Dark Dealings | Critical Role: VOX MACHINA | Episode 112 

46:10 Sam's mug has the 'boyfriend looking at other girl' meme. The girlfriend is 'People of Vasselheim', looking judgily at the boyfriend, labeled 'Vox Machina', who is checking out the other girl, labeled 'long rest'.

Everytime grog has grabbed Pike, I imagine him running by her, as she is running, grabbing her by the collar and lifting her, and as grog runs, pike keeps running in the air, moving those little feet as fast as she can

Vax: “I’m not that stealthy.” I mean technically the party should believe this… The party has only ever seen his failed stealths. Every successful roll has entirely removed him from history. 😂

“Im wise not smart theres a difference” - keyleth probably the best quote and most relateable honestly 😂

They come up with an astounding number of plans that involve being more than 60 feet away from Vex's magic ring

That moment you realize a lvl 20 gnome bard with advantage, inspiration, and a high charisma could probably talk a pig into flying

Vax: "I'm kind of unkillable... for a while." Artagan: "*That's* fun!" The tone in Matt's voice gave me a hell of a shiver. Fucking creepy.

Vex: "An Asshole that wants to be a god" Artie: "Now THERE'S an idea..."

The sinister zoom-in at 3:35:05 caught me so off guard, it was amazing

Man I haven't heard Travis laugh like that since Keyleth jumping off that cliff!

I love everyones reactions to Artagan Vax: **reverts to flirty "seduced a shopkeep" era** Scanlan: **stupidified by horniness** Vex: ah he he ha **blushes and stutters** Grog & Keyleth: :O :o Percy: **strips and has a mental break down**

“I can cast sending” laura listened.

I really love how scanlan was flippant and glib all throughout all the negotiation with artagan but then as soon as the others left turned serious and compassionate and ultimately couldn't watch. That was a really nice touch.

Artigan, Fifty Shades of Fae

Them jumping to the Fey, altering time and taking a long rest, is CLUTCH.

Percy: "You finally found a worse pet than Trinket." "....I love Trinket, by the way. Excellent."

I love that whenever they were holding hands to planeshift, Ashley was holding her hands up to the camera to join in Idk it was just wholesome. Love her. Love all of them.

This is my third time watching this episode and it still blows my mind. Only Vox Machina would give an enemy a sphere of annihilation, send them away, and then try to block their return with a wall of stone.

I like that with everyone frazzled over Vax's weird death Tal still had the presence of mind to ask "Was this food offered freely?" Fey are not cute fairies, you don't eat or drink anything unless they give it to you free of charge.

"You're in a cavern, you can't have any dill." One of my favorite Taliesin lines.

“Oh! This sounds like an actual plan! Which means it will go terribly wrong.”

Matt was describing the sound of the orb moving past the stealthed group and just as he started, a lawn mower went by my window and ended with him as well lmfao

As soon as Vax said "I'm kind of un-killable... for a while." I knew a mistake had been made.

Sylas with arms around Delilah while riding a dead dragon of doom is my vilan romance dream

3:44:51 Laura and Marisha saying, “This is so dark,” at the same exact second in the same exact way, totally by coincidence, really speaks volumes about this scene huh

Ohhhh, Matt's been wanting to Dispel Magic that mansion for a loooooong time.

Been bingeing these, and can only think of how funny having Grog with both Craven Edge and Kas. That would have been hilarious to watch two swords argue over his negative intelligence

Aww no ones talking about Grog and the Twins interactions. Grog to Vax: good luck, Grog to Vex: take care of him, their relationship has gone such a long way 😭

Vecna to Vax: "Ah, I can see you now! Tell me where your friends are!!!" Vax IMMEDIATELY after: "Keyleth, stay underground! Vex went to the ethereal plane and is near you. I'm going to head back to where all the others are hidden!!!" Lesson: Don't hire Liam as a partner in an actual heist - He'd call the cops and tell them everything while thinking he's helping.

03:35:06 who ever zoomed in to Matt’s face after that statement is a genius

3:33:11 "I'm kind of unkillable" How to get the attention of a fae 101

I just realized something when Matt said "Always Grog with the intelligent weapons"... That sword, as well as Craven's Edge, are both probably smarter than Grog. So two SWORDS are probably smarter than Grog. Poor, dumb goliath...I love it.

1:54:22 Laura: "How is it even flying!?" Matt: *whispering* Maaagic...

