Wrap Up: Campaign 3 and the Era of Reclamation

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Speaker 34 Welcome back to the wrap-up campaign. I get it now.
It's hard.

Speaker 50 It is tough.

Speaker 34 And the age of reclamation.

Speaker 34 We're going to begin tonight at the end. We're going to cover the most recent arc first and slowly work our way backwards through campaign three.

Speaker 48 And here in this magical tome, it's a tablet.

Speaker 34 I have some questions for you all, written by the amazing Danny Carr.

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Speaker 88 I'm sorry, Robbie.

Speaker 143 No, no, please.

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Speaker 144 Is that really possible?

Speaker 16 That is possible.

Speaker 34 So we can see technology.

Speaker 34 And so,

Speaker 34 let's begin.

Speaker 143 Welcome, everyone.

Speaker 34 We have a very first question, and it's not for all of you, it's for one specific person.

Speaker 34 My favorite of you.

Speaker 16 Just kidding. It's for Sam.

Speaker 146 Wow.

Speaker 16 Wow.

Speaker 70 I'm just kidding.

Speaker 34 That's how I'm really going to win you guys over in this interview process.

Speaker 26 I got it.

Speaker 34 Our first question is, how would FCG have felt about the prospect of the gods taking on someone's name is in the thing on top of the question? So I can't read it.

Speaker 16 It's okay. Mortal forms.

Speaker 34 Technology, they're mortal forms and leaving Xandria without divinity for a time.

Speaker 22 Wow.

Speaker 7 Well, spoilers, FCG is dead.

Speaker 121 Hey, God.

Speaker 130 Yeah. So wouldn't feel anything.
But hypothetically,

Speaker 130 I think FCG would ultimately feel like that's

Speaker 130 the the best way to get out of the the pickle that we that we were in which is sort of how I Sam Regal also think about it

Speaker 130 I I I liked seeing the gods up on their perch and I'm gonna miss them up there

Speaker 22 but

Speaker 130 I also don't want to see them being chased around the galaxy

Speaker 78 so what what you're just laughing at

Speaker 78 it's okay

Speaker 24 let's get this out of the way

Speaker 65 even Travis shaved his beard.

Speaker 150 Come out, chap we know.

Speaker 54 We know

Speaker 87 everywhere.

Speaker 101 I came in the critical world this way.

Speaker 27 Come out!

Speaker 91 It's also because of mocap!

Speaker 16 I hate it.

Speaker 101 So does my song.

Speaker 88 Explain himself.

Speaker 16 I shaved it down to just a mustache,

Speaker 69 which was fun.

Speaker 151 I was like a cop for a day.

Speaker 153 And then he was like, I hate it, Daddy.

Speaker 16 So I had to shave it for mocap.

Speaker 154 And every time I come in, he goes, oh.

Speaker 88 Throw it out because I can take some of it.

Speaker 5 Oh, we can throw rope back.

Speaker 91 Nobody wants this, okay?

Speaker 16 You look great.

Speaker 87 You look great.

Speaker 16 It's very circa 2014. You are.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 110 That's the thing.

Speaker 64 It's for bringing it back around, right?

Speaker 16 He looks like you're full circle.

Speaker 29 It's a full circle situation, which is why it's happening again. That's right, thank you.

Speaker 29 I'm all for the mustache coming back.

Speaker 70 The mustache was great.

Speaker 29 I liked the mustache. Yeah, it was really funny.

Speaker 91 I liked it a lot.

Speaker 102 It was just the mustache. Yeah, just the mustache.

Speaker 79 I did it.

Speaker 156 I'm Team Flavor Saver.

Speaker 105 Yeah.

Speaker 100 It's a little reactive.

Speaker 87 I've got no sugar ray on this.

Speaker 41 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 157 Not everybody can be robbing, okay?

Speaker 16 It looks like a cologne commercial on this.

Speaker 101 I feel like we're over real.

Speaker 16 I feel like we're definitely shaking. I know.
I don't know.

Speaker 79 Okay, I'm just saying.

Speaker 65 I'm telling you, I don't think we've finished a single question.

Speaker 88 We're answering questions.

Speaker 7 This thing is full of them.

Speaker 130 I'm super disappointed that FCG didn't get get to ever really find out the deal with the gods and the changebringer.

Speaker 130 And maybe this would be good news because now FCG could find the changebringer and have a lot of different questions answered. So ultimately, good news.
And also,

Speaker 130 good luck rushing Sigma new.

Speaker 16 Super Kai.

Speaker 16 Oh, my goodness. All right, our next question is for Matt.

Speaker 34 Everyone loves loot. Are there any other relics of the Red Solstice Solstice besides Seedling? Does the Ring of Remembrance count?

Speaker 2 Oh yeah, the Ring of Remembrance.

Speaker 77 Well the Ring of Remembrance

Speaker 159 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 The Ring of Remembrance was actually technically crafted

Speaker 2 during

Speaker 2 No, no, no, no, no. That was some.

Speaker 16 Sorry.

Speaker 50 I'm trying to get

Speaker 50 it.

Speaker 97 I'm kicking through my elements there.

Speaker 91 Yeah, I get it. No.

Speaker 39 That was hilarious.

Speaker 97 No, that was crafted. So that would be one of

Speaker 156 the solstice.

Speaker 2 Yeah, there are plenty of artifacts that were crafted in the area. Like I said, each era has its own artifacts that are distributed or crafted and then given that delineation for that time period.

Speaker 2 The vestiges were definitely the most prominent because they were required to be on a certain level of power, both from a divine scale and from competing Arcana in the wake of the Age of Arcana.

Speaker 2 And so yeah, there are others, and maybe we'll get to explore those down the road.

Speaker 54 Yes.

Speaker 34 That was the most thorough and nerdy yes I've ever heard in my life.

Speaker 16 It was perfect.

Speaker 162 Oh, bro.

Speaker 2 The night's still young.

Speaker 34 Next question is for Travis.

Speaker 154 I look like a handsome squidward.

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Speaker 117 Oh, you do?

Speaker 101 Well, otherwise, we're not going to be able to see any questions.

Speaker 62 Otherwise, it will just be Green Matt jerking off the whole time.

Speaker 117 Sorry, Robin.

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Speaker 54 I am!

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Speaker 2 Thank you so much for joining us, everybody.

Speaker 16 This is going great.

Speaker 39 It's going great. This is going great.

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Speaker 34 The next question is for Travis.

Speaker 41 There it is.

Speaker 16 Yes, it's perfect.

Speaker 16 It is you.

Speaker 34 I love it. Travis, why why did you decide to shave your beard i was kidding uh

Speaker 34 did chetney plan to deliver ashton to the bright queen as she requested yeah

Speaker 151 that is a very uh i i think he definitely would have considered it uh only well for two reasons one because it would have been entertaining as shit to watch

Speaker 82 and because i think ashton could handle themselves very very well even in the cream in the clutches of the queen dynasty uh and i just would want to have seen what would have happened

Speaker 151 that would that I would have felt was less capable then maybe not but

Speaker 105 poor them

Speaker 16 if you get ashton on your hands

Speaker 34 do you know where the gods are now

Speaker 34 like do you Do you know where they are? Are you in your in your big old brain

Speaker 16 ordinance?

Speaker 16 We need time.

Speaker 130 Are they all the same age? Do they all get instantly reborn as children, as babies, like at the same moment?

Speaker 2 These are all great questions that maybe we'll get a chance to explore down the road. Now, I have some inclinations on a handful of them, but also

Speaker 2 for the moment, I'm kind of leaving it a mystery until the opportunity arises to develop

Speaker 2 opportunities to explore that.

Speaker 130 I've been with Xandrian content forever.

Speaker 100 Absolutely not.

Speaker 2 But no, I,

Speaker 2 yeah, part of this too is an invitation for those who are playing Xandria and want to explore a campaign post,

Speaker 2 you know, the solstice and the whole chaos of Perdathos and the catathiosis of the Pantheon to where now there can be storylines that we can explore and you can explore that involve this new epic and

Speaker 2 the hunt for where these gods might be coming to consciousness and awareness in the generation to come.

Speaker 34 It's so fun and teasery. I love it.

Speaker 7 Talison,

Speaker 34 Ashton seemed rather different after he came back to life after having become a living beacon.

Speaker 130 Are they different?

Speaker 92 Yes, for a number of reasons.

Speaker 92 One, you can only have, I think, so many brain transplants before you start to question the nature of your sense of self.

Speaker 92 And they're on brain number three now.

Speaker 92 That's heady, to pun intended.

Speaker 156 That and also

Speaker 92 they kind of fulfilled their greatest wish in life, which was to be

Speaker 92 irritatingly heroic in a way that was just inconvenient and obnoxious.

Speaker 92 So there's kind of a lot of now what? And getting a sense of something that will actually bring some sense of pleasure.

Speaker 46 And yeah, it was really, I think I'm going to go travel and find myself.

Speaker 92 So yeah, yeah, they're very different for a number of reasons. I think that Ashton and Kingsley should spend some time together.
Both characters have had their snow globe shaken for all her.

Speaker 92 I don't know who would be a bad influence on who. Sure, yes.

Speaker 16 Kingsley. Kingsley.

Speaker 100 That's fair. Very bad influence.

Speaker 34 Ashley, what does Fern think of Ira's warning that the Unseale court is searching because of Zathuda's death?

Speaker 34 Is she worried or unconcerned that they might be looking for her?

Speaker 13 Oh. Wait, why? Why?

Speaker 16 I I didn't think about that.

Speaker 29 Yeah, I.

Speaker 16 Don't worry, neither did you.

Speaker 29 I was like, I feel like

Speaker 29 I know that's always kind of been going on a little bit in the background, but I don't. I feel like she's not really that concerned about it.

Speaker 85 I really do. I feel

Speaker 29 it, just feels more firm to just be like, well, we'll figure that out. We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Speaker 64 Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 151 Miss Caroline, you have a whole kingdom looking for you.

Speaker 84 Cool.

Speaker 71 Oh, okay.

Speaker 140 Yeah.

Speaker 102 I think she's kind of unbothered by it.

Speaker 29 It's like that meme, that unbothered, moisturized

Speaker 13 in your lane.

Speaker 102 In your lane, you know, where it's just like the

Speaker 29 capybara that's just like in water hanging out.

Speaker 16 I'm going to see if I can find it.

Speaker 16 There's a whole lot of

Speaker 16 jungle hunters.

Speaker 156 There are tens of millions of memes. You're good.

Speaker 29 Yeah, then it would all make sense.

Speaker 92 I have to believe that Madame Maury is paying attention to that for fern.

Speaker 29 I do too. I do too.

Speaker 29 I feel like Nana Mori's gotta

Speaker 29 beat on that.

Speaker 34 Matt, what will happen to the all mines burn seed on Ruid?

Speaker 55 That's gonna happen. You can tell all that.

Speaker 22 That's a thing that you can reveal.

Speaker 2 I'll reveal elements. I will say, with the destruction of the Weave Mind and the slow reincorporation of Ruidian culture and kind of

Speaker 2 into Xandria, that alleviates one massive dangerous power structure on Ruidis,

Speaker 2 but one unknown entity now forever changed from two coming together as one

Speaker 2 now begins to weave its way further into the rock and stone of Ruidis.

Speaker 2 So the all mines burn and the

Speaker 2 My Seat fungal network of Ruidis

Speaker 2 independently are no more. Something new has come through that union.
And maybe we'll have an opportunity to explore that in the future.

Speaker 2 I thought it was going to be an answer to a lot of things here, but intentionally there are threads that kind of, you know, weren't part of the final dovetail of the main campaign arc that,

Speaker 2 you know, were things maybe we get a chance to do down the road.

Speaker 16 I have a question going off of that.

Speaker 80 Were we supposed to do that like way sooner than when we did?

Speaker 2 That was originally my assumption.

Speaker 163 And

Speaker 2 in doing so, it would have altered aspects of the final confrontation and the kind of the return to ruined us.

Speaker 29 It was always in our mind to do it, but every time I was gonna, something else happened and I was like, I'm not gonna stop the scene just so I can say, I'm planting a seed.

Speaker 29 So you did it so much better.

Speaker 7 No, I mean, yeah, we both did.

Speaker 77 Yeah, we were both like, now, now, now.

Speaker 29 Yeah, and then it just kept like, and then we were off of the moon, and then we were back on the moon.

Speaker 16 Matt, do anything happen?

Speaker 92 Matt or Danny, remind me how many weeks this story was or months. It's not that much, right?

Speaker 31 Three and a half months. Yeah.

Speaker 16 That's really crazy.

Speaker 75 I don't even know if we got to four.

Speaker 172 I have the timeline somewhere.

Speaker 122 I'm not going to search for it right now.

Speaker 56 But yeah, it's like four months, maybe.

Speaker 108 Okay.

Speaker 159 Sounds right.

Speaker 140 DD.

Speaker 119 Wow. Wow.

Speaker 16 Adventurers' lifestyle.

Speaker 103 But it's going to be a little sad.

Speaker 173 They feel like we rescued all these people from one hive mine to just like throw another one in there and be like, deal with that now.

Speaker 109 Yeah.

Speaker 34 Yeah, they've got experience, though.

Speaker 153 So yeah, this should be fine. Yeah.

Speaker 34 Talisin,

Speaker 34 Cadus has asked Bell's Hels to be kind when they made their decision regarding Pradathos. What does he think of the path they ultimately chose?

Speaker 156 I think he's pleased.

Speaker 92 I think it is.

Speaker 92 I won't speak for Percy, but at least I can speak for Ashton and Cadus.

Speaker 2 They were both.

Speaker 92 Yeah, Percy's answer is different, though.

Speaker 92 Ashton and Cadus have the same feeling of like, this is the perfect outcome because...

Speaker 92 It's kind to everybody.

Speaker 92 It's kind to the gods. It's kind to even

Speaker 92 the villainous gods and the character. And it's kind to everybody.
People who wanted the gods, people who wanted the gods gone. Everyone gets a little bit of what they want.

Speaker 92 And there's nothing more... That's so rare in life that it feels like everyone got a gift.

Speaker 100 Yeah,

Speaker 100 that would be it.

Speaker 92 Everyone got a gift.

Speaker 92 There we are.

Speaker 34 That's a good answer. But finally, the kissy questions.

Speaker 118 I've been waiting for.

Speaker 34 This is for Marisha and Liam.

Speaker 34 Is it enough for Keeleth and Vax to meet up every once in a while, or does that just make them miss each other even more?

Speaker 75 Oh, well, you know, separation makes the heart go fonder

Speaker 169 and all that over 30 years.

Speaker 16 Well, I imagine, though, you would have like an extended reprieve, right?

Speaker 92 Well, I don't know what it is, and I don't feel the urge to rush to like stamp what it is yet.

Speaker 92 Like, one of the things I liked about the beautiful ending to campaign one was it was a very poetic, soft,

Speaker 92 like final note, and then it left it up to our imagination and our audience's imagination to wonder what that was like for Keleth and moving forward from there.

Speaker 92 And similar to Matt, you saying, like, well,

Speaker 92 who knows what we'll explore in different ways in the future? I don't know what we're going to do. for all of Exandria or for these two, but

Speaker 92 I mean, it's definitely an improvement than being dead.

Speaker 92 But I don't want to, I would rather you guys and we, at least for right now,

Speaker 92 leave that up to our imagination. Yeah.
I think.

Speaker 175 It definitely feels like

Speaker 75 a very adult

Speaker 176 relation, like it's a working relationship. Like I'm very busy with my career.

Speaker 175 You're very busy with your career.

Speaker 40 Dead stuff.

Speaker 97 And we're going to navigate that as we go.

Speaker 16 Dead stuff.

Speaker 22 What is your career now?

Speaker 105 Taking care of the baby.

Speaker 92 It's like finding the Dalai Lama every

Speaker 92 several decades, probably, looking for the matron. And

Speaker 92 with Morrigan sort of upholding whatever the new version of

Speaker 92 her, the matron's flock is.

Speaker 92 And getting to know his nieces and nephews and eventually

Speaker 92 their kids. And

Speaker 92 I don't know.

Speaker 92 I don't want to try to predict or carve out what we might see

Speaker 92 in some form someday.

Speaker 29 Wait, I forget, do you have a long life like Keyleth now?

Speaker 8 That

Speaker 2 is that was part of the

Speaker 2 hope and intent for this was he continues to be the champion, much like how

Speaker 2 Pravan lived an extended life as part part of that station

Speaker 2 until eventually he was slain in the calamity. But yeah,

Speaker 2 in an odd way, this allows them to

Speaker 2 enjoy more time together in the theory than they would have otherwise.

Speaker 92 I also like the idea that, you know, in the past, people said, well, Vax will show up and shuffle everyone off to... to the afterlife.

Speaker 92 I think that's still true, but he'll just be at the bedside beforehand and then off they go.

Speaker 119 At the bedside.

Speaker 164 Yeah.

Speaker 16 Oh, fuck.

Speaker 101 I'm sorry again. Pull service.

Speaker 92 You're going to show up like randomly at our beds at like 3 a.m. going, it's time.
Oh, God. Now I just.

Speaker 4 How many times has Vax appeared to chetney?

Speaker 101 I'm not going to fucking burn.

Speaker 156 You're going to explode up out of your hot tub at just the right moment.

Speaker 34 That's how I'd want to go. Marisha and Matt, is Lodna truly free of Delilah now that she's trapped in her chest? And was it ever possible for the two of them to be completely separate?

Speaker 2 I never want to tell a player no if ingenuity allows them to outthink the logic.

Speaker 2 In my mind, the magic that keeps Lodna alive, like present,

Speaker 2 is tethered to Delilah's presence.

Speaker 2 So they were more or less one, one couldn't continue to exist in Xandria without the other at this point.

Speaker 2 However, it's an interesting question in the wake of your

Speaker 2 decision at the end of campaign three

Speaker 2 to shuffle off the

Speaker 2 undead curse, if you will, to join Imogen and her natural life.

Speaker 39 So, I mean,

Speaker 2 I'd say before that, it would be very, very challenging to do so since they were so irrevocably tethered. Now you're alive with a crystal with a necromancer still in your torture.

Speaker 75 Yeah, she's definitely still there.

Speaker 176 She's very contained. She's my own little arc reactor.

Speaker 2 As your hands were like touching each other and you got the color back in your skin.

Speaker 77 You won! Yeah. Carpenter.

Speaker 71 Yeah.

Speaker 180 Laura, I have a question.

Speaker 148 I'm going to toss something in real quick.

Speaker 92 I'm going to just say that one of my favorite moments of the final game was you guys deciding to go find Lie Ab Tell. That was nothing I planned.
I didn't even think of that ever.

Speaker 92 And you just, and I broke into a panic, too, and was like, oh, Matt's going to take it out, right?

Speaker 169 Nope. Okay.

Speaker 92 Okay, I'm the Alph Lady again. And

Speaker 156 I just seeing the two of you so...

Speaker 92 heartbroken and and longing for something, my brain just started going like

Speaker 92 through all the math of my character sheet. I'm like, I'm on a level 20 character.
Can I do anything?

Speaker 92 And it was just one of those like accidental magic things.

Speaker 92 I'm really fond of that moment.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that was great.

Speaker 77 That was great.

Speaker 109 Laura, I want to hear from you.

Speaker 34 So you got a multi-parter question. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 181 This one goes deep.

Speaker 34 You once said, I'm sure you remember, on Foursided Dive, that Imogen saw Liliana as her savior growing up, keeping her safe in her dreams. How does Imogen feel now that the roles are...

Speaker 153 we blacked that out too early? Hang on.

Speaker 34 Yeah. There we go.
Now that the roles are reversed and she's quite literally her mother's savior, how is their relationship now?

Speaker 16 Oh wow.

Speaker 29 I think their relationship now is kind of starting from scratch.

Speaker 29 She had an ideal, an idea of what her mother was when she was growing up. Like

Speaker 75 she was her savior.

Speaker 29 She's the thing that's, you know, and

Speaker 29 it's it's like anybody meeting their heroes, you know, and like seeing, oh, you're you're human.

Speaker 34 Yeah, wait, didn't we? We had this conversation once. It was uh, there's a moment every child realizes that their parents are just people.

Speaker 34 Yeah, do you feel like that occurred through the course of this?

Speaker 29 Yes, 100%.

Speaker 29 Um,

Speaker 29 yeah, and I think she has to she has to get to know Liliana now for who she actually is and not

Speaker 29 a concept in her mind.

Speaker 2 From my mind, Liliana

Speaker 148 post this main narrative really is

Speaker 2 I see her akin to a person coming out of a cult. You know, a person who is kind of brainwashed by

Speaker 2 perspective and it's so deeply closed, close to a particular worldview that they

Speaker 2 are kind of learning how to be themselves divorced from that being put upon them and kind kind of

Speaker 2 probably a lot of guilt about time that she lost in doing what she thought was right. And to your point, like, trying to reforge that relationship.

Speaker 29 Yeah, and probably find out who she is, too.

Speaker 154 A little bit, yeah.

Speaker 29 Yeah, it's funny because, like,

Speaker 29 with Jester,

Speaker 29 it was like, I will definitely get them back together. They're going to have the most fabulous, you know, fairy tale alive, my parents.
And

Speaker 29 Imogen does not feel that way. It's kind of like, you know, I would be shocked if

Speaker 29 they find each other again.

Speaker 130 Does your mom still, can she call you in your dreams?

Speaker 29 Yeah, we can still, I can still dream talk to people.

Speaker 130 But is it like, like, is it like when your mom calls and you're like, oh, hi.

Speaker 130 Hi, yeah, no, I'm fine, fine.

Speaker 24 I really gotta, I gotta go.

Speaker 77 Is that how it's like when your mom calls?

Speaker 117 No, I love my mom.

Speaker 70 You're all

Speaker 70 watching her.

Speaker 55 I know, I love her.

Speaker 92 That's a real problem, though, because in our world, you have to pick up the phone to answer mom. Who knows what you're doing with Laudna when that call comes in?

Speaker 29 Well, luckily, well, I'll be dreaming. She can't just like, well, I guess she could pop in just like Jesse Poppin'.

Speaker 110 Chat.

Speaker 48 Who knows?

Speaker 34 Chat, you have Travis convinced he is handsome squared word now.

Speaker 16 Oh, my God.

Speaker 34 Travis, you haven't had enough questions. Did PopCon happen? And if so, did Chetney go to it as special guest and headline keynote speaker?

Speaker 174 Yes!

Speaker 52 Of course he did.

Speaker 115 100%.

Speaker 154 Yes, if he survived long enough, he absolutely did.

Speaker 16 It definitely happened.

Speaker 153 And people flocked from near and far.

Speaker 151 The Weave Stitcher, Weave Stitcher?

Speaker 16 Fate Stitcher.

Speaker 100 Is very powerful.

Speaker 151 And so PopCon sold out of its VIP badges on its first day.

Speaker 133 Where was the venue?

Speaker 169 Overflow.

Speaker 16 Where's the venue?

Speaker 16 Oh, shit.

Speaker 74 I mean, it's got to be on

Speaker 2 Rumble Cusp has become the new convention

Speaker 91 spot now.

Speaker 157 Absolutely.

Speaker 183 Since TravelerCon was such a success, it's like the Joco Cruise.

Speaker 34 I've heard it's gotten a little too corporate lately.

Speaker 16 Yeah, it's gotten too big.

Speaker 34 We're no stranger to watching Matthew Mercer do one-man shows as multiple NPCs, but with Campaign 3 being Critical Role's first major crossover event, the cast also got a taste of what it's like to RP opposite yourself.

Speaker 34 My friends, I'll take a look.

Speaker 184 Following the

Speaker 37 brisk jog of Pike Trigfoot, um.

