The Legend of Vox Machina Ep. 9

 

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We start off with the origin of the Briarwoods. Silas is on his deathbed. Delila runs into a ruined library and retrieves an evil tome with a skull on its cover. Bringing the tome back to the castle, she uses a ritual from the book that awakens and heals Silas. He's a vampire now.

Back in the present, those corpses hanging from the sun tree actually awaken as zombies.

The city of Whitestone is seemingly over-run with zombies. The group has no choice but to run. Keyleth uses her trusty wall of thorns to block many of them off. The heroes seek refuge in a hideout of the rebels.

The zombies start smashing through the walls, and Scanlan is bitten.

The group climbs up onto the roof. A couple of NPC rebels don't make it up there, and are devoured.

Scanlan will likely lose his arm within the hour.

Here comes the undead giant. Percy breaks out what looks like an arcane shotgun. He actually drops the giant with one shot, but his gun is damaged ("It's still a work in progress"). The guy with golden arms is still alive, and he brings more undead giants with him.

As the battle unfolds, Archie is cut in half. The group runs. When a horde of zombies blocks their path, Keyleth casts... wall of ice? Freezes them.

The surviving NPCs and the group meet up at the sun tree. Percy's sister urges him to rally everyone. Percy gives a rousing speech.

The zombies and giants advance. There's just way too many of them, and the heroes accept that this might be the end. In a beam of golden light, Pike arrives and heals Scanlan's arm. Pike is glowing - this is an astral projection of her, as her real body is back in the temple.

She starts firing off spells that devastate the undead. I assume she is turning them. I am actually interested in comparing this to the real life game to see what abilities are actually being used.

The group takes down two more giants in an extremely gory fashion.

Percy takes down the guy with golden arms.

Pike enchants... everyone's weapons at once. Good god.

The heroes enter the dungeons of the Briarwoods home. There they encounter a prisoner who offers to guide the group, but Percy puts a gun to her head.

Thoughts

Another awesome episode. It just gets better and better. I was not really sold on this storyline in the beginning, but they've won me over.