Critical Role - Kiss and Tell | 4-Sided Dive | Episode 16: Discussing Up To C3E70

Episode Date: September 12, 2023

Laura Bailey, Matthew Mercer, Sam Riegel, and Marisha Ray (and of course Omar) pull questions from the Tower of Inquiry, play a very chaotic game of Gang Beasts, and finally dig into some deeper details of the party’s relationships. 4-Sided Dive airs one Tuesday a month on http://twitch.tv/criticalrole and http://youtube.com/criticalrole Twitch subscribers gain instant access to VODs of our shows like Critical Role, 4-Sided Dive, and Exandria Unlimited. But don't worry: Twitch broadcasts will be uploaded to YouTube about 36 hours after airing live, with audio-only podcast versions of select shows on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & Google Podcasts following a week after the initial air date. Twitch subscribers also gain access to our official custom emote set and subscriber badges and the ability to post links in Twitch chat! "Let's Roll (4-Sided Dive Theme)" by Peter Habib and Sam Riegel Original Music by Omar Fadel and Hexany Audio Additional Music by Universal Production Music, Epidemic Sounds, and 5 Alarm

Welcome to Foresighted Dive, Critical Role's monthly talk show featuring a roundtable discussion about the events and characters of our current campaign, alongside a heavy helping of hijinks. Foresighted Dive airs the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm Pacific on Twitch.tv slash Critical Role and YouTube.com slash Critical Role, with the VOD available on YouTube the very next day. And of course, each episode releases right here on the Critical Role podcast network one week after the initial broadcast. Let's dive into the chaos. If it's itching for more than four days, Sam, you have to get a doctor to look at it. But what if I intended it to itch for longer than that? Then you get a different doctor to take a look at it. Omar agrees.

He does. He knows a lot about itching. He's actually a very itchy boy. You know. He's like, mom, go tell him all my itching is. I'm with you. What's a head, mom? No, it's okay.

Gotta get a shot every spring, don't you? Everybody's itchy. There's no camera angle on Omar, so we just look crazy. He's got a camera on him! We swear he's here. Oh, here we go. It's that time. I pick purple. I pick pink.

I'll do this dark one. I'll pick what's left over. Yay. Do three go. Bless this dice. Higher or lower? Higher. Good boy.

Low me, Matthew. Yeah. Hey, that's one of my dice. I got a 15. Oh, wait, you already rolled? On one of your dice, yep. And? Eight.

Three eights? Three eights. And a 15. And a 15. I'm the guy. I did not know. You're the guy. I'm the guy. I did not know that. You're the guy.

I'm the guy. You rolled that one? Yeah. Then yeah, then, oh, Sam. But no, I'm just saying, how did one of the dice get stolen? Oh, that is your die. It was just in the little thing.

These are all my dice! The monologue for TikTok. Oh, great. Oh, my God. Right, because we won't get it otherwise. That's the only way we'll get it. Oh, do I do this? I go now, right?

Yes, you do it. Okay. Stand on your mark. All right, all right. Sweet, okay, sorry. Oh, oh wait, let me try this. Oh, hi, I didn't see you there. I'm Sam Riegel, your 16th tavern keeper. This is edited, right?

You probably don't know me and that's okay. I'm just a normal, regular, everyday human being with exactly 207 bones in my body just like you. And just like you, I also struggle with normal, everyday human problems. That's why when I have problems, I reach for a can of Foresighted Dives good old-fashioned canned bits. You're being flown in right now. They'll put it in my hand and post. But wait, Kyle's also running the prompter, so it won't go any higher until he goes back. No, no, this is gold! This is gold. Keep going, Kyle!

This is the best chef episode we've ever done. This is the show. Now I know you think you probably already know everything about Foresighted Dives can bits. We did this bit one lunar cycle ago, but last time we didn't have real world testimonies from, ooh, we're doing testimonials, from real world normal humans. Marisha?

Oh, no. Hi, friend. Hi. I'm. Hello. Oh, hello in return. Uh-huh. Did you know that before Matthew Mercer thinks up

a wacky way to stomp me all over our hearts, he reaches for a can. She's terrible on a prompter, Sam. He reaches for a can of Foresighted Dive's canned bits. Yes, I did. Anyone who is anyone knows that. It's common knowledge. I hope he talks about it on tonight's show.