Speaker 29 I noticed that Ashton is not with us. I'm gonna turn around and

Speaker 29 I totally got confused. I saw Pike turn around and wave at him.

Speaker 184 Oh, yes, that is burn.

Speaker 13 That's my mouth.

Speaker 40 Kevin has a strange habit of talking to this tree.

Speaker 159 He talks.

Speaker 159 Well,

Speaker 107 she talks to it.

Speaker 16 What does she say?

Speaker 40 She says it's nice.

Speaker 92 Oh, I was thinking, I mean, the immediate notion would be.

Speaker 93 Reverse alphabetical order. The reverse notion would be.

Speaker 9 Actually,

Speaker 43 it was difficult because it was Ashton's idea. So hold on, Ashton, you got to be able to do it.

Speaker 93 Yeah, actually, no, it's no problem.

Speaker 92 It's really nice not to be like the most fucked up in the group for a moment.

Speaker 157 Alec is there.

Speaker 5 Oh,

Speaker 89 I guess I've been.

Speaker 164 person

Speaker 162 lady Keylis

Speaker 2 Lady Laura

Speaker 86 Personal

Speaker 46 Waiting for hands and the beards to come up

Speaker 149 Professor

Speaker 169 Lady Laura

Speaker 16 the rest of the game tonight

Speaker 185 Like all the buildings look like bodies and and body parts.

Speaker 40 What city was this?

Speaker 188 We keep just

Speaker 133 parts of his body? Well, his

Speaker 133 face.

Speaker 188 You know what's uh interesting about her boss? She can do a message and uh it's very precise.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it wasn't the same as she was.

Speaker 188 This is like right to the point.

Speaker 10 It's great. A little less.
Yeah.

Speaker 29 What, like, that's hard or something?

Speaker 29 I could do that too if I really wanted to.

Speaker 169 I know.

Speaker 91 I'm not aware.

Speaker 29 Thank you. It's a total waste if you don't use all your words.
I mean, what's the fucking point?

Speaker 3 400 years and counting, I've seen many things, but none of them as pretty as you.

Speaker 165 Well, I've gained so many suitors today.

Speaker 10 Right?

Speaker 111 All right.

Speaker 111 Yes.

Speaker 93 Are you single?

Speaker 157 No. Well, then, no.

Speaker 29 It was so good seeing you guys. I'm so glad we got to meet you before we all perish in a great red dew.

Speaker 3 Jester, that is not what's going to happen.

Speaker 116 No. Nope.

Speaker 159 That's not what's going to happen.

Speaker 130 Is there any kind of time differential between in here and out there?

Speaker 92 Like, are we going to come out a couple days later or anything?

Speaker 13 Or

Speaker 92 just one.

Speaker 164 We are just

Speaker 92 gonna be able to get away from away from me, Satan.

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Speaker 96 Everything's going perfectly.

Speaker 34 Welcome to the next section.

Speaker 141 It is Downfall Question.

Speaker 34 The first one is for Matt.

Speaker 16 Okay.

Speaker 34 If Ludinus had been successful in releasing the events

Speaker 34 of Downfall to Xandries, how would that have been, how would that have affected things?

Speaker 108 Thank you.

Speaker 108 Thank you.

Speaker 2 It's interesting. Because

Speaker 2 from the perspective of the Ruby Vanguard, specifically Ludinus, Ludinus'

Speaker 2 loathing for the gods and the history that they in his mind have wrought destruction upon.

Speaker 46 He's in that mindset of if other people could see this, they'll see my perspective.

Speaker 2 Many would have, to a certain degree. Many folks just would have been left kind of questioning.
Some folks probably wouldn't have believed it.

Speaker 149 It would have led to a lot of chaos throughout the world,

Speaker 2 but I don't think it would have been a a total flip of culture in the way that he had wanted. You know, Ludinus is very caught up in his mind.
He's hyper-intelligent in a lot of technical ways,

Speaker 2 but his emotionally driven hatred is one of the few blinding things about him,

Speaker 2 as well as his sense of ego, which you guys were very good about knocking out from under him and pissing him off.

Speaker 168 It was great.

Speaker 2 So yeah, I think it definitely would have caused a lot of social rows and probably a lot of...

Speaker 2 It would have shaken up a lot of the discussion about the history of that era, of the place of the gods in the world, and it would have caused a lasting rippling effect through a lot of Xandrian culture for a long time surrounding faith and mythology.

Speaker 2 But I don't think it would have had the profound impact he would have hoped for.

Speaker 2 That's kind of him being blind from his perspective a little bit.

Speaker 34 How much time would you say after a decision like that is made by a player? And this is just me making up a question. Yeah.

Speaker 34 I also know because it's what we're talking about in essence, a hypothetical.

Speaker 34 How much time do you spend thinking about the way that player choices could affect this world that you and your cast have created.

Speaker 100 Whenever I'm driving,

Speaker 34 yeah, yeah, whenever you're in the middle of an existential crisis,

Speaker 117 all the time.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, and whenever I have a quiet moment, like driving in the road, it's usually when I'm doing like a campaign, you know, thought process and trying to ponder on what player choices might happen and how it might affect the world so I can have some kind of rough background noise that I can pull from.

Speaker 2 And then often it's nowhere near enough, and then you guys do crazy shit, and I have to make it up on the spot and follow the logic. So, yeah, it's awesome.

Speaker 34 Laura, having played The Matron in Downfall, how do you think she feels about Vex outrunning death so much? And Matt, do you think Vex was also high on the list to be the Raven Queen's champion?

Speaker 120 No, I want to know that one. You first.

Speaker 29 That's hard because I.

Speaker 113 I feel like.

Speaker 29 I feel like she doesn't really have a problem with it because, you know, like the twin is like hers, so it's kind of like payment.

Speaker 34 The noises you were making.

Speaker 8 I know.

Speaker 16 Fully committed to this bit.

Speaker 102 I just think

Speaker 29 she never like turned on dead or anything. It was all like fair play, you know?

Speaker 92 That's how I look at it, that the matron was just doing facts of solid or

Speaker 92 steering things slightly away.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 34 As far as honestly,

Speaker 2 in campaign one, when you first arrived at the Sunken Temple

Speaker 2 with the intent of retrieving the Deathwalker's ward, I didn't have in mind who that would go to necessarily.

Speaker 2 There were members of the party that was probably likely going to based on just skill set and abilities, but I had considered it, it could have gone to Percy, it could have gone to you.

Speaker 2 You know, no one had really kind of built up a rapport with any of the divine forces in the world aside from Pike. And Pike was very kind of, maybe, I won't say antithetical, but wasn't,

Speaker 161 well,

Speaker 2 partially wasn't even there for half the campaign because you're in New York.

Speaker 2 But when you were there,

Speaker 2 the Everlight and the Matron kind of fill very different roles. So I didn't expect that to be there.

Speaker 2 So yeah, I think Vex could very well have been

Speaker 2 an interesting opportunity for that.

Speaker 105 But also

Speaker 2 a champion in a different sense. Because in that point in time, there wasn't, you know, if you'd taken the armor upon yourself, it would have been like a chosen more than a champion.

Speaker 159 Right.

Speaker 2 You know, much like everyone else kind of became champions as the campaign went on, but it was more like you were given a boon and you represented some of their will and force in Xandria in this chaos with Vecna.

Speaker 2 It was truly the fall of Vex and the deal that Vax made that sealed him as a true champion. And a like, you are now tied to the fate of the matron.

Speaker 2 And based on how it continued to go in the campaign, further and entirely bound your entire future fate to her.

Speaker 92 Side note, you can binge all the seasons of Blind Spot right now.

Speaker 77 Yeah.

Speaker 16 I love you.

Speaker 34 Let's keep the spotlight right on you.

Speaker 49 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 34 What do you think happened to Trist's children?

Speaker 104 Who do you hope they became?

Speaker 102 I just

Speaker 104 hope they became good people.

Speaker 29 I mean I

Speaker 29 wasn't hoping that they would you know become I mean obviously they would but at the time I wasn't thinking that they would be demigods

Speaker 29 but I hope they I hope they do good in the world

Speaker 29 I think when we played it through and then we sort of got to the end

Speaker 29 and

Speaker 29 you know Triss deciding that she does have to go back with her original family and go with the gods and I was like why did I

Speaker 29 why did I choose this as my backstory? Because this is an awful choice that we have to make in this moment.

Speaker 29 But yeah, I hope they do good. I hope they're doing good in the world.
I think they are.

Speaker 2 I'll say it was also a really strong example of one of the many ways that a celestial bloodline can be forged.

Speaker 2 That can lead to like ASMR, you know, celestial ancestry variations, as well as just individuals with touches of celestial blood, like Pycas and Legend of Ox Machina.

Speaker 162 So

Speaker 109 Talison,

Speaker 34 did you enjoy seeing Asha's wild mother still have influence in divergence? Was your take on her still Caduceus's wild mother?

Speaker 16 I

Speaker 92 yeah, I mean, I will say that's that tends to be a bit broad because there is it's very it's very

Speaker 92 bounty wild mother versus famine wild mother.

Speaker 92 Nature's got modes and it was really nice to see that the that the cruel

Speaker 92 nature desperately trying to like crack its way out of out of such a terrible environment and was like, oh, there's my little mice just rooting their way in, just getting a little seed in that crack and shattering that mountain.

Speaker 100 Oh, here we go.

Speaker 106 Yeah, I felt real good.

Speaker 176 Yeah, that was a nice touch.

Speaker 16 Yeah, that felt fun.

Speaker 187 Tasha.

Speaker 187 Hey, Matt.

Speaker 187 I got a question for you.

Speaker 108 Okay, what's your question?

Speaker 34 Did you two, did you and Brennan work together on the original names of the gods?

Speaker 19 And more.

Speaker 34 And the other name of the original god of death?

Speaker 140 Okay.

Speaker 2 It's interesting. The original discussion for Tengar was to have the gods' names not be

Speaker 162 legible or recognizable by the audience.

Speaker 2 It was meant to be like their titles and names were intentionally beyond the concept of like a mortal mind to understand.

Speaker 2 And so as part of that ethereal space of Tengar, the names were more or less like whatever Brennan wanted to create because they were going to not matter in the final series.

Speaker 2 Unfortunately, I think the subtitles kind of undercut that when the episode went up.

Speaker 2 So in my head canon,

Speaker 1 those are the best

Speaker 2 approximations that a mortal mind can make, but they're actual true names of that era themselves are beyond language and really concept, much like how the matron's true human name has been cast from memory and understanding.

Speaker 156 So that's how I consider it.

Speaker 175 But that was a moment.

Speaker 75 Remember when the entire audience thought that that first 10 minutes was going to be the entire run?

Speaker 171 Yep.

Speaker 102 Like, I can't do it.

Speaker 75 And I was like, I swear, just give it an obsession.

Speaker 183 Just wait.

Speaker 33 It was an artistic choice on our standpoint that I still stand by.

Speaker 97 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think it was really, but it wiped it up.

Speaker 2 But I can see where it'd be hard if that was your assumption. Was that the entire thing?

Speaker 180 You're like, this is it.

Speaker 16 We're now. This is it.

Speaker 180 It's just going to be weird orbs that are people's mouths.

Speaker 41 I'm just talking ball of life.

Speaker 34 What happened to Halice?

Speaker 34 The sick little boy that Amira saved?

Speaker 75 Oh, yeah, Halice, not Halas.

Speaker 54 Not Halas.

Speaker 132 No, Halas was of another loading city.

Speaker 156 It's weird.

Speaker 183 Over history, people got to have similar names.

Speaker 192 No,

Speaker 39 I envisioned that child.

Speaker 79 Yeah, it's weird.

Speaker 40 My next character is going to be named Jameson.

Speaker 121 Please.

Speaker 91 They are Legion.

Speaker 2 They get together every year.

Speaker 97 They have a big reunion.

Speaker 192 No,

Speaker 2 I think Halas is

Speaker 2 likely became a figure recovering and kind of helping be a caretaker and protector of survivors through the calamity.

Speaker 2 Probably, you know, being more focused on the communities and the ground, you know, especially going through that experience and the terrifying cusp of Aeor in those moments. likely focused on

Speaker 2 trying to protect the common folk that were more or less the the biggest casualties to the middle of that chaos. So that was my

Speaker 2 interpretation. Okay.

Speaker 29 Bullshit. He's a loss.

Speaker 34 Teleprompter is telling me to move on.

Speaker 85 I'm going to ignore it.

Speaker 60 Wait, I'm going to jump in.

Speaker 39 Yeah.

Speaker 67 I'm going to take a question from Beacon.

Speaker 155 Whoa, no!

Speaker 66 Fuck!

Speaker 193 That's what it's for!

Speaker 130 How can someone participate in that sort of Discord?

Speaker 16 Well, it's really great.

Speaker 122 You can actually,

Speaker 41 you can subscribe to beacon.tv right now if you want to participate in the live Discord chat that's happening.

Speaker 79 It's my only job.

Speaker 72 Right now they're either all um

Speaker 64 one job.

Speaker 74 Yeah, you're missing out on memes about Travis or

Speaker 86 people pumping us up.

Speaker 163 See you here a moment.

Speaker 176 Okay, this one, I've seen kind of a version of this a few times, but this is from that guy, Dylan.

Speaker 141 It's for you, Sam.

Speaker 140 Okay.

Speaker 74 Breyus was brought into the campaign obviously very late.

Speaker 76 Would you have want to make his character this campaign because you, or in another campaign, because you didn't have a chance to expand on him as much as you would have?

Speaker 76 Like in another campaign?

Speaker 182 Sorry.

Speaker 16 Get it together.

Speaker 49 It's not so much.

Speaker 79 So what did you say?

Speaker 8 Would you have preferred

Speaker 2 this campaign?

Speaker 79 I'm sorry.

Speaker 91 it. They did raise the.

Speaker 101 Look, I'm trying to get through it.

Speaker 16 Thank you, John, for that.

Speaker 180 No,

Speaker 147 I think

Speaker 130 I certainly would have loved to do more Breyus. I really like Breus as a character, but I don't feel like I missed out.

Speaker 99 He got a nice little arc, which is all you can really hope for with a character.

Speaker 130 And he got a big choice at the end, which is all you can really hope for for a character. And he got to woo some people and do some evil and paint some paintings.

Speaker 118 And yeah, I would love to see more of him in the future.

Speaker 130 But I don't regret not having him around for more.

Speaker 103 Yeah, I guess to

Speaker 75 the very wordy question that I was trying to get through.

Speaker 16 I will say this.

Speaker 176 You made him as a response for this campaign.

Speaker 53 I did. Yes, yes.

Speaker 130 We needed some God stuff. We needed some healing.

Speaker 144 We needed some evil.

Speaker 130 um i will say this though and this is this is no sexy this is no slight against matt i feel like braus had more questions answered than fcg did

Speaker 24 fcg was supposed to be a longer journey that got cut short i have so many questions about yeah and you would have had him answered in a or if you would have made it the whole point was to get him to a or there were so many answers for fcg and

Speaker 155 i

Speaker 87 answer

Speaker 24 You should be apologizing to Holly at the storyline dead.

Speaker 16 No responsibility. We'll take my hand

Speaker 122 there.

Speaker 29 Oh, yeah, we'll get it there at some point.

Speaker 34 Well, between Downfall and the Origins of Ruinous, Chetney totally being Aurum's biological father, campaign three

Speaker 34 was full of Xandria-shaking revelations. Let's take a look at some of the most memorable.

Speaker 39 And as I walk, I look up at him and I say, Boy, I bet you think you're real scary.

Speaker 39 You think Gurd

Speaker 107 has a gift.

Speaker 157 Do you get a load of me?

Speaker 133 My shoulder pops out.

Speaker 141 My back cracks.

Speaker 12 You're trying to atone me

Speaker 12 and I didn't do anything wrong.

Speaker 157 And he stabs you through the heart.

Speaker 6 No!

Speaker 68 Oh my god.

Speaker 25 As I live and breathe.

Speaker 130 Wait, you know.

Speaker 41 No,

Speaker 41 you know each other?

Speaker 27 No, couldn't be.

Speaker 173 Wait.

Speaker 173 Wait, are you a gnome?

Speaker 8 Yes.

Speaker 54 Deanna.

Speaker 111 Wait, what was it saying?

Speaker 21 I wrote a heart and it says, former lover.

Speaker 109 Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 19 Where there once was a golden, impish, sweet little boy.

Speaker 34 I'm going to drop that shit.

Speaker 12 What the fuck? Oh, my God.

Speaker 147 I saw you.

Speaker 96 You killed my friends at Marquette.

Speaker 19 You were there.

Speaker 159 I'm jumping full speed.

Speaker 162 I need everyone to rule initiative now.

Speaker 91 What?

Speaker 155 Yes, Lamar!

Speaker 155 Oh my god!

Speaker 24 I didn't want this to happen!

Speaker 130 I guess I'll just buzz saw him.

Speaker 29 We're Bell's Hills.

Speaker 29 And don't you forget it.

Speaker 29 And I'm gonna keep walking out.

Speaker 16 Are we?

Speaker 12 This might be too forward, but do you

Speaker 12 remember much about the end?

Speaker 12 My parents thought that

Speaker 139 getting an invitation to

Speaker 7 the palace, to the castle, to meet the Lord and Lady Briarwood

Speaker 16 was a great boon.

Speaker 165 We were promised a wonderful feast and

Speaker 165 an amazing party, and

Speaker 25 we were told we were going to be serving a greater purpose for Whitestone.

Speaker 91 That was it.

Speaker 165 They dragged me away, separated me from my parents. I was brutally beaten, and then

Speaker 16 it's a little fuzzy after that, but next thing I remember was

Speaker 165 waking up being hung from a tree.

Speaker 16 It was the sun tree, actually.

Speaker 20 It was quite a spectacle.

Speaker 20 Yeah, I gathered.

Speaker 2 As Kila flies kind of frozen, eyes wide, Odahan goes for like a heart strike, and there is a dark flash in the air.

Speaker 46 And you see where Odahan's blade was.

Speaker 46 Instead, you see a cloak of feathers.

Speaker 84 What?

Speaker 162 Black raven feathers.

Speaker 6 Wait, let the bingo.

Speaker 29 Is Bags on there?

Speaker 2 You see a masked figure with the fire.

Speaker 156 Shut the fuck up, bad! Shut it up!

Speaker 156 No,

Speaker 156 fucking play!

Speaker 156 You cannot rescue! Where is it?

Speaker 2 She's now standing over and protecting her body.

Speaker 162 Daggers in each hand.

Speaker 162 Don't you even dare.

Speaker 2 The door opens

Speaker 2 inside a darkened what looks like a closet and a figure huddled defensively against the back wall.

Speaker 39 If we could have

Speaker 7 if we could please have Sam Regal come to the table.

Speaker 86 Its head shakes and looks down at the rest of you.

Speaker 22 What's happening right now?

Speaker 100 No. No, no way.

Speaker 16 No fucking way.

Speaker 130 I think I know what's happening.

Speaker 142 We're back with the seven founders of Critical Role and Handsome Squidward.

Speaker 55 Andy Robbie David. Oh, yeah, whatever.

Speaker 16 I have a question.

Speaker 29 I have an answer. Are you going to get any questions?

Speaker 34 I've been skipping them all.

Speaker 54 Robbie!

Speaker 52 Robbie, you have no.

Speaker 76 Wait, wait, I've seen a bunch in, once again, in our Discord about when you realized you had feelings for aurim

Speaker 81 that has been spammed a few times who's running the show well

Speaker 34 game recognizes game motherfuckers all right we'll ask the deep lore after that uh when when it's when it's liam o'brien across the table from you minute one

Speaker 34 that's true but to be fair i was eyeing you all

Speaker 196 was was there anyone else that or that uh that Dorian had eyes for?

Speaker 97 Because you hinted about it.

Speaker 147 Did Brance have a shot

Speaker 70 in the first four stage?

Speaker 24 Very quickly.

Speaker 29 Who was it? Who was it?

Speaker 156 Everybody.

Speaker 34 I know that's a cop-out answer, but I was like,

Speaker 53 I'm going to get one of you, but absolutely.

Speaker 34 But you can't run from your true love.

Speaker 92 I wonder if Dorian saw the porn they shot.

Speaker 16 That's why.

Speaker 34 Okay, I'll give you a real answer because I've ducked it for however many years.

Speaker 34 And I really did eye you all because you're all

Speaker 26 whatever.

Speaker 34 Well, actually, number one.

Speaker 34 There was a moment early in the season when I was princess carrying Laudna

Speaker 34 up to like look at the top of a roof.

Speaker 34 And I had this thought.

Speaker 87 I was like, hmm.

Speaker 98 Is this the moment?

Speaker 34 Yeah, I thought about it for a second.

Speaker 16 And then I abandoned it from my sweet little woman.

Speaker 24 From my sweet little wife.

Speaker 24 I thought about it.

Speaker 155 Wow.

Speaker 34 I'm not going to blush. Sorry.

Speaker 196 You thought your dead girl was going to be unromanceable.

Speaker 54 You cool.

Speaker 24 I think you got the better end of that deal. It was true.

Speaker 156 You can date any.

Speaker 70 Yes.

Speaker 184 You can date us anything.

Speaker 143 It is true.

Speaker 143 Coming up in June. Back to the real.

Speaker 71 Back to the real question.

Speaker 101 I'm going to Fireman Kill.

Speaker 32 Oh, baby.

Speaker 169 Him a big loaf of water.

Speaker 19 Yeah, him a big loaf of mine.

Speaker 26 Matt, yes.

Speaker 34 What would have happened if Imogen had given in to Pradathos earlier on or on Ruidis?

Speaker 2 If you had given in, it would have led to direct Pradathos communion.

Speaker 2 There would have been visions of Pradathos' past visions of other entities, the two original gods devoured, and it would have unlocked additional powers for

Speaker 2 any future combat that you wanted to do, but Imogen, each use would have brought you closer to more or less

Speaker 2 leaving with your mother. So

Speaker 2 it would have... It would have been an opportunity for Imogen to eventually get to a point where she leaves the group and you would have had to make a new character.

Speaker 92 You're saying that would have transformed her into an NPC?

Speaker 13 Yeah, technically.

Speaker 29 Like, I assume that every time, if I'd have

Speaker 29 failed one of the wisdom checks, right, and like

Speaker 29 delved into Perdathos, then each time that I tried to block it again, it would have been harder and harder.

Speaker 13 Oh, yeah, the DC would have gotten higher and higher each time. Yeah.

Speaker 2 The idea being that, and it wouldn't have been like an immediate thing, it would have been like the first time would have been a really intense communion, and that draw would have been a really intense communion, you guys.

Speaker 2 But it would have been with each one, one, the draw would have been stronger, the promise of power would have been larger, and each use of the power and each opportunity for you to reconnect would have been a much more intense thing.

Speaker 74 I could have nine-eyed this shit.

Speaker 89 No, it's totally.

Speaker 101 I told you.

Speaker 16 Wait, really? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 158 I wanted her to do that.

Speaker 54 Chat was for evolution.

Speaker 1 So, one of the chat just said, Is it just me, or does Matt look more tired than normal?

Speaker 27 Yeah, they're on taking it a day.

Speaker 56 We played for 10 years and all of us.

Speaker 1 And to answer your question, absolutely.

Speaker 2 You thought any campaign three have slowed my life down. Absolutely.

Speaker 75 I was being very sarcastic when I said the chat is pumping us up earlier.

Speaker 31 That is not what they were doing.

Speaker 87 Keeping us humble.

Speaker 122 Keeping us humble.

Speaker 34 Speaking of slowly dying on camera, Sam, hey,

Speaker 24 how do you feel about FCG's end?

Speaker 16 Not the way it means.

Speaker 146 No,

Speaker 16 I want it to be the way you just mean it.

Speaker 16 Robbie, you can't breathe.

