Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Quests N’ Answers | Inside Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode Ep. 18

Episode Date: February 26, 2025

Welcome to Quests N’ Answers, the companion series to Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode! ***Spoilers ahead for episode 18***   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 18, “Wanderer’s Fortune,” including the significance of this forgotten deity, Barigneas’ confrontation with the High Council, and one of the most shocking moments of the entire campaign!   New episodes of Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode air every Monday on Geek & Sundry or wherever you get your podcasts: https://lnk.to/goblinmodepod   Learn more and sign up for the Geek & Sundry newsletter at https://www.geekandsundry.com/!   Subscribe to Geek and Sundry: http://goo.gl/B62jl Twitter: http://twitter.com/geekandsundry Facebook: http://facebook.com/geekandsundry Instagram: http://instagram.com/geekandsundry TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@geekandsundry   Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode is a Geek & Sundry production made in partnership with Realm.   Official camera partner: Fujifilm -- Visit https://shopusa.fujifilm-x.com for more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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but to join me, I have my amazing cast, as always. Daniel Radford. Amy Forepa, Paul. Jason Wynn. And our special guest. Becca Scott. All right, folks, I have to warn you, there are going to be a ton of spoilers

for the latest Goblin Mode in this episode, so if you haven't listened to Goblin Mode or watched Goblin Mode yet, please go back and do that because I don't want to ruin anything for you. With that said, let's get into it. Holy shit. Oh, no. Oh, no. Dang it.

Dang it, die it. All you had to do was stay in the words of Taylor Swift. I don't know that barred. Oh, yes. Yes. How about that? How about that? You got some good stuff though.

Got a promotion. Got a promotion? Kind of. It's a temporary promotion and when they find out that the Sundari is gone, I don't think that Ophret is going to let me keep that. Yeah. Yeah, RIP, or not. But living up to my potential.

Yes. So that's good. I will say that having Euthis be buried in Fitzedel Delve, hiding out like a little bitch. Whoa. Whoa. Okay, yeah. You're really down now. No, that was one of the first things I wrote when building this campaign.

Cool. And what's interesting about that is once I was prepping for this episode, and last episode, it almost was like, oh yeah, and then they, okay, and then they find youth as there, you know, that's fine. Like it was so matter of fact

because I know, I've known about it for months. But it actually is like, when you think about it, it's actually more weighty to have a, you know, to have a deity that, we've dropped hints

that there was a sixth one. Yes. But, and it somehow didn't die. Like, that is more weighty than even Eun-ZUG showing up. And it's like, oh, yeah, of course. Like, it matters. But in my head,

since I'd planned it for so long, it was kind of like, oh yeah, yeah, and then this thing happened. Yeah, that was the abyssal that Danielle, that busy translated back in, when we were in Earned Kerr Fatham, I think it was like... No, no, in... It was earlier.

It was in the wretched code. It was in the Wretched Code. The document. Okay, right, the document that you translated, sorry, we're heading to Erd Kerfathom, I apologize. Yes, yes. I think it was combined the five

to restore for axis, the landing ritual room in Finfedel Delve, Y6, but only five. Yeah. Yeah. Why six Sundari, but only five artifacts? Yes.

Yeah. And this was what the question, the side of Aurelia, have been asking themselves. And now you know why. There is a sixth. There is a sixth. There is a six, that's why, yeah. Yeah. And there actually are six artifacts, as it turns out.

Yeah, the luckstone. The luckstone. The luck stone. That was a clutch move. Like, scrying is so cool. So dope. It's like, it's one of those, it's one of those things in D&D that you do not, want your players to have.

You just don't. Like, you just don't. And in fact, when you, when you decided to scry, it was like, this, this episode might be over, you know? I might need to dive into what's, like, the prep for the next episode. We just ended here. But it was so, it was so cool that you were able to just use it and use it in a really cool way. and then come back and, like, feel the weight of, like, everything that tell your friends and

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the Sundari we meant at the beginning of the game, because she went to another realm, but I was like, Arsena. Okay, maybe check on Unzug because it sounded pretty suss at this point. And you got the ability to describe, that came from Unzug, right?

No, that came from the tattoo of Crass, which is Arsena's gift. We helped her way back when. No, the gift that Unzug gave me is the staff of Robert, which lets me turn it to a tree. Which I cannot wait to you. Just as good. Just as good.

You never know. You never know. It's gonna happen. Just wait. You have to use it. Yeah. So the Payneite Crystal, we should have brought with us.

