This transcript is dedicated to Izzymatic @IsabelKSilva (izzymatic-art.tumblr.com)
for her gorgeous set of drawings depicting Keyleth’s emotional dynamic in the
scene. I have watched this scene a truly ridiculous number of times, and I thought
I really connected with it. But the scene is spread out, and it wasn’t until I
saw her set of drawings that I fully saw it through Keyleth’s eyes and felt the
full impact of her shock.If you’ve ever watched your friends break in front of you
from trauma, mental health, or both, or been in that terrible place yourself,
you know how accurate this drawing, and this scene, are. You remember all the
good, and you see very starkly the calamity of what’s happening right now. And
how very powerless you feel to stop it, even though you want to, to protect
someone you dearly love. A lot of people didn’t get that Keyleth acted
perfectly in character, & perfectly as real people do. Especially if
they’ve had a glimpse of that darkness in themselves. That Marisha was able to
hold that in her mind and act that out with all the chaos and laughter around
her is a great testament to her acting ability.
https://twitter.com/IsabelKSilva/status/800950293236064256
http://izzymatic-art.tumblr.com/post/153507172567/when-youre-the-best-of-friends-having-so-much
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Scene runs 3:05:35 to
3:12:49
https://youtu.be/yrrB_q-V8G0?t=11135
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Matt: “Alright, Percy, you’re up.”
Taliesin: “Okay. I’m going to walk to the very edge of
the spell, right here, so I’m standing one closer to our friend there. Not just
to you, I want to be close to the big, strong schmuck.”
Matt: “Okay, so right there?”
Taliesin: “Is the Broker holding anything? Is using
holding a weapon?”
Matt: “The Broker, you see, has what looks like a short
sword out, and he’s currently tossing and catching it.”
Taliesin: “Just a short sword?”
Matt: “Yeah. Or, he’s tossing and catching it, but… He’s
having a bad day. The Broker was not prepared for Vox Machina.”
3:06:14 Taliesin: “Okay. Before I start to do anything,
I’m going to look him in the eye and say,”
Percy, his tone escalating from indignation to shouting:
“What is wrong with you? Don’t you see there’s nothing here for you? Run
away before you die! There is no option!”
Taliesin: “And I’m going to start unloading. Natural
20.”
Liam: “Damn son!”
Taliesin: “Pepperbox.”
Marisha: “‘What is wrong with you?’”
Liam: “Percival de something something something
something Rollo III, you badass motherfucker!”
Taliesin: “That’s 16 points of damage.”
Matt: “This is to the Broker?”
Taliesin: “To the Broker. I’m just shooting at the
Broker.”
Matt: “Okay. 16 points?”
Taliesin: “16 points of damage.”
Matt: “That is doubling the dice?”
Taliesin: “That is doubling both the dice.”
Matt: “Okay.”
Taliesin: “Now a sharpshooter shot.”
Matt: “Uh, the Broker’s- No. The Broker can’t. He
already used his reaction.”
Taliesin: “Sharpshooter shot misses. And another shot…
A 7… 19?”
Matt: “19 hits.”
Taliesin: “Alright. That’s 8 points of damage.”
Matt: “Alright.”
Taliesin: “Blowing an action surge, and firing three
more times.”
Sam: “Three more? That seems terribly unfair.”
Taliesin: “That’s 25.”
Orion: “Wild West Percy.”
Taliesin: “That’s 10 points of damage plus 4 points of
fire damage.”
Liam: “Mess with the bull, you get the horns.”
Taliesin: “And a sharpshooter shot, that’s 22. That’s
21 points of damage. Another sharpshooter shot with ice-fire. And finally, I
get the breakdown on that one and I actually have a-”
Marisha: “Jam?”
Taliesin: “The gun jams,”
Matt: “Misfire?”
Taliesin: “and I put it away.”
Matt: “Okay.”
Marisha: “But that was awesome.
Orion, laughing: “Yeah.”
Marisha: “It was pretty dope.”
Taliesin: “Do I have one more? How many fired shots- 1,
2,3,4, was that 5 shots, or 6 shots?”
Matt: “That was 5 shots. All in all that was 6 shots,
but 5 hits.”
Taliesin: “6 shots. So I’m out of- I don’t have any
more actions.”
3:08:12 Matt: “That’s okay. First and foremost, how do you
want to do this?”
Cheering from everyone. Taliesin looks shocked.
Travis: “You see the nostrils? His little nostril
flared.”
Matt: “I kind of feel bad for him.”