Speaker 16 Robbie!

Speaker 89 Robbie, that was really insensitive.

Speaker 108 You're gonna be fine.

Speaker 129 You really insensitively.

Speaker 16 Stay 15 feet back.

Speaker 130 So you mean when I was undergoing radiation?

Speaker 16 Yes!

Speaker 16 I love it.

Speaker 24 Yeah, no worries.

Speaker 70 We'll edit this out. No one listen to this.

Speaker 34 Listen, the truth is we're all slowly dying. No one makes it out alive.

Speaker 50 It's truth. It's truth.

Speaker 91 How do you

Speaker 7 feel about FCG's end?

Speaker 34 I got a full-on question.

Speaker 48 Okay.

Speaker 34 How do you feel about FCG's end? Yes. Were you hoping for a way to save them?

Speaker 194 Or are you happy

Speaker 34 and wanting them to sacrifice themselves? And would FCG even want to be revived?

Speaker 130 So many questions. Yeah.
First of all, very pleased with my end. It meant something.
It made a difference. It was, I thought, a pretty nice moment.

Speaker 130 I am pissed as a character that I didn't get the answers that I wanted, and I hope that right now, after I'm done talking, Matt answers them for me.

Speaker 130 I don't think that FCG would want to be

Speaker 130 resurrected.

Speaker 130 No,

Speaker 130 they did their thing and they're done.

Speaker 118 That's it. I think that's it.

Speaker 19 Death's okay.

Speaker 16 And

Speaker 34 you had kind of chatted to us or me or whatever about, I had this vague memory of you being like, I don't want to be brought back, right? Yeah. Like that was how you felt after it happened.

Speaker 149 For sure, for sure.

Speaker 130 Also, I mean, makes it a little bit more meaningful, but also, you know, I told that story, it had an end.

Speaker 104 There's no reason to dig it back up again.

Speaker 156 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I also love the idea that like after searching for the possibility of having a soul and the question of FCG's own like person

Speaker 2 got the realest answer which which is an afterlife and and a purpose beyond that you know under the under the the the path of the changebringer but is the changebringer cool or not you were giving me all these mixed signals

Speaker 2 changebringer changes from moment to moment no no changebringer is awesome but but change she tries

Speaker 130 she she was being wishy-washy intentionally sometimes why

Speaker 2 because it's one thing to be told the path to walk it's another to walk the path and then find your way how you're supposed to.

Speaker 160 Fuck it!

Speaker 141 Fucking A!

Speaker 21 And then, Dick, tell me

Speaker 16 this!

Speaker 130 Tell me this: What would I have learned if I went to see Devexian?

Speaker 19 Well, that is a great segue.

Speaker 50 You don't even have the questions.

Speaker 34 What do you think would have happened if FCG had visited Aeor and had he met up with Devexian?

Speaker 2 Devexion, one, would have had the capability of upgrading elements of FCG.

Speaker 100 You're missing this.

Speaker 105 With other

Speaker 16 people,

Speaker 120 they were like, well,

Speaker 65 they were like, was it

Speaker 3 like nose and tongue and

Speaker 16 upgraded?

Speaker 118 Sorry, upgraded like with a tongue and legs or upgraded like laser beams.

Speaker 16 They would have made those little flats.

Speaker 2 Devexian does not have a tongue.

Speaker 54 Damn it. Don't allow

Speaker 197 gathering other parts? Next question.

Speaker 151 What does he do if he finds other Aormatons? Like,

Speaker 183 not all Aormatons

Speaker 2 that were found were repairable. And so Devexian sometimes cobbles them together, sometimes builds new ones from what can be located.

Speaker 2 And it's Devexian more or less is trying to restart the Aormaton people

Speaker 160 with

Speaker 2 not locked into the memories of the past in the hopes that they can forge a new future without the weight of Aeor behind them.

Speaker 2 So, Devexian is more or less trying to be a soft messiah for the Aeorian people from the background.

Speaker 2 You get a little bit of that in Reslayer's Take, actually. There's a fun little interaction in that series with Devexian specifically.

Speaker 99 But

Speaker 2 with that, Devexian may have given FCG a little more context to what Aeor meant and what their purpose was and the challenges they had in Aeorn

Speaker 2 society.

Speaker 2 As a robot, yeah, and would have said to go to AOR to find the true answers because only there you would have and in AOR you would have had more memories come up of like what you were built for,

Speaker 2 the care and the culling was specifically Aormatons designed as like

Speaker 2 aid helpers and supportive like care workers.

Speaker 2 And you were a part of a group of this sort of group designed to be given as gifts to diplomatic allies to Aeyor that were more or less sleeper cells that would be signaled to then turn on their

Speaker 2 gifters. Yeah.
I love it.

Speaker 2 And so it would have been a lot of dark history where you were, but a lot of also philosophical ideas of like you were not bound by a history you owed you no control over.

Speaker 2 Your destiny is yours to carry forward.

Speaker 97 A lot of fun.

Speaker 167 Good messages.

Speaker 26 Is there a place in Aeor,

Speaker 92 very deep, where there's a whole bank of fresh-cut grass models and you're all networked?

Speaker 23 Wow.

Speaker 92 And you set off the memory like Luda.

Speaker 100 Well,

Speaker 92 maybe we could turn you on somewhere else.

Speaker 22 You can always turn me on somewhere else.

Speaker 151 The chat is out for the guys, by the way, because I saw a comment that said, Laura, your makeup looks so lovely tonight. And then I saw a follow-up that said, Liam looks like he's being tortured.

Speaker 56 I haven't changed in 10 years.

Speaker 106 I don't know what the guys did, but we're fucking

Speaker 16 high-value targets.

Speaker 78 Not to

Speaker 118 give a little peek behind the curtain.

Speaker 77 We're all wearing makeup right now.

Speaker 16 So we just look extra shitty.

Speaker 21 It shines through the makeup.

Speaker 34 Sam, I really want to stay focused on you. Okay, cool.

Speaker 34 Well, did you intentionally play Aminotaur just to break the trend of many years of playing small characters? or were you specifically trying to create a thirst trap for your previous character?

Speaker 194 That one.

Speaker 52 I knew it.

Speaker 34 It's the buzz. It's the joke.
It's all for the joke.

Speaker 144 It's all for the bit. It's all for the bit.

Speaker 99 I've played larger characters before.

Speaker 130 Taryan Darrington is a normal size.

Speaker 78 Also, a second

Speaker 100 follow-up character.

Speaker 99 That's true. That's true.

Speaker 130 It's just, I start campaigns as smalls.

Speaker 149 That's the only thing.

Speaker 54 It's just going to keep happening.

Speaker 34 Speaking of big hunky guys, Travis,

Speaker 34 do you know what happened to Chutney's family?

Speaker 39 Do I don't? I don't.

Speaker 16 Young man, please.

Speaker 16 This is

Speaker 100 no alcohol.

Speaker 182 Not alcohol.

Speaker 151 By the way, it says Talison isn't catching any hate at all, which I think we just have to recognize.

Speaker 4 You're just too fine. Yeah.

Speaker 92 Chutney has no idea. I know where you all are.

Speaker 170 Chetney has no idea where his family is.

Speaker 164 No,

Speaker 151 they all fled

Speaker 4 during the first, what was the Red Dragon's name?

Speaker 151 Not before Thor Deck. It was

Speaker 16 before

Speaker 153 Irvon the Rhime Lord?

Speaker 77 Wow. Yep.

Speaker 116 Bro, that is my job.

Speaker 16 So it's like

Speaker 100 we're talking about Poles of Wittebach,

Speaker 2 the area outside of where Craghammer is. Okay, gotcha.
Yeah. Yeah, Irvon the Rimelord.
That was during the Ice Lost Years.

Speaker 162 Yeah.

Speaker 100 Not a dragon, actually.

Speaker 168 Oh, really? Large Elemental Lord.

Speaker 145 Oh,

Speaker 16 I wrote that wrong.

Speaker 29 Wait, there was a question that said, What was the deal with Shithead?

Speaker 16 The bird. That's a great question.
That is an amazing question.

Speaker 102 I totally forgot about Shithead.

Speaker 29 What was the backstory with that?

Speaker 130 The backstory was:

Speaker 130 Fresh Cut Grass, when I designed the character, was going to have a pet bird with him named Shithead.

Speaker 130 But then

Speaker 130 I realized how hard and how stupid it is to have an animal companion.

Speaker 130 Wow!

Speaker 130 So, but I had already had the drawing done.

Speaker 130 I had already had the art made for Shithead. And so I just, I told Matt right at the beginning of the campaign, I was like, hey man, I had this art done.
I don't know what to do with it.

Speaker 130 His name is Shithead the Bird. Just have it menace me at some point.

Speaker 140 That was it.

Speaker 165 And that was it.

Speaker 130 And that was up to Matt to make it a sort of a harbinger of doom.

Speaker 16 Well, because I remember

Speaker 21 what's happening over the leaves.

Speaker 16 What? Don't worry about it.

Speaker 72 It's I'm roasting you now.

Speaker 2 Our handsomest host here.

Speaker 34 Cheers for the savagery in the chat.

Speaker 34 I'm going to immediately throw away from the compliments.

Speaker 34 From tankard to a flask, then a gas can, and eventually an infernal Stanley cup, which is just a normal Stanley cup. No one knows how to cause a ruckus with a cup, quite like Sam Regal.

Speaker 117 We're still talking about me.

Speaker 16 We are, it's all you.

Speaker 174 It's all you.

Speaker 34 And here is two and a half minutes of proof.

Speaker 18 My name is Sir Bertrand Bell. It's a pleasure to meet all of you.

Speaker 93 You're a knight.

Speaker 83 Are you a noble?

Speaker 89 Not a noble.

Speaker 186 A knight is generous.

Speaker 198 I mean, we knew that already.

Speaker 29 You know, things happen when you come and go from there.

Speaker 118 You know, years have gone by, and it only feels like a couple minutes for you.

Speaker 145 Oh, my God.

Speaker 162 It's a it's pressed like a dark leather.

Speaker 124 It looks almost like a heavy, almost oni brow with these horns that curve up.

Speaker 124 Oh, wow.

Speaker 158 Got my mask right.

Speaker 57 What?

Speaker 186 What?

Speaker 26 It's my human skin mask.

Speaker 157 First, I'm going to cast Yasifi.

Speaker 128 Oh, no.

Speaker 89 By God.

Speaker 69 First, I'm going to cast Yasifi.

Speaker 57 Oh, my.

Speaker 90 I'm already tired of that.

Speaker 57 Oh, my God.

Speaker 19 26.

Speaker 58 Oh, my fucking God.

Speaker 10 Oh, my.

Speaker 111 Oh no!

Speaker 2 There are a number of folks rushing around in similar kind of robes that are um

Speaker 130 i just finished baking a bunch cake.

Speaker 40 I can give you guys a bunch cake.

Speaker 122 You've been baking butts now.

Speaker 9 Oh no.

Speaker 101 I've got oh shit, it fell.

Speaker 89 Go ahead and eat it, Emily.

Speaker 124 Show it to the dice of the table.

Speaker 157 Emily from this side of the table.

Speaker 89 Hello.

Speaker 126 It's bad here.

Speaker 173 I'm gonna do it

Speaker 130 with my special rolling device.

Speaker 16 It's also a dice device.

Speaker 130 Seeing all of this action, I have to take a sip from my Stanley cup.

Speaker 89 Oh. Oh!

Speaker 89 What?

Speaker 89 Ew! Frozen!

Speaker 16 Dice!

Speaker 16 That's amazing. Yeah!

Speaker 16 You did good.

Speaker 23 I think

Speaker 92 instead of the flask, I think you now need the fan and just need to

Speaker 50 put her back.

Speaker 34 That was the softest entry. You let me get away with that?

Speaker 184 Oh, thanks, team.

Speaker 78 It's time for questions.

Speaker 16 Oh, better.

Speaker 71 Yeah.

Speaker 193 Race to the moon.

Speaker 34 All of these start with you. But why? It's just the way it is.
Okay, let's go.

Speaker 148 You're my world.

Speaker 34 I do like this question quite a bit. Was Maury's deal with Aurum always meant to be a fake out, or did you plan to follow up on it, but they got the plans changed during the game as it progressed?

Speaker 16 Do I look that tired?

Speaker 180 No.

Speaker 16 I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

Speaker 182 No.

Speaker 92 I really like your haircut, Matt. Oh, thank you.

Speaker 2 And I wanted to have like an end of C3 and divergence kind of connotation, you know, cleansing to back in the the day when we first started, you know, kind of like a...

Speaker 140 Fresh and shoreline.

Speaker 16 Now it is a lot of fresh and short.

Speaker 39 Back to the question at hand.

Speaker 24 No,

Speaker 33 it was funny because

Speaker 2 thinking from the mindset of

Speaker 2 Morgan during that time, of the Fate Stitcher,

Speaker 2 in those moments, like her beloved, you know, adopted granddaughter, essentially,

Speaker 2 and her compatriots were going to be leaving for a dangerous mission that'll have impact on the realms beyond, including the Fae realm and the space where she has interest over fate.

Speaker 2 And, you know, Auram comes to her saying, I request a boon to keep us and your sweet fern safe.

Speaker 2 In which in her mind, she's like, of course, I'll give you a boon. It's like, and in return, I offer my fealty to you unending.
And she's like.

Speaker 140 Great.

Speaker 2 I'll take it.

Speaker 143 He's like, however,

Speaker 2 you must promise that we all come back alive. And she's like, I can't promise that.
You're going to the moon. You're going so far beyond my ability to control that.

Speaker 2 But sure, I was going to give it to you anyway.

Speaker 2 So like in the moment, it was like, sure, if you want to make the deal, because if y'all come back alive, I get someone bound to me at practically no work from her standpoint, but she's not going to tell you that.

Speaker 2 She's going to let him believe that and, you know, worry about it.

Speaker 2 Because like in my head, I was like, I was like, she's willing to make a wheel and deal here if he wants to bring it. And the more it kind of began to form, she's

Speaker 2 this ask is a little beyond my ability on where you're going, but I'm not going to correct anything.

Speaker 2 And the off chance that everything goes perfectly and I get a free servant out of this, I'm going to let it ride.

Speaker 2 And so when it finally came down to that moment of conflict, it was like,

Speaker 2 yeah, now you're good.

Speaker 2 Your friend died, so technically our contract's broken. Sorry.

Speaker 92 I bet that one of our players would die, so thank you for eating shit.

Speaker 7 I will always eat shit for you.

Speaker 16 What are you doing after that?

Speaker 181 A quick follow-up.

Speaker 34 Did Nana make the sea poppers or did they exist before Chetney's deal?

Speaker 78 Yes.

Speaker 34 You don't have to really act.

Speaker 61 No, he does.

Speaker 148 Did it reconfigure Caleb's upbringing?

Speaker 148 Or did little Bren always,

Speaker 92 had he always fallen in love with those toys on his scarce trips to the Rex and Trump?

Speaker 78 So

Speaker 37 the best that I could convey this to all of you.

Speaker 16 The real man who should be here.

Speaker 34 Whatever you say, we'll be candid.

Speaker 2 These crafted eggs and such fine woodwork has always existed in Xandria.

Speaker 46 But it's very easy to adjust

Speaker 2 elements of memory tethered to such things as to who is responsible.

Speaker 29 You didn't even make the wood eggs when you have one up your butt?

Speaker 106 Or maybe he did.

Speaker 2 You don't know.

Speaker 140 Oh.

Speaker 29 Chet. Even Chet thinks he made the wood eggs.

Speaker 78 Tell me this.

Speaker 130 Is Chetney Scalen's father?

Speaker 182 Yes.

Speaker 144 Is that true? Yeah.

Speaker 68 And or his dad.

Speaker 13 That's not true.

Speaker 56 I believe both of these.

Speaker 109 Yeah, I expect.

Speaker 84 They're not the only ones.

Speaker 16 Of course.

Speaker 34 All right, this one is for Matt and Talis.

Speaker 74 Things have been said, and I'm so confused.

Speaker 73 I'm a fashion.

Speaker 2 Someone's yelling at me to grow my fucking beard back.

Speaker 168 Y'all need to calm.

Speaker 16 I'm a human being.

Speaker 16 They're deeply.

Speaker 46 They just want you to grow.

Speaker 92 You can donate it to Travis.

Speaker 107 That's true. Yeah.

Speaker 100 Beard donor.

Speaker 62 So wait, is he a fraud? No.

Speaker 61 I'm I'm not confirming anything.

Speaker 39 I'm just saying in the logistics of it, he's made all kinds of stuff in history.

Speaker 29 Does he know if he made the eggs or not?

Speaker 24 I made the eggs. Yes, of course.

Speaker 25 I made all these toys.

Speaker 16 You remember?

Speaker 151 They suddenly got much, much better, I think.

Speaker 16 And much more expensive.

Speaker 173 Am I right?

Speaker 2 To help clarify from my standpoint here, there are some elements of history that are fun for me to answer and confirm, and there are some that are fun to raise more questions about it.

Speaker 153 I made a series of eggs along along with a litany of other toys after the Nana Mori stuff.

Speaker 151 The toys got much more intricate, like much more complicated than they did. Yeah.

Speaker 151 Previously were.

Speaker 154 But the originals are still fucking highly sought after.

Speaker 90 But wait.

Speaker 29 So the eggs you, all of the eggs you made after

Speaker 29 he had made them before.

Speaker 42 He had made them before. Okay.

Speaker 173 I only made two after the news.

Speaker 92 Did Chetney carve the interrogation chair from campaign two?

Speaker 159 Yes, yes.

Speaker 130 That was in campaign.

Speaker 92 No wonder it had so much weight to it. It was extremely ominous.

Speaker 151 Just check under the light.

Speaker 169 Beautiful.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 that was the reason to give Nana a tiki bar.

Speaker 2 I'm pretty sure that was just from discussing a little bit with you with what your home was about.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 29 We just discussed it.

Speaker 100 It had to have tiki.

Speaker 16 You were just like a little bit of a teacher. It had to have tiki.

Speaker 2 It feels a fun thing to give a hag in the middle of the day.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 119 Yeah.

Speaker 29 Wanted it to have a

Speaker 175 fun house. Who doesn't want a tiki bar?

Speaker 16 You guys have a lovely tiki bar.

Speaker 88 You do have a tiki.

Speaker 29 Like inspired by home life. I mean, you instantly know the vibe when you walk in and you see a tiki bar.
That's true.

Speaker 117 You're like, all right, we're down.

Speaker 163 They have a tiki bar.

Speaker 79 You really do.

Speaker 52 You really do.

Speaker 70 You know you're going to have a good time.

Speaker 180 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 54 They're just good.

Speaker 24 But you know you're going to have a good drink.

Speaker 27 I'm not for sure, but

Speaker 71 it's going to be sweet.

Speaker 109 That's all we we know. It's going to be sweet.

Speaker 85 It's fine.

Speaker 171 It's going to be drink. Yeah.

Speaker 34 Actually, does Fern have any worries about Tevin Klask and the Lord of the Hells? What they have in store for their future?

Speaker 140 Not at all.

Speaker 109 No.

Speaker 34 Does that care?

Speaker 29 No, I really think...

Speaker 114 Yeah,

Speaker 29 I don't. I think she just...

Speaker 121 Every Fern answer is.

Speaker 79 It's like, well,

Speaker 114 down for the fucking ring.

Speaker 29 I mean, I think if there was worry there, she wouldn't have done it.

Speaker 101 Yeah.

Speaker 29 You know, and it's just kind of like, well, let's just see what happens.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 16 She's having a rubber on her finger recording to a super game.

Speaker 16 I mean,

Speaker 29 you know, we'll see how that maybe one day pans out.

Speaker 39 Oh, I very much have

Speaker 2 interest in a future fern-centric Bell's Hells game.

Speaker 54 Really?

Speaker 2 That's where a lot of these might come into.

Speaker 24 Moving on, moving on.

Speaker 2 Too much to then take a sidetrack in the middle of our finale, but definitely something to explore in

Speaker 46 a post-katathiosis era.

Speaker 29 I did have moments during the game where I was like, maybe we should go talk to Asmodeus

Speaker 29 and try to

Speaker 29 buddy up.

Speaker 74 I don't know.

Speaker 29 I was like, there were so many possibilities of using that sort of relationship, but I don't think she... I don't think she has a care in the world about it.
Okay. I really don't.

Speaker 103 I have a pitch.

Speaker 67 I have a pitch for a future future one-shot. Great.

Speaker 74 It's like fern,

Speaker 103 but like

Speaker 176 Love Island or like the ultimatum or something.

Speaker 16 Where is Bachelorette?

Speaker 101 Yes, yes.

Speaker 7 She's a ghost or that she's the bachelorette. She's the bachelorette.

Speaker 103 She's a bachelorette. And you have Ashen, you have Chetney, you have

Speaker 75 Breyus, you have Tevin, you have the ghost pirate that you snuggled.

Speaker 10 Yeah!

Speaker 80 And you have all these people that you like.

Speaker 74 dates with and go on dates with, but it's like redo-it-reality shows.

Speaker 154 We could do it like Marvel's Secret War, where we're just all stuck there and we can't leave under threat of death.

Speaker 106 Like it is just under penalty of death.

Speaker 144 We have to be there and compete.

Speaker 92 We live together in the nine house.

Speaker 27 How hot would it get?

Speaker 24 Those kind of questions.

Speaker 184 I want to know.

Speaker 29 You live in the nine house.

Speaker 29 What would we do for a first date?

Speaker 27 Perfect. Dead pirate.

Speaker 92 Which would be the first bone you would show me?

Speaker 74 Okay, dead pirate got a girlfriend.

Speaker 169 Oh, well.

Speaker 92 Yeah, but I saw the tiki bar on his boat, so.

Speaker 52 Yeah.

Speaker 52 Oh, God.

Speaker 34 I wish I had a funny question to ask, but they're all just so serious. And it's for you.

Speaker 65 Me? It is for you.

Speaker 78 Serious?

Speaker 19 Yes. Not too serious.

Speaker 166 Okay.

Speaker 34 How did wearing the circlet change Imogen's perspective on the people around her? Does she keep wearing it in her downtime?

Speaker 16 Oh.

Speaker 29 Gosh, the circlet changed everything for Imogen.

Speaker 123 I mean,

Speaker 71 she

Speaker 25 hated being around people before the circlet.

Speaker 29 And then it was just like, oh,

Speaker 165 you guys can be.

Speaker 193 You're my friends.

Speaker 102 It's the best.

Speaker 29 Yeah, so I don't.

Speaker 29 I there were a couple times in the in the end of the campaign that I ended up taking the circlet off because

Speaker 24 I had more powerful items that I needed to use

Speaker 29 But no, and I I did keep it in mind like anytime that I was on attune to the circlet I would I was like aware of the fact that it was like kind of back

Speaker 29 But I feel like as her power grew her control of that element also grew so it wasn't as dominating

Speaker 29 past a certain point.

Speaker 176 Yeah. Yeah, like taught you how to like

Speaker 75 guide you to the steps to like deal with it in a way.

Speaker 173 Yeah.

Speaker 80 Yeah, that's cool. Yeah.

Speaker 13 I really like that.

Speaker 176 Yeah, because I remember early on we would like

Speaker 80 try and find the booth in the far back corner and stuff.

Speaker 97 Which was really cool.

Speaker 29 Yeah. I remember the first time we got out of the city and I was like out in nature and I could step away and it was like, oh my god.

Speaker 27 Yeah.

Speaker 29 It was a really dynamic.

Speaker 29 I was just like having this conversation a couple days ago about like that was a weird choice to make at the beginning of a campaign to choose a character that was like tortured to be around people because it was really hard to

Speaker 118 show her character at the beginning.

Speaker 29 Yeah, that's interesting.