And then everything would have been hunky dory? Oh, that's interesting. I, yeah, I mean, honestly. Maybe slightly longer. Like the notion that it is, she is basically being charged by, you know, batteries while she's been fit, Fettledel delve. It just, that logic made a lot of sense to me that like, okay, you know,

centuries old and she's still able to protect everybody, but now she's just going to have this huge awakening and kind of without really any consequence? Absolutely not. Like what about this makes any sense at all? And it's like, she's weak as hell. The only reason she's got sustenance is because she's channeling all of these gems. And once she gets attention, yeah, of course, that's like radiating her, that's radiating her power more. The gems are talking to each other, like a network.

Great, great, great. You remove her from the network, even just a little bit, and it's like, yeah, cut the cord, man. No more signal. She's lost. Oh my gosh, I mean, to me, that's like, oh, she's been hiding and withering

for centuries. She's gone. I think, I think Fibbs probably read way too much into her, like, appellation. She is, youthist wanderer's fortune, not, like, basement dwellers' fortune. There you go.

I think I had the same thought. I was like, well, surely being outside and is going to recharge her and finally being in the world that she helped protect and make is going to make her stronger. I do love that beat of false hope though and then the thing that we kind of

maybe anticipated deep down was going to happen with our boss maybe didn't have the purest of intentions. But even so, it's true to our characters to be like, well, we simply must continue regardless because we have to try to recharge her. Yeah. That's- Yeah.

And I think, I mean, you're right that like, yeah, being out in the open and is going to be eventually like the cure. It's just, she's too, she's too weak. She's far gone, man. Yeah, I do like that there were hints of like, Eun-Zig might not be who he says he was, so it doesn't matter. What we're going to do is still go forward and save youth as the best way we know how. And honestly, that is the best way you know how it's just,

Eun-Zing might be a couple steps ahead of y'all. That's all. Yeah. I also want to talk about the big moment we had where family reunion in the conference room. I think, yeah, Busy had, like, just a huge episode. Yeah, and I think for Busy, busy still, busy very much sees herself as busy and not berignius at all. You were so open to be called a shit mother and, like, be reminded of the,

berignious flaws. You're like, yeah, no, yeah, of course, yeah. She sucked, but I'm not, I, I, I've, I've moved on and I move forward from, like, her mistakes. And I do think, but there is definitely a fondness for her, uh, for B6, just because like B6 is, and again, it's not that thing of, like, oh, we're related by blood because even then, like, who cares? Like, we have, I have family that I have found through the Terror Squad, um, and we are not related by blood. we are related by terror. And so, like, Busy's affection for B6 is very much because of,

of the things that they have in common as people, because if B6 wasn't as, and honestly, like, as nice and as sweet and as giving and as caring and as nurturing, along with all of her fantastic managerial skills, like, those are the things that, that's what binds busy to, her and I also think that that's also

a huge part of why letting go of Unzug was hard, but it wasn't the worst because again, Busy's got her family and as much clout and as much as she gave to Unzug and wanting to, you know, be

at the right hand and all of those things. Again, if you think of him as our dungeon daddy... And I do. And I do. What else would we think of this? Again, like it's I think Bizzy is starting to learn as she is in the world that family is made and certain things are earned.

And, you know, B6 is now family because that is earned and those are now earned experiences. And Eun-Zug, the more that you hear, the more that Bizzy realizes she didn't know this dude at all. And so as much as it's sad and it's a real big bummer that this is, he's not going to turn out to be, like, maybe the good or the reformed person. as maybe we were hoping he was

by the fact that he was nice to a goblin once. Really, the bar is in the dirt. It's easier to... That's a real tell there, though. Yeah, it was easier to go up. Yeah, it was easier to go up. All the innate trust of like, yeah, he is, he's Eun-ZUngu. And of course, like, it's hard to beat it out of your system

that Unzug is great. And so the trust, even, as you said last time, that it was, you were kind of vibing against, him as players, but as characters, it was like, yeah, we're still on Team Unzug. And then this is the episode where it's like, well, yeah, your world almost shatters with Dan's, with Phibbs as scrying. Yeah, I mean, how else can you afford a 3,000 to 4,000 square foot marble mansion? Only treachery.

Only treachery. Yeah. Yeah. So let's do treachery. If you're looking at it from the view of we are servants and our life and everything that we've ever known is to serve this person, then why wouldn't he have us serve him in even just this small way? When we've, I mean, look, we've been like footstools.

