The Elephant in the Room | Critical Role: VOX MACHINA | Episode 72 

Tooma: "My work here is done" Scanlan: "But you didn't do anything." Tooma: "*Dramatic exit*

The De Rolo Guide for Romance: - Step One, get your love interest killed. - Step Two, give them a title in your domain (previous nobility rights required). - Step Three, get yourself killed. - Step Four, kiss them when they least expect. 100% sucess rate everytime these steps were followed. Might require a cleric to solve possible problems with steps one and three. The cleric is not included with this guide and must be acquired separately.

Travis: *not a fan of romance and would rather kill stuff in D and D* Also Travis: *starts visibly fangirling when his wife's character gets a moment along with Percy*

'The elephant in the room' i thought they were going to adress the big problems and ramifications of having allied themselves with Raishan, the fact they just killed another member of the conclave, the fact Thordak will now be super pissed...but now... They're literally dealing with an elephant stuck in thew room of the mansion...godammit Keyleth xD

now I wish someone would draw a picture of Vax stapling missing posters of Larkin on a tree

Vax and Vex witnessing Keyleth and Percy during the elephant debacle has such 'these are the ones we've chosen to love' energy

The way Travis immediately goes ":o" and hides his face when "romance-y" things are about to happen, that's a whole mood right there. xD

They spent the whole episode really wanting a ship. And they got it.

Percival going from "YOUR SOUL IS FORFEIT!!!!" To "I forgive you" now that's growth :')

"I speak dwarvish!" "..wait I cant read"

“Can I talk to you?” “I’m just going to do nothing but stare at that bloody ship if I don’t, so sure.” There’s two kinds of ship in that sentence.

"We'll need her to restart civilization." *Percy literally starts dying of laughter*

Also i feel like Travis is literally the biggest Perc'ahlia shipper by those looks of his

Today I learned that while Taliesin is the master of crow sounds, Liam has an absolutely perfect Gollum voice.

Vax being the parties hairstylist is both so funny and so incredibly heartwarming

Don’t get me wrong, I love the dramatic battles and fights and things, but I think the role playing and dialogue moments are probably my favorite things about Critical Role

Travis looked like all his dreams came true when the kiss happened.

For everyone who felt bad for Travis last episode, he saved two party members from that evil elephant, on his own. Still the greatest member of the team

"That boy who felt it was justified to create those things? You have to forgive him, too." That hit me so hard. It's so hard to forgive yourself, even when you could forgive someone else for the same thing. Looking back and understanding that you were young and alone and in pain is hard, but it's necessary to grow. You have to forgive yourself and be kind to yourself. Man, I cry so much during this show.

"There is just snow and ice, and it's PISSING you off!" I love Matt. And Travis is THE biggest shipper of the group. The poor guy is eating that can in anticipation!

Seeing Sam get made fun of for owning a wine aerator: fun Thinking this is the reason Sam's ads are seemingly designed to slowly drive his friends insane: priceless

Oh boy I can't BREATHE..."ask Larkin" should just be universal lingo for whenever someone misses some common knowledge on this show

I love the fact that this is the second time they killed a dragon, then spent the next session messing around in the mansion. First a cannonball contest, now fighting an elephant. Amazing.

Taliesin: **nods to Matt** Matt: **nods to Travis** Travis: **gets all giddy and shoves a can in his mouth** Matt: **nods back to Taliesin** Laura: **casually applying lip gloss** Taliesin: **mic drop** Everything about that was was so good....from the acting, to Travis and Matt smirking the whole time. These people never cease to amaze me.

"We might need her to restart civilation."

Vax and Pike talking about gods is the cutest thing I've ever seen. Matt does a great job playing her!

Vax: hey Fredrickstein the science guy! Percy: thats Dr. Fredrickstein thank you.

It's really kind of hilarious how the druid is basically the party butcher.

'Flowbreaker' sounds like a dwarven brand of tampon. 'The Good Ship Maxipad'

"Boots of Feral Leaping" Travis' eye light up.

"I encourage peace." A most beautiful eulogy. Thank you Sam.