Me too, now leave. Okay. We have another testimonial as well. Wow, I can't read. Why? What's happening? Hello, friend. Hello, Sam.

Hello to you. I was just thinking about how Sam Riegel must have reached for a can of four-sided dives canned bits just moments before he conquered FCG's guilt by destroying an undead crow slash buzzard thing named Shithead. You're so much better at this than me. Can we say that on TV, Shithead? Nope, I'm leaving. You sure are. And lastly, come here, Matt. Oh boy.

Why? Oh, this is your line. Hello, I don't know about you, but when I think about Laudna and Imogen's adorable relationship, I think about Four-Sided Dive's canned bits. Their love reminds me of that creepy plastic Santa that follows Liam around the studio.

Wait, what? Bye. And there you have it, three testimonials proving that four-sided dives can bits are changing the world one canned bit at a time. Isn't that right, Moppo? Oh, I'm sorry. Foresighted can't- Foresighted Dives canned bits by Moppo are changing the world one bit at a time. Everything is fine. Welcome to Foresighted Dive. Let's do a heckin' good show! And welcome back.

Let's begin the night with our open discussion segment called What the Fuck is Up With That? We've got a lot of topics to talk about. I think shithead should be the first topic. However, the most important emergency thing that we have to talk about is Imadna. Hey guys. Hi. Nothing else matters except for us finally discussing

the most important thing of all. Hi. You guys, it's our resident lore and romance expert, Danny Carr. Hi. Hello. I like your tribute It's our resident lore and romance expert, Dani Kaur. Hello. I like your tribute to Ina. I'm in full Amadna wear. It's great.

Amadna is the official- Is the ship name for Imogen and Lotna. Gotcha, okay. Pretty good, Amadna. It also sounds like diarrhea medicine. I like the Southern Gothic. Ooh! That's very good.

That's actually pretty great. That's less diarrhea-ish. Yeah. I like Whore School. Whore School is awesome. Whore School? Oh my god. I just made that up right now.

Oh my god! That's so good! That's a good one, baby. Oh, I love that. I'm going to just be thinking of other ones all night. Yeah. All right, to focus. To focus on this.

Yes, you do. We should talk about Imodinus. Yes, please. Tell us everything. How did it happen? Who knew what when? What is their sex life like? It's a pyramid that is canonical.

What spells can she use mid-quartets? This is not entirely about sex. Well, I mean, I don't know. When did each of you know, as characters and as yourselves? I was so interested in this, because we did not talk about this at all. We didn't talk about it at all, no. At all. So at the character creation stage, we're going all the way back.

Yeah. You were friends, traveling companions, and you guys never said, hey, are we romantic? And somebody else was like, I don't think so. Or was it ever brought up? We talked about, we are not gonna be romantic. Like, we had had several discussions about, we really wanna show a solid platonic female friendship. We wanna show that that's possible.

And it's not. They fucking. They were roommates. I remember one time we were like, I mean, this could be a path for them, but it's got to happen organically. Yes. Just like in real life.

Yes, and not because people are demanding it through fan art. Yeah, right. Right. Yeah. So I remember being like, it's gotta go. If it happens, then it happens. Correct. And then we didn't really talk about it

for a very, very, very long time. And then, like, I don't know. We were just like playing the game and like, I kept getting jealous. And I was like, oh, fuck, do I have feelings for Laudna? Like, seriously, like, not wanting to admit it. And then, like, not talking to anybody about it and going, I can't, I don't know. I don't know. Is this really happening?

Is this, we had those talks about we aren't going to be romantic. And now I feel like I'm going romantic. And it was just fully, like I didn't plan to say, can I kiss you in that moment? It was just like, well. Just happened. Yeah. And you could have said no. Yeah, I fully, that's the thing. I fully expected you to say no.

Really? Yeah. Because I wasn't getting any sort of like, romantical back. Interesting. Like, I just didn't think it was gonna happen. And I will say, this also comes from being friends and players for many, many years. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yes, yes, yes. To where there's a trust in this. Yes, yes, yes. Your own home game. Don't do this in every home game. Make sure you discuss this in advance. I know, I know. And I probably should have.

But we've been playing so long. And it's also fun to surprise each other in this space. Exactly. In a space where we all trust and are comfortable with each other. Thank you, Ash, for bringing that up. Consent, always important. Remember your consent. That's the reason why I asked instead of Jez went in. Yes, that's true.

