Critical Role Scanlan Reading on Top of Grog

"A Bard's Lament" (1x85) is the eighty-fifth episode of the first entrada of Disquisitional Role. Grog has a one-on-i rematch with Earthbreaker Groon. Vox Machina says farewell to a dear friend, but they run across someone new the very next day.

Daftar Isi

Synopsis

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Previously on Critical Part

"Vox Machina—having only completed the destruction of the Blush Conclave, a scourge of aboriginal chromatic dragons that had terrorized the countryside—they are victorious, nevertheless in the process lost a couple of lives. Percy returned, and Scanlan, his lifeless body brought back to Whitestone, they completed the ritual correctly, and he came to life, however he remains unconscious in a pseudo-coma. They left him in Whitestone, hopefully to recover, while beginning to finish up some of their terminal concern that they've been unable to with the rush of this current arc.

"They made a journey to Vasselheim where they walked through the Abundant Terrace and into the Birthheart itself, the temple of Melora inside Vasselheim, spoke with one of the various worshippers there, and buried a box of ashes, patently, of Senokir's wife as a cheers for when [they] journeyed and met him in the Metropolis of Brass on the Fire Elemental Plane.

"Upon doing then, [they] then began to scatter about the city to practice some concern, one of the elements of which Grog Strongjaw, along with Thruway, made their manner to [the Quadroads], which is the Kord department of the city. Returning to the Trial Forge, the temple to Kord, and upon walking to the center of the strangely empty temple structure [they] saw, down in a once-previously-traversed sandpit, there stood Earthbreaker Groon, the loftier priest of Kord, who then turned to [Grog] and asked [him] to "prove [him] what [he] had learned." After slamming his feet into the sand and preparing himself for disharmonize, he beckons [Grog] towards him." ^[one]

Function I

Fan art of Earthbreaker Groon activating Quivering Palm on Grog Strongjaw, by Hugo Cardenas.^{[art 1]}

Grog faces off with Earthbreaker Groon. At first, Grog cannot hit him, his attacks all going wild while Groon just stands at that place. Finally, he tries booping Groon on the nose to exist certain that he'southward real. Groon then smiles and launches into a flurry of attacks. They trade blows for a while, each doing serious damage to the other. Grog gets knocked unconscious simply comes back with Relentless Rage to stop the fight, knocking Groon out of the ring.

Every bit Groon gets back up, a pair of lightning bolts come down from the top of the temple and strike Grog, causing his duke to glow; the vestige has go exalted. Grog shakes hands with Groon and limps out of the Trial Forge with the residual of Voice Machina.

Suspension

Function Two

The party wanders through the streets of Vasselheim and decides to go potion shopping. They find a storefront and go in, but the shopkeeper recognizes Vex and refuses to do business with her. He does offer a toll to Grog for four healing potions. After a bit of statement, Vex lets Grog hand over 1500 coins for the potions. Vex then suggests they head back to Whitestone to check on Scanlan, and Keyleth opens a tree portal.

They go upwards to the castle and discover that Kaylie has dozed off in Scanlan's room. Grog wakes her upward, and Scanlan comes to at the commotion. He finds himself dressed in a nightgown, covered in pudding, with his hands bound over his head, as they had left him. Percy tells him that the dragon is dead, and Scanlan asks Kaylie to leave the room for a moment so he can have a conversation with his party members.

"What's my mother'south name?"

With Kaylie out of the room, Scanlan confronts them for bringing her to see his dead torso afterward he had promised her he wouldn't die. He tells them that none of them know or intendance almost him; they only proceed him effectually for the things he can practice; that Kaylie was the but thing that mattered to him, and at present she may never trust him once more. Percy yells at him that he should exist more than of a father to her, and so walks out the door, where he finds Kaylie waiting, listening to the whole thing.

Fan art of Scanlan leaving with Kaylie, by Lap Pun Cheung.^{[art 2]}

As Percy leaves, Kaylie walks past him into the room, grabs her things, and asks Scanlan, "And so, you lot coming?" Scanlan replies that he is and agrees to meet her downstairs. They say their goodbyes. Vex gives him one of the 2 gate stones; with that, Scanlan leaves the castle with Kaylie.

Percy goes to find Grog, and they briefly consider sending guards to terminate Scanlan from leaving or tail him on his mode out of the city. Keyleth, Vex, Vax, and Pike reflect on what just happened and what comes next for them. Grog goes off to find a house of lady favors and everyone else goes drinking.

"This is going to be fun, fun, fun!"

The adjacent morning, the balance of the grouping brings Gilmore to look at one of the books they found in Raishan's lair. Gilmore says the book may be informative but would cost something to anyone who reads it. Keyleth scries on Scanlan and sees him with Kaylie in a woods southward of Whitestone, the ii of them grin and enjoying being on the road together.

They decide to visit Marquet equally their next step, to deliver Ripley'due south hand to Treev Backbreaker. Keyleth opens a tree portal to the Suncut Boutique. They go through and make their way to the Debt's Respite tavern, where Treev works.

Fan fine art of Taryon Darrington calling out to Vocalisation Machina with Doty continuing behind him, past Hugo Cardenas.^{[art iii]}

Merely outside the tavern, they come across a tall, golem-like construct clutching a leather tome, next to a dashing human homo with blond hair and a goatee. The man looks them over and hails them, introducing himself equally Taryon Darrington, or Tary to his friends.

