Editing Orion in Review (section)

==Episode 26==

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2CCQnD4AQ8

The one where Orion touched Marisha while in character as drunk Tiberius, AND DID NOTHING WRONG!

MATT GIVES ORION THE 3rd DEGREE
27:00
Matt: "Tiberius, what did you say you were doing down there?"
Orion: Hm?
Matt: "What were you doing down in your laboratory?"
(Orion had checked out of the earlier group discussion scene by saying he was going down to his lab.)
Orion: Um, well, I was doing my research for that stuff last night, and this morning ..."
Matt: "Which one?"
Orion: It's just my ability, like, my class, I do, backstory, uh, what I was doing was-"
Matt: "Backstory is...?"
Orion: I was writing down-
Matt: "Backstory isss...?
Orion: I'm a Noble Sage.
Matt: "Well, there's a noble. And there's a sage."
Orion: "I know. I spliced them [together] because it made sense."
Matt: "Ok. (laughs)"
Orion: No! The noble part is the [role play], and the sage is my perk.
After this, Matt seems to give up on this weird, impromptu interrogation. The anti-Orion shadow campaign has become visible.

33:38
Liam: (to Tiberius) "There's no question that you are an invaluable member of Vox Machina, and our friend, and our family, and that is not in question."

("... for at least one more episode.")

1:13:08
Sam: "How many errands do you have to run?"
Orion: I have a bunch, dude. I made a list. (holds up list to Sam)
Sam: "Alright, go run your errands."
Matt: "You guys make your way back to Greyskull keep ... (to Orion) are you going with them?"
Orion: "I'm doing all this shit [on his list] ... and I'm going to give you...
(Orion is holding out his list, willing to hand it to Matt in order to keep things moving and save time from having to roleplay. That's good table play!)
Matt: "What are you doing?" (the tone of Matt's voice, if not his face, is annoyed)
Sam: "He's got a list."
Matt: "I'd like to know the list."
So Orion reads off his list.
• Pick up decanter from temple.
• Visit armory to reinforce crossbow. (Orion - "I don't even know what that means.")
• Research teleportation sigil to the Feywild. (that's where his personal arc leads, so this makes sense.)
• Start enchanting his blades.

Orion was right. None of this needed roleplaying. It should have been handled by Matt behind the DM screen.

Sam: "A busy day. Coming on Friday night, 'The Adventures of Tiberius!' 7-10 every Friday night on Twitch."
The joke landed, but this was a bit unfair to Orion. Orion tried his best to give his list to Matt so it could be handled off-screen, but now the seed is sown that Orion is taking too much time with "personal stuff", which is exactly what Orion was trying to avoid. Without prompting, he even ditched his attempt to reinforce his crossbow and enchant his blades for brevity's sake.

1:16:10
Matt describes an elderly couple outside the Keep.
Sam: "We hate old people."
Travis: "Favored enemy."
Table: laughs

1:25:30
Matt: "Tiberius, what's the first thing you're doing?"
Orion: Stop by to pick up the decanter from the temple.
Matt: "Okay? They said it would require 2 days and it's been less than a day."
Orion: (paraphrased) Then I'm researching the sigil.
Matt: (paraphrased) "You can't teleport to the Feywild, you'll have to find a door."
Orion: Then I only pick up my decanter.
Some laughs were had at Orion's shocking loss of memory, having been told about the decanter just a moment earlier. Who's not laughing? Sam.

ORION DID NOTHING WRONG!!!
2:15:30
Orion, playing a drunk Tiberius in-character, hugs Keyleth, and Marisha says in character, "Why are you touching me? Don't touch me right now. I'm not - don't touch me." Orion then proceeds to touch his finger to Marisha's lips, "Human kissy mouth." Orion was just playing in character, DOING NOTHING WRONG. Everybody was laughing.
Except for Marisha.