Well, I remember also feeling, like, very jealous. Also having, like, jelly feelings, like, all the way back in, like, Boceros. When we were in Boceros. Yes. Yes. And then, yeah. And then, like, you and Orym were getting close in friendship. And then we came back from being split up

and like you and Frida were like so close and I was like, what the fuck? Fuck is this shit? And feeling like that. But then there was also the, when I gave the pep talk. Like, it was before, when was that? Was this the tether one? The You Are My Tether?

Which one, you've given a couple pep talks. Yeah, she gives a lot of pep talks. Y'all have a lot of conversations, and I need you to be more specific than pep talk. I'm not God. I just, it was the one where it ended, to be more specific than pep talk. I'm not God. Remember that scene where I said that thing? It was the one where it ended and you were like, that was the gayest thing I've ever seen.

Oh yeah, that was the tether one. Tether one? You're my tether, and I'm happy to be your tether and everything, like that was that conversation. Yeah, y'all literally, okay, so I have a girlfriend. I have a partner. And y'all literally walked off the set. I looked you both in the eyes and was just like,

that is the gayest thing I have ever seen in my life. And I go home and kiss my girlfriend every day. That's right. Please know that I did not push this on them or anything like that. It was just a comment from what I saw in front of me. I didn't feel like pressure. There was no outside influence on that. No, not at all.

But it was very beautiful. It was. No, no, I was going to say like when it happened on the show, there was, I think you said, can I kiss you? I don't even know anymore. I don't know if it's okay anymore. Anymore, implying that they had kissed before.

No, no, no. So it was like a huge thing that I had, I kind of mentioned it on another Foresighted Dive that like any time that, I don't want to show. Like Imogen just always was inundated with thoughts, right? And especially if she was in a situation where her emotions were heightened.

Oh, I can't read you anymore. Right, if her emotions are heightened, she can't keep the wall up. So she was always, one, scared to be intimate because you would know everything that you're doing wrong or just whatever there was. And also, like any time that she would start to feel something for,

in that way with Laudna, that I would know where your thoughts were drifting. And if it wasn't what I was thinking, then there's no way

in hell that I would pursue that. So in that moment of finally getting the... If you're thinking something, if you're feeling having romantic thoughts and Laudna over here

is here thinking about potatoes. Oh, I have a... I have her under my nail. My nail is falling off. But also if you're like walking down the plaza and Laudna's like, oh, she's cute. Like you're gonna hear that. Yeah.

You're gonna hear everything. You're gonna hear every little like... Like if you guys have a little tiff, you're gonna hear Laudna be like, oh, she's being a bitch. Oh no, this is fraught with peril. Oh god, honesty. I like it, I like it.

Hence the circlet, and as soon as I got it, then the party got divided, and so she basically got to experience the world away from you without being inundated with everything. So to be able to come back to you and not have that in her head was really important. And since that moment, we've had a few episodes, I think, since that moment. Behind the scenes, off camera, is the relationship progressing, developing at all? Is it still sort of early phases?

Are they steadies? Are they, what's the status? They want to define everything. We haven't really talked about it, though. We're just kind of still going with the flow. Y'all referred to each other as girlfriends. You called her your girlfriend to check on you. I mean, like, we're...

I gave her a ring. You know what I mean? You gave her a ring a long ass time ago. So it's not like, I'm like, oh, I'm gonna go see other people in addition to kissing you. You know what I mean? So it's kind of... I don't know what Laudna's thinking. Ha ha!

Laudna's also, she's so like... She still kind of has a little bit of those like kind of juvenile tendencies. So I think she's like, she's not trying to keep it a secret, but we're not like openly advertising it either. I was going to ask about that. Like what was the,

so far you've only told Chetney. So, which is a hilarious one to be. Chetney has learned first about so many of the relationships. Orim, he was the first person that Orim told about Will. And I love, other than like Fern. He's sneaky and he's also one of the least,

like, I don't wanna say dangerous in this sense, but like he's the most irreverent to the point where you feel the least impactful in giving that information. Yeah. Yeah. Which is great. Yeah. It's like, you can't least impactful in giving that information. Yeah. Yeah. Which is great. Yeah. It's like, you can't judge me.

