The Search For Bob 

HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing 1:55 Intro cinematic 3:25 Episode Starts 8:55 Recap Ends 10:55 Liam must have his book 11:15 Travis is two people 14:00 Don’t move an injured person, even if you’re a cleric 15:25 Puling a fast one on Matt 16:10 Grog checks himself 17:15 Scanlan rage 18:35 Liam is injured 21:05 All of VM’s men couldn’t put it together again 21:30 Percy didn’t spend 2 month’s pay 23:10 Amateur archaeology 24:15 A little bit extra 26:30 Resurrection component #1 (Matt breaks) 30:00 Resurrection component #2 32:20 Resurrection component #3 33:25 Grog is a legend 37:30 Some kind of invisible servant refills glasses 41:45 Keyleth speaks from experience 48:20 Bobstory 49:40 Oh yeah, Bertrand is still here 51:50 Scanlan is into self help 52:45 Some dads talk about real estate 57:45 Scanlan’s first song 1:01:10 Scanlan and Pike 1:02:45 Tel and Bell 1:04:05 Grog’s bedtime ritual 1:09:25 Birds Machina 1:11:15 Percy’s wall run 1:18:40 Bertrand defers to Leyleth 1:23:45 Oasis 1:27:35 Picking fruit 1:39:50 Blade queen 1:44:05 Emo rock Empyrean 1:45:50 Divine intervention 1:56:10 Return to Bob 2:02:40 Limbo 2:05:40 Stay where you AAAAAH 2:09:10 The party is crashed 2:10:45 Break Starts 2:16:45 Art Montage 2:26:05 Break Ends 2:26:40 OH YEAH 2:29:10 Battle begins 2:29:35 Matt shakes some dice 2:34:20 Only one PHB 2:36:15 We’re the sponsors now! 2:41:10 Break the wind 2:50:05 Scanlan’s second song 2:53:30 Use the damage 2:54:15 Bertrand is desperate 2:58:15 It’s been awhile 3:04:50 It’s been awhile 3:05:25 Cutting words 3:06:50 It’s been awhile 3:14:25 It’s been awhile 3:15:20 Level 20 divine intervention 3:36:25 It’s been awhile 3:40:00 Wait, Bertrand survived? 3:41:55 Healing Bob 3:48:40 The new Deck of Many Things 3:50:40 Le’veon Bell 3:52:25 Questions asked and answered 3:54:10 Vex lost her voice 3:55:15 The couples are happy 3:57:10 Destination wedding 3:57:55 Episode Ends Twitch live viewership of this episode peaked around 22,000 people. The in-game start date for the episode was (roughly) the 4th of Misuthar 815. Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?

Fjord: 3 natural 1's Grog: 3 natural 20's Everything must be balanced

“That rod was in my family for 150 years” She’s 350 years old, she could have been the one who bought it

I’d like to think Bertrand Bell was speaking all along but the only time we hear him is when Vox Machina cared to listen to him.

Liam: "I want my player's handbook; give it to me!" Sam: "But you're dead!" Liam: "But I am a D&D player!"

So as it turns out, Bob... was a Builder

so, lets get this straight. Scanlan insulted a ghost to death And Now, Grog has intimidated a dead person back to life.

Percy doing the "heyyy wanna buy a watch?" thing with his coat, only the inside pockets are all just full of fuckin birds

I require more Bertrand Bell in my life. The statement of "It's just a tree, nothing special" cutting to Matt's definition of a metallic sheen and petina is so on point. Ashley losing it as well was too good

Pike offering Grog to make their own deck of cards with drawings and Scanlan pitching in with such a gentle dad voice of 'what things do you want on the deck?" gives me LIFE - Favorite family dynamic of all time tbh

"I rolled a two, so that's twenty." Holy shit, I nearly bust a gut laughing.

Laura: **constantly tries divine intervention as Jester; it never works** Liam: **tries divine intervention one time with Lieve’tel; succeeds**

"With my knowledge of the foliage in Pandemonium, I can assure you all that is just a tree." Matt proceeds to describe an iron, tree-like statue

1:09:07 “Birds Machina” me, waking up in a cold sweat: *SQUAWKS MACHINA*

"That's the shame of losing one's mind, you forget the things that come naturally to you." I immediately thought of Caleb

The way Liam said" Let me teach you the wisom of the ~ages~" got me feeling some type of way

Percy's fist in the air after Vex mentions being nauseus was totally a "I did that" little victory pump. Priceless.

As much as I adore Fjord... seeing Travis play Grog again just makes me so damn warm and fuzzy. The nostalgia is so good!

What absolutely destroys me is that "Bob" made exact replica statues of everyone in Vox Machina *but Vax because he wasn't there*

Everyone: How are we going to get down from here? Keyleth, hitting her vape: I could turn us into clouds.

“Sometimes the simplest answer is the shortest point between two ideas.” -Grog Strongjaw 53:55. I want that on a shirt.