Like, we've done way more degrading things and packed his underwear and his protein-covered blankets. Yes. So why wouldn't he have done this unless he was being sneaky? It is very much like seeing it through, like, the eyes of someone who was like a servant. And it's like, well, then why now, why would that be the exception? tune in to the six-part podcast uncovering unzu

oh my gosh well what about y'all's obsession with freaking titles oh what about the high council extremely touchy about asking for titles yeah that was like a big

big monologue for me about getting your promotions yeah what's up I thought everything was working out for B6 I thought it was my big coronation I thought this was my moment. And then Albright was like, you went too far, I'm taking everything

away. Vacations can't go. It didn't take everything away, but like, I want to be clear, it went from like, dang it. To like, wait, hold on. I've been outsmarted again. Huge speech about earning your place

in your job. It does, it makes, again, our characters might be of a mood of like, wait, hold on, But again, if you are my father's daughter, if you are my great, great, great, great grandkid, and there are things that have been passed down, something that Barignis, the OG, struggled against

was putting her own ambition and her own selfishness, like above other people. Like, yeah, it sucks that she lived in a society where there were certain roles expected of her, but she still did that and she still owes something to the people who she played that role for. So it is a good lesson to learn about not being selfish and you don't get to just ask for things.

But also in that moment, it's very much like, okay, but she's kind of been doing the job for a while. We look at it, we look at it as like, look, I know y'all are seeing it as though this is like she had one moment, but she has been working at this for a really long time. Yeah, my thought is that Brignis is ambitious. It goes with the super type A, the organized,

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I loved, I just want to props to you both. Like, I love that scene between the two Berygnius's. And I felt bad because I felt like I was a little bit blowing up your spot as Tippy. No, it had to happen. Because if it wasn't, it was going to need to happen sometime before we left. Yeah, I just felt like it. You know, like, Tippy being in a really good job, like bringing it up. I was like, oh, yeah, wait, yeah, we have to do this.

We got to do this. Yeah, that 100% was like, necessary. So he's going to think of that like, wow, you, you seem real lame right now talking in front of your ancestors like that. Yes. You knew we were saying, dang it in front of. It's literally like, do you know who she is? All circumstances, no pomp.

But it was a great speech about, like, you don't have to, like, fill my shoes. You like, you don't have to be in my shadow. Yeah, she needed to hear that. Yeah, I thought it was nice. I thought it was nice. Because all her life, well, part of the thing is that she has kind of said, downplayed her fame because everybody in the whole Delve is all about berignias and is always like, this is what you're supposed to live up to.

And she didn't want to until she actually met you and you said, you know what, you don't have to? And then it was like, well, now I kind of want to. Yeah, yeah. Now that I know I don't have to, I actually do, this is what I really want. If it's my choice. Yeah. Yeah. It's gonna be freeing.

Yeah, to be able to like explore the possibility when it's not something where it's like forced down your throat. And I love the contrast that creates where you like B6 is dealing with sort of like the crushing weight of history bearing down upon her. But then there's also Tippy who is like humblest of humble origins, just this like little wretch from a faraway dungeon. For sure. Who is this important part of a potentially world ending prophecy? Yeah.

It's your throat, goat. I got snatched. I got snatched for my throat. Yeah, you are, what's going on here? Slopi Tippy. I did not ask for this. Oh, oh. What did you say?

I missed it. I always miss it. You look, turn your life. No, you turn your head to Tannett. Because I try to stay it under my breath. This is like the 40th time, Daniel. Well, go ahead and say it out loud. I said sloppy tippy.

Uh-huh. Yeah. Sloppy tippy. Oh boy. See? And it wasn't. Yeah, you're right. I didn't need to hear that.

I tried, we'll keep it in. I, yeah, the scrying on Eun-Zug didn't go there, and I'm very, yeah, that was never gonna. Tipy throat, go, tear, squires. Okay, we'll see if this is in there. Yeah, okay, cut. Okay, well, we left things on definitely a really shocking note. We don't know what the future holds.

There's limited time remaining for all of our heroes, our allies, our villains. It feels like everything is coming to a head. And I for one, can't wait to see what happens on a brand new episode of Sangers of Sundry Goblin Mode, which you can watch and listen to on Geekin Sundry and Wherever Fine Podcasts are served respectively. So thank you so much for tuning in and joining us.

We hope you enjoyed this episode as much as we did performing it. And yeah, we hope to see you as the adventure continues on the next one. We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. Bye. Free my throat.

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