Whispers at the Ziggurat | The Legend of Vox Machina Ep 11 Reaction 

“How much anime y’all watch?” Better question is how much anime they’re in. Answer: half the English dubs out there lol

The reason Grog resisted Silas's mind control this time is because his character subclass (Bezerker Barbarian) upgrades his "Rage" abilty so that while he is raging, he can't be mind controlled or frightened.

"Silence" is one of the _rudest_ spells you can use on an arcane caster and I love the moment of Scanlan pulling the ultimate UNO reverso.

Probably explained already. but Grog's a barbarian - they've got the most HP, and have means of reducing the damage they take as well. They can literally eat attacks that could outright kill other characters

Cassandra: you’ll have to go thru me- Roshi and Lupa:( Blicky noises) 🤣🤣🤣

"how much anime yall watch?" the VA's from this show ARE anime..ALL the dub voices

Grog shutting his eyes is an actual thing in-game - barbarians have the Reckless Attack option, where you drop all defence and roll two dice to hit instead of one. Does mean that any asshole trying to hit you gets to roll two dice as well, but you're a barbarian. You're built like a truck, you can generally take it while you're dishing it out.

Delilah: This can't be all there is Percy: You're right. Forgot your bullets 😂

If Vox Machina gets more than 2 seasons this episode could very important in the future.

Pike went full void Titan this episode, shield throws for days!

this isn't a spoiler, just something the show doesn't make 100% clear, the ritual was supposed to happen on the winter solstice but vox machina out enough pressure on them that they sped up their plans so it didn't work exactly the way it was supposed to

the animation studio is the one that did Korra, but the lead character designer that they hired (Phil Bourassa) is the guys that did the character designs for Young Justice and the animated DC films. when y'all are done with the show, it would be dope to see you react to the Behind the Scenes videos that they did

can't wait for next episode. Taliesin Jaffe (Percy's voice actor) absolutely pops off

Yo yall's read of the content and style is awesome. First off "Ethernet cable disconnected" killed me because in game it was literally internet connection for Ashley (Pike) to video-call in from acting on NBC. "How much anime do you watch?" They voice your favorite anime, I'd love for you to go through the mains cast's IMBDs as a video. The places you didn't even realize you've heard their voices will blow you away

Without getting into spoilers - the thing possesing/helping percy is NOT "The Whispered One" . Doesn't matter a lot right now, but will in the future if the series gets enough seasons

Everyone from the voice actors to the animators love anime and worked on anime so yeah heavy anime influence is gonna be there, and yeah The they got the Lead designer of Young Justice to do the character designs.

“How much anime y’all watch?” Let me put it in these terms: Grog-Travis Willingham-Roy Mustang (Fullmetal Alchemist) Vax-Liam O’Brien-Gaara (Naruto) Sylas Briarwood-Matthew Mercer-Levi (Attack on Titan) Or best of all, Vex-Laura Bailey-Kid Trunks (Dragonball Z) They pretty much LIVED anime! 😁

Fun Fact: The spell that Delilah used on Scanlan is a real spell called Silence. Its used for this exact reason: most spells require you to say something to cast them. The reason it fades is because it requires concentration to maintain, and concentration can break when you take damage. Scanlan using it on her could be a weird Counterspell adaptation, or a reference to how Bards (Scanlan's class) have an insane variety of spells.

9:57 as a lot of people have said this is mainly because of Grog's class but on top of that you roll dice to decide how much hp you get every time you level up in DnD and Travis (the guy playing Grog) rolled comically high even by barbarian standards most of the time.

4:14 HAD ME DYING all this action and yall THOUGHT THE SAME THING

titmouse, who did the animation for vox machina, did the opening for avatar the last airbender, and for the legend of korra video game. studio mir did the main animation for legend of korra. character designer for vox machina was phil bourassa, who also did young justice and justice league.

“How much anime do y’all watch?” Check out their IMDBs they probably English dubbed half of an entire generations childhoods💀

Your Pike disconnect joke hits harder than you think...during the campaign Ashley-Pike would skype in due to her working in LA, and her skype would disconnect sometimes during the streams.

Grogs HP: “It’s over 9000!!!!!”

Ma’am really thought the elderich being who embodied all evil was gonna keep its promise.

The voice actors and the players for this show and game are like the top tier anime voice actors. So they probably have seen a lot. Like a lot lot. Also Delilah is voiced by Azula's voice actress!

"how much anime yall watch??" the cr cast, pretty much all of whom have had major roles in anime dubs: *yes*

I know it’s been said a bunch but to those that don’t know, if you you grew up watching English dubbed anime these actors in this show voiced them. Matt Mercer, Marisha Ray, Travis Willingham, Laura Bailey, Ashley Johnson, Sam Riegal and Taliesan Jaffe. My personal favorite was Travis when I found out he voiced Roy Mustang from FMA.

Sheera: so they could summon the Ma’alefa’ak- Lupa: 🤣 Roshi:🤔🤔🤔 Us:🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Phil Bourassa is the dude who works on character design for Young Justice and similar DC media, and he made the character designs for this show too. Man is GOATED.