1:31:25 - This is how you organically fix issues your players are having. Travis is bummed about not being to reach foes, so Matt makes sure they find boots of leaping (that don't need attunement, mind you).

3:00:19 Vex: "In the fight with Ripley... Your last words to her were" My Avast Antivirus Software: "Threat Has Been Detected"

I sure wish we will have more moments of Grog cleaning up shit in the bag of holding. My sides hurt XD "A Dwarven studded plate armor, a decomposed orc head... Two elf head... a random arm...beef jerky strips....One greatsword" .

Sam: receives The One Ring "I don't need this, who wants it?"

Pike NEEDS to attune to that Invisibility Ring to cancel out her stealth disadvantages from her plate armor.

"Anything can happen in the woods" KILLED ME

"All we have in this life, are moments with each other." holy shit that quote hit home

Ooh, in the previous episode we had Taliesin's [unnervingly realistic crow noises] and this episode we have Liam's [shockingly good elephant noises]! A treat for the ears!

I never thought of Matt as a shipper, until I saw his face during the Vex/Percy conversation.

I cant stop laughing at "one random arm". I'm just picturing Grog going through the bag of holding, looking at the arm in confusion, tossing it behind him and going back to the bag. Yes I'm aware its just a pile of sludge at this point, but the image is just too funny to me.

Matt: "The potion has another name: Safeword." Travis: "Oklahoma..." Their quips to each other are honestly my favorite thing they do out of character on this show

"IT'S CHICKEN WINE!" killed me dead.

Good thing Scanlan lied about Tibbs when it came to unifying the dragonborne because the only statement I remember is him calling a tailless one lowborn filth.

I love that whenever two characters have a serious moment, everyone looks away or into the middle distance. But Matt always stays with the two who are doing it and it makes it so much less awkward.

It never occurred to me before. Vax likes Keyleth, Vex likes Percy, and Keyleth & Percy are basically best friends. Funny how things play out.

I know I should be focusing on Laura and Taliesen, but oh my god Travis's face is even more fun to watch.

I like how Laura casually applies lip balm just seconds before Percy kisses Vex

laura was putting on lip balm right before the kiss happened it's too much

At the end of the episode and was like "That episode title sums up the Vex and Percy thing great" and then I realized they literally had a elephant in the room at one point.

2:39:08: "I speak dwarvish, but I can't read" Grog summerizing again again what it is like to be a Barbarian

It says a lot about how good the cast of CR are that you can have an episode that's basically just divvying up loot and it's endlessly watchable.

new idea for a cr shirt: my sister came back from the dead and all i got was this lousy oath.

So at the end, Vox machina was literally watching grass grow for 8 hours

18:49 - Masquerada promo 20:50 - Choking Liam/Sam's word game 22:05 - Sam's Game 31:30 - Start 37:13 - Calling dibs 39:48 - Words of warning/Negotiations 44:41 - Grog's hunt for loot 45:39 - Read lips time 46:29 - End of read lips time 46:30 - Scanlan's commission 48:16 - Found it! 54:46 - Ravenites' generosity 56:00 - Investigation inspiration 57:24 - Grog's find 58:21 - Vex's find 1:00:10 - Scanlan's find 1:02:49 - "'Tis clean." 1:04:14 - Plans for the future 1:05:15 - Set for Life 1:05:52 - Fun buns 1:07:09 - Keyleth's find/Making room 1:08:00 - Cleaning Out the Bag of Holding 1:17:51 - Keyleth's yard sale 1:20:15 - "Anything interesting?" 1:29:57 - Paydirt 1:31:30 - These Boots Were Made for Killin' 1:35:00 - Kima is happy 1:39:00 - Teasing Sam 1:39:58 - Keyleth's new toy 1:43:59 - Stout Grog 1:48:17 - Le Whitemeat/Ship tease 1:50:36 - Twins start talking business 1:52:30 - Percy breaks the 4th wall 1:56:47 - Backblaze ad 2:14:29 - Break ends 2:14:45 - It's HIIIIIIIGHLY Fashionable 2:16:23 - Grog's mask/Namesake 2:17:35 - Fuckin' with Grog 2:19:33 - Round 2 2:22:56 - "We must destroy this beast!" 2:25:51 - "I have to go to the battle music for this now." 2:27:22 - Saving the Princess 2:30:40 - Scanlan's urban dictionary 2:32:10 - SCAMlan 2:34:16 - Precious ringtones 2:37:04 - Excavation 2:42:45 - Timber! 2:48:11 - "Boop"/Echo chamber 2:50:08 - Keyleth's parting gift 2:55:32 - Bored Vox Machina 2:57:19 - Ship ahoy! 3:04:39 - "We'll talk later." 3:05:09 - Mic Drop

