Talks Machina 8: Raishan

is the eighth episode of Talks Machina.

Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Marisha Ray, and Travis Willingham discuss with Brian Wayne Foster.

Part 1

 * Brian asks Marisha how MAGFest went. She says it was a big turnout. She is grappling with their newfound popularity, and apologizes to folks who were turned away from the signing line. Brian responds with, "did they cut off the line sometime around... High Noon?" to everyone else's mild annoyance.
 * Brian says he and Gil Ramirez were watching Episode 80 just off-screen, looking at each other in horror every 10 minutes.

CritRoleStats

 * CritRoleStats indicates this is the closest Vox Machina has come to a TPK so far. A character was knocked unconscious eight times. Vax has been unconscious nine times, and a third of those were in this episode. For Vex, 3/10 times she's been knocked out were in this episode. The encounter with Thordak and Raishan lasted 15 rounds and 90 seconds took over six hours and 42 minutes to play out.

GIF of the Week
Winner: @TheHinduPenguin on Twitter (GIF deleted), of Laura picking her nose and then pretending to wipe it on Liam. Prize: "HDYWTDT?" gray zip hoodie

Part 2

 * Laura shares her limerick she wrote for Scanlan but never got to use: "Have you heard tale of Scanlon the Ass / his rhyming is endlessly crass / but he doesn't just sing / his blade can deal quite a sting / just ask that old blowhard in Brass"

Fan art of the Week

 * Winner: Stephanie Brown (@offbeatworlds); Vox Machina group shot (art link)
 * Prize: Black walnut dice tower and dice holder from Wyrmwood Gaming

Thank my guests

 * Tarvis Wellingrod, Felicia Ray, Taliesin Heffay, and Lauren Bailey.


 * Brian says he's starting a home D&D campaign this month with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Will Friedle, Logic, and a few others.

After Dark

 * Brian asks where Taliesin got his jacket. He says he got it from the now-defunct store in Los Angeles called Retail Slut.

Quotations

 * Brian: I had two thoughts: "Where are my cards?" and "Something's touching my butt."
 * Brian (on if Keyleth had died on the natural one trip into lava): She died doing what she loved: a mistake.