Speaker 145 So, yeah.

Speaker 92 I don't know, that's a real fun complication.

Speaker 29 It was a fun complication.

Speaker 42 I think also relatable, probably, for a lot of people.

Speaker 182 Yeah, a very different swing from Justin.

Speaker 184 Yes.

Speaker 16 I have to answer a question for you. Yeah, Robbie.

Speaker 34 There are none on my page.

Speaker 24 It's not assuming that.

Speaker 29 Robbie, I saw one in the Discord.

Speaker 80 Uh-oh.

Speaker 29 What is your mother's name?

Speaker 193 You're gonna ask me a lore question?

Speaker 34 My mom's name is mom. No, what is that? But she's the best mom in the world.

Speaker 50 I do have it.

Speaker 70 You just

Speaker 70 know.

Speaker 49 Dad's name was...

Speaker 34 They were all wind puns, I'm afraid.

Speaker 34 There's a Zephyr in there for sure, which I think was Pops. And Matt's trying to desperately save Aaron's story.

Speaker 53 What is it?

Speaker 2 Nepheli.

Speaker 149 That's awesome.

Speaker 62 He got it the the same second I did.

Speaker 113 Hey, guys.

Speaker 34 See, you need a team to figure out your own lore.

Speaker 2 The two wyven winds and the up-and-coming son Bronte.

Speaker 31 I'm going to drop it in chat so that they have the spelling.

Speaker 182 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 34 Well, yeah, it's one of those things where Cyrus was always the linchpin for moving forward.

Speaker 34 But as far as mom and dad go, it was more about the concept of them than, like, I didn't have her name running through my head at all times.

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 2 But yeah, you if you want to pop it in the chat yeah i'm glad we got to have those moments at the end of the campaign it was hard it was heartbreaking when he went back to find the silken squall outside of vassalheim and like walking in and have her

Speaker 34 having heard that you had chosen a different name than the one they gave you and trying to like yeah lean into that it was like it was oh and i didn't clock it until we got to rp a little bit which was great i just thought that you were calling me that and then i'm like oh no this is a conscious choice by matt in this RP moment, and I missed it, which is interesting for anyone who's chosen to go by any name in the world.

Speaker 34 You go back home to mom and dad, and all of a sudden, you potentially become who you used to be. So, I thought that was a really fun way for that to unfold.

Speaker 34 And thanks for letting me have that moment because I kind of just took it, which is a scary thing to do in any game.

Speaker 99 That's the best part of these games. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 16 I love it.

Speaker 92 I have a Dorian question as well.

Speaker 20 Uh-oh.

Speaker 92 I thought it was fascinating to see how losing Dorian's brother threw your whole story on its head upside down. Sure.

Speaker 148 What was it like, like

Speaker 92 having to reconfigure when that happened, like that week or those two weeks, as you were like, I'm this. No, and I'm this.

Speaker 46 What was that like?

Speaker 143 Yeah,

Speaker 34 well, thankfully, I've created a character that compartmentalized really well. So that was the aspect of like, well, how do you play the story?

Speaker 34 But fold yourself into a story that's already been unfolding without like, oh, I want to shine the spotlight on me. I want to talk about my tragic backstory.

Speaker 34 But also do service to what happened within the game. So I think there was a real craftsmanship in getting Dorian back into the story where everyone was on the same page.

Speaker 34 And that unfolded between Abria and Matt. So I feel like, you know, we were meeting at a time when they had just suffered a great loss and I had suffered a great loss.

Speaker 34 And we could all just feel that together without sitting around the campfire going, let's talk about our dead friends.

Speaker 34 So it did make me feel like after being away from the table for so long, that at least the wavelengths was the same with the rest of the crew. And then,

Speaker 34 I always felt a little bit unresolved because there was so much to do in the last 30 episodes or so.

Speaker 34 But having that moment with mom and the guilt of being the catalyst of losing a family member through that scene, being able to give Dorian closure on that and let go of some of that guilt and breathe in the love of his family

Speaker 34 was that. That wrapped it up for me in a way that felt okay to where I felt like Dorian could move on.

Speaker 78 So, yeah, it's really, yeah, it's a different thing.

Speaker 151 Can you also, can you tell Chad to relax and tell them that you'll be coming back as many times as we ask you for forever and ever?

Speaker 34 I'm still waiting for the contracts to come back from the lawyers.

Speaker 174 You know, we have

Speaker 34 some truly incredible battle maps in campaign three.

Speaker 24 We're not letting him go.

Speaker 41 Yeah, he's not going anywhere.

Speaker 52 One of us, motherfuckers.

Speaker 34 And with all those sexy new beauty shots, and our amazing crew has been getting,

Speaker 34 we would be remiss if we didn't pay tribute to some of the standout maps of campaign three.

Speaker 34 Who doesn't like a good map?

Speaker 41 Take a look. Map Mercer.

Speaker 34 Welcome back, everyone.

Speaker 33 Here's the deal.

Speaker 34 I'm about to say a bunch of names, and everyone's name who I say are incredibly talented. This is a shout out to our amazing crew behind our miniatures.

Speaker 143 Tyler Walpole, Ian Iron Tom.

Speaker 80 Cross in front, go behind.

Speaker 24 Nice.

Speaker 34 Max Miler Burp, Jesse Jerdek, Daniel

Speaker 194 Airly. Airly.

Speaker 34 Daniel Airly,

Speaker 34 Peyton Keogh Laceball, Ron Ogden, and Angela Bassett. Yes, that Angela Bassett.

Speaker 53 No.

Speaker 34 No, not that, Angela Bassett. This one goes by DM underscore Ophelia on IG, but seriously, though, could you imagine?

Speaker 194 Sorry, I do.

Speaker 29 I don't know what I was thinking.

Speaker 61 I thought my mic pipe was.

Speaker 62 I just touched your butt.

Speaker 34 If I said your name incorrectly, I

Speaker 34 still love you very, very much.

Speaker 34 Team, we got a whole new set of questions about a whole new art.

Speaker 24 Are you mentally prepared?

Speaker 34 Yes, sure. I know, I sure am.
I'm going to start at the bottom. Just kidding, it's back to you, Matt.

Speaker 63 Okay, good.

Speaker 34 Okay, this is interesting. What were the personal dynamics among Ludinus and his generals, like Odahan, Liliana, and Zethuda?

Speaker 33 How do they vibe together?

Speaker 2 I mean, originally they vibed well. They were all brought under Ludinus, who had a very prominent figure historically and

Speaker 2 between multiple different cultures and communities of power in Xandria, and especially in the wake of the Apex War IV

Speaker 2 Odahan, in which case, you know, if you are a legendary soldier, it's tough in times of peace, especially when you're a soldier that

Speaker 2 loves the violence like she did.

Speaker 2 And so she was eager to be part of this for the promise of another opportunity to rise to prominence and,

Speaker 167 you know,

Speaker 2 lean into the cruelty. She's not a good person.

Speaker 2 As if you didn't know that.

Speaker 2 Zathuda, Liana, they were all brought together under the auspice of Ludinus' plot.

Speaker 2 And when they were all brought there, they already were kind of, within a trusted space, shown enough to see how much work he had put into this and saw it kind of like more or less a surefire thing.

Speaker 2 And the more they began to extend these like last-minute plans that he required them to help with, the more they began to butt heads further and further.

Speaker 2 And so they got together okay at the beginning, but even with the short time that they all, that Lunis began to kind of relax his grip on his plot and let other people handle things he needed them to do, the more they began to

Speaker 2 clash, the more they began to dislike each other, and he began to kind of sow these seeds of discontent through the

Speaker 167 friends.

Speaker 78 Just buddies. Just buddies.

Speaker 78 Just like best friends.

Speaker 142 Just chill, bros.

Speaker 16 Cool. You know?

Speaker 162 I wouldn't consider them friends, but they were definitely compatriots in arms.

Speaker 29 I can't make my knuckles make a sound when I slam them together. Like, how hard did you hit your knuckles together to make them?

Speaker 16 Not hard. It's like a slap.

Speaker 29 Oh, you just did it.

Speaker 100 So slap, not crack.

Speaker 144 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 69 You should definitely keep trying and tell me.

Speaker 29 I didn't know it was a hand to knuckle. I thought it was

Speaker 102 Nooks.

Speaker 120 Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 146 Yeah.

Speaker 144 You guys ever played Nooks?

Speaker 16 Do you ever do it? Are you talking about six Nooks Blitter?

Speaker 65 Are you talking about quarters? Smoke you knuckles.

Speaker 16 Of course.

Speaker 86 Have you ever done quarters?

Speaker 2 That should be the thing I looked out to try and avoid when I was leaving the arcade.

Speaker 39 Do you want to play Pencil Break?

Speaker 146 Oh, jeez.

Speaker 16 Ow.

Speaker 16 I sucked at that game.

Speaker 16 Back to the generals really quick.

Speaker 34 We've all done a ton of panels and answered questions from the audiences. And one of the toughest ones to answer is, what's your favorite? So I'm not going to ask you that.

Speaker 34 I'm going to ask you, who was your favorite of the three generals to play?

Speaker 50 Wow.

Speaker 169 Good question.

Speaker 16 Oh, man.

Speaker 8 I know.

Speaker 24 Pick between them.

Speaker 85 I like them all for different reasons.

Speaker 2 That's the thing.

Speaker 29 Answer it while doing just dance, Lady Gaga is a plus.

Speaker 16 That's a throwback.

Speaker 174 No, I'm okay.

Speaker 192 Oh, man.

Speaker 176 We could do Eberka Debra now because it's like a full circle.

Speaker 19 And I get to sit while you're getting it.

Speaker 174 And you can sit, yes.

Speaker 190 God, so good.

Speaker 178 No,

Speaker 2 man. I mean,

Speaker 2 Odohan was so generally terrifying because of how cruel she was.

Speaker 2 Of the generals, she was definitely the most fun to scare the players.

Speaker 2 So, if I had to say, I'd say her.

Speaker 2 Zathuda, for what time you got to see, was more manipulative and conniving, definitely playing multiple angles, especially manipulation of Fern and the hope that he had for his daughter as

Speaker 2 his, more or less his chip in the game to get one over the other generals. Liliana was just a tragic figure, and based on how things went, could have ended up much more tragically.

Speaker 2 I'm kind of happy that it didn't because it allowed for a softer narrative for you at the end.

Speaker 2 But yeah, Odoham probably was the most dangerous of them all.

Speaker 29 But Zathuda, as a flesh tapestry,

Speaker 29 so much fun though, right?

Speaker 2 Honestly, what a terrifying end for him. I kind of love it.

Speaker 29 Yeah, and I love how you like,

Speaker 29 you were acting it out because I feel like I just saw it. Yeah.

Speaker 74 And then I was just thinking of the scenes in Brazil.

Speaker 77 You know, with the pulled skin.

Speaker 16 Oh my god, yeah.

Speaker 77 Did you throw that out in the moment?

Speaker 147 Yeah.

Speaker 83 Because that's what NaNo Mori is doing.

Speaker 197 Oh, that's right.

Speaker 29 You did throw it out in the moment because you were always talking about the loom, and then it just happened, and you were like, all right, well, I guess I'll just go with it right now.

Speaker 183 Yeah, like, like,

Speaker 156 I knew there was a place in the tree called the loom, but I wasn't particular about what it did.

Speaker 190 I didn't think it would ever go there.

Speaker 29 Like, that was a just-in-the-moment thing, Matthew.

Speaker 84 There's a lot of that.

Speaker 61 Your brain is. From you guys, too, though.

Speaker 104 Yeah, but you guys.

Speaker 42 I think VM out there also does that shit all the time.

Speaker 149 You know what I mean? You know, I don't know.

Speaker 92 Odahan's the one that's going to haunt me long after all this. I, you know, I know that the episode where we faced off in front of the Malays key and the whole bringing down Vax

Speaker 92 blew my mind. But before that, even, Odahan seemed so terrifying to me with her duplicates on the field and standing over.

Speaker 92 She's just really, really scary every time.

Speaker 169 I feel like she could have TPK'd usually.

Speaker 101 Every time.

Speaker 103 And just those circumstances.

Speaker 176 I feel like it has to be said to any enemy that can like

Speaker 81 move across a map, like anyone who can who can clear a big distance is terrifying.

Speaker 182 Yeah.

Speaker 29 That was the scariest fight. Yeah.
Laden and Auram. I was like, this feels awful.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 29 That was like the hardest fight.

Speaker 2 Like she, you wouldn't have beaten her if she would have gotten hurt and fled, but she wasn't interested in killing you all. She was interested in trying to get her to exalt.

Speaker 2 It was very much that kind of like,

Speaker 2 if I can get her to exalt, she might be useful to me.

Speaker 164 Trying to be useful useful to

Speaker 2 everything and at the very least confuse her mother, who I don't like.

Speaker 2 So there was a lot of idea of just like trying to manipulate you, trying to get you to exalt to see if you were capable of that and being useful to her and the overall plot.

Speaker 2 So it was fun to kind of explore that. But that final battle was meant to be.
Here's the thing. I've been running these games for you guys for 10 years now.

Speaker 2 And there are many dangerous fights that I build up that you, that I thought I had planned well for, and you guys just kind of tactically do well and roll well, and you just kind of steamroll it.

Speaker 183 And I'm like, well, okay, that was a little anticlimactic.

Speaker 2 Cool. I was not going to let that happen with her.

Speaker 145 Good.

Speaker 182 No, it did not happen. We felt it.
Horrified.

Speaker 34 Well, you felt it, but when I wasn't at the table, I felt the ripples of what was going on via the internet.

Speaker 99 And I,

Speaker 34 that, that, that evening when you were in that fight, my phone just started going off because I have my notifs on, and I was like, what's going on?

Speaker 109 Oh, they're in trouble.

Speaker 34 Because people were like screaming.

Speaker 193 They were like, come help them, everyone die.

Speaker 34 So, when your fantasy world reaches its tendrils into the real world and interrupts my dinner, that's when you go back.

Speaker 16 So, that's an interesting thing that

Speaker 176 just a little like behind the scenes thing that we've had to be mindful of because I remember when FCG died and Christian Navarro texted me that night, and he was like, so excited to watch the game tonight.

Speaker 78 And I was like,

Speaker 117 Can anyone tell him? Did we tell him?

Speaker 91 I need to tell him.

Speaker 73 And I was like,

Speaker 31 I just want to give you a heads up.

Speaker 116 Like,

Speaker 175 something bad is going to happen and people are going to be adding you.

Speaker 174 And so just be in the know.

Speaker 117 And he was like, oh, God.

Speaker 87 What?

Speaker 175 So, yeah, sometimes if it's bad, we have to give people a heads up.

Speaker 34 There are a lot of great questions here,

Speaker 34 but we don't have that much time, but I do want to give Talison a chance to get lost in the weeds for just a second. Because this question is so good, that's got to be my goal.

Speaker 190 I'm going to go to my way through any weeds.

Speaker 34 uh um ashton's nature yeah uh was a huge enigma in this campaign uh dunimis uh explains ashton's unique abilities but what race was ashton born and how was he transformed into an earth genus

Speaker 92 well as for i mean honestly

Speaker 92 they don't really have a lot of memory about what when i mean they they kind of

Speaker 92 i always assumed they were basically human human uh some sort of humanoid uh

Speaker 92 and the

Speaker 92 it was going through the the portal that really the like the elemental portal that kind of kicked that off and

Speaker 92 we never really got into it because

Speaker 92 uh uh I don't think did I don't think Ashton ever smoked the pipe.

Speaker 92 That is not a euphemism.

Speaker 106 Just the tree did just well like I don't think you ever got the got the

Speaker 97 your proudest moment.

Speaker 144 Yeah, I don't think I ever did that inhale I didn't inhale

Speaker 41 But

Speaker 92 should I save that for possibly in-game or should I just let that one...

Speaker 46 Let that sit with you, sir.

Speaker 130 Yeah,

Speaker 130 the

Speaker 92 slow change

Speaker 92 into

Speaker 92 their rock form happened when they were younger and when they were

Speaker 92 in the home

Speaker 92 under the state's care.

Speaker 92 And it was...

Speaker 92 like everything, kind of traumatizing.

Speaker 92 A life of trauma.

Speaker 13 Well, yeah.

Speaker 116 Yeah.

Speaker 92 uh so yeah that was the they were they were they were they were born soft and got hard later i wish to be a rock

Speaker 91 yeah

Speaker 106 i will say there was there was a there was a deep uh shit kicking that was involved so

Speaker 91 uh sweet

Speaker 34 i love how all i said was sweet and you immediately turned and looked at me liam uh this is for you my sweet little boyfriend.

Speaker 34 Is there any information about Will's sisters?

Speaker 16 Shut it, handsome Squidward.

Speaker 34 Is there any information about Will's sisters that never came up in game that you'd like to share?

Speaker 153 For example, does Aurum have a favorite triplet?

Speaker 92 I don't know if I would say favorite, but I think he has the closest connection to Lita, who took over for Derek

Speaker 92 as master of arms for Zephyr,

Speaker 92 because because he trained with her. So Will and Lita and Aurum were together for years training under Derek and

Speaker 92 preparing themselves for life of service in Zephyr. So he definitely spent the most time with her than the other sisters.
I think that's probably the answer to that.

Speaker 92 And I also, I know that as the campaign made its way,

Speaker 92 I did talk to Matt about my hopes for Lita taking over for Derek and

Speaker 20 how I saw her and the things that I hoped for her for

Speaker 160 her place in Zephyr.

Speaker 92 You know, even as the story, and I don't know what's happening next, I don't, but I really like her as a character and I like her taking over for her father and I like her being a part of Zephyr.

Speaker 34 Here's a completely organic segue.

Speaker 49 Everyone's got weird habits, am I right?

Speaker 152 So do you.

Speaker 193 For example,

Speaker 34 uh-oh, if my weird habit would be

Speaker 152 think of something on the player.

Speaker 16 That's amazing.

Speaker 127 Oh, I love it.

Speaker 51 I know that's a pleasure

Speaker 174 to say

Speaker 132 things out of your belly button and either.

Speaker 141 Oh man, I'm sure I got one somewhere.

Speaker 141 Yeah, I know, I'm weird.

Speaker 34 But some cast members have habits so regular that you could practically set your watch by them.

Speaker 54 Roll the clip!

Speaker 52 Oh fuck!

Speaker 2 It looks like it was a heavy hit, and it's looking pretty hurt already in one strike.

Speaker 2 Half undead blood, and release the chill touch.

Speaker 1 The two skeleton claws

Speaker 122 takes forever.

Speaker 182 Matt!

Speaker 10 We can divide and conquer, right?

Speaker 172 We're gonna run out of time.

Speaker 189 Yeah, we gotta go.

Speaker 175 I'll move up towards Ashton.

Speaker 163 30 feet.

Speaker 101 30

Speaker 122 stance.

Speaker 37 But whereas once it emanated around you like a cage, now it's just the faintest little tickle on the inside.

Speaker 37 And as you begin to push inward towards the darkness,

Speaker 190 the faint.

Speaker 37 It was indeed confirmed to be sort of

Speaker 2 an excretion that is utilized by hard

Speaker 159 tunnels.

Speaker 91 Oh my god, fucking hate you all so much.

Speaker 2 Pause a breath as you roll up your hole, which right now is pretty.

Speaker 140 Uh-huh.

Speaker 30 Our hole is

Speaker 184 pretty filled.

Speaker 39 It's kind of

Speaker 97 a capacity.

Speaker 40 You were out and about trying to just

Speaker 34 spread your legs a little bit, spread your wings.

Speaker 105 I didn't even say it's very tiny.

Speaker 27 It was

Speaker 126 I dare say.

Speaker 133 I was trying to say it.

Speaker 93 I was trying to say it.

Speaker 169 It can't be done.

Speaker 10 Can't be done.

Speaker 86 Stretch!

Speaker 16 Stretch your legs!

Speaker 65 Break your wings!

Speaker 16 No!

Speaker 39 They both collided.

Speaker 3 Let's grab a mushroom and ride it over.

Speaker 9 Okay, let's do it.

Speaker 186 How big is the mushroom?

Speaker 57 Can they all fit on the same boy?

Speaker 9 There are multiple sections and steps.

Speaker 3 We're going to steer the head of the mushroom.

Speaker 186 Trend the bush before the mushroom gets over there.

Speaker 189 I know.

Speaker 86 Um.

Speaker 29 Cocked again.

Speaker 16 Cocked occurred again.

Speaker 3 Oh, with a damage.

Speaker 189 Cocked.

Speaker 89 Let's cut. Cocked.
Cocked. Got fucking dice.

Speaker 112 Ashley, I know.

Speaker 41 That's cocked again.

Speaker 91 I know.

Speaker 16 That die so much.

Speaker 140 Ashley.

Speaker 55 Okay, okay. Don't forget.

Speaker 101 Jesus. Jeez.

Speaker 16 That's cocked.

Speaker 160 Oh, that's six dice rolls to get the ball.

Speaker 95 I know it's so hard.

Speaker 16 That's cocked.

Speaker 91 That was almost a national 22.

Speaker 169 Okay.

Speaker 169 But look how good they're almost.

Speaker 145 That was.

Speaker 159 It's like our mom is exploring.

Speaker 16 Cat.

Speaker 13 How does it do that?

Speaker 13 Look at this.

Speaker 8 What is that? That's a 10.

Speaker 16 No, bro. It's a what?

Speaker 29 What is that?

Speaker 122 I don't know what that is.

Speaker 127 That's a 10.

Speaker 84 No, that's a 10.

Speaker 77 No?

Speaker 29 Or is it an 8? Or is it a 3?

Speaker 97 Or is it a 6?

Speaker 4 That's a lowercase A.

Speaker 13 Oh, that's an 8.

Speaker 29 No, that's that's a ten? That's a three?

Speaker 122 What the hell?

Speaker 101 Guys, several very worst numbers.

Speaker 41 The worst!

Speaker 133 How can you think of three different numbers?

Speaker 90 One of them has two gigs!

Speaker 130 This dice has no numbers on it.

Speaker 115 Starting the carnival. Zero gravity rage.

Speaker 92 Interesting.

Speaker 97 So let's fucking rage.

Speaker 157 Let's see what the hell tools I'm playing with.

Speaker 166 interesting

Speaker 106 oh that's fun uh so what what do i have built right now oh okay

Speaker 39 i'm going to rage already

Speaker 92 now we're having fun start the disco come on

Speaker 106 that'll do

Speaker 92 come on give me something fun uh i can make that work

Speaker 159 good going to rage and see what the fuck happens here we go uh oh okay i'm gonna do it the old-fashioned way

Speaker 169 not look

Speaker 169 look at it.

Speaker 166 It's good. It's good.
It's high.

Speaker 157 Plus eight.

Speaker 184 16 plus.

Speaker 115 Plus eight.

Speaker 92 Never look if you wanna win. Never fucking look when you want to win.

Speaker 39 You fucking. Don't act like that.

Speaker 57 Don't act.

Speaker 79 You don't fucking.

Speaker 22 God damn.

Speaker 91 Oh, are we back?

Speaker 71 We're so back.

Speaker 34 It's time for the serious portion of the show.

Speaker 54 Oh!

Speaker 34 The solstice approaches.

Speaker 26 shows.

Speaker 142 The questions get hard hitting.

Speaker 104 Talison, what happened during Ashton's pasta adventure?

Speaker 54 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 24 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 16 Fish, fish, pasta. I had no idea what happened.

Speaker 96 Because I wasn't there.

Speaker 106 Well, I mean, we got into a little bit of it, but basically ended up

Speaker 92 accidentally stumbling into what was an underworld

Speaker 127 like

Speaker 92 robbery that was going on. Kind of got picked up into it.
Couldn't get out.