You can see that Marisha wants to jump into some back-and-forth with Orion/Tiberius, but she wants to do it while being able to shit on Tiberius (as she and Matt have been trying to do all episode long, quite frankly). It's hard, though, when everyone is on Orion's side and laughing at his actions. She doesn't have the acting/improv chops to make a smooth entry, so she just goes over the top with the "Don't touch me!" approach. It seems forced and harsh.

That's because she's not in character! It's real!

I disagree. She stays in that same character tone when she acts mad at the group for disturbing her while studying her spell book.

Her ... spellbook?

I know. Druids don't have spellbooks. Oh well, that's Marisha for you.

(I'm sure many of the critters all posted, "omg orion is literally raping her!" but this is absolutely not true. At 2:27:15 we can see Orion put his arm around Marisha and by 2:27:27 she's smiling and laughing.)

2:18:13
Marisha's attempt at seizing the moral high ground falls flat when she doesn't even realize where her character is. She announces the intent to physically push Tiberius, but is then reminded she's not in the basement, but on the roof.
Matt: "So where do you push him?"
Liam: "Off [the roof] I guess."
Laura: "Off the roof."
Marisha: (nervous laugh, realizing she doesn't know where she is or what she's doing) "No haha, I thought we were downstairs...I don't know what I do with him."
...
Matt: (to Marisha) "What are you doing to .. pair(?) with what you were doing?"
Marisha: "I don't know, I got distracted." (turns to stare at Tiberius)
Jesus, Marisha, Tiberius was not the character who distracted you - it was the other members of the party who called to you. Quit blaming Orion.

Marisha then conveys one plan to bolster the Keep in case the Briarwoods come - Conjure Bears.
Matt: "It's a concentration spell and it only lasts an hour.
Marisha: (paraphrase) "Whaaaa?"

pic related, "you mean my spells don't last forever?"

No, Marisha, they do not last forever. But nice try hoping that your husband will let you get away with that.

The point of this Marisha posting above was to show that she didn't know what she was doing, and she didn't know what she was doing with her acting in the scene with Orion. She was just blindly doing something because something something reasons. She was NOT personally skeeved by Orion. She tried to be emotional as a thespian. She failed. Orion is INNOCENT!

BONUS DAD JOKE
2:37:50
Sam: "It's cow-mouflage."

BONUS MARISHA FAIL
2:56:08
Marisha "Vox Moo-kia"
You had one job, Marisha. (Vox Moo-kina)

BONUS MARISHA SUCCESS
2:59:34
With Sam and Marisha upon the flying Roc.
Marisha: "For thematic reasons I also [polymorph the Roc] into a cow."
Sam breaks up with laughter.

BONUS I DON'T DO THAT THEN
3:10:25
Four people are flying with Tiberius' spell.
Matt: "You all stay back, or do you go with her?"
Orion: I'm gonna cast Greater Invisibility on myself, then follow.
Matt: "Okay? You guys have 12 seconds before you all plummet."
Orion: Oh wait! I don't do that.
(Orion goes back to binge eating.)

Hey Matt! What happened to Tib's Circlet of Concentration? First, it was able to maintain two concentration spells for their duration, then it was able to hold one of the two concentration spells for 2 minutes before expiring, and now it can only hold the extra concentration spell for 12 seconds? Matt's suspicious ruling continues his shadow campaign, trying to make Orion look bad and turn the cast against him.
verdict for Matt: SHADOW CAMPAIGN CONTINUES

CAN WE KILL THIS THING NOW?
3:37:55
Travis: "Can we kill this thing now? You guys are doing awesome </sarcasm>."
Marisha: "I think I've done pretty damn good [negotiating]."
Marisha now starts wheedling for the boyfriend advantage.
Marisha: (to Matt) "Come on, man! [unintelligible]"
The drugs, or perhaps lack of them, begin hitting Marisha hard. She gets a hot flash and begins bellowing her t-shirt for air, then she rubs her eyes and massages her temples during Sam's speech.
Matt: (to Sam) "Make a persuasion role."
Marisha: "How many fucking persuasion rolls does this asshole need."
(OH SNAP!)

Orion episode grade: *STILL ALIVE!

*Ted Buckland, Scrubs