The sexiest "We'll talk later" I have ever heard oof

Scanlan: We might need her to restart civilization. Grog: True, true. That reaction was priceless. 1:05:45 I don't know where Grog ends and Travis begins.

Someone has to animate the emptying of the bag of holding

Am I the only one who pictures Percy as the type of guy who has those little ships in bottles?

Vax and Vex are having an intense conversation and opposite of them Taliesin is just making faces at Marisha. I love them.

I'm so proud of this episode's title. I love you guys. Plus, we needed a session like this one after the last month of intense sh*t... Travis' face in those final minutes was a "just-kiss-her-already" masterpiece of dork.

Travis's face for the whole end of this episode... maybe the whole episode... is all of us.

I love the fact that Travis is the biggest Perc'ahlia shipper.

Vex: "I think he isn't thinking that way at all, honestly." Taliesin *quick flash of a smile* Vax: "You're a dummy." 1:52:14

Proof that our party here are not your typical DnD players - they just gave away a Holy Avenger to an NPC.

"I encourage peace" :'(

Aww Laura was going to learn a spell for Travis so he'd have an easier time in battle

"Wheres the battle map Matt"? Matt Internally:.... I wasn't expecting an elephant battle in a mansion..... 🤣🤣 By far one of my favorite interactions ever!

Taliesin's goddamn face through the Twins' exchange. I can't deal with this.

2:57:47 - Matt changes the mood music and fucking winks

I absolutely love the way Marisha moves! She's like a sentient bowl of spaghetti, with long twisting limbs that seem to move in all directions

Travis trying to eat an aluminum can out of anticipation has me dying

The episodes where the characters recover and just dick around with each other are just as great as the nail biting, emotional, action packed ones. Cheers guys. You kill that fucking pesky pachyderm!

You know, this entire time, I thought during Percy's ressurection when Vex said "It's yours" I thought she was talking about being pregnant and so this kiss being a big deal to everyone was really weirding me out. I finally realized she meant her heart and everything makes WAY more sense now.

i think those boots were Matt's way of apologizing to Travis for being stone in the fairy battle and the other two of the last 3 major boss battles being flying type enemies that rendered Travis pointless

The conversation at 1:54:50 Talisen's face. "Thinking about it... no shit, he's actually right, Percy and Keyleth are BFFs, but Vex is the only one Percy really listens to." Also the Fun Buns at 1:06:00 is totally Liam being a Dad with little girls, also it's kinda perfect for Pike.

"I encourage peace." That shit was powerful!

2:20:00 I swear that I can predict the plot twist comming already: Nob the Ancient Demon of doors, is slowly but surely wearing Vox Machina down

Love it when players consult the DM for clarification for perception. "Were they near the area that it collapsed?" "Were they near the area that it collapsed?" "One of them was yeah" "One of them was yeah"

The part at 108:49 where Travis is just listing off all the stuff he’s taking out of the bag of holding killed me. I really hope that makes it into the TLOVM season 2 or 3 lmao 😂

"Flowbreaker": a throw away item the DM mentions in passing that the characters obsess about so much that it becomes a fundamental piece of lore.

Travis' face during the whole exchange between Vex and Percy is probably the best thing out of this episode. He's so into it. :)

Man, everyone remember how scared grog was 30 eps ago when an 18 missed? he has now become his fear.

and shout out to Vax for perhaps being the biggest Perc'ahlia shipper of all of us. Thank you for encouraging our ship to sail.

