Talks Machina 51: The Midnight Chase

is the fifty-first episode of Talks Machina.

Announcements

 * Still no new opening credits yet.
 * Vox Machina Origins #4 is out now.
 * podcast will be available this week.
 * Dani does Critical Recaps in 90 seconds that air on Thursdays.

Part 1
CritRole Stats for :
 * Longest Mercer facepalm of Campaign 2 so far: 6.32 seconds
 * This was in response to a creatively messy way Caleb could otherwise spend the hour needed to cast Find Familiar. The additional ten minutes required to cast the spell as a ritual would then instead be for "clean-up".
 * Longest Mercer facepalm on record, from : 21.06 seconds
 * This was in response to the "glowing gift" Scanlan left behind in Vasselheim's temple to Sarenrae.
 * In, Nott rolled 7 crits: 3 natural 20s and 4 natural 1s.
 * This count ties for second place with that of Thorbir in, in which he rolled 1 natural 20 and 6 natural 1s.
 * The record for most crits in one episode belongs to Percy with a total of 9: 7 natural 20s and 2 natural 1s.

GIF of the Week
Winner: @GuySniper; gif of shell telephone

Prize: Critical Role poster with a photo from the campaign 2 opening.

Fan art of the Week
Winner: Anna Landin (@AnnaLandin on Twitter); Fjord invoking his Hexblade's Curse against Kylre.

Prize: As part of the Valentine's Day promotion over the next few weeks, you can get a message engraved in Elvish on top of the dice vault. She can pick the wood for one of four options.

Part 3

 * A debate was had about Trinket's lifespan, much to Laura's dismay.

Thank My Guests
(Winning names by @heythistlewitch)
 * Traveler Save Me
 * Have This Mustang Man
 * Frumpkin Be Flyin'
 * and I'm your host, One More Round of Trost, Sir

Quotations

 * Brian: This Thursday she will talk about last week's episode and do a much better job recapping it in 90 seconds than I do in 90 minutes on this show, but I still get paid more because I'm a man.
 * Travis: I was Roy Mustang on Fullmetal Alchemist. It didn't have anything to do with that. I was strictly trying to give a tip of the fanservice cap to the peeps. Since there was a horse.