Tary, it happens, is an charlatan who has been traveling the country in search of things to exercise. The final group he hired had been killed, and then he is now looking to rent a new group. His golem, Doty, transcribes all his adventures in an as-yet-untitled volume. Vocalization Machina take an instant dislike to him (except for Grog, who is unabashedly impressed by Tary's gear), but Vex agrees to let him tag along on their adventures for a fee of l,000 golden. They deport on into the Debt'southward Respite.

Featured Characters

Vocalisation Machina

• Keyleth
• Percival de Rolo
• Scanlan Shorthalt
• Grog Strongjaw
• Pike Trickfoot (DM-controlled)
• Trinket (inside Raven's Slumber; indirectly mentioned by Taryon^[2])
• Vax'ildan
• Vex'ahlia

New

• Taryon Darrington
• Doty

Returning

• Cidrick Gillsman
• Shaun Gilmore
• Earthbreaker Groon
• Kaylie
• The Sunday Tree (used equally transportation; did not speak)

Mentioned

• Treev Bonebreaker
• Cassandra de Rolo
• Kord
• Raishan
• The Raven Queen
• Anna Ripley
• Eskil Ryndarien
• Thordak
• Allura Vysoren
• Juniper Shorthalt

Inventory

Quotations

• Scanlan: You like me because I make jokes, and I play songs, and I give yous a warm place to stay at nighttime, and I feed yous fucking chicken, and I heal you in battle. But you don't really care almost me. Come on. Allow's exist honest with each other. You don't really give a shit about me. [ ... ] We traveled into the fucking nine hells to get Pike a set of armor. We went and battled a city of vampires and then Percy could experience good about his name. We fought goliaths for Grog. We've traveled beyond planes of existence so you lot could fix your fucking daddy issues. Simply you've never done anything for me. Ever! You've never risked anything, you don't know me, you lot don't know annihilation about me. What's my mother'south name? What's her name? Like shooting fish in a barrel question. Died in front of me. Killed by a goblin. Biggest role of my life. What'due south her name? My father. Is he alive or dead? How old am I? Where's my fucking canis familiaris? [ ... ] It's fine. I'm just a lilliputian hungover from being dead, and I just have been thinking for a while, and, y'all know. Grog has Pike. Vax has Keyleth. Percy has Vex. But Scanlan has no one, and I had 1 chance at one real relationship with my daughter, and I experience similar you've gone and fucked it upwards, too. Because you lot don't really know me, and you don't really know what my relationship is with her, and what I've promised her, or annihilation, actually. And it's fine. When I met you all, I was only a funny trivial human being playing songs, and that's all I'll e'er actually be. And that'southward okay, because I tin can accept care of myself.^[3]
• Taryon: Y'all at that place! You lot! Hi! Wow! Who are you all? Look at this, magical items from caput to toe. Why, I've never seen anything quite like it.
  Vax: Pouring information technology on a fiddling thick, friend. What'due south up?
  Taryon: Doty, come hither, volition you lot? Take this downwardly.^[four]
• Taryon: I haven't settled on a title even so. It will either exist-- Tary's Adventures. It's sort of lame, sort of lame. Or information technology could be Daring Adventures of Darrington or it could exist Tarry On with Taryon. Or something like that. I'm working on the championship -- I have a while to finish it.
  Vex: (sarcastically) They're all very clever.
  Percy: The Daring Trials and Tribulations of Taryon Darrington.
  Taryon: That's fantastic! Doty, please write that down.^[5]
• Taryon: And with that, we embarked on our new gamble! The Adventures of-- what was it once again?
  Percy: (sighs)
  Vax: What a dillweed...
  Taryon: This is going to be fun, fun, fun!^[6]

Trivia

• This is the first episode in which one player plays multiple characters, as Sam plays both Scanlan and Taryon.

External Links

• Episode transcript

References

1. ↑ Run into "A Bard'south Lament" (1x85) from 0:09:xxx through 0:xi:27.
2. ↑ See "A Bard's Lament" (1x85) at 3:13:59.
3. ↑ See "A Bard's Lament" (1x85) from 2:06:42 through 2:09:21.
4. ↑ See "A Bard's Lament" (1x85) at 2:58:21.
5. ↑ See "A Bard's Complaining" (1x85) at 3:01:25.
6. ↑ See "A Bard'due south Lament" (1x85) at 3:xvi:07.

Art:

1. ↑ Fan art of Earthbreaker Groon activating Quivering Palm on Grog Strongjaw, past Hugo Cardenas (source). Used with permission.
2. ↑ Fan art of Scanlan leaving with Kaylie, by Lap Pun Cheung (source). Used with permission.
3. ↑ Fan fine art of Taryon Darrington calling out to Phonation Machina with Doty continuing behind him, by Hugo Cardenas (source). Used with permission.

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"Loose Ends" (1x84) • "A Bard'south Complaining" (1x85) • "Daring Days" (1x86) • "Onward to Vesrah" (1x87) • "Tangled Depths" (1x88) • "Curious Tides" (1x89) • "Voice of the Tempest" (1x90) • "Vox Machina Go to Hell" (1x91)
"Deals in the Nighttime" (1x92) • "Bats Out of Hell" (1x93) • "Jugs and Rods" (1x94) • "One Year Afterwards..." (1x95) • "Family Matters" (1x96) • "Taryon, My Wayward Son" (1x97) • "The Mines of the Many" (1x98) • "Masquerade" (1x99)

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