The lead character designer for The Legend of Vox Machina is Phil Bourassa who's actually the lead character designer for Young Justice as well as pretty much every DC animated project. So in a way, you're right Roshi.

I just love the drums that start when Keyleth starts charging. That utterly primal chant always get me in the feels.

she failed summoning the creepy edgy undead shit guy because it was too soon saylas said that in the last episode but the fact that the resistance was coming forced them to try to summon him early

"I need a figure of this man." Vox Machina figures would be awesome!

the actual fight on the live show was epic AF. Grog had the funniest side arc from here on.

Looks familiar because the art director was Phil Bourassa. He's done all the modern DC animation, including Young Justice.

1:13 secs in and I'm already laughing m ass off. nice job Shira 🤣🤣😂😂

yeah Grog is the ultimate tank. Barbarians are just so hard to kill, they don't care about damage most of the time. And it's the class with the highest hit dice (wich determine your HP)

the mind control shit isn't connected to the bites, when it's used in game the playerneeds to roll a d20 to see if he can resist it so sometimes it can last through the whole combat or fade instantly

3:56 Wanted....still one of my fave Morgan lines

if i remember right the pike disconnect is actually when happened when to player as her wifi cut during the live game at the same point

During the games, it was actually Vex who got hit with that Death Ray (I believe that’s what it’s called). It did like 70 damage or something which can out right kill most characters at low levels. Not sure why they switched it the Keylith here, but it was still aimed at Vex before the hit. Not saying anything else for spoilers

So for insight for why pike suddenly fizzled out in the real time of the games, the player who played pike lost connection throughout gh a skype call right at that moment.

"How much anime y'all watch" Well to be fair, most of the cast of Vox Machina came from anime dubbing (Vex aka Laura Bailey as Kid Trunks, Grog aka Travis Willingham as Roy Mustang, Sylas aka Matt Mercer as Levi Ackerman, Vex aka Liam O'Brien as Gaara, etc.) so the anime inspiration is definitely there.

"How much anime y'all watch?" Considering this was all started by voice actors who have lent their voices to many anime dubs; a lot.

I'm so happy that shit from Young Justice is just part of the running gag here. Fun fact, the Original animator for YJ is the one who did this show!

Vecna oh whispered one has arrived,if we get a few more seasons we got are over arching villain but we got the chroma conclave aka the fire nation attacking

one of the many reasons my mains are paladin and barbarian this episode was just a joy to watch

"I'm sure when I summon the being of ultimate evil they won't be evil to ME!"

I love the Young Justice references LMAOOO summon the Ma'alefa'ak

Grog is not only a Barbarian but also a half giant. Dude can eat huge chunks of damage.

Pike wifi went out

I like how Grog was able to resist the mind control because his rage like increased or whatever so he could not get controlled

so, if you remember they had a star chart for the solstice, which they said was five days away, that was literally the day before. also when delilah said she needed to do it now, and sylas said no, it's to early.

Vox machina is on tuesday ? But it's monday now, i hope dororo reaction will be there soon 💓

You guys should take in "Seis Manos". Its really good

they did that saiyan saga special beam cannon

Not gonna lie Roshi, but that's a smart plot for a D&D campaign. Make a powerful creature who promise riches only to really take over a body. As a guy who is the DM for D&D, I'mma use that plot hook

" Open the door" " 🤣

Fortunately, Sideshow Collectibles IS doing a Grog Statue, it goes up for preorder soon.

Banger of an episode, hope their budget increases so we get more of this

"I broke the world for us."

They used the anime budget in that episode. Tanks are always needed, especially the good ones.

Critical Role shop actually has Vox Machina Funkos if Lupa needs one of Grog :D

12:36 bruh im dead, thats the roblox disconnect window

"You have to go through me" Both of yall" BRRRRRRAAAAAAATTTTYTTTTTT

Damn he got hit with the special beam cannon lol

12:37 bruh that roblox disconnect is legendary.

There are a couple of types of Barbarian subclasses. Some, like Grog are a mix of Defense and Attack. Whenever he goes into a rage, any normal/magical damage that is done from weapons/claws etc is halved. So like when Vax stabbed him, his dagger can do 1d6+3 damage. So a D6 die roll and 3 additional damage, so if he rolled a 6, he'd of done 9 damage normally, but with Grog it's always halved rounded down, so in that case it'd be 4 damage. He still takes full damage on certain other things. There is a class of Barbarian that takes half damage from *everything* except Psionic (Like mind powers) damage.

The intro is fire tho 🔥

I love that D&D clerics are so much more combat-focused than healers in other RPG systems. =========== Dude, Grog is a half-giant and a barbarian. He's an HP fountain.

He really just said thx for opening the door and left her

I love how Vax one of the main characters is just “that other guy “

dude busted out the wanted reference lol

Sheera look like she ready for a nap at the intro 😂😂

Bruh the amount of Elden Ring reference Lupa and Roshi made got me dying.

