The Search For Grog | Critical Role One-Shot 

HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing 1:20 Brian takes care of business 4:10 Player intros 5:45 Sam’s outfit 6:45 Happy 487th Taliesin! 9:35 Taliesin snaps 10:30 Classic intro cinematic 12:05 Episode Starts 15:50 Recap Ends 17:40 Surely Grog would never do that 18:45 Fresh wound 20:40 Sam brings a special guest 23:15 SAM’S FIRST SONG 24:35 Trinket is back 26:00 Toxic hazard 27:00 Sun Tree is back 34:25 Laying Grog out 36:05 Dear lord 37:55 Allura 40:45 Scanlan brings out the whip 42:25 Scanlan should not have a wish 46:50 The wish 51:20 Scanlan is so weak 53:55 Travis’s character introduction 56:35 Liam’s character introduction 1:05:35 Volunteer 1:08:55 Gilmore 1:14:05 Glorious 1:17:35 I can carry him 1:19:05 Grog backpack 1:22:50 Break Starts 1:30:40 Art Montage 1:38:30 Break Ends 1:44:05 Pushing forward 1:48:25 Grog’s soul 1:51:20 Voice acting is pandemonium 1:56:25 Bob 2:01:10 Classic Keyleth move 2:15:45 Battle begins 2:21:20 A good cutting words 2:27:55 HDYWTDT 2:36:30 SAM’S SECOND SONG 2:42:55 A bad cutting words 2:45:50 HDYWTDT 2:47:35 HDYWTDT 2:49:20 HDYWTDT 2:51:10 Max appreciation 2:56:15 Sam burns AP’s 3:00:40 Pass Without a Trace, bitch 3:01:35 Liam’s fanfic 3:02:35 We knew it had to happen at some point 3:05:10 Reloading mechanisms 3:06:00 Grieving mechanisms 3:08:55 Percy clone one shot 3:13:00 Scream sac 3:15:10 Someone jacked Liam’s bone 3:20:50 Noise from the abyss 3:35:20 Map is set 3:43:15 Battle begins 3:49:15 Emotional demons 3:55:10 Dumb joke 3:57:10 SAM’S THIRD SONG 4:12:15 New damage record 4:23:30 Liam keeps the streak alive 4:25:35 Grog 4:28:55 Sam’s limerick 4:29:20 SAM’S THIRD SONG 4:31:45 Grog’s turn (turn down headphones) 4:35:05 HDYWTDT 4:36:55 Empyrean lore 4:38:55 Modify memory 4:40:40 Episode Ends Twitch live viewership of this episode peaked around 27,000 people. The in-game start date for the episode was (roughly) the 3rd of Misuthar 805. Sam’s tankard says “Toxic Hazard” Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?

Sam in 2017: On the verge of tears over not being able to save Vax. Sam in 2019: Continuously mocks the group over Vax's death.

First 97% of the episode: Everyone ripping on Grog and making Travis turn red *Grog has re-joined the game* *HOLD. MY. ALE.*

The Spirit of Vax, whispering in Lieve'tel's ear: You gotta go pet that bear.

Hands up all those recapping their knowledge of Sir Bertrand Bell

HOLD ON, SCANLAN'S WISDOM IS 7??? ... that explains so much...

"Dear Lord, you let him have have this?!?" "You let... him... wish?!?"

Taliesin: "I've not been doing the DEX modifier for Bad News." Matt: *(has to reboot his goddamn brain as he realizes Percy has probably done enough uncounted total damage over the campaign to kill another Vecna)*

It's so funny to me that Sam is that dude who will bawl his eyes out because the final fight against Vecna forced his hand to use a spell slot he was saving to wish for Vax's life, and he's also the same dude to make sure a skeleton in Vax-like robes is brought up on stage and pupeteered for a couple secs so everyone can have a laugh.

A very Grog thing to wake up from a coma and immediately brutalize the nearest fallen godkin thing.

Every time Liam loses it I just think how happy he must be that his random birthday wish became all this. Fate touched indeed

*Liam makes new character 10 seconds after meeting vex* I'm sorry about your brother you know the dead one

Marisha's anger breaking through with Keyleth regenerating Percy's arm will never not be funny

the secret to percy's 249hp round was that beneath his cloak he had the pijamas with the butflap and the butt flap was DOWN. the butt flap was DOWN

Bertrand Bell defeated the bugbears just like everything in his life: offscreen and nobody cares about it.

I love how, as Bertrand, Travis was rolling fair-to-middling the entire time, then as soon as he's Grog again, two nat 20's in a row.

Taliesin’s memory and intelligence is impressive. 4,000 years and at least 3-5 different calendar systems later, but he still knows when his birthday is!

Favourite headcannon is that Bertrand bell is the dude who grog accidentally made a Lord of the qwadroads

Did you EVER, in your wildest dreams, imagine a DUNGEON MASTER getting such a rock-star welcome?! Because I never did. Nor a D&D party. What a world we live in!