Look at you. There's comfort in the fact that he's a train wreck. Yes. I'm sorry to do it like this, but Chetney is such a fascinating character for Travis, because on the surface, he's a joke character. He's a, like, you look at it, like, when he gave me the character,

when we started the campaign, I was like, okay. He's a, like, you look at it, like, when he gave me the character, when we started the campaign, I was like, Okay. We're going to make this go for a whole campaign. All right. But it, but it, to that point, Chutney has become this kind of, he's this very specific, like, deep in his own weird way,

wise in his own weird way, kind of like lived long enough, seen enough to the point where he's looped entirely back from like, I'm wizened and have seen the world to like, I'm wizened and I don't give a shit. And it's like, it's how I want to grow old. I want to be Chetney when I get old. It's very soulful in a lot of strange ways.

Yeah. It's Chetneypock-a-pee. Very soulful. I can do your people. But we all got things to aspire to before we finish the chapter of our life. I think it's funny, he's kind of, I feel like he's kind of the core of the group.

It's just so weird to say, but everybody circles around Chet in a weird way. For somebody coming in last, I feel like he's this weird glue. Chet and Orym are an unlikely pair of odd leadership duality. Orym is the front of the spear and the heart of courage,

and Chetney is the weird mother. Yeah, the weird wood that holds it all together. Weird wood. It's Chetney, the weird wood. What about- Okay, but back to- I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I keep interrupting you if you like. No, I was just gonna say, what about Giddy Yuck?

Giddy Yuck? What? Giddy Yuck? I don't like that one. It's not Giddy Yuck. Yeah, it's not a Giddy Yuck, it's Giddy Yuck. Have you been sitting over there thinking about this this whole time okay when did when did when did laudna know when was it the moment that she asked can i kiss you was it before we were feeling when she was feeling jealous i think there's also like those jealousy moments but then also probably like that in that

you were my tether pep talk. And I think there was, was it the same one? God, it all fucking blurs where it was like, hey, if you don't want any part of this and we just want to like rip cord and go and like find a fucking farm cartage same conversation I think it was

same conversation or they were very close to each other we can just go and it's like if you want like a quiet life we can do that we don't have to be like beholden to anybody or anything and I mean from the beginning Laudna's like sole focus has really been like

so heavily invested in imogen's future and trying to like protect imogen and specifically protect imogen from the shit that laudna has had to go through and see. Give her a better life. Give her a better life than I had. Yeah, has been so much of like, really Laudna's driving focus, so. And the best life you can give her is one where you love her. Aw.

Aw, damn. I'm poor. Who is a better kisser, Imogen or, what's his name, Whitestone Greg? Whitestone Andy? Whitestone Andy. I don't think y'all kissed. No, Whitestone Andy was mean to me.

Yeah, he dirted her. But I thought they were like, a little cute together first. No, she just liked him. No, she had a, it was unreciprocated. Got it, got it, got it, got it. She had a crushy and. And then he threw dirt in her face.

He threw dirt, a lot. It was so sad. Yeah. So then you're saying Imogen was better. Okay, but let's talk about the ring. Okay, so the ring. Yeah. The snake ring.

Yes. How much of that was, and then like later on, you had the conversation with, I think, FCG or Frida, where you were like, yeah, people give each other rings when they're wed. Did you think about that? I did not. I did not think about that ring when I said that to you, because you were going to eat a ring.

That's right. That's right. Oh. No, I don't know. I just- I played my truth. Saw the ring and thought of Laudna and wanted to get her a- Well, they're intertwined. Want wanted to get her a, you know, I still love you.

We may be fighting, but I'm still thinking about you. It's kind of nice. I love that. I also just, I'm just very obsessed with how this relationship did progress over all of these episodes. Yeah, it's been a long slow burn. And because, like, somebody who, again, I have a partner and I, we started also as best friends.

Like y'all are basically living Bree and I's relationship. I just smacked my mic. I'm so sorry, Chris. And you're Southern and she's kind of gothy. Oh my gosh. She's kind of a spooky girl. She is a spooky girl. I love her. She's kind of a spooky girl. She is a spooky girl. I love her.

She, it's beautiful and perfect. Because we started out as best friends and spent all of our time together. She lived in another state. And then we were just like, no, but I'm crazy about you. After like three years of just not being able to go longer than six weeks without seeing each other, she was constantly flying down here.

