User:Rinasaurus Rex/Talks sandbox

Experimenting with a different way to format Talks responses.

TODOs: grab missing timestamps; check if there is module for formatting YT timestamps instead of using ep ref; template out tables/response rows

Table running into the edge of the infobox may be a bit of problem...

is the first episode of Talks Machina.

Laura Bailey, Matthew Mercer, and Travis Willingham discuss with Brian Wayne Foster.

Discussing the upcoming battle in
Brian introduces the show before playing the introduction video created by Wendy Sullivan Green. He then gives a quick recap of before playing the clip of Ghurrix summoning the erinyes and preparing for battle.

Matt talks about how Vox Machina has traveled to other planes before, but nothing like the City of Brass. He says that unless the players get creative they're just going to get eaten by the pit fiend.

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Questions continued
Brian welcomes Travis and Laura to the show. He asks who is ready to die the most. Laura always feels like they're going to die. Travis thinks they're in good shape, even though they make some dumb moves.

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Discussing the pit fiend and erinyes
Brian changes the topic to the upcoming battle with a pit fiend. The image from the Monster Manual is displayed onscreen.

Matt is really excited because very few campaigns get to the point where he can bring out high-level enemies like this. This will actually be the first time he uses a pit fiend in a game.

The standard pit fiend stats are displayed onscreen; Travis and Laura quickly avert their eyes to avoid potential metagaming. Matt confirms that he always adjusts the stats anyways, as Vox Machina is larger than the standard party.

Laura thinks it's really dumb that Vox Machina didn't have a Heroes' Feast before going into this encounter.

A picture of an erinyes is then displayed.

Brian asks how dangerous Ghurrix is. Travis realizes that—while the players will usually text each other plans and ideas—they haven't done that for the pit fiend yet. Laura says that they usually do that if it makes sense in-story that they would have time to plan. They feel bad doing it if the time between episodes is instantaneous, like it is in this case.

Travis is getting worried about the upcoming battle. Laura still insists they're all going to die. Matt says they have a lot of spells and a lot of powerful abilities—Laura interrupts saying that they have two "little buddies" (Hunin and Kyor, the aasimar slaves) that they have to save.

Matt is really excited for this fight. Laura and Travis say that Vox Machina should just run away so Matt doesn't get to do anything.

Alternate episode names for
Brian reads off a list of alternate episode names he came up with this week. All of these were things that were literally said out loud by the players during the episode:
 * Sextuplets Sells
 * Sextuplet Nesting Dolls
 * You BAMF, Baby! (from Travis)
 * The Slaves of What's-Her-Butt (from Sam)
 * Little Slave Chickens
 * Pisspot Hottub (Brian's favorite)
 * Fucking Jenga
 * Green Apple Shit-Splatters
 * Baby Ghost Rider

Discussing genasi
Travis asks if Scanlan's azer form was the same race as Senokir, which it was not; Senokir is a fire genasi. Matt explains that a genasi is a humanoid who has an elemental somewhere in their bloodline, either through magical means or otherwise.

Wrapping up
Brian gives a shout out to Wendy Sullivan Green for designing the Talks Machina intro and to Jason Charles Miller for the theme music. Everything on the set was made and sent in by Critters.