Gunpowder Plot

is the eighth episode of the third chapter of Critical Role. Scanlan finds himself alone, caught in a Briarwood trap! Meanwhile, the party fuels the fire of rebellion, but will Whitestone pay too high a price? The revolution has begun, and nothing can stop it now!

Due to technical difficulties, the Critmas portion of this episode was released as a special episode,.

Recap
"A couple known as the Briarwoods that took over the city of Whitestone five years before—violently murdering most of the ruling family of Percy, other than himself escaping—have been recently doing political discussions with the city of Emon, home to [ Vox Machina ], our troupe of intrepid adventurers. Upon discovering this, [they] battled them at Emon, [the Briarwoods] fled to Whitestone, and the party has then gone after to seek to destroy them and free the town, the once-home to Percival. In the process, it appears that there have been a number of warnings set and the entire town has been long held under this dark, ominous rule. Apparently they've found notes of previous failed rebellions, and things that die here don't seem to stay dead: a number of zombified giants wandering the city as these giant lurching sentinels, and a number of the cutthroats that helped the Briarwoods come to power in this town have now been given titles and land here and are called the New Nobles by the locals.

"During this process, [Vox Machina] managed to sneak into the town, begin setting out word of coming rebellion, and that Percival de Rolo has returned and the Briarwoods' time is numbered. Upon meeting the previous chancellor to [Percy's] father, Archibald, [they] came to an understanding that he was going to reach out to all of his contacts and let them know that the rebellion is happening. [They] then set out to set a two-pronged attack against two of the remaining New Nobles in the town: Duke Vedmire was the one that Scanlan went to, the rest of [the party] going to seek Count Tylieri. As the rain pours down into the city, midday, Scanlan decided to, from a Polymorph spell as a fly, to the top of the front door step of Vedmire's home, then proceeding to un-Polymorph and re-Polymorph'' himself into a triceratops. After becoming a triceratops [he] squashed the front guard that was there, [he] slammed through the front of the building, destroying the front door. [Meanwhile,] the other group is stealthing through the rain to the back [of Tylieri's home], at which point the OK was given to Grog—whether intentionally or not. Grog then charged to the front door of Tylieri's estate and the rest of [them] prepared for impact."''