Luckily, the flights between Seattle and L.A. are not that expensive. But it was basically the exact same thing of just like, oh, I just, you're the only person that I want to be with. Right. And it's been hilarious watching this because I'm just like, this feels familiar. Yeah, it's kind of tracked in the same way. Oh, my God. I should stop petting him. No, it's kind of tracked in the same way. Oh my god. He's so much worse. We should stop petting him.

He's, he's, no, he's blowing his coat. He's blowing his undercoat. Yeah, you're gonna be covered in black. Riding dyed saddle. Ooh, because she died. Riding dyed saddle? Wow, these are getting worse, guys. I was trying to come up with a death becomes her

sort of a thing, but I couldn't crack it. We'll get there. We're okay over here. You guys keep talking. No, bad, bad, very bad. I used to be very good at this, and I'm no longer. Will this relationship affect your moves in the future? Will you be less wary,

less, more protective of each other? Or not wanna go to the moon because it might jeopardize somebody? Or, I don't know, will this affect things? Or are they just together or not at all? Did he make a face, did he make a face? I don't know what he's saying, did he make a face? He's just, I can tell he's absorbing it.

He's taking it in. He's gonna do, she's your favorite again. He's gonna pull one of those moves. Oh gosh, we didn't talk about that. I was just waiting for two to be like, you know what, yeah, let's just leave the campaign. You're right, Sam. Wait, we haven't met Mom.

We saw Mom. You never met her? Your mom. Oh, I guess that's true. You saw mom. You never met her? Your mom. Oh, I guess that's true. You saw her from a distance. Saw her. You've talked to her, but the rest of the group hasn't met her. Yes.

Oh my god, I guess so. A lot of us haven't met your parents yet. But she saw her because she was in my head. Yes. And we didn't meet her dad. That's true. Yeah. Yes.

So maybe we should go back and introduce her properly to dad. To dad. Yeah, because I give a fuck what he... Yeah, exactly. You don't have to introduce people. You don't have to introduce partners to parents that don't give a fuck about you. I'm sorry, you just don't. Yeah, it's true.

Truth. Not saying that Revan doesn't care about Imogen. I am saying that he has a funny way of showing it, and he has a complicated, they have a complicated relationship. No, he's not a bad dad. He's just also not a good one. He's just a not a good one.

He's just a dad. I don't want people to think that I am saying that he's a horrible person. I'm not saying that. He's fully one of those parents where, like, he doesn't know how to handle the child he ended up with and doesn't know what to do with it, so his, like, response.

His heartbreak affected his relationship with her too much. Correct. And that's very sad. And I have a lot of sympathy for that. Like, it kind of reminds me of, you know, like if you love someone so much and you expect to have a life with them

and raise this child together, but then they're gone. Like it's hard to, I would imagine it would be so hard to not let that grief overwhelm you. Like there's a lot of sympathy there. And it wasn't even like a grief of like, this person passed away, it was, she left. She just went away. She just left. Yeah. That's very sad.

I have, my heart breaks. What a, that's complicated. Yeah. It's a complicated relationship. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know, in terms of like future things, I've been, I mean, I was actually just talking with Danny about this earlier, a lot of stuff that I don't wanna spoil, but I think, I mean, there's always the protectiveness.

I don't think that's gonna go away. If anything, it'll probably just get kicked into full throttle. And even in terms of like how far I think Laudna might want to like push herself and they both know now that we'll see y'all both know now that probably that not probably we know

now that Delilah's back yeah and how does that color things you're now properly in this relationship but Delilah's back in your head so how is that feeling which I there's been so much shit, it's been nonstop, that I don't think I've even told you in game yet. Yeah.

I mean, we talked about her being bad. You talked about it a bit, but you haven't told her it's confirmed yet. But that was very recent, I think it's been like a day. That's not because you're withholding secrets, that's just because it's been crazy. It's just been crazy. She's been like moving from place to place,

it's been very like back to back. It's also hard to find the time in a D&D game to be like, let's have a sit down and discuss our emotions. Let me update you on things. Especially when stakes are so high, and you know that anybody watching already knows those things. And so when we're filling each other in on details

that the audience already knows, but we should know those things. I also imagine, again, they sleep in the same bed. I imagine that you guys like have a lot of Conversations if you feel like you have to convey something to the other player you brought it up. So geez Do they use spells when they follow Do they use spells when they're intimate? If, look.