Vecna the whispered one, "God of secrets".... "How does he know all of our SECRETS?!?!"

The rest of the party bathing in a pool while another party member gets strangled to death while everyone is aware of it. This is truly the Feywilds

Percy: "You've finally found a worse pet than Trinket." Vex: *Someone's sleeping on the couch tonight...*

After convincing a bunch of undead against the will of their master can't we just have Scanlan convince vecna to ungod himself and then jump from a cliff or something?

3:46:22 *_"Limp_*_ in his grasp."_ Look at Laura. I love her so much.

Travis's face when Artagan tells them what a pulse stone does. That was the funniest reaction to me out of the whole episode.

Episode 112 out of 115 and I still light up like a Christmas tree whenever Ashley is there in any capacity

This episode is subtitled: A Series of Bad Decisions So let it be written. So let it be done.

Watching Matt progressively try harder not to spit his drink out at 3:17:25 when Travis gets the card is absolutely hilarious xD He goes from giggling, to slight laughing, to almost spewing water out of his nose when Travis says "EVVEEEER!!" xD i'm dying over here Edit; ALL OF THEIR FACES ARE PRICELESS AT THAT POINT EVEN ASHLEYS XD

I misheard "Does killing a wannabe God sound fun to you?" as "Does *being* a wannabe God sound fun to you?" And I-

3:25:00 Taliesin: time... time is... Me in 2022 having watched C3: Time is a weird soup

First time timestamper here guys, because this episode had too many great moments! 0:40 Sam's Puzzle Quest Opera 9:01 *RECAP* 10:36 Two-Face recovery 22:08 Ballhandling skills 27:46 Grog asks Percy what a scope is 28:27 Grog looks through the scope 31:11 Keyleth scries on Death Knight 39:04 Scanlan prepares for an act (Odell's backstory) 47:08 Liam rolls stealth ("You're gonna need tripple digits soon...") 49:04 Scanlan's act BEGINS 51:35 Best deception ever 58:50 Deception #2 Rock Behemoth Edition 1:00:35 Scanlan takes a knee 1:26:22 *BREAK BEGINS* 1:50:36 *BREAK ENDS* 1:53:45 Something in the sky (aka a whiff of incoming TPK) 1:56:56 Vex scries for the first time (on the Sword of Kas) 1:59:05 Big Black Sword 2:00:42 Come Clean 2:12:30 Liam saves the day 2:15:06 MVP idea? 2:23:11 Narnia 2:26:10 Stealthy Kiki 2:27:36 A new GIF? 2:30:57 Stress breathing 2:34:18 Vex covers herself in the ethereal oil (Strong regrets incoming) 2:37:50 The moment Matt has been waiting for the last 2 games 2:44:00 LSD oil 2:46:22 Cavern shenanigans 2:52:00 Vax returns to the mansion 2:58:30 Risky move 3:00:06 Reunion 3:04:07 Mansion gets dispelled 3:04:25 DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN 3:07:37 Grog takes the Sword of Kas aka Craven Edge 2.0 3:12:28 Grog attunes to the sword (Or did the sword attune to Grog?) 3:12:44 Grog attacks Vax 3:16:45 Vex "punches" Grog 3:17:17 BIGGEST ITEM CARD EVER 3:21:40 "It went all anime" 3:23:45 Master Plan 3:27:20 How to attract an Archfey by Ashley Johnson 3:28:42 THE DICK PIC (Highlight of the episode) 3:29:28 Artagan appears 3:32:40 Something in return 3:33:45 Condition #1 (Choice of a lesser evil) 3:34:27 Condition #2 (WOW...) 3:35:05 *Evil zoom in* 3:35:48 Scanlan has a question (How kinky) 3:39:50 Scanlan pleasures himself (3:40:06 to be specific) 3:42:41 Pikes word of warning 3:44:26 Let's do it! 3:45:59 "You hungry right now???" 3:51:55 Badum-tss 3:53:40 Scanlan can do things 3:55:32 Scanlan can speak with animals 4:00:20 Vax comes back from the dead again and the *GAME ENDS* 4:01:16 "I have to go home with you?!"

3:35:06 That zoom in on Matts face while he's playing Artagan hahahaha!!.