Speaker 92 Ended up going to what was basically an Italian restaurant where there was like mobsters downstairs having a show, like a showdown.

Speaker 92 Picked a side, hoped it was the right one.

Speaker 9 There was a mad chase, including helping rob the place,

Speaker 92 pissing off people that may come back. I don't know.
He doesn't really know who they were. He was just going with it because otherwise, you know, you have to do something.

Speaker 92 And eventually made off with what they thought was loot, but instead was just a lot of

Speaker 42 pasta and sauce and bakery.

Speaker 130 And figured, you know, could be worse.

Speaker 156 And now we got to get out of town real fast before they figure out that I was part of that.

Speaker 34 These are the answers to the hard questions you want to know.

Speaker 149 Here's a romp.

Speaker 180 Here's one for Matt.

Speaker 96 Yours was great. But here's one for Matt.

Speaker 34 What were the range of possibilities when the Malius key was first activated?

Speaker 34 Was it possible for Perdathos to have been released early in the campaign if the party hadn't managed to damage any of the power supplies or destroyed the key in the Fae Realm?

Speaker 2 There was a possibility if they had failed to destroy the key and did not do any damage to it, it would have begun the process of unleashing Perdathos rapidly.

Speaker 1 There would have been a chance to still like

Speaker 2 race to the core, you know, like how the campaign ended in a way, but the key would have carved a majority of the path to the actual core of the moon where Perdathos was sealed

Speaker 2 at the hallowed cage. And so they would have had a chance to then try and erase

Speaker 2 Ludenus and the troop if they followed suit.

Speaker 106 Or like way lower level.

Speaker 16 Correct.

Speaker 2 Which would have meant there would have been an opportun then there would have been a forced scenario where the gods would have likely fled or

Speaker 2 fled some realm or beyond to try and figure out how to survive this before Protathos actually arrived and I was going to figure out at that point if Protathos as an entity which may have still been within Ludinus as the vessel would have begun the hunt for the gods and where they would have been beyond or also into their realm and it would have been kind of a chase at that point towards Ludinus as the vessel.

Speaker 2 I didn't go too deep into like what would have meant because I was, you know, I have loose ideas of the campaign and I don't want to write too much if it's drastically alterable by player interaction, but I had thoughts of what that could have meant.

Speaker 2 There would have been, I probably would have seen which God stayed behind to take a stand and might not have survived the encounter with Perdathos.

Speaker 156 It would have been chaos.

Speaker 2 And a part of me did kind of want it to happen, but also

Speaker 2 I don't want to force a narrative and I want you guys to get the opportunity to do some cool things and prevent it. And it ended up making a really interesting story anyway.

Speaker 2 But yeah, those were kind of my loose thoughts around what could have happened. Nice.

Speaker 92 All right. How many times did your brain swivel in your skull when Laura rolled a natural 20 at the end?

Speaker 16 Bro,

Speaker 2 I swear to fucking God, guys, it's not scripted. Like, it's so frustrating when that shit happens.
Because then it's like,

Speaker 1 I don't know what to tell you.

Speaker 161 It was perfect.

Speaker 97 But, like, also, like, I don't know.

Speaker 2 I was kind of looking forward to a pantheon missing a few gods here and there, you know? Sorry about that. To kind of punch some holes into it, you know?

Speaker 162 I was just ready to roll to go with what happened.

Speaker 2 And when you rolled that, I was like,

Speaker 100 okay.

Speaker 54 All right.

Speaker 2 I mean, it's still getting weird, but yeah, it would have been interesting to be like, and oh, Matron's gone now.

Speaker 39 Yeah. That'd been weird.

Speaker 29 Would you have rolled for which ones left?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I was going to randomly roll for which ones had

Speaker 86 decided to go.

Speaker 76 Could you imagine? What would have happened if the Raven Queen went bye-bye?

Speaker 60 What would have happened if Vex?

Speaker 92 Vax would have taken over.

Speaker 125 Huh?

Speaker 78 Vex would have been.

Speaker 16 Vex or Vax? Vax.

Speaker 120 Vex.

Speaker 100 And

Speaker 7 that would have blown the Keylif-Vax reunion.

Speaker 76 Yeah, if the Raven Queen went bye-bye.

Speaker 29 But Vax would have been the Raven matron, and then

Speaker 29 she would let Vax go because he's worked hard enough.

Speaker 158 Sure.

Speaker 75 Next question. Sorry, Percy.

Speaker 34 My next question is for chat.

Speaker 34 Chats.

Speaker 34 Are you enjoying the compilations and videos? The post team works so hard. They're so cool.
I want to see.

Speaker 21 If you are loving the vids,

Speaker 34 I want to see those comments fly and I'm going to fly through these next two questions so we can get to some more. This is for everybody.

Speaker 80 Do you regret crashing your airship?

Speaker 149 No. Oh, no.

Speaker 132 Isn't that what you do with an airship?

Speaker 163 Kind of. A little bit.

Speaker 16 Oh, a little bit.

Speaker 88 Do it as a shit. Yeah, it didn't.
Yeah.

Speaker 92 I regret we didn't get another one. I regret that we didn't just go and get another one.

Speaker 74 It was a cool move. Yeah, it was a cool move.

Speaker 16 It was a cool move. Yep.

Speaker 16 I think I, yeah,

Speaker 97 maybe, I don't know, when he like held up his hand and it just shattered into a bunch of pieces.

Speaker 169 Yeah, and then a bunch of other people just died.

Speaker 16 And it's gonna see a movie, powerful wizard,

Speaker 97 isn't it gonna be like, uh-oh, a boat's coming at me.

Speaker 2 Guess I'm done.

Speaker 178 Like,

Speaker 117 Wall of Force.

Speaker 2 You know, that was what it was. But it still took out a bunch of the Vanguard that were surrounding the Malius Keys.

Speaker 44 So, like, it had a benefit.

Speaker 39 It was cool.

Speaker 16 It was a cool move.

Speaker 2 But I couldn't in right conscience be like, no, lewdness is getting murked by a boat.

Speaker 16 Merked.

Speaker 16 Wrecked! Wrecked!

Speaker 155 Wrecked!

Speaker 140 Shipwrecked!

Speaker 118 That's like one of the strongest things we could do.

Speaker 91 Oh, no, it wasn't a bad idea at all.

Speaker 140 It was a great idea.

Speaker 1 And like I said, it still had benefits to it, but like, yeah, just how it works out.

Speaker 100 That's great. Robbie

Speaker 130 YouTube thinks that you look like Domingo from Saturday Night Live.

Speaker 34 I'm not familiar with the reference, but that's good.

Speaker 151 Somebody was asking what Bertrand Bell's fighter subclass was.

Speaker 82 Oh, he was a duelist and I think a champion?

Speaker 16 I think. I don't know.
Oh, that's cool.

Speaker 82 He was only level five in the end, the old bastard.

Speaker 65 Level five?

Speaker 54 He leveled down.

Speaker 182 Oh, boy.

Speaker 34 It is a simple question that Matt has asked all of us.

Speaker 34 How do you like my new vest?

Speaker 16 And

Speaker 34 the answer is always, that's a new one.

Speaker 34 I wouldn't have been so mean to you.

Speaker 49 But there's another question that

Speaker 48 I'm not ripping on you, I promise.

Speaker 34 But there's another question that Matt likes to ask us, and the answer is always incredible and somewhat violent. So let's take a look at some of the top, how do you want to do this?

Speaker 7 This is

Speaker 104 from campaign three.

Speaker 87 How do you want to do this?

Speaker 89 How do you want to do this?

Speaker 87 How do you want to do this?

Speaker 16 How do you want to do this?

Speaker 130 Maybe the audience should say it.

Speaker 100 How do I wanna do this?

Speaker 165 Hey, Vidges.

Speaker 111 Should we take this one out?

Speaker 29 To each of us as it blasts from our hands, it like shoots out and like,

Speaker 29 and like, so it braids.

Speaker 101 Yeah, so it braids.

Speaker 88 Braiding is braiding a feeling.

Speaker 51 In your head, you hear, um, I've been swallowed.

Speaker 118 That makes me very angry.

Speaker 29 So I am going to just like

Speaker 91 the top of it.

Speaker 165 Laser hands through.

Speaker 16 Laser-handed.

Speaker 140 Sure.

Speaker 62 As a free action, can I yell, give her bangs!

Speaker 11 I will swing away with

Speaker 130 my weapon and strike several times. As I'm doing so,

Speaker 130 the black icker that's flying off the weapon is making sort of a splatter.

Speaker 130 And you see that the splatter is forming a pattern, pattern, and it's the symbol of Asmodeus.

Speaker 158 Oh my god, it hates

Speaker 54 very fun.

Speaker 31 For like, I don't know, she just

Speaker 165 gives into the darkness.

Speaker 200 A beautiful circle of life

Speaker 1 surrounds the two of them.

Speaker 18 You watch the troubled life of Bordor Dogson

Speaker 2 reduced to ash and memory.

Speaker 29 I'm gonna

Speaker 29 lightning bolt the tree trunk and I'm gonna aim it right at the center of the trunk so I can split it straight down the middle and make the two halves crash down.

Speaker 2 The bolt impacts.

Speaker 148 You watch as it hits the wood.

Speaker 46 You hear Delitha screech. No!

Speaker 46 Shh!

Speaker 109 Into white.

Speaker 29 I'm gonna make eye contact with Perdathos.

Speaker 29 You're mine.

Speaker 201 As the dustler begins to settle,

Speaker 37 and the broken, shattered glass head of Perdathos

Speaker 14 itself is crumbled and motionless.

Speaker 2 I'm gonna ask you an interesting question.

Speaker 2 How do you want to do this?

Speaker 40 I do have 56 hit points.

Speaker 152 Oh, I was looking at the wrong one.

Speaker 109 Time.

Speaker 34 For sand and shadow.

Speaker 34 The intros are going to keep getting worse.

Speaker 24 Okay, that was.

Speaker 70 A romance novel.

Speaker 29 These are the names of the arcs.

Speaker 64 I named all the arcs.

Speaker 193 I wasn't sure if I was.

Speaker 119 I like romance novels.

Speaker 196 I did, and I definitely made it sound like a romance novel.

Speaker 140 You're welcome, Laura Bailey.

Speaker 34 Sand and shadow sounds like it would chafe.

Speaker 121 Matt!

Speaker 171 Yep.

Speaker 34 What happened to Yusufiad after they failed their mission for the Unseale?

Speaker 2 Oh, Dusk, yeah.

Speaker 2 So in my mind,

Speaker 125 being...

Speaker 27 Dusk,

Speaker 192 they

Speaker 2 essentially,

Speaker 2 as

Speaker 2 an upper-ranked assassin for the Unsealie court, more or less

Speaker 2 volunteered for the specific mission in the hope of

Speaker 2 an honorable return

Speaker 2 and failed in their mission and failed not out of an attempt to try, but out of genuinely dropping the auspice of killing their target, which is

Speaker 2 unforgivable given the context of their work in the Unsealee.

Speaker 2 And so likely they were unable to return for the time being and are probably laying low either to find a way to clear their name or find a way to convince the Unseale to allow them to

Speaker 2 restore the honor of their name or

Speaker 2 perhaps start a new life on Xandria and spend the rest of their existence, much like their target, ducking the Unsealie's interest in sight.

Speaker 2 So that's my interpretation, but I mean you'd have to ask Erica.

Speaker 56 Hey, what was that?

Speaker 149 What was that Gnarl Rock shard?

Speaker 34 What was it doing to Imogen and what would have happened if she had kept it?

Speaker 2 The Gnarl Rock, yes.

Speaker 2 It is

Speaker 2 a point of very strong corruptive magic in Maffei.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 if Imogen kept it for a longer period of time, she would have seen

Speaker 2 more or less changes.

Speaker 2 Put it this way, Imogen's Parathos was pretty terrifying.

Speaker 2 Imogen slowly over time through the campaign looking more and more like Ira Wendigoth would have been a very interesting twist as well.

Speaker 88 Those are so many opportunities to become the villain.

Speaker 34 Yeah, but

Speaker 2 it was like, well, it's like whoever got in the stone, like whoever got the gnarlock and held onto it, it would have just slowly changed them over time.

Speaker 158 Ira?

Speaker 2 Or like, and more that look.

Speaker 16 Like a twisted face look. Cool.

Speaker 34 Speaking of Ira.

Speaker 34 What did Ira do to the minds of the Callaways?

Speaker 34 Like, did they ever try to escape? What did Ira remove from their memory?

Speaker 2 They tried to escape, but more or less

Speaker 162 Ira's a

Speaker 162 complicated character that I love him like Ira.

Speaker 124 I love Ira

Speaker 2 He was useful in ways and you had to line goals at times, but it's not a good person and so

Speaker 21 yeah, exactly.

Speaker 8 Esau

Speaker 2 but no, Ira more or less just switched

Speaker 2 their memory like when they try and flee would bring them back and then punch a hole into their mind of recollecting them trying to escape and placing memories of more positive interactions to replace them and so basically had constructed over time a false dynamic between them to where they were how they were when they first kind of interacted and so yeah it was it was not great

Speaker 178 it was not great

Speaker 16 such a scam actually

Speaker 16 met

Speaker 34 tag team if you want uh uh fern

Speaker 34 fern's afterlife looked very concerning yes Why was her afterlife so different from Aurum's? And what would have happened to her if FCG hadn't resurrected her?

Speaker 63 Oh.

Speaker 29 That actually, there was a little bit of that that took me by surprise. Because when I saw that, I was like,

Speaker 29 wait, am I a bad person?

Speaker 29 Because clearly that wasn't a good place where she was going.

Speaker 29 Which I

Speaker 29 like

Speaker 29 because I think it makes sense for

Speaker 29 because then I can be with Tevin and then I can just like, you know, what, what, what,

Speaker 29 I actually would like to know the answer to this.

Speaker 2 In my mind, the

Speaker 2 unsealing, the dark Fae tether within your bloodline,

Speaker 2 specifically the intent of Zathuda's creation

Speaker 2 of you and what your goal was with the Ruby Vanguard,

Speaker 2 there is a deep thread of shadow that is just inherently in your essence

Speaker 2 that we've seen you tap into here and there.

Speaker 190 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And kind of puts you in this weird place of many oaths.

Speaker 2 So for that, that was

Speaker 2 a glance at a pact for your spirit that was sealed without your knowledge.

Speaker 107 Meaning upon birth you were promised.

Speaker 51 Ooh.

Speaker 51 That's a romance novel.

Speaker 2 So yeah, so Fern's spiritual essence still sits under a contract she's unaware of.

Speaker 2 Ooh.

Speaker 16 She's not bothering me. Fern was Rumpo Steelskin.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 29 I mean, it makes sense.

Speaker 29 There was.

Speaker 119 Yeah.

Speaker 29 I've wondered that. That's really fun to know.

Speaker 2 Like I said, I'm very interested in a possible Fern one-shot, because you, you, much like how Mr.

Speaker 2 Burns is only alive because all the diseases are in him and they're all fighting to kill him at once and kind of cancel each other out, Fern Calloway exists because everyone at some point has some sort of contracted ownership over her or some vested interest and they're all kind of pushing at the same time and can't get to her.

Speaker 27 It's kind of what it feels like now.

Speaker 29 Well, I have to finish this deal. I have to finish this deal.

Speaker 102 We have to do this. Yeah.

Speaker 92 It's going to be in court forever when you finally go, which is going to be a lot of non-stop messages.

Speaker 102 a lot of the last days of Judas Iscariot the play, but it's just for and soul.

Speaker 16 Sam.

Speaker 16 For everybody. Robert.

Speaker 34 Sam Regal.

Speaker 4 Yes, Robert.

Speaker 34 Sam Regal's sponsored ad reads have always been unapologetic.

Speaker 24 Fever dreams.

Speaker 24 Great segment.

Speaker 34 But they went to some weird and never-before-seen places in campaign three.

Speaker 117 Tickler. Yes.

Speaker 2 Welcome to tonight's episode of Critical Role, where a bunch of us nerdy-ass voice actors sit around and play Dungeons and Dragons.

Speaker 39 Okay,

Speaker 130 let me shift into first-person view.

Speaker 10 Whoa!

Speaker 16 Is that through shift?

Speaker 193 This is so cool!

Speaker 130 Unless I finish this commercial, I'm never gonna make it, and you'll never respect me.

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Speaker 157 it's me, Ludo McGillicuddy.

Speaker 34 Now I have a HUD, which is a heads-up display.

Speaker 130 And I'm asking, it's asking me, do I want to read the next part of the copy or give that part to Marisha?

Speaker 7 I choose Marisha.

Speaker 111 Why? I need.

Speaker 16 Oh!

Speaker 66 What? That's a net.

Speaker 66 The net. Oh,

Speaker 66 what?

Speaker 66 What?

Speaker 111 That's illegal. Con pilot!

Speaker 74 Wait, wait, wait, wait, can you at least release me from the ghostly curse that binds my soul and let me escape this eternal hell?

Speaker 147 Uh, you know what?

Speaker 91 Shaw, you're breaking up.

Speaker 48 Shaw, it's a bad connection. Shh, I gotta go by.

Speaker 52 Wait, no, it's been dugging!

Speaker 91 It's my dog.

Speaker 99 Do nothing if it's really your

Speaker 111 dad. Your dad.

Speaker 65 See? It's me.

Speaker 157 You really gotta hurry.

Speaker 6 Oh,

Speaker 104 I'm up.

Speaker 111 I'm okay.

Speaker 118 It's okay.

Speaker 75 It's okay. Hi, I'm Sam.
Did we meet before?

Speaker 80 I feel like...

Speaker 98 No? Hi, Sam.

Speaker 197 No? Okay, we're on.

Speaker 54 We're on camera.

Speaker 87 We're We're on.

Speaker 50 Destiny's call.

Speaker 34 It's time. It's time for Destiny's call.

Speaker 34 Matt, we're always going to throw it to you to start.

Speaker 34 I know, I know. This is your world.
You've got to live in it.

Speaker 48 What?

Speaker 48 Why is your finger so thick?

Speaker 27 It wasn't a finger. It wasn't a finger.

Speaker 34 Big fingers rolling ass. A lot of amazing dream sequences in this entire thing.

Speaker 34 Matt, why did Imogen see people in her dreams after their deaths?

Speaker 2 For me, her burgeoning exultant status made her very psychically connected to figures that were either themselves exaltant

Speaker 2 or had a recent kind of close connection.

Speaker 46 So deaths that were close to her that she

Speaker 2 either wasn't present to witness directly or

Speaker 2 perhaps was kind of in that kind of in-between heavily infused psychic state, there was a vision of that spirit transference, their essence more or less passing beyond.

Speaker 2 And it was a fun narrative device for me to, you know, frame some of these moments as they occurred in the game.

Speaker 2 But that was mainly the inspiration behind it, was just showing that kind of burgeoning psychic resonance and the fact that there was a much stronger power within Imogen Beyond what she understood.

Speaker 92 Yeah, like the thumbprint of their psychic soul before it

Speaker 22 faded away. Yeah.

Speaker 34 What was the story behind the theft of Gianna Hexam's Golem?

Speaker 97 Oh, that was a whole side quest that never happened.

Speaker 24 I have like four pages.

Speaker 91 No!

Speaker 142 Four pages of a full jungle excursion.

Speaker 156 That's how it goes, though. That's how DD works.

Speaker 46 Yeah, it was a whole side quest

Speaker 2 that was going to lead you to this other group of smugglers that were working near Drew Sar and the returning legal.

Speaker 2 It was going to be another way to get in with Gianna and to learn more about her dealings with

Speaker 2 the Cerberus Assembly and kind of set up some of the elements that would come to play over in Bassarus and then it just never happened. So that's what that was supposed to be.

Speaker 2 It's all good.

Speaker 2 We got there eventually.

Speaker 34 I have super fond memories of early, early Campaign 3, just because it was just such a while. But I really gravitated toward your character of Lord Esteros.
Oh, I guess.

Speaker 34 I just thought that's a really great, really great character. What can you tell us about their past as a mercenary? And what was the nature of their relationship with Mistress Prudash?

Speaker 197 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 97 So...

Speaker 1 For Esther,

Speaker 2 I envisioned somebody who made their name at a young age as a very

Speaker 162 dependably dangerous soldier of fortune

Speaker 2 and likely had been kind of fur hired at the highest bidder in times of the apex war, likely more on the side of Aishanador and probably had clashed previously with a younger

Speaker 20 Odahan

Speaker 2 during that conflict.

Speaker 162 Wow, that's it.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 so when it's in my head, well, I didn't really get a chance to express it as much because the story wasn't as quite open at that point in time, But when Odahan did end up assassinating Esteros early in the campaign, that was a blood feud.

Speaker 2 Like they had fought before, and that was her more or less closing the loop with now exaltant capabilities that she didn't have previously.

Speaker 75 There's much with this apex war

Speaker 116 that

Speaker 2 I kind of understand and a lot that I don't we didn't get to go into it as deeply as I wanted to in the campaign. We kind kind of swerved and went in a different direction.

Speaker 2 But the apex war more or less was a massive

Speaker 2 geopolitical conflict between the Stratos throne and Eshenador, which are the two southernmost regions of Marquette.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 during,

Speaker 2 it was a

Speaker 2 number of years of conflict between the two that eventually just led to a stalemate.

Speaker 2 Both sides were expending so much resources and so much money and neither really was gaining any sort of benefit over time until they eventually just decided like after much influence from from uh on karel and drussar and many of the other powers around like the pentagram sands and they all kind of went to like guys you're no one's winning this and it's really kind of wrecking the region and wrecking both of you and so they eventually agreed to give them to a ceasefire and there was no victor over the war um and it's been kind of a period of recovery ever since and there's still like some tensions there but mostly they kind of keep to their own aside from like necessary trade.

Speaker 2 But the warriors that were using that war as a way to rise to prominence, like Odahan,

Speaker 2 were not happy that there wasn't a victory, that there wasn't a place for them to become a historical, you know, champion that won this cause.

Speaker 2 And that was around, after some time of that, it made her a very easy target for Lutinus to bring under his banner. But Esteros, through some of that conflict, was on the side of Eishanador

Speaker 2 and kind of just,

Speaker 2 it disillusioned him to war.

Speaker 2 Like he spent his life fighting for others and others' causes for money and through the process of seeing both the terrible impact it has, but also the kind of lack of impact that it does.

Speaker 2 It is not a way to, in his mind, to solve conflict on that scale. And so

Speaker 2 one of his great patrons and a friend they made over time,

Speaker 100 Pradaj, more or less, like, she passed.

Speaker 2 and left everything to him. They had, I will say, an unresolved romance in my mind.
Like they, it was

Speaker 2 for lack of a better term they they never actually got together but there was a deep affection and profound respect and well

Speaker 34 over the pants stuff yeah yeah OTPH for sure yeah yeah

Speaker 2 but yeah and and

Speaker 2 I I I think a lot a lot of his kind of dealing with and coming to terms with that was a lot of like kind of their discussion and her kind of helping him through that and as they bonded over it and he didn't have much, especially as a soldier of the force, and that you know, his contract did not complete as a war was not won.

Speaker 162 Sorry, I could wax product about this for a long time.

Speaker 2 But yeah, that's kind of the general concept for Esteros, and instead him wanting to kind of take others under his wing and

Speaker 2 see other people not fall on that path that he did.

Speaker 75 A few people in Discord have said EXU Apex Wars,

Speaker 74 which could be sick.

Speaker 39 That could be sick.

Speaker 34 Well, just listening to you talk about what?

Speaker 77 Big old novel. Yeah.

Speaker 16 Or big old novel.

Speaker 34 Listening to you talk about Estros' backstory,

Speaker 34 I think, really affected the way that they were played because obviously, everyone in chat, there's a lot of shared love for that character.