The crazy thing about Barbarians is that while they rage they take half damage, and have the highest Hit Dice of the game, they are built to be meatshields that hit back

Bro y'all brought overlord back FUCKIN HELL YEAH

4:13 jesus christ its so funny that they were in the exact same wavelength

See Vex hit Vax reminded me of that Calebcity skit where he punch his friend to get him out of the Hypnosis Heroes when ANY of their Allies are under mind control The Grog Keyleth and Sylas moment got heavy Goku Piccolo and Raditz vibes

In the campaign they were like between levels 10-13 if I recall correctly, which means Grog is at 116-180 in max HP, so yeah, he can take quite a bit of damage. The specific spell that Keyleth used in that attack is legit called Sunbeam, which is lets the user shoot a 60ft straight line of sunlight. You should check out the video Critical Role put out called The Legend of the Design of The Legend of Vox Machina, its one of their 6 behind the scenes videos on the making of the show and that particular one goes into the character designs themselves. Honestly you should check out all 6 once youre done with the show because it sheds a lot of light on things.

Game mechanics-wise, Grog could literally survive a 1000 feet fall and still be healthy enough to move around. My mans built different

I dunno if someone has said this yet but in the campaign wrap up matt mercer(the DM) said that ritual delilah was doing that looks like it failed actually' fully suceeded

OK, so here's what we know about the Briarwoods and the Whispered One so far: At some point in the past, Sylas was dying and a desperate Delilah was lead to some shack in the woods by whispers in her head. There she found the book that contained (among other things) a ritual that she used to turn Sylas into a vampire, thus saving his life, but now they are both indebted to the Whispered One. At some point after that the Briarwoods arrive in Whitestone and proceed to murder the ruling family there and take over. In this episode Delilah said this was something she did, because the Whispered one told her to. We also learned (last episode I think) that Dr Ripley found and restored the ziggurat that's underneath Whitestone as part of her contract with the Briarwoods. We also see Ripley ask Percy about 'the secret under Whitestone' in that torture flashback. So we can perhaps infer that the ziggurat (that's been there who knows how long and that the de Rolo's knew nothing about) was the real reason why the Whispered One wanted the Briarwoods to take over Whitestone, since it was appearantly necessary for this ritual, whatever it was. And speaking of the ritual: We know it was supposed to happed on the solstice, but that Vox Machina's arrival forced the Briarwoods to accelerate their plans and conduct the ritual early. We also know that the Whispered One supposedly wants to come to this plane and that that's easiest at the solstice, when the barrier between planes is thinnest. That brings us to the point we're at now in the show: Delilah uses her own blood as a sacrifice since at this point she doesn't really have any other options and (since Sylas just died) also not much left to lose. She asks the Whispered One to bring back Slyas (We don't know whether the original bargain was just about saving Sylas that one time or about keeping him alive indefinitely), but when he appears, he doesn't do that, in fact he doesn't do much of anything and just sort of disappears again (was he even actually there to begin with? Was it just an illusion or projection?). What's left in his place (and as far as we can tell the only effect this big bad ritual actually had) is a spinning black orb that's just sort of floating in space. So now we're left with some questions: Did the ritual work? Was it too early? Not enough blood? What was the ritual actually supposed to acomplish? Is the Whispered One back? And maybe most pressingly: What the hell is that spinning orb thingy?

lets gooooooo i was just rewatching yall episode 3 reaction lol

11:05 well, I mean, Not a locksmith so this baseless conjecture's probably irrelevant. But there are probably only so many ways you can design tumblers and other mechanical guts of a lock if you still want to be able to use the kind of key that fits on a keyring for it.

You guys should check out "Voltron: Legendary Defender" some day. That show is made by the same studio, and the fights when Voltron appears REALLY slap!

Grog pulled a Piccolo.

Grog is a Barbarian they say fuck armor and just get a lot of hp.....issue is they are very weak against mental attacks like what he tried.....but there is always a chance to fight it off like he did ;)

Grog actually isn't the *ultimate* tank. All Barbarians can rage, which means lots of hit points and raging to absorb damage; but Beserkers like Grog are DPS. There are other primal paths that make a better tank, like Ancestral Guardian.

Roshi: hmm…imma Tree 🤣

*checking my calendar* something…is off.

I dont think this studio did YJ, but they did have one of the artists who worked on YJ on this shows production team

4:13 I'm 💀

Not Roshi basically conspiring to make the Darkhold- thats the exact plan the demon Chthon had

The Whispered one already did bring Sylas back from the dead, when he turned him into a Vampire, he's under no obligation to do it again, it's not his fault the Delilah was unable to keep him alive past that point, plus they were early on the ritual to summon him.

Someone else maybe already said it but, Pike's astral projection was their interpretation of Pike's player skyping to keep playing while away, and her skype would lose connection at the worse moments

"Why the zoom in?". Oh, you'll find out one day.

Soo you guys were asking about anime the main characters are voice actors in anime like FMA, Naruto, Dragonball, and a lot of others you should look into it.

9:02 real goku holding raditz move here