Yes. Yeah, I mean, yeah. If I had magic, would you not experiment? That's what I'm saying, like telekinesis. In the bedroom. You can do whatever you want. Yes, be great. Thaumaturgy.

Flying. Shocking grasp. Ooh! Oh! If you can control it. Like this? Yeah. Yep. Just saying, there's a lot of uses.

There sure are. Yeah. I don't have your spell lists in front of me, but I can probably think of things. D&D is nasty. Mage is fuck. Can I make that a shirt? Yes.

Mage is fuck. I'm supposed to be the host. Should I move past this topic? I mean, I would love to stay on this topic, but that's up to you. Also, please, as always, this is not for whatever y'all want to discuss, and I will move away. No, you're steady. Feel free to stay.

Oh my goodness. He's shedding his coat. Oh no. He's blowing his coat. Oh no! It's just covering the table. Other things we can talk about tonight. So much has happened.

We saw Keyleth, your other character. Oh my god. Other things we can talk about tonight. Okay. So much has happened. We saw Keyleth, your other character. Oh my gosh. Keyleth. And went to Zephrah. Yes. And written here on the menu is, Taint Blossoms in Demon Land.

Yeah, yeah. You're welcome. It's a perennium. How did it feel to make that mistake? Honestly, at this point, I'm just numb to it. That was a pretty big blunder. Oh, yeah. No, it was. That was entirely, I didn't spell it that way, but I full on, my brain just, as I'm

looking down to confirm it, my brain picked up the wrong word, and as soon as it left my lips, I was like, down to confirm it my brain picked up the wrong word and as soon as it left my My lips I was like oh no oh No, I have I have sunk myself dramatically Travis is calling you. Do you want to take it on stream? Is everything okay? I'm filming four-sided dive right now. Hi Travis. Hi Travis. Everybody says hi. Hi Ronan.

Oh. Oh tell me, what is it? Ronan just started kindergarten, you guys. Are you there? It's a momentous time. This is the show now. I love it, I'm here for it. Check in with Ronan.

I'm so proud of you. Oh. Good job. What does Ronan think about the Laudna Imogen relationship? I love you so much, I'll see you at bedtime, baby. Bye. Bye, guys. Bye.

Can we, in post, have you do his voice on like a phone filter? Sure, sure. Sorry about that, guys. I thought it was gonna be something pertinent. Well, that sounds like it was important. I think so. Did he have a surprise?

Oh, he was just telling me some good news. What was his good news? Is it shareable? No. Not if I don't want Ronan to hate me when he gets older. Oh. Let our imaginations run wild. Yeah.

Anyway, next question. Yes, yes, so we were talking about, well, we were talking about taint, but we were also talking about just the visit with Keyleth. What were everybody's reactions to that? I can say it's always, it's been great, this campaign, to have these little check-in moments with folks from past campaigns

and to see what, in your mind, they're up to or what they're struggling with and stuff. And Keyleth still has a lot of complicated emotions swirling around her head. My favorite thing that Matt said was, I was just like, yes, girl, was when you said, I don't remember the context, but you're like, I've been angry for 30 years. Yeah, I was like. So good. It's so true. And it's like, the way you said it,

I pictured Marisha saying it. Yeah. It was like so. That's me role-playing Giles is trying to like put myself through a Marisha filter. You did good. I hope so. It's always super nerve-wracking to be like, I hope I don't fuck this up for you guys. This is meant to be a gift for you and a fun thing. Everything you've done for previous characters has been so spot on.

So I still have room to fuck it up. The pressure's on. Yeah. So I still have room to fuck it up. The pressure's on. But it's also so tragic, like, you know, I hoped that Keyleth would always keep Vax in her heart. But she'd never move on. But sort of move on at some point. She needs to. I know. She's gonna be around so long, she needs to.

She can't fuck a raven. I mean, she might be able to. She might be able to. Wild shape. Wild shape. Wild shape. Oh no, has that happened? She can true polymorph the raven into a dude.

Or just put a big old dick on the raven. You don't even know. Wait, wait. Polymorph an it's a person. Polymorph an animal into a person? This is like a Black Mirror episode, guys. I don't know. Hold on.