0:40 Sam's Puzzle Quest Opera 9:01 RECAP 10:36 Two-Face recovery 22:08 Ballhandling skills 27:46 Grog asks Percy what a scope is 28:27 Grog looks through the scope 31:11 Keyleth scries on Death Knight 39:04 Scanlan prepares for an act (Odell's backstory) 47:08 Liam rolls stealth ("You're gonna need tripple digits soon...") 49:04 Scanlan's act BEGINS 51:35 Best deception ever 58:50 Deception #2 Rock Behemoth Edition 1:00:35 Scanlan takes a knee 1:26:22 BREAK BEGINS 1:50:36 BREAK ENDS 1:53:45 Something in the sky (aka a whiff of incoming TPK) 1:56:56 Vex scries for the first time (on the Sword of Kas) 1:59:05 Big Black Sword 2:00:42 Come Clean 2:12:30 Liam saves the day 2:15:06 MVP idea? 2:23:11 Narnia 2:26:10 Stealthy Kiki 2:27:36 A new GIF? 2:30:57 Stress breathing 2:34:18 Vex covers herself in the ethereal oil (Strong regrets incoming) 2:37:50 The moment Matt has been waiting for the last 2 games 2:44:00 LSD oil 2:46:22 Cavern shenanigans 2:52:00 Vax returns to the mansion 2:58:30 Risky move 3:00:06 Reunion 3:04:07 Mansion gets dispelled 3:04:25 DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN 3:07:37 Grog takes the Sword of Kas aka Craven Edge 2.0 3:12:28 Grog attunes to the sword (Or did the sword attune to Grog?) 3:12:44 Grog attacks Vax 3:16:45 Vex "punches" Grog 3:17:17 BIGGEST ITEM CARD EVER 3:21:40 "It went all anime" 3:23:45 Master Plan 3:27:20 How to attract an Archfey by Ashley Johnson 3:28:42 THE DICK PIC (Highlight of the episode) 3:29:28 Artagan appears 3:32:40 Something in return 3:33:45 Condition #1 (Choice of a lesser evil) 3:34:27 Condition #2 (WOW...) 3:35:05 Evil zoom in 3:35:48 Scanlan has a question (How kinky) 3:39:50 Scanlan pleasures himself (3:40:06 to be specific) 3:42:41 Pikes word of warning 3:44:26 Let's do it! 3:45:59 "You hungry right now???" 3:51:55 Badum-tss 3:53:40 Scanlan can do things 3:55:32 Scanlan can speak with animals 4:00:20 Vax comes back from the dead again and the GAME ENDS 4:01:16 "I have to go home with you?!"

Man Keyleth searching through a pile of liquidfied corpses repeatly calling for Vex in vain knowing full well that he party has probably been exposed to Vecna is really sad and cool

Matt agreeing with vox machina that Artagan went dark is amazing.

3:35:05 now zoom on the DM for dramatic effect. Prodution value just went up ten fold for that one impromptu moment

Pike's face for most of this is just covered by her hands, wondering how these idiots have managed to survive without her here lol

I love how even Matt leans in and goes "hmmmm what has she thought of as a solution" when Marisha says "we can't... but remember our friend Garmelie/Artagan" (3:24:22)

My biggest wish in life is to have friends who miss me as much as the crew misses Ashley. But seriously it's good to have her back in action I missed her too

And on today's episode of Matt regrets choosing the sadistic route and starts to feel weird about strangling his friend (While Talesin enjoys snacks)

Artigan is my new favorite! I'd looove to hang out with him! Sorry Gilmore. 😂. I can also just imagine the Raven queen just sitting in her realm, slighty face palming with one hand. And going "WHAT. Are. You. Doing, Vax'ildan? I brought you back for one reason... to kill this god aspiring lich. And here you are... Getting kink strangled to death by an arch fay..."

Vax: Give me 12 minutes and i'll have the entire fucking feywild backing us up as an army. I also love how Garmili is Tom Bombadil, but the NSFW version.

I'm surprised there aren't more of these comments, but holy shit Matt. The end of this episode was dark and unexpected and beautiful

I will forever love Vax's stupidly high Stealth checks and the ensuing snarky comments are always so damn funny. Also, I love when they get meta with improvisational acting references. Sam does it the most. His "Nice object work" comments crack me up. There was one in - I think - Heredity and Hats, and "strong character choices, stick with them 100%" was the one from this episode. It's a joke that I know is meant to entertain his co-stars, but they are so great for those of us who do improv as a hobby.

