Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Quests N’ Answers | Inside Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode Ep. 16

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

Welcome to Quests N’ Answers, the companion series to Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode! ***Spoilers ahead for episode 15*** Join Dan Casey, special guest Becca Scott (Good Time Society, Dimension 20), and cast members Amy Vorpahl, Jason Nguyen, and Danielle Radford as they break down the biggest moments of Goblin Mode episode 16, “Geodepolitics,” including it what it was like to finally meet Unzug, Becca’s unexpected connection to Bizzee, the revolutionary politics of Fitfettle Delve, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Daniel Radford. Amy Borpal. Jason Wynn. And our special guest. Becca Scott! Yes! Folks, we're gonna talk about the latest episode of Goblin Mode in just a moment,

but there are spoilers ahead. So if you haven't seen or listened to it yet, go back, rethink the choices that led you here, then come back to us, we will wait. Okay, that's enough. Let's get into the episode. Becca, we're so stoked to have you here. Thank you for having me.

Also, wow, that intro, oh my God. I was locked in. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Having a flashback to a previous life. It's just who he is. Can't help it. Yeah. So what was it like for you just stepping into this world

when we're coming off the heels of meeting our Lord and Savior Eun-Zug in a role that has a name with a lot to unpack, which we'll get into in future episodes? Yeah, well, I'd say not at all intimidating. The amount of lore, Amy, sent me ahead of time, was absolutely a normal amount of lore. Sorry. I'm so glad I know Becca

because this could look pretty manic. I loved it. I read it all. I gobbled it up. Just like skeletons cannot do. It just falls right through us. It's always scary to jump in when you guys have been doing so many episodes,

but then getting to see the top of the episode and really just fall in love with your characters and get really into the world and become a fan for this thing that nobody else can see yet that isn't working on it. I was so excited to sit down and jump right in and was so excited that you had given me so much to work with until the moment I found out we were Scottish.

Yeah, you came in love with that. Yeah, that was a surprise to us all. That was fantastic. Yeah, you know, I think, I don't, I wish I had told you before. No, I don't. I think the sleeper cell, the sleeper agent of this is actually Danielle, who was like, whoa,

and you're Scottish too, yeah, let's go. Yeah, yeah, Busy got to do a little bit of code switching. She went back home. She's back in her hometown. That's right. You know, she turns it off and on. I was telling Amy during the break, it's like, Danielle, me, when I mean, I obviously, I'm part of pop nation,

so I will never change that about myself, no matter what state I live in. But when I do go home, I do, you know, you go home and you start getting your old accent back. And so, and then after a while I was like, I have to, because busy isn't berigni, but it's still really fun to do it. It'll probably come back next episode a little bit.

Yeah. I really hope it does. I want to see busy back in her baggis when she's visiting home. Busy back in my bagas. But yeah, so that's one of, and also, yeah, it's been really fun because I actually have been able to do a bunch of accents in this,

and I never do accents. Oh, yeah. You did that Calair accent on time. Oh my goodness. And yet you're very good at them. You nailed it. You came out of the gate. That is definitely way closer to almost an Irish accent

than closer to any sort of Scottish, but I'm okay with this. I like to think that Fettledelves contains a wide variety of rich neighborhoods that have developed different accents and linguistic stylings just over the years. They've been down there for centuries. Language changes. That's the beauty of fantasy. It's not tied to a real world place,

so my accent is the correct one. There is no, I'm actually to be. I only know fit-fedeldell. I only know fitz-edalb. I'm doing perfect, perfect. Upper crust, fit-feddellvian. Yeah. And you're doing lower, lower-crust fit-feddletalvian.

That's right, I worked my way up. Yes, exactly. Well, yeah, you gotta work up to the crust because otherwise you're closer to the center of the earth. That is right. I do want to talk about the sort of the world of fit-fel-delve, and you coined a term right before we started rolling that, I loved, if you could repeat it,

started with G. G-O-D. Wait, you said. Talking about the, right. Oh, you said we talk about geopolitical and, yeah, yeah, the geode political climate here. Yes, thank you. Yeah, it's, I love that we just sort of walked into this world

and you were instantly fomenting revolution. Yes, I loved it. I just, I'm so curious to learn more. And yeah, I'm just curious for you. What's it like, what was your reaction when you're like, okay, I'm trying to overthrow the ruling class. Look, that wasn't something Amy gave me necessarily. That's even better. That's even better. That rules. Oh, that's spoiless. I did say, look, I've got this world, like, do what she want with it.