Speaker 34 So I think it's obviously so fleshed out in your mind that it came across on screen and people gravitated toward it.

Speaker 169 So I'm glad you guys like to.

Speaker 34 Speaking of fan favorites, Liam

Speaker 163 is

Speaker 34 pretty related to buddy,

Speaker 184 Son,

Speaker 34 nephew, cousin.

Speaker 34 It says, please.

Speaker 2 I'll leave that to you to decide.

Speaker 156 I just assume it on the bottom.

Speaker 176 No, make a choice. Make a choice right now.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 100 It's your guy.

Speaker 53 Make a choice actor.

Speaker 92 But buddy doesn't know, didn't know nothing about nothing.

Speaker 46 Apparently, all ogres know each other, right?

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 48 But they have the same. I didn't write the question.

Speaker 54 I have

Speaker 92 a semi-related question. Was Pretty the Ogre like an on-the-fly creation or something that you had like waiting in that town?

Speaker 2 No, I think Pretty was on the fly. I'd fleshed out that particular

Speaker 2 tavern, that inn, but I think Pretty was just an on-the-fly creation in that space.

Speaker 92 I think I snuck into the subconscious noodles of your mind and grabbed

Speaker 4 their cousins.

Speaker 92 What if they're like second cousins?

Speaker 130 Why not first cousins?

Speaker 19 Because you want them to get together?

Speaker 78 Is that why? And that's illegal?

Speaker 117 I mean,

Speaker 117 we don't know what's going to happen with Xandria moving forward.

Speaker 34 You did just call yourself a noodle grabber, basically, is what you said.

Speaker 34 Hey, how about a question you can answer?

Speaker 34 Aurum always has a green sash in his character design.

Speaker 98 What is the meaning behind it?

Speaker 92 That is a super simple, basic answer. I just thought of it as a Zephyrin

Speaker 92 design that he never wanted to let go of and reminded him of home.

Speaker 16 Oh, nice.

Speaker 148 I never said that out loud, but that's what it was.

Speaker 34 I like simple answers. Let's finish them all.
Matt, what happened to the Shade Mother?

Speaker 2 Oh, I mean, she's still infesting Drusar just in different tunnels.

Speaker 16 Flora, what kind of horse is Flora?

Speaker 75 She's a horse.

Speaker 34 Well, she looks like a horse.

Speaker 16 You know all the breeds of horses.

Speaker 29 Yeah, I know all the breeds of horse painter. No.
Flora was like a. I don't know the breeds of horses.

Speaker 30 But I can tell you the color.

Speaker 16 Just say quarter horse. Just say quarter horse.
Look it up before the campaign.

Speaker 54 Shut up, Molly.

Speaker 16 She was role-playing.

Speaker 48 Shut up.

Speaker 24 You asked me, you said me up.

Speaker 101 I looked it up at the time.

Speaker 163 Shut up, Zachar.

Speaker 24 Near your top five horses.

Speaker 16 Listen. What did it look like?

Speaker 64 I looked it up back then, but I don't remember it now.

Speaker 29 It's like a soft, light tan with a white mane. I know that's a type of horse.

Speaker 34 That answers the second half of the question.

Speaker 148 What does it look like?

Speaker 34 Very good.

Speaker 34 Everyone, lightning round. What area of Marquette was your favorite to explore? Is there any location you wish you could return to in the future?

Speaker 149 The one with the crazy car race.

Speaker 184 Bassars. Bassros.
That was cool.

Speaker 169 Yeah, Bassarus. That was awesome.

Speaker 78 I like Drusar.

Speaker 64 Every one of you. You like Dressar?

Speaker 184 Yeah, I can't see Dressar.

Speaker 29 You know what I saw a long time ago that somebody suggested for our group name, and I saw it after we already named our group, and I really loved it.

Speaker 29 It was the Silver Reach. Because in Drusar, every single fucking ride we took was a Silver Each.

Speaker 29 And the silver reach was such a good name.

Speaker 74 And because we're all taking Centrum Silvers now.

Speaker 21 I like the good joke.

Speaker 24 Wow, that's a good joke.

Speaker 24 Thank you.

Speaker 193 Speaking of old people about to die, Chetney!

Speaker 34 I want to give you, this isn't in the script. Not in the script.

Speaker 34 I want to give you, because Chad is begging for it, one last opportunity to kill your quick death.

Speaker 154 Let's go.

Speaker 24 Let's go.

Speaker 184 Let's do it.

Speaker 27 Let's do it.

Speaker 69 Three pairs of D-100 pairings. So you're going to roll three times?

Speaker 100 Yeah, three times.

Speaker 16 Three times.

Speaker 132 It won't matter. We've done this.

Speaker 34 One for each camp. We're going to do it anyway.
They want it.

Speaker 53 64. No, 46.

Speaker 156 46, 46. Come on.

Speaker 154 Number two.

Speaker 132 Come on, Die. Come on.

Speaker 155 All zeros.

Speaker 16 37. Oh, come on.

Speaker 53 Come on, Ukatoa die.

Speaker 156 This would be the one. 442.

Speaker 26 42?

Speaker 32 Yeah.

Speaker 116 42.

Speaker 66 Hey!

Speaker 150 42!

Speaker 16 It worked! He lives another day.

Speaker 30 Isn't that the meeting of

Speaker 34 That is about it for the campaign three portion of this wrap-up. When we come back from break, we'll be joined by Brennan Lee Mulligan.

Speaker 34 And it's going to be a free-for-all for all Xandria-related questions. Calamity, Divergence, Campaigns 1 through 3, that really cool and totally canon-guested battle royale we did that one time.

Speaker 34 It's all up for discussion.

Speaker 111 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 93 You know the one.

Speaker 34 But before that,

Speaker 34 a loving send-off to Campaign 3 and all the amazing memories it made.

Speaker 46 Having the privilege of being able to tell these stories with this group of people that I care so immensely about, it's hard to not think of it as the greatest honor of my life.

Speaker 162 I'm very grateful.

Speaker 179 Kilith smiles and nods at the rest of you.

Speaker 199 Lady Fern Calloway,

Speaker 37 Fay Scion of the Ancient Flame,

Speaker 191 Laudna,

Speaker 199 Veil Mistress of the Shadow Tree,

Speaker 199 Ashton the Reforged, Hammer of Paradox,

Speaker 199 Chedney Pakapi, High Hunter in Lupine Paragon,

Speaker 199 Dorian Storm, Master Muse and Son of the Wind,

Speaker 199 Imogen Temot, Exultant Hope of the Red Storm.

Speaker 199 Aurum of the Arishari, Savior Blade of the Tempest, she says with a smile.

Speaker 29 Playing this game specifically with the people that I love and care about and

Speaker 116 have

Speaker 29 made my found family over the past 10 years.

Speaker 29 And

Speaker 29 I can't get enough of this game.

Speaker 14 Why do we tell stories?

Speaker 17 To try to make sense of a world that can be terrifying and enormous.

Speaker 14 In Xandria, I don't know that your story

Speaker 198 will long be known.

Speaker 14 I don't know who will remain to tell it.

Speaker 127 But it did happen, and it did matter.

Speaker 14 And though calamity is here, because of you,

Speaker 198 it will not be here forever.

Speaker 92 Our real lives for me, are really intertwined with the ones that we've lived in Xandria. So there's no aspect of it that doesn't feel precious.

Speaker 140 I'm gonna go to Lodna.

Speaker 165 Sorry to push her hair to the side.

Speaker 87 We'll find a way back for you because.

Speaker 185 Oh, I don't like how this is making me feel.

Speaker 91 Okay.

Speaker 140 I'll go to Auram.

Speaker 29 Can you please come back?

Speaker 185 Because I'm getting a little scared.

Speaker 34 The stress being so high

Speaker 19 and it is so, it is so intense that for the first time,

Speaker 19 I realize that I am made of metal and wires, but

Speaker 11 I am alive.

Speaker 130 I'm alive for the first time.

Speaker 11 And I am alive not because I was made by D or Dancer or even the changebringer. I'm alive because they made me alive.

Speaker 133 And

Speaker 130 it's the connections that I made with all of them.

Speaker 133 And it's a feeling of joy.

Speaker 11 And I'm happy to do this because

Speaker 19 they saved my life and I'll save theirs.

Speaker 122 It's

Speaker 29 amazing and heartbreaking and wonderful and exciting and it's every emotion. I don't even have the words for it.

Speaker 191 And you immediately recognize the silhouettes of Lodna, Aurum, Ashton, and another.

Speaker 91 Imogen of Laudana!

Speaker 165 You guys, I skid her over.

Speaker 94 You're alive, huh?

Speaker 133 You're alive!

Speaker 9 Where's Auram? Aurum.

Speaker 92 There's a rapid patter of feet along the wooden floor, and then Aurum flies through the air and latches around Fern's neck.

Speaker 64 Well, I'm still a raccoon dog.

Speaker 111 I lift her up.

Speaker 174 I lift four.

Speaker 73 You did it, good boy.

Speaker 40 I like you, FCG.

Speaker 36 I like you, Frida.

Speaker 10 Oh, boy.

Speaker 140 Faithful caregiver.

Speaker 128 Shoot you.

Speaker 40 Yes, so.

Speaker 14 You're gonna lean in and kiss and you'll hear the clink.

Speaker 128 Yes!

Speaker 52 Actually, the amazing thing is, this thing is despite how uncomfortable it is.

Speaker 92 I haven't been honest with you.

Speaker 12 I have feelings for you.

Speaker 12 I think

Speaker 92 almost from the day I met you.

Speaker 92 Well,

Speaker 14 I feel like the worlds have kept us apart ever since I've been back, and I've just wanted the tiniest moment with you, and

Speaker 14 I couldn't sleep either.

Speaker 14 You are the reason I'm here.

Speaker 14 You've always been the reason I'm here.

Speaker 34 Yep, just another day where we're getting our makeup ready.

Speaker 92 Just another

Speaker 18 day.

Speaker 18 Oh, hi.

Speaker 89 You know,

Speaker 185 I have to listen in to get my thoughts.

Speaker 3 I've always share them with anything. Just ask.

Speaker 29 Can I kiss you?

Speaker 29 I can't tell if it's all right or not anymore.

Speaker 9 All right.

Speaker 29 Alright, so I will.

Speaker 157 I do. I do.

Speaker 3 I kiss her.

Speaker 186 Describe it. No!

Speaker 10 Use your imagination! I mean,

Speaker 87 you were role-playing across from BAFTA award-winning Laura Bailey.

Speaker 83 Like, it's always so surreal when you're doing this, and everyone is just so good at, like, giving and taking. That's why we all cry all the time, because it's so damn real.

Speaker 83 I'm just gonna

Speaker 83 stand

Speaker 186 behind her head and

Speaker 29 press her forehead.

Speaker 29 I'm not gonna tell you to come back.

Speaker 30 I'm not gonna try to com compel you to come back because that choice, Lodna, is yours now.

Speaker 134 No one gets to control you anymore.

Speaker 133 All right?

Speaker 126 Just know that I love you.

Speaker 29 Oh man, it's so many feelings.

Speaker 29 It's sort of the end of an era.

Speaker 11 I think the last things I see are

Speaker 89 Bertrand

Speaker 189 and Dorian

Speaker 89 and Frida.

Speaker 40 And I just feel connected to everybody.

Speaker 11 And

Speaker 11 some connections are made with wires and some are made with blood and some are made with bone and some are made with wood.

Speaker 11 But they all matter. Even in this dark, dark cave,

Speaker 11 they make every day a smile day.

Speaker 11 And so I just sign off and go.

Speaker 55 Why, hello there.

Speaker 92 This is Critical Roll's Resident Art Dad, also known as Liam O'Brien.

Speaker 131 We are continuously amazed at the artwork this community creates.

Speaker 201 That's why each Thursday at 8 a.m.

Speaker 131 Pacific, we share a curated gallery of submitted fan art over on critroll.com.

Speaker 45 If you'd like to submit your art for consideration, visit critroll.com slash submit and thank you to all of the incredible artists who share their talents with us week after week

Speaker 201 hello you beautiful people i'm talking to the audience not the cast uh i just want to wish you a happy 10-year anniversary 10 years that's insane um and yeah i think truly i know i speak for many people but the crit roll team what you guys have done what it is, the community you've built is life-changing.

Speaker 201 The fact that you even got me to DM for the first time ever in my life is like

Speaker 37 an achievement and an incredible confidence boost.

Speaker 201 So, yeah, happy 10-year anniversary.

Speaker 202 Hello, critters. Erica Lindbeck here.
I just wanted to congratulate everyone on a wonderful 10 years of critical role. I hope you guys do it for another 100.

Speaker 202 It has been one of my greatest joys to sit down at the table as Morrigan and join the team. I remember when I first came in for Chymel, I was so nervous and everyone made me feel right at home.

Speaker 202 I don't know why I thought I had anything to worry about. And by the end of that first little series, I was ready to play all night long.

Speaker 202 But yeah, I love you guys. I think you're incredible entertainers.

Speaker 202 But more importantly, you are some of the most magical and kindest people I've ever met. And it is an honor to breathe the same air as you.

Speaker 30 So yeah, love you guys.

Speaker 34 Hey, Hey, Critical Roll family, this is Luis Carrazzo, and I just wanted to say really quickly congratulations to everybody on their 10-year anniversary and wrapping up their third campaign.

Speaker 33 It was a truly incredible experience to be able to play Xerxes and EXU Calamity.

Speaker 203 And if I had to choose a favorite moment at the table, it would have to be...

Speaker 19 Giving the Lord of Hells a SpongeBath.

Speaker 203 Nothing quite like that, at least in my top three.

Speaker 179 But honestly, my favorite thing about doing this was being able to share the table with such incredible storytellers and being able to be a part of this incredible, awesome community.

Speaker 203 And I just want to say thank you, everybody.

Speaker 203 Can't wait to see what comes next. And I will see you all around.
Congratulations. Much love.

Speaker 18 Hey, critical role and critters out there.

Speaker 204 Just wanted to say congratulations on 10 years.

Speaker 171 Pretty epic.

Speaker 204 Happy birthday. Getting to join Downfall and play Aiden the Dawnchild.
My sweet, sweet Aiden was such a gift.

Speaker 171 And I love y'all.

Speaker 204 It was just a blast getting to try and bring a broken family back together. And may the sun shine upon you all every day.

Speaker 168 Love ya.

Speaker 198 Ma.

Speaker 205 What's up, critters? It's Anjali Bumani.

Speaker 205 Well, if there is one thing that I have learned from these several years of getting to hang out with all of you thanks to the dear, dear, dear humans over at Critical Role, it is that critters show up in the world for each other.

Speaker 205 You guys are just utterly amazing. Thank you so much for letting me be just a small part of this beautiful community that you've created.
You are living proof of what Fierai once said.

Speaker 205 Not all family is blood. Much family is chosen.

Speaker 205 So here is to 10 years of Critical Roll and to many, many more years of love and light and creativity and not just the tiniest little bit of ridiculousness and of course to many more years of found family.

Speaker 29 Now I gotta get back to some reading I was doing.

Speaker 140 Excuse me.

Speaker 92 10 years?

Speaker 197 Oh, this is madness.

Speaker 206 I don't know how you do a critical role, fam. You are amazing, and I love each and every one of you.

Speaker 206 Some of the best storytelling I have ever witnessed and that I've ever been a part of have been in critical role.

Speaker 206 And I think a big reason for that is because anytime that magic happens at the table, it's

Speaker 206 it doesn't matter how outlandish, how big the characters are, it's the actors bringing

Speaker 206 their genuine self to the moment.

Speaker 201 And so to all the critters out there, I hope you will take that to heart

Speaker 206 and remember that celebrating your unique,

Speaker 164 beautiful,

Speaker 206 and genuine self will always be where the best adventures lie and where all the magic happens.

Speaker 18 I love you, Critical Role.

Speaker 18 And thank you.

Speaker 206 Happy anniversary.

Speaker 48 Welcome back

Speaker 24 to the rap of Critical Rolls Campaign 3

Speaker 34 and the Age of Reclamation.

Speaker 34 What? Nothing. I just thought of it in the moment.

Speaker 143 I planned nothing for the show.

Speaker 34 Now that we've gone through campaign three, it's time to come up, to open up the discussion to a bit of Xandria overall. And who better to add to that topic than the man

Speaker 34 who gave Calamity a beginning, a middle, and an end, brutally balliging content.

Speaker 34 Okay, we're gonna give you all the hype. You're the second act opener.
This had better be good, baby.

Speaker 56 And it will be.

Speaker 117 Hello, I'm Brendan Lee Mulligan.

Speaker 19 It's nice to be here.

Speaker 73 Thanks for having having me

Speaker 19 thanks for sitting in the lobby while we dicked around and made fun of travis it was great i had a lovely pesto sandwich and i got some emails done hi buddy

Speaker 16 i'm not done i'm not done more pets

Speaker 34 you know strangely enough you are not on the top of the call sheet for who I should ask a question to first, but I feel like it should be you.

Speaker 164 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 164 Yeah.

Speaker 16 You're here.

Speaker 78 Yeah, it's got to be you.

Speaker 29 Are you reading that tiny, tiny little font? I am.

Speaker 16 That's why it's a height.

Speaker 102 You can spread it.

Speaker 59 You can spread it.

Speaker 24 Yeah, you can spread it.

Speaker 29 Spread it, Robbie.

Speaker 96 Spread it with your finger.

Speaker 21 Try to make it more wider.

Speaker 16 I can't spread your legs and stretch your wings, baby.

Speaker 100 You have my attention.

Speaker 71 Spread your legs.

Speaker 85 Give the focus to Robbie Robbies.

Speaker 16 Hey,

Speaker 34 I don't want to take this moment from you. You two are bonding on a deep level.

Speaker 34 What's it like to play around in Matt's map building room?

Speaker 4 What's it like in the

Speaker 88 question?

Speaker 19 That map building room is so fucking sick. You have no idea.

Speaker 19 Because not only is it lovingly tended to, beautifully painted, rendered,

Speaker 19 okay, all of that, exquisitely organized.

Speaker 19 May I, dare I say it, intuitively, intuitively organized. So you end up having these wonderful like, oh, the dungeon tiles are where the dungeon tiles should be.
And here are the humanoids.

Speaker 19 But it is very funny to look at them and be like, humanoids one, humanoids two.

Speaker 19 And you're like, what gets you in humanoids two? And are they jealous that they're not in humanoids one?

Speaker 20 Are they sad?

Speaker 111 Yeah.

Speaker 96 These are the hard-hitting questions I've been looking for all night long.

Speaker 8 Who are you calling a humanoid?

Speaker 54 Yeah.

Speaker 119 Next year, I'm going to end up in humanoids one.

Speaker 16 I came back and tasted it someday. Yeah.

Speaker 125 keep trying, friend.

Speaker 117 So you felt like you could get to work right away.

Speaker 34 Like you felt like you were in the space and it was it was there for you to be taken.

Speaker 19 There was a really funny thing actually building the Torms Hill battle set for Divergence where I was like, I got to work in there and it was like, it was like, okay, Torms Hill, we'll start.

Speaker 19 And I was like, oh, you know, it's been so long since I've like built a map by hand. Even when I was playing growing up, it was like, you know, Cabuchan Moncala beads and like a dry erase map.

Speaker 19 And I'm like, I'm like, all right, we don't have to, we don't have to overthink it or go overboard. It's a small little town.
It's like a little camp.

Speaker 197 And I was like, but these trees are kind of nice. Ooh, a well.

Speaker 91 And then suddenly you're just like,

Speaker 27 and then it's like 90 minutes.

Speaker 50 You're like, a fully rendered town.

Speaker 85 You understand?

Speaker 71 You understand?

Speaker 19 It is like a flow state. You wouldn't, it's like matrix line code.
Like, oh my God, everything, the world at your fingertips. It's intoxicating.

Speaker 140 Yeah, it's lovely.

Speaker 34 So, okay, in EXU divergence uh when did you get the idea to have some of the party members be gods uh specifically for matt to be the all-hammer

Speaker 24 right away

Speaker 19 right away um no it because it just felt like a um uh I love Matt with all my heart and Matt of Matt's many virtues.

Speaker 19 Generosity of spirit is key among them, by which I mean you have to fucking overpower this guy to give him his flowers, and you have to

Speaker 19 force the compliment.

Speaker 19 And so I did it through trickery.

Speaker 19 And it was really lovely. But it was just, too, like the idea of knowing Matt's connection to dwarves and also the idea of divergence being this period of the gods leaving.

Speaker 19 And specifically too, because we've had mortal gods in downfall and they've been, you know, that that idea of catathiosis and and you know embodying mortal form it just felt like a beautiful way to

Speaker 19 have a story that was so much about mortals picking up the pieces that even the gods were like oh if we're gonna help we have to be people right that like that and that to me that was the moral of divergence was that it was about mortals saving their own world and even the gods that want to help go the best way for us to help is to be mortal.

Speaker 34 I'm going to throw this and ask a question in my own brain.

Speaker 34 When you're starting off the process of crafting a story, do you like to come at it from

Speaker 34 a plot driven or are you looking to impart a thematic idea first?

Speaker 34 What drops into your head first? Because your work is full of obviously themes and ideas that you want to impart, just obviously from the question that you just answered.

Speaker 34 So would you say you start with an idea or would you say you start with with character and story?

Speaker 19 It's really funny to,

Speaker 19 this is,

Speaker 19 forgive a really like

Speaker 19 a nerdy answer, but

Speaker 19 it's like talking about space and time and they kind of can't coexist without each other.

Speaker 19 So like plot and character or plot and character and theme, they don't, if you move any slider to zero, they all disappear, right? So there's a sort of like,

Speaker 19 but what's interesting is all of these were love letters to different parts of Xandrian lore, and it just depends on the series we're talking about.

Speaker 19 So, with Calamity, the initial thing was the calamity, what we know in the lore is the Calamity was started by a guy named Vespin Chlorus. And the very first fun creative challenge is

Speaker 19 we know that we're going to have six players at the table. How do you make all of them responsible for something that a guy named Vespen Chlorus did?

Speaker 19 And how do you make all of them share the sin of the age of

Speaker 19 Arcana, which is hubris? And so you go, oh, that's the first step, is thinking about six people experiencing hubris and

Speaker 19 how Vespin's error was compounded over a cascading disaster. So that's how you started with calamity.

Speaker 19 And then moving to downfall, it was just like, what's the, you know, in the destruction of that, what's the most painful part of that? Yeah, I guess pain directs me. I'm driven by pain.

Speaker 19 I'll unpack that later.

Speaker 19 But it was like, oh, well, the prime deities' experience of that have to be the most painful part.

Speaker 19 So getting to a personal first-person experience of the prime deities destroying a mortal civilization and the

Speaker 19 crisis of self caused by that.

Speaker 19 And then for Divergence, it was like, time for the little guys.

Speaker 19 And really wanting to show that like the thing that moves Xandria out of the calamity is actually not something as acute.

Speaker 19 The start of calamity is the most acute, and the end of it is the most diffused.

Speaker 19 The era ends and now every single person shares an equal slice of responsibility for building the world again. Yeah.

Speaker 34 Well, you touched on it a little bit, the connectivity, which is a good segue to this question. How much of the trilogy of EXU, Calamity, Downfall, and Divergence was planned beforehand?

Speaker 34 Like, did you know where you would continue, like,

Speaker 34 where to connect next series to series? Or was it more like a stepping stone that you discovered along the way?

Speaker 19 Over the past several years, I've been falling down the hill of my own life at top speed.

Speaker 19 None of this is planned.

Speaker 27 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 27 Just like hands and my wallet, and my shoes are off.

Speaker 19 Don't eat each chip, don't you chit, don't each chat, don't

Speaker 54 you?

Speaker 19 So to answer the question as honestly as possible, every single one of these miniseries I have approached with total focus on that and that alone.

