Thicker Grows the Meal and Plot

is the ninth episode of the third campaign of Critical Role.

Campaign Three adventuring party

 * Ashton Greymoore
 * Chetney Pock O'Pea
 * Fearne Calloway
 * Fresh Cut Grass
 * Imogen Temult
 * Laudna
 * Orym

Returning

 * Ariks Eshteross
 * Dorian Storm
 * Evelyn Wress
 * Keledon, head warden of the Smolder Spire factory

New

 * Artana Voe, an uniya bounty hunter
 * Ira
 * Preio Madali, uniya co-owner of the Soot and Swill Tavern
 * Pretty, the ogre cook at the Soot and Swill Tavern
 * Vali Dertrana, elven or half-elven business commissioner of the Mirror Towers and liaison between Mahaan Houses

Mentioned

 * Andy, a former crush of Laudna's from Whitestone
 * Master Faramore, Imogen's former employer in Gelvaan who has shops around Marquet
 * Gurge Kisgregg
 * Kinkadë, the Painter of Suns
 * House Lumas
 * the Nightmare King
 * Oshad Breshio
 * House Treshi

Trivia

 * For this episode, Sam outfit was a reference to the popular reaction image / meme known as "How do you do, fellow kids?". The line was spoken by Steve Buscemi's character Lenny Wosniak in an episode of 30 Rock.