for Molly' is too on the nose. I mean, they were all thinking it. They're all weighed down by it, there's no need to say it. The day is awful. And what's more, Molly's dead, for all they knew in that moment, the other three are dead too! They don't know! This is a fuckin' torture chamber!...So no, it was not dedicated to the cat."
 * Brian: "We didn't have grief counselors on site."