Speaker 19 So there was no sort of thought of what was to come after. It all grew organically, which is like the intoxicating and mesmerizing part of this art form.

Speaker 76 Well, yeah, because we knew we wanted to do something with you.

Speaker 176 We had kind of already been toying around the idea of

Speaker 176 thinking of wanting to do something in Calamity. Abria, of course, had come in and done the first EXU arc.

Speaker 22 And I remember being like, Man, I think Brennan would crush like a Calamity miniseries.

Speaker 175 But if he wants to do something funny or something like Pirates, the Rumble Cusp, that's something cool too.

Speaker 176 And then Brennan came in for a pitch meeting and he was like,

Speaker 176 Look, I could do something funny like Pirates

Speaker 54 or

Speaker 176 I could, or I could do Calamity.

Speaker 56 And I was like, thank God.

Speaker 78 Yes, to be honest,

Speaker 19 it was a lunch with Matt and Travis specifically, where

Speaker 78 at Sizzler. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 16 They're all good things to eat bread,

Speaker 19 eat fresh.

Speaker 16 What do they say at Sizzler?

Speaker 117 I don't know.

Speaker 16 Not much. Not that much.

Speaker 16 We'll see you later.

Speaker 19 Pizza Pizza.

Speaker 19 It was because Matt had mentioned, like, hey,

Speaker 19 as we like open the sandbox up and we want to play with our friends and have people come in and share stories,

Speaker 19 it really was this moment. I don't know if, Matt, you intended this, but it was like you were like, and we could do anything.

Speaker 19 It's like, we could, you know, there's, there's Wild Mount, there's Marquette, and then we can even play with time. You could even do the age of our cannon.

Speaker 19 And I, that's how underlined it felt to me when you said it and I was like oh Matt likes that and of course it immediately made me

Speaker 19 it immediately made me go like and then I went and reread the lore and looked at it and I think you guys already made the video that was the like schism through calamity explainer video at that point in time just beautifully made video go check it out and it was like I just looked at that and I was like oh man you could do a sick disaster movie yeah of these mages in their fucking towers and everything's fucked yeah

Speaker 34 we did it That's a sick log line, too.

Speaker 108 Everything's fucked.

Speaker 8 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 I saw one question on there, someone asking about what happened to Patience Orb.

Speaker 34 Oh, yeah, that's actually a question on here, too.

Speaker 50 Oh, there we go.

Speaker 53 So it must be a good question. Look at that.

Speaker 183 You should watch Divergence.

Speaker 2 You should watch Divergence because it explains part of that.

Speaker 168 But you're here for spoilers, so I'm gonna talk about it anyway.

Speaker 2 Well, no,

Speaker 2 because it was the end of Calamity with the entire sequence with Patience's Orb and the release of it that immediately, even just watching it happen when we were filming it it was like

Speaker 2 what an interesting jumping off point for the cobalt soul yeah the idea of an entire

Speaker 2 you know collection of minds through history that are about the collection and safety of dangerous knowledge

Speaker 2 and disseminating and protecting that for an entire age and so the once that happened it was like well that is going to be the spark and but we just kind of kept that in the heads until until the opportunity came for that being a book or something else.

Speaker 2 And instead, you got to actually work it into divergence,

Speaker 19 which was awesome. And, you know, like, again,

Speaker 19 the fact that Marisha launched an orb filled with all knowledge through space and time to be caught by her

Speaker 19 beforehand, but centuries later is so fucking sick.

Speaker 27 It was just awesome.

Speaker 116 It was so cool.

Speaker 2 Yeah, in my mind, currently it exists

Speaker 2 deeply sealed somewhere on Xandria in the deepest of vaults beneath the most carefully guarded monastery, the Cobalt Soul,

Speaker 2 in a library subterranean vault that no one has probably stepped foot in for hundreds of years.

Speaker 92 William, a stone statue of a swole dragonborn, like sitting in lotus position above it.

Speaker 174 Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 92 It's also an incense burner there. Yeah.

Speaker 41 Yay! Oh, God.

Speaker 41 Oh, God.

Speaker 117 Liam,

Speaker 34 how exactly did Brendan go about recruiting you for his sneaky divergence plans?

Speaker 92 Oh, man.

Speaker 92 Well, it was a great session zero and came with like two or three loose ideas, but my favorite one, the one that I was like, I could do any of these, whatever works with the chemistry of what we figure out here today, but I could.

Speaker 92 I've been thinking about a dragonborn who is just sort of a lone wanderer on the road, like we're in Core McMcCarthy's The Road.

Speaker 92 And

Speaker 92 I remember saying gold Dragonborn out loud and in the middle of that meeting, Brendan's like, let's talk about that later.

Speaker 92 So I just sort of accidentally walked in

Speaker 92 ready to conspire before I even knew it.

Speaker 19 I was just going to say that it was such a huge layout. And again, because like the,

Speaker 19 I don't know, there was a lot of confluence. Like there was very little trap laying on my part.
The shapes all kind of took place.

Speaker 19 And especially because I feel like the platinum Dragon and the Allhammer were not gods that we had necessarily seen the most of or had like dedicated PCs for, but also are dedicated to things that are very like,

Speaker 19 what's the word I'm looking for? That feel very heroic. There are a lot of gods that have domain.

Speaker 19 Like the Stormlord's domain is fucking enormous and of the natural world, but you have like honor, justice, craft, creation as being really things that are in the domain of what mortals do.

Speaker 19 So it felt very fitting for those two to be like, no, we're zeroth level. We're trying to make the world better.
We have this one last task, and then the gate is built.

Speaker 2 I just wanted to make an old dwarf.

Speaker 106 And baby, you made the oldest.

Speaker 16 I want to know

Speaker 92 what the early conversations were, because I knew that he inceptioned you toward that outcome, but what the early conversation, like, did you float a couple of ideas, or was always like, this is my chance to play the quintessential dwarf?

Speaker 92 Or how did it go in the beginning?

Speaker 183 I mean, it's hard to think back, but like,

Speaker 183 I love dwarf PCs.

Speaker 2 I love dwarves in general.

Speaker 2 They've always been like one of my favorite races in the fantasy genre.

Speaker 2 I love what they represent. I love their sense of family and

Speaker 2 craft and legacy through

Speaker 39 building and art and construction.

Speaker 21 And I just, no one barely plays plays dwarves in our games.

Speaker 2 Like, you're the only person who's diptoes into it with the, with the Darrington Brigade. And I was like, I'm just going to bring another dwarf.

Speaker 105 I don't care.

Speaker 42 I don't get to play a PC very often.

Speaker 105 I'm doing the dwarf.

Speaker 2 But I also just love the idea of playing a character that is at the very kind of end of their life, especially a very hard life, and having that opportunity in their final days to make a difference.

Speaker 2 And I feel like they left the world better than they found it.

Speaker 2 And I was truly like fully invested in the idea of the bookend of divergence, letting him kind of be the theme of the end of the age, is also the end of, you know, this poor, torn dwarf's existence and finally leaving something meaningful in the world and then just fading into stone and dust.

Speaker 2 And you're like, yeah, about that.

Speaker 2 Instead, I'm going to punch you in the soul for the rest of your life.

Speaker 152 So, cool.

Speaker 16 Thanks.

Speaker 181 Gotcha.

Speaker 34 In the C3 finale, though, we're talking about creating and crafting, the divine gate is destroyed. by all the gods together.

Speaker 16 Was the Allhammer wrong about the gods not being able to destroy it?

Speaker 34 Or was he just saying, like, admit that only one god can destroy it, but all of them together can? Or was it destroyed in some other, not exactly godly way?

Speaker 46 And this could be for either of you, of course.

Speaker 26 So, I mean,

Speaker 16 if you want to go to the next one, I'll do this one. I'll do this one.

Speaker 16 I just don't know.

Speaker 2 Well, in modern-day Axandria, the divining gate, after it was finally placed, and constructed, it could not be deconstructed unless there was

Speaker 100 a complete agreement.

Speaker 2 If there was, you know, all those that were responsible for its construction, and all gods to a certain degree all lent to the creation of the divine gate, the primes at least.

Speaker 2 And it could not be dissolved unless all the primes were in agreement to it, to prevent an inner corruption from causing this terrible cataclysm.

Speaker 2 So that was kind of the initial design.

Speaker 2 But in those early development stages of actually building it, there's a whole bunch of weird, fun, kooky things that could come up, which I thought was a fun question since I got brought up in divergence.

Speaker 19 Yeah, I took it very much as the allhammer thwarting an attempt for a single god to bypass the gate on their own, right?

Speaker 19 But essentially it's like, this is how we get around, because, you know, especially beyond Xandria, the gods are like,

Speaker 19 and I think we've talked about this before, like almost even more omnipotent as they get that one step past, you know, they're even more vast and cosmic.

Speaker 19 So the idea of like, I've decided I'm done with this, ping, and the gate like flies open.

Speaker 19 That there would be, yeah, that there's a big difference between unanimity and some god being sneaky and being like, oh, I left my keys.

Speaker 53 I'm going back.

Speaker 34 If you're talking about like crossing that threshold,

Speaker 34 what would have happened if the kid crossed the threshold and was taken by the Lord of Lies?

Speaker 2 Like,

Speaker 34 would we know that Asmodeus ends up beyond the divine gate?

Speaker 71 So if

Speaker 34 his plan worked, how would you have dealt with that?

Speaker 16 That's not my problem.

Speaker 19 That's the PC's problem.

Speaker 16 I don't have to.

Speaker 19 I'm not here to have solutions in mind. I'm here to throw sticks at bicycle wheels.

Speaker 19 And I do that.

Speaker 19 And I do that, and then they fix it.

Speaker 19 I would say the kid would escape. You know, the Lord of the Hells would be like, quickly away to my vast chambers that I might quickly speedrun puberty and then

Speaker 21 take this world by storm.

Speaker 19 And then they'd have to find the kid and exercise exercise him. You know, I can imagine.
Crazy montage.

Speaker 54 Crazy montage.

Speaker 2 The divine gate, you know, they cannot cross the threshold back into Xandria, but there is precedent for gods being shunted through the divine gate and beyond.

Speaker 2 That's how Vecna was sealed with the divine trammels at the end of campaign one. So there could have been an arc in which Asmodeus was

Speaker 2 locked on the other side, and there would have been probably a narrative in the future to explore in some way in which how they finally managed to exercise and punt him back beyond the gate and seal him once more.

Speaker 34 So, you're giving your players tools and responsibilities and things that could hurt them or help them. How did you decide what vestiges to hand to your players?

Speaker 34 Were there any vestiges and divergence that we didn't see that you maybe would have liked to add?

Speaker 19 Oh my god, well, I got to hand over some of my favorite ones.

Speaker 19 Like, there are a bunch of amazing ones that some of which we haven't gotten to see on stream yet, which were, I believe, the Storm Girdle, which was so fun, Condemner.

Speaker 19 Now, one of them I kind of lied a little bit about, which was that Infiltrator's Key

Speaker 19 was not, it was sort of a souped up, modified Infiltrator's key that had

Speaker 19 that

Speaker 19 little soul ruby in the middle.

Speaker 2 I literally, like, when that happened, I was like, oh, what an interesting take on

Speaker 24 that key.

Speaker 19 Well, because there's no, in the text of the Infiltrator's Key, it's like, made from the blood of 12 master thieves.

Speaker 96 And I was like, that sounds like some devil shit to me.

Speaker 180 And

Speaker 19 the absence of of text, I was looking at the source book and I was like, just like you, Asmodeus, to not reference yourself in the text of your own magic item book.

Speaker 19 You left it all out, haven't you?

Speaker 68 Why would the cobalts all know that?

Speaker 41 Why would you know that?

Speaker 19 Yeah, but that's not. It's one of those things where if I was there and someone was like, a vestige? The blood of 12 Master Thieves.
And I'd be like, should I have this?

Speaker 16 That sounds awful.

Speaker 16 Just do as you're told.

Speaker 91 Just do as you're told.

Speaker 34 These answers are incredibly astute and so fun to listen to, but I think there's one that is

Speaker 34 burning in everyone's mind.

Speaker 34 What happened to Grubling? Did he make it to Torms Hill and join the Roach gang?

Speaker 19 Did Gubbling?

Speaker 19 Yes, Gubbling did. In my head, he did.
And I think that he went to go join the Roach gang, and then they explained what they did, and he went, that sounds frightening.

Speaker 19 And then just became a farmer.

Speaker 27 Good.

Speaker 34 That's the happiest ending to just become a farmer.

Speaker 88 Yeah, 100%.

Speaker 101 Agriculture sounds good.

Speaker 119 This was never presented as an option for me before.

Speaker 8 I just want to spade.

Speaker 16 Yeah, 100%.

Speaker 34 For Matt and Liam, did experiencing EXU divergence make you really really think differently about certain characters who lived through it, like Ludinus?

Speaker 34 Or did it sort of solidify in your mind the reasons why those characters are so hardened by the life they endured?

Speaker 92 I mean, every human being, every mortal reacts to the stimulus around them in different ways, right?

Speaker 92 I don't know. I would love to get a Ludinus, a look at Ludinus's life

Speaker 92 in those days to see what knocked him around.

Speaker 206 Yeah.

Speaker 162 In my mind,

Speaker 2 Ludinus lost a lot,

Speaker 2 you know, as

Speaker 2 a young man kind of coming into the worst days of the calamity and probably raised in a very loving environment and then watching each person he cared about torn from him in horrible ways.

Speaker 2 And often from his vantage point and with no reason to believe otherwise as a direct consequence of these conflicts. And

Speaker 2 then to watch them all just disappear.

Speaker 2 To watch them all just go away. And to feel abandoned, destroyed, and kind of left with this knowledge that what was the purpose?

Speaker 46 What was the reason?

Speaker 2 You know, he's someone that I can empathize with what he's been through and despise who he's let it turn him into.

Speaker 2 Yeah, people have an opportunity to explore that in depth in some other way.

Speaker 168 I don't know.

Speaker 16 I love that we didn't see him in the game, too.

Speaker 92 I love that we never saw him in the game.

Speaker 92 It felt good that he was as inconsequential to us as humanly possible.

Speaker 119 Did you almost follow the chair?

Speaker 92 Yeah, no, I just almost broke it.

Speaker 142 There's a difference.

Speaker 92 I would have stayed in it, except the chair would have gone down.

Speaker 111 There.

Speaker 92 I'll add in that I like that Arrow's mortal life was an antithesis for lewdness because he dove after his brother, knowing he was going to lose his memory.

Speaker 92 I think that the way I think of it is he aimed himself at two of his most faithful and even-keeled

Speaker 92 followers which were Arrow's parents a priest and a paladin of the platinum dragon to get him raised right and get him in and to like reinforce who he already was as a deity and then I

Speaker 92 the idea of having him travel across half the planet and lose so much was

Speaker 92 you know, he's the god of justice. So

Speaker 92 his end result, his decision is

Speaker 92 we really have to get out of here. It's not just what we're doing to these people.
So the way to reinforce to like drive that into the bones of this mortal, doesn't remember he's a god, is to

Speaker 92 make him lose horribly. So he lost his father, fleeing, crossing the sea.
He got over here. I imagined sort of a Roanoke situation where survivors got here.
Some of them went off to look.

Speaker 92 They came back. Those people were gone.

Speaker 92 Some sort of a, they found a settlement, lived there for a little bit, disease, his mother died, he had sort of an adoptive father,

Speaker 92 like an associate or a friend of his parents, and then that guy died, and then he kept traveling alone, he kind of got bitter.

Speaker 92 Then he found a woman who made him find joy and love again and had that ripped away. So like I wanted him to kind of get hit hard.

Speaker 92 so that when he remembered who he was. And this is me above the table as deputy DM.

Speaker 92 When he remembered who he was, he could look look back at the life he'd had and be like, what we've done here is not right, and it's time to go.

Speaker 19 My favorite thing about that, too, was that it would be so easy

Speaker 19 to be like, oh, Arrow disproves something about lewdness. I think that's maybe overly simplified

Speaker 19 because Arrow had the soul of a god and lost faith. So the clammy was pretty fucking bad.
You know, like, clamoring was pretty bad.

Speaker 53 Someone who's literally got divinity in him.

Speaker 19 Well, that was my favorite thing, too. And Celia, who played Nia so beautifully.
Shout out to Celia.

Speaker 19 So brilliant.

Speaker 19 I just love that there was a dynamic that Celia was not aware of where she was going, like, I know the gods won't let us down. And two gods were like, they might.

Speaker 87 Whatever faith you have,

Speaker 100 let me be clear.

Speaker 19 It would be gross if I had that faith in myself, like, have some fucking humility, but also, like, I don't know, man, I'm tired.

Speaker 16 I loved that. What a great.

Speaker 19 It was a perfect dynamic.

Speaker 197 I loved it so much.

Speaker 34 All right, we're going to open it up into general Xandria questions.

Speaker 179 Wait,

Speaker 16 what happened?

Speaker 85 Yeah, kick them again.

Speaker 87 Keep them again.

Speaker 19 Robbie, I saw one from chat.

Speaker 130 It was by a user name Vespen Clitoris.

Speaker 180 Wow. Oh,

Speaker 180 great name.

Speaker 85 Solid one.

Speaker 52 Solid name.

Speaker 153 They had asked, is the Nordverse

Speaker 130 Alexandria? No.

Speaker 16 Oh.

Speaker 194 And I think, yes.

Speaker 118 No. Yeah.

Speaker 130 I think the Nordverse is in Alexa somewhere.

Speaker 142 The greater positive.

Speaker 184 Yeah, it's in a stable one.

Speaker 94 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 16 Yes, and no.

Speaker 2 It's what was left when Tengar was destroyed.

Speaker 16 It's the Nordverse.

Speaker 2 Oh, man.

Speaker 97 I saw a question earlier that I have said.

Speaker 2 Somebody mentioned that when the matron

Speaker 2 did the ritual of catathiosis, someone asked why she knew about the beacon. Does she understand the nature of the Luxon? And I was like, the gods do not fully understand the nature of the luxan.

Speaker 2 The luxan is still kind of a large mystery, though they have their suspicions and kind of a

Speaker 2 more or less a subconscious

Speaker 2 understanding or theorem of what its cosmic essence would be.

Speaker 2 But the matron, more than any other god, is very familiar with the power of Dunamis and the beacons because they are are specifically one of the things that breaks the cycle of death that she looks over.

Speaker 2 You know, the passage of the soul into the afterlife was the structure the gods created when they came to Xandria, and the consecution process of the Korean dynasty that the beacons can maintain essentially breaks that cycle and tears those spirits away from

Speaker 46 the entire realm that she oversees.

Speaker 2 And so she is very familiar with it. In fact, even utilizing it in that final ritual

Speaker 2 was a very conflicting point for her,

Speaker 2 but was another one of those examples of doing what was best for the greater good of her and her brethren using something that up until that point she largely despised.

Speaker 187 Yeah, that's interesting.

Speaker 172 There's just this one city in Xandria that just keeps giving her the finger.

Speaker 166 More or less.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 34 So the gods are mortal. Or about to be.

Speaker 34 So what does that mean for beings like Galdric and Ukatoa now that they're gone? Like, I know I messed it up, it's okay.

Speaker 16 No, it's not. Oh, no, that's not you.

Speaker 27 Right?

Speaker 16 Okay, really?

Speaker 100 How do you?

Speaker 93 Oh, man.

Speaker 34 I'll learn my lore someday.

Speaker 34 With the gods gone, can they rise to greater prominence?

Speaker 2 When the cats are away, baby.

Speaker 164 Like,

Speaker 2 divinity is gone for a while, and in some cases, might be gone for extended periods.

Speaker 2 So lesser idols and, you know, beings of great

Speaker 2 interest and ambition,

Speaker 2 There's a power vacuum. There is a time for them to do their best to claim what space they can.
This new age is likely going to be a very tumultuous one.

Speaker 2 There will be a rise of demagogues and cults of personality and many entities that have been lying in wait and in the shadows under the guy under the watchful eye of the primes.

Speaker 2 And now that they're away, this is an opportunity for them to seize. So

Speaker 2 yeah, it's going to get real interesting in Xandria.

Speaker 34 So a a power vacuum might be bad.

Speaker 16 It'll be interesting. Okay.
For the make-believe people, but for the people playing or watching.

Speaker 29 Totally changed subject for just one second.

Speaker 29 Have you ever thought about singing It's Hard to Be the Bard?

Speaker 29 Have you ever heard that song?

Speaker 16 I love that song.

Speaker 75 Isn't it so good?

Speaker 29 Yes, I remember it. And I was just like, the whole time you were talking, envisioning you singing it.
I think you'd be so good at it.

Speaker 168 What is this? Thank you, Laura.

Speaker 2 You've now imparted the internet's drive to force me to sing that at some point.

Speaker 102 It's going to be great.

Speaker 29 Has anybody already said it before?

Speaker 70 No.

Speaker 2 Oh. But now it will follow me to every event and convention.

Speaker 77 Luckily, you're an excellent singer.

Speaker 97 I thought she was about to apologize, and she's like, terminating.

Speaker 163 Oh, it's perfect.

Speaker 27 Shitty chicks.

Speaker 34 Quick, Laura, what was Imogen's grandmother's first name?

Speaker 8 I'm kidding.

Speaker 34 You said in the past that Imogen could have gone evil. Obviously.
What events?

Speaker 117 Like, like 12 different ways.

Speaker 29 so so what events of those 12 different ways in particular do you think could have pushed over the edge oh like personally if like outside of just like exploring Pradathos's body

Speaker 31 if Lodna had died if Ladna had died died yeah

Speaker 29 I don't think Imogen would have stayed good and happy

Speaker 29 if and if Ladna not only if Ladna would have died, died, but if Ladna would have, like,

Speaker 29 given over to Delilah.

Speaker 31 I would have broken bad with you.

Speaker 29 I know.

Speaker 80 We got close. We did.
We got close to breaking bad.

Speaker 173 Yeah.

Speaker 70 And then when it came down to it, I was like, no, I know.

Speaker 34 Yeah.

Speaker 64 I chickened.

Speaker 70 You did. Yeah.

Speaker 103 It felt like, oh, I think I said this.

Speaker 74 Have you seen that fail video of the two girls like jumping off the cliff?

Speaker 81 Yeah.

Speaker 176 And one chickens out of the other the last minute, and it causes the other girl to kind of slip from each.

Speaker 174 She falls down the cliff.

Speaker 60 Yeah, I let you fall down the cliff.

Speaker 92 Also, though, if you break bad, you're handing your character away and sometimes it's hard to let go.

Speaker 29 I know, I know.

Speaker 31 Honestly, that seemed kind of fun, but

Speaker 19 I have a really silly question for people, if I can.

Speaker 19 I was just realizing I've gotten to play with everyone here in one time in the past.

Speaker 19 I got three people. I got Travis, Sam, and Marisha in Calamity.
I got Ashley, Laura, and Talison in Downfall. I got Matt and Liam in Divergence.

Speaker 19 Which of your prime

Speaker 19 core of the present Xandrian characters would have been the worst fit for your prequel?

Speaker 55 Like, if you had some.

Speaker 19 Like, if you had to swap out your prequel story character with one of your core Xandrian characters.

Speaker 173 Bo would have been horrible.

Speaker 53 Bo placed into the ring of brass.

Speaker 117 She'd be like, I

Speaker 146 hate this.

Speaker 75 This is exactly.

Speaker 176 She'd be like, I'm going to fucking bring this whole city down myself.

Speaker 108 Vespen Who, fucking forward.

Speaker 16 Lord of the Hells opens the tree up, like, hello.

Speaker 39 Oh, it's burning already.

Speaker 151 I think Chutney would have probably been a pretty decent eye of Avalir, but Grog would have been

Speaker 91 just

Speaker 140 prime run amok.