Travis: You hungry? Lora: Yeah Liam: *choking noise* 🤣🤣🤣

Spoilers... Artagan: *straight up in murder mode Vax: *is being strangled to death Laura Bailey: 🍿🍿🍿

The end of the episode may be one of the darkest and weirdest things I've seen in D&D and I've sat through all of Liam's One-Shots! So that's saying something.

I cannot believe vax ran back to the house knowing full well he was being followed.

This is how I imagine the rest of Exandria is feeling right now: Vox Machina: *makes plans* The entirety of Exandria: we're not sure how you're still alive but clearly you're doing something right so we'll trust you 👍 edit: Sam: I'm gonna limp a bit Matt: okay, interesting character choice Taliesin: Stop making choices the hidden gems just keep getting better and better

Ashley is a treasure, every episode she’s in is automatically more wholesome.

I feel like liam becomes the mystrious stranger form fallout when he hits a crit on stealth lol

"Is that the DM's face or the creature's?" "Probably both."

Your god: How did you perish, my child? You: A dude wanted to strangle me so I let him. Your god: .... You: Yeah I meet weird people.

The Briarwoods on their skeletal dragon would make for a great cover of a heavy metal album.

I feel really bad for Trinket at this point. He spends at least half his life in an empty stone room looking out a window alone. Free Trinket!

Did Sam straight up put a meme on the bottom of his goblet?

The look of horror on Marishas face at 3:34:35 had me in absolute stitches! All their reactions were amazing

"Nothing happens for a reason. It's absolute fucking chaos. "

It is so easy to notice even though she is on a cam that Ashley really wants to be there with everybody.

Matt Mercer's: A Series of Bad Decisions.

Everytime they forget about the ring it gives me a heart attack

"I respect you so much." I love how Artagan NOT pleasuring himself while choking Vax out somehow makes it even MORE disturbing, not less. xD

Matt looks like Boromir... "One does not simply walk into Thomara"

I think my favorite part of this is watching Matt as they're all talking about how to get the sword, and NONE OF THEM REMEMBERING THEY HAVE TO BE 60 FEET OF THE RING

No matter how many times I watch I'm always astounded at the fact I just watch basically 3 hours of talking about doing stuff without thinking about it. Crazy

Keyleth getting spotted by the gloomstalkers because of an exquisitely unlucky stealth roll (I love unlucky rolls unless I'm the person who's rolling the natural one lol) and then going Earth elemental was absolutely hilarious and adorable

2:27:00 (after a Nat1 stealth roll for Keyleth): "They like cover.. for.. me.. right?" -Marisha Matt winks at her.

3:34:07 I'd just like to point out that the traveler's symbol is a door, that's all

2:52:13 ---> THIS IS WHY SCANLAN IN KING! 😁Scanlan: "how's it going outside?" 😐Vax: "Not, uh, not well-- not very well at all--uh-- it's FUCKED, he knows we're here-- --he doesn't know where YOU are or where I am right now, but he knows that WE'RE here." 😲Percy: "-- wait-a-minute." 😕Scanlan:"He knows where you ARE?" 😶Vax"No, not any more." 🤨Scanlan:"Did he know where you WERE?" 😶Vax: "He did." 😬Scanlan: "And did he know that you came overe HERE?" 🤔Vax: "*tsk* ...probably.." 😒Scanlan:"..so he knows where we ARE." 😑Vax: ".....kay."

Sam and Travis are masters of improv comedy.

@2:26:08, last time Key'leth and Vexhalia separated from the rest of the group they allied themselves with a Mindflayer, this time they're searching for an ancient sword last wielded by a Vampire Lord who cut off the Hand and removed the Eye of Vecna. Yeah, this'll go well :)

SPOILER ALERT. Travis hiding his head inside his shirt saying "I'll be in here." Travis muttering "Say it. Say it!" to Matt as they all hold their breath. Laura with her hand on Travis' cheek. ALL WAITING... BAMF! They all scream, laugh & pass out. LOL! I love Critical Role.

4:02:00 when Marisha forgot that speaking to the internet is like making a deal with a creature from the Feywild.

"I have to go home with you." Marisha I have never agreed with you so hard.