Unappreciated moment: Laura going "no I like this idea" when they're talking about making another Percy, I love it

To put things into perspective, Percy lost his “brother” only a couple of days ago. So “No Mercy Percy” is pretty accurate

Pike to unconscious Grog: "DO. NOT. MOVE." And that was the first time I lost it.....

"Happy birthday Taliesin" How cute, he still pretends he came out of a womb... :p

Who is rewatching this after the CR3 premiere to "revisit" an old friend?

Keyleth: "Do you even need your arm? You use a gun you can just *mimes a gun with only one hand*" Percy: "Yeah, like 4 times, and then I have to reload, AND THATS WHEN IT GETS COMPLICATED!!!!"

It's just so unnaturally perfect that Grog rose from basically the dead and critted some forgotten celestial twice.

".. and he's not slow, he just got a lot left to learn!" Mah heart

"Rumors speak that atop this very crag, there's a space where words that are shouted against the wind can be heard by whoever the intended recipient is, no matter where they are on the planes." (53:02) Oh man, how did they miss that opportunity? "Hey Vax. I know you just left, but we miss you already." "Hello, mom? It's me, Keyleth. I haven't given up on finding you." "Vecna! Just thought we'd check in and ask how you're doing. ... Sorry, can't hear you, you'll need to speak a little louder." "Dear brother, I don't know what's involved in being the Champion of the Raven Queen, but if you can spare them, you did promise to leave me those boots."

The fact that's in been three years and we still haven't seen a Grog backpack in the merch store is a travesty. A Travisty even.

"I don't know how magic works." Rolls 28 Arcana check.

Fjord rolled those 3 natural ones so Grog could have that moment

Travis Willingham channelling the energy of Taryon Darington with all his might is a sight to behold.

Fun thing is... when you look at Travis' interview with Brian, he talks about the first time he was asked to play DnD, and he turned down the offer because of.. whatever, he felt it was "nerdy". Then he gave it a shot. Now look at him as his Grog rolled his 20's. He was having the time of his LIFE there. Goes to show you should always give something a try before judging it. You just need to be lucky and find others who already enjoy what is being done.

1:41:51 "I don't know how magic works.." - 20th level god-killing bard

Matt's reaction to the last natural 20 embodies the mix between the joy of a geek and the frustration of a DM. It. Is. Beautiful.

I love how everyone else was so disappointed in Sam and Liam was just laughing his ass off when he brought out the skeleton

Sam: Is the search for Bob its own adventure. Matt: Nope. Me: *looks to the Search for Bob video in my recommended*

Vex: "Darling.." Me: **starts crying**

...Do they make Percy lose his arm _just to preserve canon?_

When Trinket says "I can carry him" I just started blubbering and I didn't stop

Oh my god I only just watched this after catching up on season 3. Are you telling me Bertrand WASN'T lying about being part of Vox Machina???

Why does anybody think we let any of these people do anything. I miss Percy so much

"I love when dice make narrative work." - Matthew Mercer That's all I have to say about the 20's Grog rolled :D

I love that they can be so serious, then somewhere Matt just rips percys arm off and they laugh about it for a good 10 minutes.

Grog: Wakes up Emperyean: Why do hear boss music-

I love that about Mercer. Everyone else walks out with flair and style, Matt walks out like a giant dork and gets the biggest ovation. :D

I've always had mixed feelings about live audience shows of Critical Role....but Grog's turn is quite possibly the greatest 4-5 minutes of Critical Role I've ever seen.

Lieve saying “stay close to me” to Vex was great RP. Liam really knows how to create a moment

Trying to play a level 20 caster after not playing a caster for a year is brutal. Mad props to marisha

Liam really knows how to salt the wounds doesn't he? "Stay close to me." -Lieve'tiel "Do not go far from me." -Vax'ildan... Thanks Liam. I didn't need my heart anyways.

Bertrand Bell, I'm sorry did you mean Gilderoy Lockheart.

I love how the audience collectively goes "NIEN!" whenever someone rolls a nine

Keyleth, regenerating Percy's arm: I'll bring THAT back I guess! The cast: 8d10 psychic damage and a big "OOF"

I NEED Vox Machina one-shots to become an annual thing. Like make it the Wrestlemania of Crit Role.

And that's, ladies and gentlemen, a *proper way to do DLC* if I've ever seen one.

Vex takes Trinket everywhere she can, of course, because she's his mama, and also murder bear. But how torn she must have been here: take Trinket and risk his life in Pandemonium, or leave him behind with no guarantee to return, so soon after losing Vax... I wouldn't let him out of my sight either. No wonder we're so moved by Trinket's "I'll carry him." He didn't want to leave Vex alone. That, and convenient Grog backpack. :p

Love how Travis clapped for all of his crew members as they came out on stage. He has such good enthusiasm

"Dear Lord. You let HIM have THIS?" Pretty much summed up what everyone was thinking.

