Critical Role One-Shot: Thursday by Night – Part 2

The thumbnail for "**Critical Role One-Shot: Thursday by Night – Part 2**" (Sx25), featuring Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey, Liam O'Brien and Taliesin Jaffe.

### Episode

Specials,​ Episode 25
(C1E115d)

### Game system

Vampire: The Masquerade (custom)

"**Critical Role One-Shot: Thursday by Night – Part 2**" (Sx25) is the twenty-fifth special episode of *Critical Role*. In part two of the *Thursday by Night* one shot, Taliesin Jaffe takes the Critical Role cast through a dark yet strangely familiar world of vampires, werewolves, and other assorted creatures of the night.

## **Synopsis**

### **Pre-Show**

Matt and Marisha are not present for this episode because they're on vacation. The rest of the cast is wearing Halloween costumes: Laura is disguised as Chell from *Portal*; Liam is disguised as a Vault Dweller in *Fallout*; Travis is disguised as Joel Miller from *The Last of Us* and Sam is disguised as Pac-Man.

### **Announcements**

* This episode is sponsored by **Tor Books**, America's largest publisher of science fiction and fantasy, releasing *Oathbringer* by Brandon Sanderson, on November 14. The third book in the #1 best-selling Stormlight Archive follows *The Way of the Wings* and *Words of Radiance*. Tor Books is celebrating by offering fans a chance to win an exclusive, one-of-a-kind Bag of Holding.
* **Laura's Merch Corner**! New Strongjaw Ale coasters; new set of d20 dice inspired by characters from Vox Machina, coming with Vox Machina logo bag and designed by the cast of Critical Role, available in the Critical Role shop.
* The Critical Role podcast is available on iTunes, Google, Amazon Alexa and on geekandsundry.com
* Liam and Marisha appeared in the mini-series **Sagas of Sundry: Madness!** Trailer is available on YouTube and the preview episode of the first season is available on Twitch.
* Critical Role: Grog's One-Shot will air next week, November 2nd, and they will be playing "Bunions and Flagons".
* No Talks Machina episode this Tuesday because it's Halloween. This Tuesday will be Eric Campbell's Cthulhu one-shot.
* **Wednesday Club** this week is going to be Japanese influence on American comics with Erika Ishii.
* Tomorrow is going to be Critical Role first Halloween with Gather Your Treats on **Gather Your Party**.
* Starting next week will be the final round of Vox Machina character playlists.
* Matt, Marisha, Taliesin and Liam will be at **PAX Unplugged** in Philadelphia on November 17th. 1:00-2:30pm Eastern Standard Time is the Critical Role panel and the signing will be 5:30-7:30 Eastern Standard Time.

### **Previously on *Critical Role***

*When we last left the game, we had just dove underneath the Wednesday Club table into a mysterious hole in the back of the studio just in time to see fire and air pressure push everything, bedlam and sounds and screams and fire above us and thankfully you had gotten to cover underneath the table and whatever's going on up there, there's still terrible commotion. You can hear things falling, you can hear things breaking and shredding and the fires are obviously spreading. You can feel the heat pushing through the table. But thankfully there seems to be some sort of break in the floor.*

### **Break**

* **Tonight's Giveaway!** A spalted tamarind dice vault from Wyrmwood Gaming with the code word: LIZARD.
* Teaser video for *Sagas of Sundry: Madness!* presented by Darin De Paul.
* *Adam Green's Scary Sleepover*. Filmmaker Adam Green hosts a slumber party with a different celebrity guests each week.
* Check out the blog of the food stylist Jana Spoon named *Feeding Hannibal.*
* Today in *Hector's Spooky Book Club* with Hector Navarro we're looking at *Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark* by Alvin Schwartz.
* *How to Play: Warhammer Underworld Shadespire* with Becca Scott.
* Critters' art montage.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Player Characters**

* Laura Bailey
* Liam O'Brien
* Sam Riegel
* Travis Willingham

### **New**

* Lock
* Kotori
* Mahlo
* Will Friedle
* Satine
* Yuri Lowenthal
* Wil Wheaton
* Felicia Day
* Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

### **Mentioned**

* Gary Gygax
* Matthew Mercer
* Marisha Ray
* Matt Colville