Masterlist, for my own rewatching purposes: 18:49 - Masquerada promo 20:50 - Choking Liam/Sam's word game 22:05 - Sam's Game 31:30 - Start 37:13 - Calling dibs 39:48 - Words of warning/Negotiations 44:41 - Grog's hunt for loot 45:39 - Read lips time 46:29 - End of read lips time 46:30 - Scanlan's commission 48:16 - Found it! 54:46 - Ravenites' generosity 56:00 - Investigation inspiration 57:24 - Grog's find 58:21 - Vex's find 1:00:10 - Scanlan's find 1:02:49 - "'Tis clean." 1:04:14 - Plans for the future 1:05:15 - Set for Life 1:05:52 - Fun buns 1:07:09 - Keyleth's find/Making room 1:08:00 - Cleaning Out the Bag of Holding 1:17:51 - Keyleth's yard sale 1:20:15 - "Anything interesting?" 1:29:57 - Paydirt 1:31:30 - These Boots Were Made for Killin' 1:35:00 - Kima is happy 1:39:00 - Teasing Sam 1:39:58 - Keyleth's new toy 1:43:59 - Stout Grog 1:48:17 - Le Whitemeat/Ship tease 1:50:36 - Twins start talking business 1:52:30 - Percy breaks the 4th wall 1:56:47 - Backblaze ad 2:14:29 - Break ends 2:14:45 - It's HIIIIIIIGHLY Fashionable 2:16:23 - Grog's mask/Namesake 2:17:35 - Fuckin' with Grog 2:19:33 - Round 2 2:22:56 - "We must destroy this beast!" 2:25:51 - "I have to go to the battle music for this now." 2:27:22 - Saving the Princess 2:30:40 - Scanlan's urban dictionary 2:32:10 - SCAMlan 2:34:16 - Precious ringtones 2:37:04 - Excavation 2:42:45 - Timber! 2:48:11 - "Boop"/Echo chamber 2:50:08 - Keyleth's parting gift 2:55:32 - Bored Vox Machina 2:57:19 - Ship ahoy! 3:04:39 - "We'll talk later." 3:05:09 - Mic Drop

I CANNOT EVEN - YOU ACTUALLY NAMED IT "THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM" - AMAZING

Friendly warning to people who are binge watching this: don't be drinking anything when you open the next episode. You're welcome.

travis is such a gem of a human, he really knows to how to let grog make anyone shine and he's always cool about the game, even if he's not involved be like travis

I'm so far behind so I'm late getting to this episode, but Scanlan's "I encourage peace" thing may be the single most heart wrenching but yet heart warming moment of the entire series so far. That level storytelling coming out of what is basically improv is absolutely mind-blowing.

In response to the song at 56:45 "How did he get so handsome? How did he get so suave?" :holding up Tome of Leadership and Influence: "Take a look! It's in a book!"

This is my favorite kind of episode: there’s very little stress about impending battle, it’s just a bunch of people enjoying being their characters

Despite the controversy surrounding Orion Acaba, it's nice to see that Tiberius Stormwind finally can rest in peace - knowing that he has been avenged.

you know something is funny when the crew in the background laughs at them

I love that, all during the twins' discussion, Taliesan is just staring into the camera making weird faces as if to say "wait for ittttt..."

When he said "I encourage Peace" I completely broke down

There are times that Marisha looks at Matt and thinks, "Yeah, that's MY husband." And other times she looks at him and thinks, "Yeah... THAT'S my husband."

Every time they go to the combat room I think of grog punching a cow 😭😭

So that just leaves scanlan and grog to get it on

56:30 Scanlan missed out on ultra rare 35 DC loot in this moment. Matt said “do you wanna add a bardic inspiration die to be a dick” jokingly when his roll was a 30 and Scanlan misunderstood and gave the inspiration to Laura instead. Damn lol

Travis eating his soda can watching Perc'ahlia kiss is a MOOD!!