1:57:36 Percy's Foresight he got from Keyleth carried over to Talisen..... Marisha was about to knock that mimosa over, but he saved it :)

When you realize Grog has more hit points than a Adult Red Dragon. 😲

Can we just acknowledged that Pike tried to give her god's blessing to her god

I hope that the mighty nine find an actually enchanted Deck of Many Mediocre Things that Grog Pike and Scanlan created and enchanted.

Featuring: Brian, the Mimosa Goblin.

The first time I've seen a love triangle with only two people.

3:15:20 Now that's a perfect use of divine intervention. "Hey, God. I need you to do the impossible." God shows up and does the impossible.

"i'm going into retirement!" Two real life years and 30 in game years later... After battling rogue furniture and an old orc, Bertrand goes out with a condom, werthers, and Golden Girls dvds in his pockets.

Omg, Percy with his plauge doctor mask with birds on his shoulders is a great visual.

I love Brian just crawling around in the background refilling everyone's mimosas.

Bertrand (confidently): it’s just a tree and nothing more! Matt: *goes on to describe the tree as anything but your average normal tree* Ashley: *losing her shit*

GOD everyone’s reaction to vex being nauseous is incredible. everyone just immediately knew

''Player's Handbook!! Why do we only have one? We're a company built on D&D!'' :)

I love that Liam chooses to flirt with BOTH of Travis's characters

3:53:34 - Percy: "I'll be expecting." 3:55:15 - Vex: "You know, I'm feeling a little nauseous actually." There's that foresight!

"We can make drawings on some cards and make our own. We can make a game of it." "Will they be magic?" And that's how Grog and Pike invented Magic: the Gathering!

D&D: where you can help bring a person back to life by wiping poop on their head and yelling at their body.

Grog: "Fore...?" Vex: "-Sight, darling. " Laughed so hard here

Did anyone notice the floating jug of mimosa that auto filled everyone's glasses around 1:24:30 ? Magic is real.

2:25:52 I love the idea of Vax watching everything from a couch with The Raven Queen and Sarenrae

omg they have a magical gremlin that caters to them during the show now... 10/10 love it.

"Sometimes...Your character and YOU...Are ONE!" I have such a Man Crush on Travis Willingham, it's getting weird...

I love that the first 11 minutes is just sam getting revenge for the tarry scanlan conversation

3:55:15 I don’t know if this was intentional or not but after Vex remarks that she feels nauseous, Taliesin snaps his fingers. I bring this up because back during The Search for Grog one-shot, before the show started, the cast joked that when Taliesin snaps his fingers, someone gets pregnant. If this was intentional, then that makes it 10x better!!

"I rolled a 2, so that's a 20." Man, I've missed these powerful idiots.

Matt impro dm-ing in vague hand gestures with a mouth full is my favorite thing.

3:49:02 Ashley: How about we make our own set (of Deck of Many Things cards)? Travis: (melts EVERY heart that’s watching)

Gotta say, the whole idea of turning everyone into small animals, and having a player carring them down with mother freaking farsight and pass without a trace was pretty genius. I'll keep that one in mind

One of the githzerai racial traits is reading thoughts. I'd like to imagine he included Vax in the statues

"I'm feeling a bit nauseous. I don't know if I want dinner tonight" Why the hell is Laura so good at improv istg

I really feel like fixing mental illness is Greater Restorations most underrated utilization.

Laughed so hard at conversation between Grog and Mr. Bell. Especially when Sam said I believe he can speak for himself

4 hours of Travis role-playing with himself😂

“Is it Minotaur? I speak Minotaur!” I love Bertrand Bell

I love how Travis really hit the nail on the head with Bertrand Bell being like Gilderoy Lockhart. Vox Machina gives me the same vibes as the Hogwarts staff in their interactions with him

Heh... Liev'tel really enjoys commenting on how long it's been for different things... She's kinda the embodiment of "it's been awhile!" xD

Let's give a round of applause to Travis for role playing 2 characters in an amazingly funny way. And to Liam to making the Elf'Bell ship set sail with a rocket. Lmao Great episode!

19:23 - "Just because recently I've been reading up on how a Cleric functions..." Says the man who invented guns to the literal Avatar of Sarenrae. Oh Critical Role, how I love thee.

Sam, at the end of the 'Search For Grog' one-shot: Sooo... is the search for Bob going to be another one-shot? Matt, immediately: No. No, I don't think that's going to happen. My recommended: this video

To be completely honest, it's kindof weird imagining the group adventuring without Vax. Especially imagining Vex without him. They rolled stealth and she got a 40 for stealth, and I realized that there was no remark to Vax being super stealthy or her finally being stealthier than him. It was just kindof strange to me... But I love this episode so much already! I'm hoping that they'll at least continue one-shots on and off with Vox Machina to keep their spirit alive.

1:37:50 That statue is none other than an image of the Lady of Pain. The protector of Sigil, The City of Doors, from the Planescape setting way back in the 90s when 2E D&D was around. Props to Matt for referencing this prominent character in this obviously planar setting.