3:08:28 Taliesin: “Okay, I’m going to do something
weird here and I’m going to hold you onto this. I’m going to get a little
weird, and I’m just taking strait chest shots, and I’m just firing chest shots,
and I’m just making a hole the size of a baseball in his chest. And as it
happens, as I keep unloading, the gun still breaks, and I’m still pulling the
trigger.”
Matt mimics bullet impacts, and makes impact noises.
3:08:51 Percy, screaming: “You fool! Your soul is
forfeit! Die! Die!”
Taliesin: “And I’m going to look at the other two, and
start pulling out my bigger gun.”
Laura: “Oh, shit!”
Matt: “Make an intimidation check. With
advantage.”
Taliesin: “And putting on the fucking mask.”
Marisha: “With advantage.”
Matt: “With a d6 inspiration dice.”
Vax: “You picked a bad day to do your job, son!”
Grog: “Oh, he’s putting the mask on.”
Taliesin: “With a d6 inspiration?”
Marisha: “And advantage, with advantage.”
Taliesin: “Oh, advantage.”
Marisha: “And a d6.”
Taliesin: “Oh. This is embarrassing.”
Marisha: “Yeah, take that one.”
Taliesin: “17. Oh, wait, intimidation 17? 19.”
Liam: “Percival!”
Matt: “Okay.”
2:09:26 Taliesin: “So mask, gun, fuck it.”
2:09:28 Matt: “He’s standing there, smoking, giant
hole, center, Tomb Stone style, in the center of the chest. Oh no, there would
be no dripping, except for the cauterization of the heat around the explosion
in his chest, and it’s just a blackened, cinderous tube, where once there was a
chest cavity. The Broker kinda,” choking noises and Matt mimics falling
back. “And just falls onto his back. With this smoldering spiral of black
smoke pouring forth from the chest wound, on the ground. As you stare at the
other two, screaming that out, you can see the old woman, who’s still on the
ground, looks extremely out of place and freaked out. The masked individual,
from what you can tell behind the eyes of the mask, does not seem to be
emotionally effected by this.”
Marisha: “The guy in front of Vax?” Matt nods.
Taliesin: “Also, just checking, does my glove still
have a charge by the way?”
Matt: “It may.”
Taliesin: “Okay, I mean, is there any indication that
it would have, like a slight glow?”
Matt: “There is a slight vibration to it, yeah.”
Taliesin: “Okay, cool.”
Matt: “Alright, that ends your turn?”
Taliesin: “That is the end of my turn.”
3:10:36 Matt: “Alright. The old woman gets up.”
Liam: “I feel happy! I feel alive!”
Orion: “Did we get the lotto tickets?”
Sam: “You’re in Atlantic City. Everything’s okay.”
Matt: “Is going to-”
Laura: “This is going to be amazing in my
scrapbook.”
Matt: “As a bonus action casts Misty Step.”
Sam: “Misty Step?”
Matt: “Appearing 30 over here.”
Travis: “Do I get to swing?”
Matt: “No. Because Misty Step is just- it happens
immediately.”
Travis: “Damn Misty and her steps!”
Matt: “She stands up and fwof! vanishes in a swirl of
vapor. Appears a little ways a way in the field and immediately just,”
spellcasting gibberish.
Orion: “Counterspell! 5th level! Fuck it.”
Matt: “You would be able to because it has been your
turn since, you would have your reaction back. So yes, you could. Go ahead and
roll a d20.”
Marisha: “Poor old woman.”
Laura: “Matt’s like, ‘Damn you and your Counterspell!
You’re ruining my plans!’”
Liam: “Declare a war against these counter spells. I
need a counter-Counterspell.”
Sam: “It’s not good.”
Marisha: “It’s not good for the old woman.”
Orion: “23.”
Matt, laughs: “So she,” spellcasting gibberish,
then stops with a look of surprise, and mimics turning around and running away.
“So she starts bolting.”
Marisha: “Amazing!”
Travis: “That’s the best running… I’ve ever seen! Her
little gate!”
Matt: “She tries to run away-”
Laura: “That poor old lady!”
Matt: “The slippery, wet grass, the kind of slips a
little bit as she’s trying to just get away now.”
Laura: “I feel bad for her.”
Marisha: “I should’ve retired.”
Liam: “A job’s a job.”
3:12:22 Matt: “That ends her turn. Keyleth, you’re
up.”
Marisha: “Upon seeing Percy going absolutely insane,
and screaming, ‘Your soul is now forfeit,’”
Taliesin: “Yeah, that did come out, didn’t it?
Sorry.”
Marisha: “out of shock, my anti-life shell dissipates,
and I spend my action staring at him.”
Laura: “Oh.”
Matt: “Alright.”
3:12:49
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