And like, here we go. You said anything I didn't write in this email is not yet decided and you can make choices. And I made choices. I love to hear that. So what we know is that I'm going against, like I think thoughts that are not mainstream for this FitFedal Delve. And to me that means we gotta do something about that. I love that you're like a chill boss

and a revolutionary. It feels like an awesome combo. She hides in plain sight. I can't tell now, I can't tell. I can tell him too. We're one and the same. I do like a character that, yeah, hides in plain sight where, you know, by all rights.

And she's high acclaimed, too. I mean, she carries the Barignis Burfist name, which I didn't make that decision until I knew that Becca was playing this character. Oh, cool! Yeah, that Barignis has a lineage, obviously. You were just going to have to deal with Gottfrieda Opel born.

Yep, that's right. Thank you for writing that down. If I make you say a name, I will write you. write it down. That's my promise to you. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, she has a last name as well. Yeah, I got Frida is, is Brignese's best friend and brings her down to earth and it's just like, yeah, yeah. I got questions, but we'll see if they have answers as we continue.

Yeah, what was your reaction when you heard the, when you heard the name of our esteemed guest character? Yeah, that was a big moment. Yeah, yeah, big moment. I obviously will hear some more things. It's interesting because we did, flesh fibs did accidentally burn down our memory palace. And so... Mistakes remain. Mistakes remain.

But there is still, I think even without it being a thing of coming in and there's these memories of any, you know, descendants or anything like that, there is still this connection to, you know, dwarven culture. Specifically, Busy's really, obviously, like, she comes home and there is, there are still these cultural things of like this, you know, it might not be that I remember and you're of my lineage and it might not be at that point yet, but it's definitely like, you are the most capable person I have met so far since we have left the dungeon and busy is just like, and it's like that's where it's like, I see so much of what I love.

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and freezes and just this almost worshipping of Berygneus Burfist. And what you, Danielle, the player, and what Berygneus, or what busy is obsessed with is literally a table of contents on a scroll. Because that's the legacy. Statues, statues are fantastic, like great thanks.

I'm glad that y'all spent all that time and all that stone. But the legacy of Berygneus is an index on a scroll. That is her legacy. It's not statues. It's not any of that other stuff. It's great that you have my name. It's most important that it was shown that efficiency was carrying down. Organomics, people.

23 taxonomies and me. Yes. Urgenomics. Ergenomics. There we go. There it is. There we go. Yeah, so that's again, like the statues are like fantastic, but really it was that they respected.

They respected and carried forth how important it is to have an index scroll and an easy code, you know? Story question. Does Busy know that's her? Busy wouldn't, at this point, Busy does know that that's her, but Busy, the last, Busy met herself and it did not go well. We, it turns out that Busy does not F with other, with past Busy. We had a little bit of a fluffle, it was fine, like, no big deal. She just wanted to, like, kill me as I am now and all the experiences that I went through after I came back from the dead and replaced me in the real world and then I would have then been nothing

and meant nothing to anybody. Busy took a lot of offense to that. So that's the other thing too, was like I see those statues and it's like, oh, this bitch. Like last time I was punching you in the face last time I saw you. But that's not what the dwarfs of Fettledelho remember of Busy. They remember her as the number one fatekeeper

that, you know, fulfilled a death. destiny. Yeah. Well, I think we see that interplay between reputation and reality really play out in this episode not just with busy, but also with our first face-to-face meeting with Eun-Zoon. Oh, that was this episode too. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. It was most of this episode. Also, Tippy and Tippy kissed Picard. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, guys. It finally happened. Yeah, it finally happened. Oh, my gosh. Beaked her really. Yeah, I beeked her. So was it, did it count? Did it count? It's a count. I'm a fact. Here it is.

My first pack. But you did get the confidence up enough. I felt like there is now no excuse, right? His biggest excuse was he didn't feel like he deserved to have a kiss with her. And now he's the goblin champion and his boss is back. And he's kind of like the top of the mountain for Tippy right now. He's all downhill from here. It's all downhill from here.

