Talks Machina 96: The Second Seal

is the ninety-sixth episode of Talks Machina. Taliesin Jaffe and Travis Willingham discuss with host Brian Wayne Foster.

GIF of the Week
Winner: D. Jones (disasterjones on Tumblr); punch gif.

Prize: Critical Role Yasha bust.

Fan Art of the Week
Winner: Terren Yvon (@spacecaptainz); "the broken shore."

Prize: Purpleheart tabletop dice tray from Wyrmwood Gaming.

Quotations

 * Dani: "It pains me, every time [Brian dabs]. You're causing me physical injury, every single time...You're terrible."
 * Travis: "That candy was some bunk-ass, soap-tasting, windex-ass shit. I could have heeded everyone's warning, but we all know I have to taste that thing before I reject it."
 * Taliesin: "What question can I ask that's going to make Matt Mercer really angry that he has to answer?"
 * Taliesin: "It was him trying to be a bro."
 * Travis: "I need to learn a great deal more about Caduceus."
 * Dani: "He makes people in his tea!"
 * Travis: "He's not the leader, he's just a participant in this adventure."
 * Taliesin: "Guilt is for humans and mortals, I don't feel guilt."
 * Taliesin: "That felt great."
 * Taliesin: "I'm sure they're very a-peel-ing."
 * Taliesin: "I don't feel guilt, I just wanted to fight things on ships." Travis: "He was human once."
 * Dani: "Death is especially inevitable when you're trying to kill me."
 * Travis: "I think he might have been partially intimidated by Caduceus."
 * Taliesin: "He doesn't necessarily have a good head for good and evil. He's got a good head for natural and unnatural."
 * Taliesin: "He's a monk so he has a lot of ideas of how people should be that are based entirely on utter lack of experience."
 * Brian: "What I'm looking forward to about Fjord's arc maybe possibly coming to a close is we don't have to have Travis on the show much. There's a lot more people I want to talk to!"
 * Taliesin: "Everybody needs a friend to pick them up from LAX."
 * Travis: "He totally views the Mighty Nein as a family."
 * Taliesin: "I haven't burned an orphanage down in D&D in years."
 * Taliesin: "He's not really a shame-based creature."
 * Taleisin: "You want to know why the garden is the way it is?" Travis: "Yes, I would love to know." Taliesin: "You should ask."
 * Brian: "Cornelius Clay sounds like a Harry Potter character"
 * Brian: "Is shipping things hard manual labor, Dani?"
 * Travis: "I don't really know how warlocks work if you don't obey your patron's marching orders."
 * Brian: "Cuddling with Kiri is our new show."
 * Taliesin: "I've often assumed that Caleb smells a little bit like peat moss."
 * Dani: "I appreciate Liam hitting his breaking point with that last episode. Like, 'you have to admit I smell fine now!'"
 * Taliesin: "It's not like a sexy thing like 'ooh, hey' but you know, you smell great!" Travis: "You can compliment a fellow on his-" Taliesin: "I will say, he doesn't feel that way, though. He doesn't have a thing going on in that direction." Travis: "Try and tell Tumblr that." Taliesin: "Tumblr is welcome to their own opinion and I am not going to disagree with them."
 * Travis: "I may use our game as a slight stress reliever but not everything has to be homicide every time."
 * Brian: "I should quit the drinking."
 * Taliesin: "His is a big believer in getting comfortable where you are."
 * Taliesin: "This is not how the Clays function, we are capable people."
 * Taliesin: "That tattoo was like—that's a cry for help."
 * Taliesin: "Goth kids happen for a reason. Of course your heart was broken, look at you."
 * Taliesin: "I think he was giving you a blueprint to move forward"
 * Taliesin: "Surprisingly social for people who lived that far out into the middle of nowhere. He had a very nice childhood, it was pretty chill. I mean sparse, but pleasant."
 * Taliesin: "It was an old man vampire with an ice cream truck."
 * Travis: "It's just a natural frustration from following a set of clues and then having them lead to really nothing."
 * Brian: "Who knows what you'd have to swallow?" Dani: "Where's something I can throw?"
 * Dani: "Nobody trusts your face, Brian."
 * Taliesin: "I kind of don't want to deal with the war until it's inevitable."
 * Taliesin: "We're not really a group of people who are that attached to where they come from."
 * Taliesin: "You can kick a dog enough times that it'll bite anybody."
 * Brian: "Thank god we have Dani to remind us about everything."
 * Travis: "I like that Dani is the sommelier of shipping hookups in the Mighty Nein."