Artigan: The Arcane Kinkster

Holy shit! LMAO When Travis whispered back to the blade I cried laughing, this was one of my favorite episodes of Grog! xD

51:37 Sam’s voice modulation is very impressive

Credit to someone years ago 0:40 Sam's Puzzle Quest Opera 9:01 RECAP 10:36 Two-Face recovery 22:08 Ballhandling skills 27:46 Grog asks Percy what a scope is 28:27 Grog looks through the scope 31:11 Keyleth scries on Death Knight 39:04 Scanlan prepares for an act (Odell's backstory) 47:08 Liam rolls stealth ("You're gonna need tripple digits soon...") 49:04 Scanlan's act BEGINS 51:35 Best deception ever 58:50 Deception #2 Rock Behemoth Edition 1:00:35 Scanlan takes a knee 1:26:22 BREAK BEGINS 1:50:36 BREAK ENDS 1:53:45 Something in the sky (aka a whiff of incoming TPK) 1:56:56 Vex scries for the first time (on the Sword of Kas) 1:59:05 Big Black Sword 2:00:42 Come Clean 2:12:30 Liam saves the day 2:15:06 MVP idea? 2:23:11 Narnia 2:26:10 Stealthy Kiki 2:27:36 A new GIF? 2:30:57 Stress breathing 2:34:18 Vex covers herself in the ethereal oil (Strong regrets incoming) 2:37:50 The moment Matt has been waiting for the last 2 games 2:44:00 LSD oil 2:46:22 Cavern shenanigans 2:52:00 Vax returns to the mansion 2:58:30 Risky move 3:00:06 Reunion 3:04:07 Mansion gets dispelled 3:04:25 DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN 3:07:37 Grog takes the Sword of Kas aka Craven Edge 2.0 3:12:28 Grog attunes to the sword (Or did the sword attune to Grog?) 3:12:44 Grog attacks Vax 3:16:45 Vex "punches" Grog 3:17:17 BIGGEST ITEM CARD EVER 3:21:40 "It went all anime" 3:23:45 Master Plan 3:27:20 How to attract an Archfey by Ashley Johnson 3:28:42 THE DICK PIC (Highlight of the episode) 3:29:28 Artagan appears 3:32:40 Something in return 3:33:45 Condition #1 (Choice of a lesser evil) 3:34:27 Condition #2 (WOW...) 3:35:05 Evil zoom in 3:35:48 Scanlan has a question (How kinky) 3:39:50 Scanlan pleasures himself (3:40:06 to be specific) 3:42:41 Pikes word of warning 3:44:26 Let's do it! 3:45:59 "You hungry right now???" 3:51:55 Badum-tss 3:53:40 Scanlan can do things 3:55:32 Scanlan can speak with animals 4:00:20 Vax comes back from the dead again and the GAME ENDS 4:01:16 "I have to go home with you?!"

Episode 112: The Sword is a Dick

Good, a nice stress free episode to calm me down before bed. NOT!

Commenting before the actual event, I really want the Raven Queen to yell at him for abusing the gift in such a weird way. lol

Love the idea that Artagan hears about Vecna being a wannabe god and decides that he'd like to try it out for himself

Bloody hell, that zoom into Matt's face on strangling scene. :D Soo creepy and soo much fun. :D

I fucking LOVE that Matt decided to show us the more macabre side of Artagan in this episode, doubly so at the rest of the group's reaction to it :D. Everyone always has these fanciful ideas about fae and faeries, believing them to be the cutesy, happy, good creatures of Disney and the like. Far from it, the Fair Folk are *fucking terrifying.* They're not called "the Fair Folk" just because they're beautiful or because they're decent entities, they're called that because you want to placate them by giving them a nice, flattering title so that they don't... I dunno, replace your baby with a changeling, blight your lands and make your cattle either barren or give birth to mutilated offspring, make you dance until your feet bleed, turn you into a tree with your mind still intact? And even the ones who help you will do so in an ill-defined way. Like genies, they're really good at twisting words and telling half-truths, just like Percival said. Are you barren and want a child? They'll give you one, but you didn't specify that it had to be alive or human, and now you're in-debted to them. Want to spin straw into gold? Sure, but they'll ask for your firstborn as payment. Taken as their lover of your own accord? Make sure that you served their every whim right when they ask without a second's hesitation or they'll take that as disobedience, kill you, and then go right onto the next lover, not even remembering you. The whims of a fae are as ever-shifting as the seasons, and Artagan is no exception.

Oh man I love Artagan, so glad to see him again. Love some shady chaotic achfey

After all these episodes I have been thinking: "Okey, Matthew can´t take it any darker than this." This episode proved me wrong. Soooo wrong.