And so it's like if I don't kiss her now, I don't know when I'll get a chance to do that. Yeah. It also did culminate, not from a heartfelt speech, but from a bit of a fight. They were just arguing with each other. And I think that's actually very gobliny. Very gobliny, indeed, for sure. Well, why do you wait for? A failed sidebar. A failed sidebar. A failed sidebar. We have a lot of sidebars. Do you say about them?

Yeah. That's a really good idea. Oh, thank you so much. All right. We're done to sidebar. What was it like for y'all to get to witness and talk to Eun-Zug? Did he live up to expectations or what's the vibe? Talk about cool boss. We get there and of course it, Unzug, the terrible. Unzug, the master of the undead.

And we get there and he's like, all right, everybody, pop a squat. We just want to go ahead and just everybody, we're going to catch up. We're going to see what's going on. How are you? How's your day been? I do want to hear that story later. But first, we do have to get down to business. And so that I think was, I was very surprised because I was definitely expecting,

Dark Lord of Terror. And he can still be a Dark Lord of Terror, but so much of it was also very, like, chill. Like, we're working on something and we're a team. Yeah, very great team-building skills. This one's hard for me because this one is really like, I have to separate myself as a player and not met a game. Yeah. And really just.

I'm so suspicious, busy is delighted. I don't trust no boss, but, but Tipy does. Tippy does, but it is strange how like, he's the great dark lord, and we were so scared of him, and now he's like, yeah, Papa Squat. Yeah, I'll fire Crandall for repeated HR violations, absolutely. I was like, I don't like this. So I'm, I have a hard time trusting. Hedging your bets.

Yeah, I mean, I'm suspicious because he gave me some very powerful, powerful magic items. Damn, y'all got out. That is wild. I'm going to have to review what the staff of Roll Bear does in addition to my lovely head of hair that's attached to my hat. That's also apparently... Just the head of hair.

No other word to describe it. Yes, definitely the only word I would use is my sweet fit. Yeah, between y'all, you have three of the five articles of the Champions of Sundar. Missing the circlet and the final one was a ring, correct? Yeah, ring of Sigbreda. Hey, I remember a couple things. So ring, circlet, staff, goblet, and tattoo.

Okay. Yeah. Hair. Yeah. Hair. Yeah. The weave. Those were the first things I wrote in this, when I was doing this game.

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Come up with names. They have last names now. No. Well, they do have last names. I was a big fan of the names this episode, especially boon-th-rub-throby-throat. Ruby-throat. Yes, ruby-throat. Ruby-throat is definitely...

Boomf. It's a local pronunciation. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of dust that can form, which is why they want it swept up because it aggravates the ruby throat. It's ruby in color because it's aggravated. Okay, yeah. I mean, you got it.

Exactly. I mean, maybe... That's why you wrote down. That was in the lower in your... That is the hyoid. That is the hyoid. That is the hyoid. They're looking for.

The rib-throated, it's a ruby-throated dwarf, actually, not a goblin. And your lore, like, Becca, I'm curious, do you get notes about us? Do you know much about, like, what these guys are about, or do you really just come in and watch?

Three local idiots approach you. Yeah, as it pertains to the story, I know a bit about your death and unmaking and remaking as skeletons and, yeah, just, you know, the summary of, to this date, which was a lot. It's like we get to this level of episode,

and it's like, well, two hours of an email later. That's why Eun-Zig was like, I have to hear this story another time. It's like, oh, Becca, you will be hanging out with three dips, and then also you'll be hanging out with busy and viz. Well, that's like, I told Becca, I was like, I'm so glad I know you because I don't know, I know that I'm like, oh, it's better for me

to just send you everything instead of going, These are the things that are important because at this stage I'm like it's all important. How do I leave anything out at this point? Yeah, all I had to do was read it and then I feel like I know what's going on because being thrown into the deep end of someone else's game

when you don't have that much information because people are trying to be nice to you, it's like no, no, no, no, no, no. I am already playing catch up. Give me everything. Well, you're a dungeon master too, so I knew I could just drop it on you. Well, we're about to go from deep lore to deep gore because next episode

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