I missed Percy so damn much. Tal's brilliance gets to shine again! Also, Grog is so much more enjoyable now that I know Travis's real range.

Laura-as-Vex: Hey Scanlan, have you ever thought about using Modify Memory to make someone happy? Sam-as-Scanlan: But that's not mischievous at all... *SPOILERS* And one year later, Laura as Jester did exactly that in what will forever be known as the *greatest* mischief ever in D&D

Percy: We can bring you to a place far better than this Bob: I don't know I kind of like it here Percy: Do you kind of like it here? Bob: No I don't think the cast even got that

The old seating arrangements :') little things make all the difference haha

As someone who's elderly mother suffers from Alzheimer's and dementia, the sadness of "Bob's" memory impairment and the joy of his memories return are truly beautiful. If only the Real world held such magic as greater restoration. ..

Percy 'dealing' with Bob reminded me of something.... he definitely learned how to handle that kind of weird from Viktor :D

A hole in my heart that I didn't realize was there was immediately filled as soon as they started speaking in character. Vox Machina, how I have missed you.

3:49:00 Found the answer to the long ago question of , "Who makes these cards?!?!" Apparently, a group of magically inclined level 20 characters get together from time to time over the ions and create them for fun (Or to please their barbarian friend).

oh god, I didn't realize how much I missed grog.

Vex+Percy's eldest kid: mummy, when did you and dad decide to have me? Vex: well you see, we were in Pandemonium because of your uncle Grog, and we had one quiet night at uncle Scanlan's mansion- Percy: Does she need to know that?!

I just noticed now, after all this time, that the moment Vex asks for just a single gem instead of all of them from the bowl is very telling of how her priorities have changed throughout the campaign.

2:09:04 Think this is my favorite moment "Can you show us our things? Please?" "Maaaaaybe" "Can I take that maybe as a yes?" "Yeeeeeeeees!" "Excellent!" Kkkkrsssh *freaking out intensifies*

I love this. The casual cloths, snacking and over all relaxed vibe is so much like how it was years ago when the show first started up.

Behold, the episode that explains an item in Bertrand's pocket

“If it’s all the same, I hope I never see any of you ever ever again,” -Bertrand Bell The sad part is when you realize that, as far as we know, after this, he never does see them again. The only time they (Vox Machina) sees him (Bertrand Bell) again is when he’s dead and his body gets sent back to them

The "Will she be happy? She already is." moment made me tear up, no joke.

Watching Brian’s Camo Sméagol Mimosa delivery service, made me laugh out loud on the train.

This makes me look forward to 2 years from now when we are giving occasional visits to a lv.20 mighty nein after 68 episodes of campaign 3

You know, one thing I really like about Mercer is that he will sometimes talk through why he is choosing a skill for a specific check.

I'm just glad Sam left the scary mug on the shelf this time.

The look on Taliesi's face when Matt says The Lady of Pain, you can tell the realization & fear of what has just been said.

3:54:12 A really subtle indicator of how well they all know each other and roleplay together is the fact that everyone actually talks over each other here. Usually when two people speak at the same time, someone lets the other go first. But they all were immediately on the same wavelength and acted exactly like a group of friends excitedly debriefing each other after a crazy mission... because they are.

I’m not gonna get over the, um, “unseen servant” at 37:30 scuttling behind Matt to refill everyone’s mimosas

SPOILERS All I want from Destination: Wedding is a heavily pregnant bridezilla Vex'Ahlia trying to put together a wedding while also fighting some new impending doom all while on, like, a beach. Please. Please let this happen.

Honestly, you can go back to brunching while playing in the Mighty Nein campagin too! I think it adds a nice relaxed vibe.

I was so heartbroken all this time when they were asking 'are we missing anything?' and everybody's like 'nooooo, nothing we can't replace!' and Liam's face is just stone...

"Will this one eventually be happy?" "In time" Matt Mercer with the long con ladies and gents

"Maybe it's better if we just.. don't.. try. Let's just move on--" "We'll attempt it once we're somewhere where we have props." god I miss Percy sometimes

I want to congratulate Laura for graduating Vex to "sounding like Mary Elizabeth McGlynn," with her cold.

3:55:17 Vex: I'm feeling a little nauseous. I don't know if I want dinner tonight. Travis: **immediately knows what's up**

Love Grog calling her 'LeVeon Bell' and no one else getting it, the struggle is real for Jox Machina

During the search for gog Matt "No we wont be doing a one shoot on bob" now here we are. You guys will literally do a one shot on anything.... and I'm 1000000% ok with that :) :) :) :)

53:52 Grog's Razor: The simplest answer is the shortest point between 2 ideas.

"I know where you sleep, my lady." [...] "I WILL SEE THE END OF YOU!" I missed Percy.

this is a house of sin Me: to be fair, it's Scanlan's house

"Sometimes you just need a good pep talk if youre dead" LMFAO Ashley

Don’t know about everyone else but a vex and Percy wedding one shot would be amazing!

1:09:43 Its confirmed. Grog was the metagaming pigeon this whole time.