The group is talking about growing a second Percy from the arm stump, then Laura steps in: "No I like this idea, it could be fun!" *with an eyebrow raise* Easily the most underrated joke of the night

Percy: "That is the most pompous, egotistical asshole I've ever met in my entire life!" Vex & Keyleth: *synchronized head tilt* (1:44:08) Hahahaha I love it!!! Gah, I miss Vox Machina.

Awww Marisha reaching out to grab Matt's hand when he walks out and is super nervous, what an act of love.

*Grog has left the game* The game turns into a roast *Grog has entered the game* HEY WHATS UP

Liam : I WISH I KNEW HOW TO QUIT YOU SAM RIEGAL

Made it through the entire campaign of Vox Machina only to do a full on spit take at Vex’s “who the fuck makes these cards??” 39:25

I love how "normal" all the world leaders got by the end of the campaign. At the start they were all prim and proper now they just say "shit". Its funny and I don't know why.

"I'll regenerate your arm! I'll bring that back, *I guess!"* *hisses through teeth* Ohhhhh, now I get it.....

"You know this was coming" "It doesn't make it any easier" I really know the feeling, Gilmore.

I like how Grog eventually just becomes an item for a bit.

1:16:37 Oh, Liam knows exactly what he's doing by making Lieve'tel act like Vax. I love it

A special thanks to Grog (Travis) for making this one-shot possible

Matt said that from the peak you could call out to anyone you wanted. I just imagine every being across all planes hearing "I WOULD LIKE TO RAGE!!"

My own little piece of headcanon to that amazing end/HDYWTDT: Grog lands his first hit on the knee, dropping the empyrean low. As he preps for his second strike, the wind gusts up. A blur of dark motion catches his eye, as three raven feathers dagger past, stabbing into the enemy's neck in a small pointed v-formation. A whisper in the back of Grog's mind: 'Right there, big man.' Grog nods with a slight grin as his attack lands with divine precision....

Allura: Pandemonium is a place where you’re sanity is challenged at every turn Me: So they’ll be fine then! They’re all insane to begin with

So, Bertrand Bell seems like a vainglorious charlatan... But he's also legitimately one of the most dangerous entities on the planet... My head-canon is that he's *actually* a great hero, but has never had the fame he wanted. He's getting older now and is prone to exaggerating the truth out of building desperation to leave a glorious legacy.

Wow those bugbears really came out of nowhere

The balls on Liam to have this as his character is wonderful

I love how Travis is Gildaroy Lockhart if he was a fighter

This Episode = Waiting 4 hours to hear "I would like to Rage!"

I forgot how wildy different Beau and Keyleth are

Love how Liam just takes the skeleton as bro love with sam, but Laura looks like someone just kicked her puppy.

2:23:32 Talisen nodding and clapping at Liam when he used Sentinel at Death's Door, proud Grave Cleric and his pupil.

3:43:09 “Statistically, that shouldn’t be possible.” Guy in the crowd: “Thank you!”

Those nat 20s for Grog tho, it's like the dice decided: "Yeah let's make this as awesome as possible". You couldn't write a better ending to that fight.

Keyleth is so unhinged in this and I’m HERE for it!

Admittedly Percy with a steampunk prosthetic is now a dream of mine.

I love how Matt just entered with tracksuit pants, a T and a really light vest, as if he was DM'ing in his house

I love how Matt's LITERALLY the most famous and possibly most loved DM in the history of the game... and he's still just like a little kid opening presents on Christmas when people show him love. Can't buy that... so amazing!

Nobody expects the bugbear inquisition lmao Also I love the fact that everyone is just sitting there with basically no reaction at all lmao. To be entirely fair to Keyleth and her circlet, Bob might have a hard time taking that and it not being *immediately* noticed.

An hour in and Travis' new character is giving me Chamber of Secrets flashbacks.

"You let HIM have the cards?" they ask. "You let HIM use Wish?" they ask. just like real life, incredible power is held arbitrarily in the hands of questionable people. at least Grog and Scanlan are fairly altruistic or at least not genocidal

liam o brien only knows how to do ONE (1) female voice but gosh darnit he aint afraid to use it

4:35:19 I love how Ashley ran over to Travis to hug him from behind, but I especially love that Travis then went to hug Laura.

Informing Gilmore about Vax is a closure I have been wanting for millennia. I like to think that as Pike has Grog and Scanlan... Vex, Gilmore and Keyleth have a trio group where they just sit and have tea sometimes, or just mental days together to mourn or reminisce.

"I CAN CARRY HIM" I effing died.

I love how Travis managed to turn a game of D&D into WWE for a minute, complete with chants, the crowd going crazy, etc.

Dammit, it's been almost 2 years and Gilmore still made me cry.

Hearing Taliesin do his Percy voice again had a stronger effect than i thought it would. I can't be the only one who REALLY wants more throwback one shots like this?

"I'll bring THAT back, I GUESS!!" Didn't know KeyKey could become a Salt Golem

Matt: “I wanna finish Bertrand SO BAD” Don’t worry, soon :(

Moral of the story: If you're a servant of the Raven Queen, stay a million miles away from Vox Machina, and vice versa.