Speaker 16 No wonder that city fell.

Speaker 87 No, motherfucker.

Speaker 2 Ring of brass gathers and the doors open and Rag walks in.

Speaker 100 The rest of them just go, oh God.

Speaker 16 That's alright.

Speaker 127 I'm here.

Speaker 5 I'm Ring of Brass Purdue.

Speaker 88 This is the new.

Speaker 41 This Nembo baby.

Speaker 29 I think it's pretty obvious Jester would have been horrible.

Speaker 19 For secret, for mission impossible god style.

Speaker 41 Yeah,

Speaker 140 no.

Speaker 29 Horrendous.

Speaker 24 Like,

Speaker 29 she would have had too much power as a god, number one, like, to just wreak havoc. But also, she would have, like, really tried to make Asmodeus come to the good side.

Speaker 29 Like, she really would have thought she could have, like, helped.

Speaker 24 Wow, Xerxes round 2.0.

Speaker 90 Xerxes 2.0.

Speaker 92 The Chester Ashton combo would have been great up there.

Speaker 164 I feel like we would have really

Speaker 92 gone great.

Speaker 119 They need to hang out. I know.

Speaker 92 I'm really excited for any time we finally get to do that.

Speaker 115 That looks breakable. You want to hit that?

Speaker 27 Yeah.

Speaker 157 I wonder what that button does.

Speaker 54 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 92 I think that Bren Aldrich Ermondrud would have died of dysentery at age seven.

Speaker 92 But that's probably what I helped Phydra start the Roach Gang. Yeah.
He'd have been fine.

Speaker 13 Totally, totally. But you good.

Speaker 130 I mean, if Tarian Darrington were

Speaker 99 a broadcaster

Speaker 130 in Earth Land, it might work for a while, but I think he would just be so so overwhelmed with all the attention that he would be like,

Speaker 130 I think he would just love it.

Speaker 79 He'd be like, I'll do whatever you want if you get me on TV more.

Speaker 89 Screw these druids.

Speaker 21 Let's do bad shit just like me on TV.

Speaker 54 That's great.

Speaker 16 And the 75th annual Harm Good Games begins.

Speaker 16 Pompadour.

Speaker 27 Ashley.

Speaker 29 I'm going with Fern because I just feel like it could go either way.

Speaker 27 Yeah, the chaos tracking is a good idea.

Speaker 24 It could go either way.

Speaker 184 I feel like

Speaker 19 that would have been, yeah, following that track down where it's like, one of our companions has alerted the magistry that this is all happening.

Speaker 61 Oh, no!

Speaker 19 Like the idea of the degree of chaos that would have unfolded from that would have been.

Speaker 29 I didn't realize I wasn't submissive.

Speaker 79 I don't know.

Speaker 184 I just like misunderstood. Yeah.

Speaker 162 Oh, Ashton, definitely.

Speaker 115 Oh, Ashton.

Speaker 39 Oh, for for sure.

Speaker 92 Just, yeah, just a mess. Especially if, if, yeah, for an ingestor, too.

Speaker 46 I just, that trio would be all.

Speaker 169 It would be awesome. Oh, it would be a mess.

Speaker 117 Ferngester and Ashton infiltrating Aeor surreptitiously.

Speaker 140 That's great. I kind of want to see it though.
We're here.

Speaker 53 How about NPCs for you, Matt?

Speaker 19 Or who would you, yeah, who would your

Speaker 2 oh my goodness?

Speaker 27 You have a broad palette.

Speaker 140 Oh, R Taggen.

Speaker 148 R Taggen entirely.

Speaker 2 Just playing all sides.

Speaker 39 Oh, he's so

Speaker 142 como.

Speaker 16 All right, let's get this.

Speaker 142 Let's rebuild this

Speaker 100 hill town here.

Speaker 100 Oh, my God.

Speaker 162 They're asking for the song now or a thing.

Speaker 50 But hey, I am singing on April 4th

Speaker 61 for Crime Karaoke at the Vermont Theater in L.A.

Speaker 34 Get tickets, throw them on Instagram.

Speaker 2 Me and Freddie Wong and the Carl Tanner.

Speaker 1 I am now because they're asking about karaoke stuff.

Speaker 16 Yeah, it's true.

Speaker 149 We need to move tickets because it's fun.

Speaker 16 Well, I think.

Speaker 99 Oh, what are you saying?

Speaker 92 Well, I have two questions from At Voice of O'Brien. Okay.
The first is for Brennan.

Speaker 92 One is, why the Lord of Hells? What is it about the Lord of Hells that you love

Speaker 156 so, so much? Is it something inside of you?

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 156 Is it just rich, fertile territory to mine?

Speaker 19 I don't know.

Speaker 19 I really, there was a.

Speaker 19 Because

Speaker 55 the betrayers,

Speaker 19 I was told that if I came and ran miniseries for critical role, I could take my own betrayer home.

Speaker 87 Basically.

Speaker 19 They have bags at the door.

Speaker 54 But you,

Speaker 19 well, I think, look, so I, I, I went to school, I went to SUNY Ulster, and I studied with an incredible professor there who's a philosophy professor.

Speaker 19 I've been obsessed with ethics, the formal study of ethics for a long time. It's pronounced ESSIC, actually.

Speaker 127 It's a half our audience.

Speaker 19 Ethics and ESSIC.

Speaker 19 And there's something about, there's a line from Calamity where, you know, I've talked about there are, and especially too, because I feel like Matt...

Speaker 19 I've talked with Matt about the chained oblivion and how special a position the chained oblivion holds and the evil of that being so alien and so monstrous.

Speaker 19 And it's the evil of looking at outer space and feeling like there's something out there that doesn't, it just doesn't know know what I am I don't even register on its wavelength as something living and it's like that is a type of evil that is so frightening and I think the other side of that coin is the intimacy of something so human because trickery as a domain is not alien right it's deeply fucking human there's a line in calamity where it's like the Lord of the Hells hates you because he knows it's like he hates you because he knows you and he needs you to know that you deserve it like that idea of punishment

Speaker 19 of like oh You're bad because I'm bad and you're here to punish me that is so frightening and I think it's a type of evil that is really Freaky but captivating to watch and to perform because it's person.

Speaker 19 It's personal. He doesn't hate you dispassionately.
He really sees you and fucking hates you.

Speaker 21 Why are you pointing at me?

Speaker 140 I'm giving you

Speaker 127 I'm getting really uncomfortable.

Speaker 108 That's the green chair.

Speaker 176 Well, that's the thing with Brennan, because like you are one of like the kindest, most stand-up guy.

Speaker 97 You are an arbiter for all that is good.

Speaker 176 You like are a fighter for humanity and human rights.

Speaker 61 And seeing the way you play the Lord of the Hells and some of the other bad guys, I'm like, oh, you, I thank God you wake up and you choose that.

Speaker 97 that you choose to be good because it is

Speaker 16 fucking terrifying.

Speaker 29 You'd be real good at being bad.

Speaker 61 You'd be so good at being bad.

Speaker 13 Thanks, God.

Speaker 16 The wood.

Speaker 92 My voice of O'Brien's second question is for Matt, and that is, in campaign two,

Speaker 92 there was moon stuff.

Speaker 92 So when were you cooking lewdness in your mind for the

Speaker 92 top of the pyramid in campaign three mid-campaign two prior to campaign two even starting

Speaker 46 so uh

Speaker 2 i wanted to eventually get to ruidis centric lore uh by the end of campaign one i decided if we got to a third campaign i want that to be kind of ruedus uh involved and in campaign two i began to consider what that how that lore would tie into a future event of xandria.

Speaker 2 Like I already had the idea for Perdathos in my head and kind of where that fit into the history, but I didn't want to show the hand too early.

Speaker 2 And so I began to drop little hints throughout campaign two, just little ones. And

Speaker 2 Ludinus, when I first created Ludinus,

Speaker 97 I hadn't thought about it as a whole backstory.

Speaker 2 And so the two weren't immediately tethered. I just had these two disparate ideas.
And the more that the Cerberus Assembly came to reality in the early third of campaign two,

Speaker 2 I thought Ludinus is exactly the person in a position of power, of longevity, and political influence to set up something on the scale that I would hope to unveil in campaign three.

Speaker 2 And then I began to, through campaign two, develop in my head the history of lewdness and how that would tie into the Ruidian chaos and the apogee solstice in campaign three.

Speaker 2 So that's kind of the timeline, best I can recall.

Speaker 145 Yeah, okay.

Speaker 107 Satisfied.

Speaker 84 Travis.

Speaker 34 You love werewolves.

Speaker 34 shooting for the worst transition ever.

Speaker 34 Why did you choose to have a mechanic of the D100 where you could randomly kill your character and take away your sweet, precious werewolf at any moment?

Speaker 194 Why?

Speaker 194 Why'd you do it?

Speaker 77 Look, Cheddy was just supposed to be fun.

Speaker 197 His old ass was supposed to die, but he wouldn't die in the fights.

Speaker 16 And then I was like, okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 166 What do old people do?

Speaker 100 They die in their sleep.

Speaker 121 Aren't you old people now?

Speaker 24 That's my favorite children's book.

Speaker 101 He's got to be on the cusp of that thing.

Speaker 200 I got to make a mechanic for this.

Speaker 154 And I even told Matt, I was like, if I roll trip zeros, can I die in my sleep?

Speaker 159 And he goes, if you want to.

Speaker 154 I was like, can I have it grow so that with each level that I grow, the number gets larger and larger?

Speaker 97 He goes, I think that's pushing a little bit.

Speaker 100 I regret it now.

Speaker 16 Because he's still alive.

Speaker 61 Why would you want him to die so badly?

Speaker 200 Because it's never happened in the game before.

Speaker 154 Because you would have to wake up after succeeding or failing and being, as we do, all stuck in one budget room.

Speaker 34 And somebody's laying next to the dead guy.

Speaker 66 And that would be amazing.

Speaker 41 And all the fractions.

Speaker 52 All right.

Speaker 156 Tomorrow we take on the Malleus Keith. Chetney, you ready?

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 79 Yes.

Speaker 54 Chetney.

Speaker 54 Yes.

Speaker 21 And he smells weird and shit's happening.

Speaker 77 Yes.

Speaker 108 yes, it would be sad stuff, but fuck, that would have been great.

Speaker 193 And then I would bring something new in.

Speaker 175 I sat next to Travis, and I just, I swear to you guys, he got close a lot. You got close and just no cigar.

Speaker 117 I edged a couple times.

Speaker 71 You did. You did.

Speaker 34 Now, this is a transition I like. Speaking of edging,

Speaker 34 it's Chetney Aurum and or Scanlon's father. Oh, Jetton.

Speaker 102 Oh, we already did.

Speaker 197 Yes. Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 141 We locked it in. For sure.

Speaker 181 For sure.

Speaker 34 You agree to this?

Speaker 92 I don't know my father, so it's out of my hands.

Speaker 115 He doesn't really have a say in it.

Speaker 118 There are franchises all over Xandria.

Speaker 152 Franchises.

Speaker 151 He was very busy. He traveled a lot, and a lot of people liked his toys.

Speaker 56 Wait, sorry, you just referred to children as franchises?

Speaker 55 100%.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Region to region.

Speaker 16 For sure. 100%.

Speaker 157 He does this in real life, too.

Speaker 16 That is the most chet-me thing.

Speaker 108 I'm stuck on chat right now.

Speaker 21 The branding is strong.

Speaker 92 What do you think happened in America in the 1800s?

Speaker 34 Were there any toys that you made that you didn't get to distribute?

Speaker 99 Yeah.

Speaker 151 Yeah,

Speaker 151 there were two or three.

Speaker 4 I started writing down after the Nanomori Pact a bunch of designs, things that would like unfurl or fold or crawl or unwind.

Speaker 168 There was like a tumbling orum that he made.

Speaker 46 There was, was,

Speaker 151 what's the Russian egg that has smaller?

Speaker 151 Thank you. Yeah, one of those that was each of the characters, and inside was one of the eggs.

Speaker 159 Yeah, yeah, small one.

Speaker 153 Don't tell fern.

Speaker 16 There was a whole bunch of stuff.

Speaker 82 But

Speaker 107 I was also trying to drop toys for Pradathos, and Matt's like, that's fucking cute.

Speaker 4 Pick that shit up.

Speaker 16 Trying to distract us from the moment. Oh, I was looking at

Speaker 105 Perliness.

Speaker 34 Ashley, we all know you want to steal Chetney's eggs,

Speaker 34 but you did steal a lot of stuff.

Speaker 34 Is there anything you wish you would have stolen?

Speaker 16 The beacon.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 29 Try. Easy peasy.

Speaker 61 Wow. It's just a shiny.

Speaker 61 What a wild.

Speaker 29 It's a shiny.

Speaker 163 I mean, I want it.

Speaker 176 What a wild mirror that would have been to Caleb handing over the beacon a campaign ago and you being like, yoink.

Speaker 16 I'm taking that one.

Speaker 77 It's so pretty.

Speaker 16 I want it.

Speaker 34 You do have the skein of fate now.

Speaker 162 I do.

Speaker 34 Do you think that Fern would ever consider playing with the strings of her friends?

Speaker 8 Yes.

Speaker 16 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 121 Absolutely. For good,

Speaker 113 just like a little.

Speaker 29 You know, nothing crazy.

Speaker 29 Why not? Just like, not like a big pluck, just maybe like a flick. But I feel like...
With Fern, it'd be like, you'd flick it and then be like, that wasn't big enough. I want to see something cooler.

Speaker 169 Let me just see if, you know.

Speaker 16 That would go back.

Speaker 153 You know, just strum that badge up.

Speaker 16 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 16 Why not? I have a

Speaker 29 fuck us all up.

Speaker 31 At Marisha underscore Ray has a question.

Speaker 193 Wow, yes.

Speaker 76 Speaking of the beacon and the beacons,

Speaker 67 where were they during the calamity?

Speaker 173 During the Age of Fourth. Good question.

Speaker 162 They were uncovered.

Speaker 2 Undiscovered.

Speaker 176 They were still undiscovered.

Speaker 116 Yeah. Except for one?

Speaker 145 And did you hear?

Speaker 2 There was one, the first one was discovered towards the end of the calamity

Speaker 100 By

Speaker 100 the

Speaker 168 Bright Queen. Yeah.

Speaker 29 She found it?

Speaker 102 There was also the lore pointed.

Speaker 39 No, no, there wasn't. No, actually,

Speaker 39 there would have been two.

Speaker 2 So, no, so there was one that was uncovered in Aeor, you're right. It was being experimented on.
Correct, I was thinking of the actual colours.

Speaker 16 You and I were thinking of two different

Speaker 105 lore points, yeah.

Speaker 2 No, Aeor did uncover

Speaker 2 a beacon and was in the process of studying it.

Speaker 2 And there was the one that the Bright Queen uncovered and kind of began the Korean dynasty after they had gotten out from under the spider queen and then came to the surface and kind of started in the ruins of Jorhas and kind of built the city of Rosona.

Speaker 173 So the Bright Queen has been around for as long as Ludinus has.

Speaker 16 Correct. She's about a thousand years old, yeah.

Speaker 116 Whoa.

Speaker 92 2001, a space odyssey.

Speaker 100 Whoa.

Speaker 2 But also, she's lived through many lives.

Speaker 60 Yeah.

Speaker 2 You know, and that has its challenges.

Speaker 159 More about it in her Dark Horse comic.

Speaker 168 Indeed, indeed.

Speaker 16 Yes.

Speaker 2 But yeah,

Speaker 2 and the lore of the Luxon, which you actually get to see some cool representations of it in the Bright Queen comic,

Speaker 2 is a precursor to any other life on Axandria. It's early, early creation myth.
Maybe not myth.

Speaker 2 But yeah, all the beacons, the fragments of the Luxon have been there from the very beginning and have just laid dormant, undiscovered, until then.

Speaker 13 Sick. Dang.

Speaker 173 Was Aeyor trying to use the beacon that they had uncovered for the malleus?

Speaker 162 They had just begun to research it.

Speaker 2 It was one of those things where it's like, they got this strange thing here.

Speaker 105 It seems to have some strange properties.

Speaker 172 They were using it to, it's what y'all were finding whenever y'all were going through Aeor as the Mighty Nine. They were using it to do the like long rest tubes.
It's why Ford

Speaker 31 got his hair back.

Speaker 140 And why y'all were able to have a long rest

Speaker 30 for

Speaker 197 this rod of uranium?

Speaker 31 Yes, exactly. And that's what they were, and they were studying time travel with it.

Speaker 172 That's what Caleb disintegrated.

Speaker 27 Not a beacon, but their research.

Speaker 42 Yeah, it was more or less like they were like, there's something to this.

Speaker 2 With enough study, we'll be able to.

Speaker 168 What's that?

Speaker 149 Clexen.

Speaker 167 Are we allowed to know

Speaker 92 where it came from?

Speaker 67 Matt will never tell us.

Speaker 39 No.

Speaker 194 Okay, not going gonna tell us I'll never tell the story's not over y'all

Speaker 71 it is

Speaker 16 and

Speaker 97 you're the only one who got fired everyone else is staying

Speaker 78 and speaking of which

Speaker 34 there are about a billion deep lore questions that we could spend the next several hours on but

Speaker 34 the night grows long uh we gotta wrap this baby up is there anything

Speaker 34 thoughts that you have in your mind things that you wanted to to say during the show? You didn't get a chance to? Closing thoughts from anyone and any.

Speaker 7 I feel like we should just give a shout out to all of the guest players who played with us for this campaign.

Speaker 158 So many.

Speaker 16 Karsh, Bria, Erica, Amy, Amy,

Speaker 133 Emily, Emily, Christian,

Speaker 24 Christian.

Speaker 78 Nashir.

Speaker 7 I already said three.

Speaker 24 You didn't see three.

Speaker 52 We have Emily.

Speaker 41 Nashir.

Speaker 75 Oh my god. Alex Ward.

Speaker 77 Abu. Abu Bakar, oh my gosh,

Speaker 68 Nick Marini, Nick Marini, yeah, Lou Wilson,

Speaker 2 Lynn Beck coming in, picking ass,

Speaker 175 Anjali Bamani,

Speaker 2 so many, so many incredible people. I'm so grateful.

Speaker 2 Fuck, you guys keep talking. I'm gonna get emotional, keep going.

Speaker 41 Louise, Louise has a loudy.

Speaker 16 Yeah,

Speaker 103 um, I think it is worth talking about,

Speaker 48 you know,

Speaker 6 look,

Speaker 176 you guys do this at the end of every campaign where you're like, there's so much to wrap up.

Speaker 67 There's still so many lingering plot threads. And the answer is, yeah,

Speaker 163 that's true.

Speaker 80 Because

Speaker 67 hopefully 10 years isn't the end of this.

Speaker 133 We're just getting started.

Speaker 21 Just getting started.

Speaker 130 Are we going to do more Xandrian content?

Speaker 74 We are going to do more Xandrian content.

Speaker 76 In fact, do you want to know who is dungeon mastering the next bit of Xandrian content?

Speaker 97 Who, Marisha?

Speaker 80 It's you, Sam Regal.

Speaker 16 Shit.

Speaker 50 What a perfect time for a pitch.

Speaker 64 Good Karsh. Thanks, Guttkarsh.

Speaker 76 We filmed next week. So if you could come up with an idea and put it on my desk by end of day tomorrow, that's great.

Speaker 148 Sure.

Speaker 182 Yeah.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 130 I might have to fire you for some.

Speaker 16 I'm always happy to lend a hand.

Speaker 97 But yes, there's obviously going to be so much more to do.

Speaker 173 Obviously, I know

Speaker 176 there's been a ton of people being like, it feels like there should be repercussions from Bell's Hell's actions.

Speaker 16 Yeah. No.

Speaker 71 No.

Speaker 118 It's been 20 minutes.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it's been.

Speaker 2 Yeah. If I'm going to be honest, like,

Speaker 2 we had a very long finale and there's so many things that I could have put in there and then decided we'll get to later. Otherwise, it would have been so much longer.

Speaker 2 And with the way this year began, I think also it was best to not touch on some of the more intense, darker moments as well.

Speaker 2 Because I think after the fires and many other reasons in our political sphere, best to not touch on that.

Speaker 42 Let's just keep it happy and end.

Speaker 2 But indeed, there are many ramifications to the events at the end of C3 and Bell's Health, and maybe we'll get to touch on those in

Speaker 4 future stories.

Speaker 60 Future stories, future live shows.

Speaker 60 We have Australia coming up.

Speaker 68 Wink, wink, hint, hint.

Speaker 148 Chicago.

Speaker 149 Chicago.

Speaker 135 Indianapolis.

Speaker 16 What is that? Wink, wink.

Speaker 130 What are you hinting?

Speaker 130 What are you trying to hint at?

Speaker 173 I'm hinting at the live shows that everyone already knows about.

Speaker 140 Hint, hint. Hint, hint.

Speaker 70 You're a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of tickets. They're hard to sell out.

Speaker 117 All right, last chance for romance.

Speaker 49 Any more plugs?

Speaker 118 Robbie, you did so good tonight.

Speaker 24 Aw, thanks, baby.

Speaker 10 That's amazing.

Speaker 184 It's easy.

Speaker 86 He already said his contracts are with the lawyers.

Speaker 34 It's easy when the company's good.

Speaker 34 Folks, it's been fun, but it's late and we are all talked out.

Speaker 2 I have one more thing to say.

Speaker 162 That's okay.

Speaker 2 Just because we're at the end of campaign three after 10 years celebration here. Yes.

Speaker 2 I think I've got my emotions together a little bit here.

Speaker 2 This is the wildest, stupidest stupidest journey

Speaker 2 these past 10 years and 12 and a half for us since our home game. And that family has expanded in so many wonderful ways with so many wonderful people.

Speaker 2 The fact that we get to collaborate and build and tell stories in ways that mean so much to us,

Speaker 2 that also means much to you folks as well. Through all of its wonderful, messy,

Speaker 2 chaotic swings here and there, dice rolls and motions.

Speaker 2 This is the greatest thing in my life, and all of you are the greatest people in it. And I'm just

Speaker 2 very grateful.

Speaker 2 And I'm excited for all the great things to come. Still feels like it's

Speaker 40 just getting started.

Speaker 92 Well, guess what? I'm going to say something too.

Speaker 92 At the end of Divergence, when I was standing behind a curtain listening, trying to hear what was going on with everybody, I was so nervous, probably the most nervous I've been in years,

Speaker 92 because I wanted to thank you

Speaker 92 fully and properly for everything that you have done for everyone in this room for a decade.

Speaker 92 You have kept us on the edge of our seats and kept us guessing and made us laugh and laughed at yourself and made us cry and just

Speaker 92 the amount of like sleepless nights and effort that you put into

Speaker 92 telling stories for this group.

Speaker 92 It has not gone

Speaker 92 unappreciated, far from it, quite the opposite.

Speaker 92 And thank you for

Speaker 92 setting me up for success to thank you so fully and properly.

Speaker 92 We love you. And thanks for 10 years, Matt.

Speaker 176 As Brennan said, it was

Speaker 172 the greatest love letter.

Speaker 19 None of you are safe around me.

Speaker 111 Stay on your bed.

Speaker 148 I think that's the perfect segue.

Speaker 34 Thanks so much for joining us tonight.

Speaker 34 We got so much in store for you this year and beyond. So stick around, follow us on our socials, and be on the lookout for our next state of the role.

Speaker 34 I've been Robbie Damon.

Speaker 127 Who knows what I'll be later?

Speaker 16 And

Speaker 34 is it Thursday yet?

Speaker 76 Thank you for listening to Critical Role.

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Speaker 144 Until next time, dear critters, adventure awaits.