Talks Machina 15: Tangled Depths

is the fifteenth episode of Talks Machina. Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, and Travis Willingham discuss with Brian Wayne Foster and special guest Gil Ramirez (@GilTheVlogsmith). Ashley Johnson joins in for the After Dark segment.

Announcements

 * The episode is sponsored by Loot Crate. The theme for the month of March is Far Cry: Primal.
 * Brian plugs Talks Machina: After Dark and jokingly remarks that last week the guests sang the entire musical Cats, and tonight, Travis will shave a hairless cat.
 * Taliesin's new show is Wednesday Club on Geek & Sundry.
 * Geek & Sundry's 2-year anniversary stream is this weekend, including fundraising for charity. Critical Role cast members will be playing Mansions of Madness.

Questions addressed to Gil


Slide show (wands made Gil, the dice owned by the cast in Gil's forgery, Gil cosplaying as Gilmore). D4 dice, Gil usually producing, are shaped differently because their tetrahedron is complicated to melt out of steel and its shaped like caltrope that can be easily become a source of hazard.

Quotations
Gil: I don't really make the marble. Travis:Lie to us, Gil. Tell us you make the marble. Gil: I actually make the marble. I poop them out as lodestones.

Trivia

 * Gil was chosen as a moderator for the live premier of.
 * According to Matt, Gil was the first community critter that the cast ran into "in the wild", at the Ren Faire. Maybe about a month and a half after.
 * Random fact from Matt: If someone from VM would have went through the rift during the battle with the kraken and asked for help from Water Ashari, they would have sent waveriders to aid. (between 1:16:00 and 1:21:00)