Talks Machina 10: Deadly Echoes

is the tenth episode of Talks Machina.

Taliesin Jaffe, Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, and Travis Willingham discuss with Brian Wayne Foster.

Synopsis

 * Video of Matt singing karaoke in around 2008.
 * For Laura and Travis: Are you ok after Vex tricked Grog into trading Periapt of Wound Closure for a simple pouch that supposedly contained the Deck of Many Things?
 * For Travis: Despite Grog's low intelligent he often seems well-versed in thinking about warfare. Do you think Grog would consider something like the cards as a potential weapon, rather than a curiosity, if he ever realizes what they do beyond making headache-inducing swords?
 * For Matt: What card would you really want to see drawn from the Deck of Many Things?
 * For Travis: If you could go back and not to draw the Euryale card from the deck, would you?
 * A: Never
 * For Marisha: What made Kiki think it was safe to light the brazier in the hexagonal chamber inside the island of Viscan?
 * For Matt: How tempting was it to have the group have to re-fight the flameskulls after their rest?
 * For Travis: Would you consider a couple levels of monk for Grog?
 * A: Grog was impresses with Groon's monk skills, but is too proud of his weapons to give them up for monk fist fighting style.

GIF of the Week


 * For Everybody: Which do you think is better: DM control or larger piloting of a character whose player is absent?
 * For Everybody: What did Sam tell Marisha/Taliesin before the game to guide them playing Scanlan?
 * For Matt: What inspired the reverse gravity trap in the island of Viscan?
 * A: Matt figured out where all the dead indigenous people of the island went, turning them into undead. Made it hard to just fly over the swarm of zombies and the bridge. The trap was triggered by a living presence near the chasm.
 * For Marisha: Does clutching use of Grasping Vine or moments like that help alleviate Keyleth's self-doubt?
 * A: Memory of poor actions lay on people heavier, especially on Keyleth who mostly ignores her good deeds.
 * For Matt: Could Vox Machina have walked on the bottom of the bridge in the reverse gravity area?
 * A: They could
 * For Taliesin: How much of Percy's fixation on the inverted fountain in the island of Viscan was playing the character?
 * For Taliesin & Matt: How often do Taliesin's theories about Matt's ideas turn out to be true?
 * A: In the game previous to campaign one, Taliesin, playing wizard, managed to figured out his group was in the cavern shaped like a skuull by looking on the outlines of the map (Marisha and Travis, who witnessed this moment in person, reply affirmatively).
 * For Matt: What was the trigger for the glyph in the staircase chamber and what was its effect?
 * A: Strong presence of an alien magic energy in it's proximity, releasing a high level burst of dispel magic.

Fan Art of the Week


 * Lord Have Mercer segment.
 * For Matt: How do keeps you keep cool when criticized by your players? Have you ever been forced to punish your players?
 * A: At the very beginning of the campaign previous to campaign one, the group had a player and his wife. She was trying to immerse him in the DnD, but each session her husband was too drunk, knocking stuff on the table and shouting stuff out during other players turns in attempt to be funny. It got to the point where Matt fabricated cavern collapse, killed their characters, and told them to leave the campaign.
 * For Marisha, Taliesin, & Travis: How well prepared do you feel fighting Raishan, compared to the last time?
 * For Taliesin: Does Percy has inventions on the back burner?
 * For Marisha: If VM would deal with Raishan, will Keyleth plan to visit the water Ashari? Alternatively, if there are any other cataclysmic threats, will she put off her Aramente for the sake of the party and Exandria?
 * For Travis: Has Grog always been a man of fair trade or is this a more recent pattern of behavior?
 * For Matt: Should the battle take place in the next episode, this would be the first time we see Allura in combat. How excited are you?
 * For Matt: How did you react to Scanlan's suude addiction?
 * For Matt: Differences between suude and Oloore root?
 * For everyone: What is something that helped you guys through your toughest times?

Talks Machina After Dark

 * For everyone: Once all the members of the Chroma Conclave are deceased, would you post a picture of all the busts you received of them from critters with VM underneath them?
 * For Matt: Any tips of learning new accents?
 * A: If you more of a ear learner, you should visit international dialects of english archive for audio examples of various accents.
 * For Travis: What event was the most impactful for Grog?
 * For Marisha: The trade between Allura and Grog for an empty jug was interrupted by Percy. What would you give for it?
 * For Marisha: You once said that you thought about giving Keyleth a point in barbarian. What do you think could push her over the edge to revisit this idea?
 * A: Scarred by the horrors of the world, Keyleth wanted to choose the path of anger and destruction but resisted this urge with support from VM.
 * For Taliesin: If Percy runs into a goblin engineer who claimed that his grandfather invented black powder, would he be more amused, aghast, or curious?
 * For Matt: If any of the characters had ended up in the reverse gravity pit, would there been a way to get them back?
 * For everyone: Do you think Raishan heard all the commotion you made on your approach?
 * For sure; also Taliesin is fan of Tom Waits.
 * For everyone: Who will take a level in the architect, so you can finally learn a way to get behind doors?
 * A: Sadly, architect is not a real class.
 * For Marisha: Will Keyleth persistently try to get HDYWTDT on Raishan for revenge sake?
 * For Travis: Is Tarvis Willingrod your porn name?
 * For Travis and Matt: If Grog stumbles upon a Headband of Intellect, would he turn evil?
 * Taliesin sings Pure Imagination.