Black Scrying Mirror, the fantasy version. But what if the whole time it's not him as a raven, he's just sending a raven to check on you. So it's just some random raven? Who has been fucking some random raven for years. And the raven goes back to its raven family and is like, I don't know, every three days, this lady just makes me fuck her.

Goes back to the Shadow Realm and Vax is like, how is she? And Raven's like, she's fine. It's doing great, not much going on. Why do you look like that, Raven? I just gotta go. Big wind, big wind on the way here. I gotta go.

Gotta go take a bird bath. Oh my god. We hit two sides of relationships with this one. Oh no, this poor Raven. We are discussing episode 69 for this one. Oh no, this poor Raven. We are discussing episode 69 for this episode. Ah, nice! Nice. No, it...

Man. Will she ever get over Vax? Something would need to happen. Something would maybe still need to happen. Story's still being told. But it was also, I was talking with, Danny and I were talking about this. Now it's even more weird. Also, things keep happening to not allow her to move on, either.

He sends her a raven every day! He sends her a raven every day. It's a little questionable, Vax. It's very Vax. Let's be real. I love Vax so much, but also Vax has some unhealthy tendencies here and there. And then he, like, him bamfing to come in to protect her for that brief moment has happened before.

Like you said, we've established it's happened before, which is how they knew we could do that. Oh, but we don't know what instances that was. It was the assassination attempt. Though it's unconfirmed if Keyleth saw him then or was aware, but Otohan did see his presence. We don't know the mechanics of how that works. Is that something that Vax can, well, before he became a lens, is that something that Vax could will to happen? Or in those moments, does he have to go to the matron

and be like, hey, can you make me? In theory, in, hmm, hmm. In theory, he's breaking the rules every time he does that. Wow. Ooh, does he get punished? Yeah, he's not supposed to do that. Wait, what did you ask? When he manifests himself as a corporeal form

in those moments, he's breaking the rules, and so there has to be some sort of punishment or consequence. Every time he does that, someone on Exandria dies. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. Some innocent guy is just like. He was eating his oatmeal. Uh-huh.

Vax is over here just pressing the button of that philosophy question. Hey, honey, could you hand me the paper over there? Oh, no! Once again, I could see Vax being like, fuck it, worth it. Fuck Gerald. I don't care. Hey, he killed that Nothic real fast. it, worth it. Fuck Gerald. I don't care. Hey, he killed that Nothic real fast. Yeah, he did.

Wow. But yeah, I mean, he's kind of still around. Well, was. Was. Now there's all this god funny business, too. In terms of like, what's the deal with the gods. Yeah, she can't really move on. In a weird way, maybe this is healthy for Keyleth. She's getting a raven break. First of all, her body can rest.

But also, maybe this is the first time that she's been truly alone. That's probably really hard for her, but maybe it'll give her a sense of, maybe I can do this on my own. Maybe I'm okay. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. I don't know. Other things that happened out in Zephra. Fearne made a new friend. Oh my god. Oh my gosh. What's his name again? Danzig? Tevin.

Tevin. Tevin? Tevin. Oh, I was? Tevin. Tevin. Tevin. Tevin? Tevin. Oh, I was like, yeah, Tevin. He was handsome. Super hot. He was hot.

Probably the hottest NPC ever. We barely knew him. We met him. I mean, okay, y'all. We met him for like five minutes. Y'all know I love Essek. Come on. No. That was a y'all know I love Essek. Come on. No.

That was a lot. Yeah, it was a lot. It was everything you were giving Matt. You were serving with him. Well, look who he follows. Yeah. He's an extension of the power of the Lord of the Hells. Like, it's meant to be a force of personality,

chosen words, direct, like, stare into your soul and take a part with him. Like, speaking of. It was a lot in five minutes. It was concentrated. We don't even know if we're gonna see him again. It was concentrated. Oh yeah, it's Ashley's fern.

I'm just saying. And if she doesn't do it, all of us will pressure her into it. This is the campaign of giving everyone red buttons. That's my whole goal. Please push the Zadi button. Push the Zadi button. Hey, Delilah's here.

Your chest's a bomb. Your mom's on the moon. Travis, everything. All the buttons. Push all the buttons. He works for the Lord of Hells. Does that mean he knows Zerxus? Likely.

Like, are they same level? Are they? They're different positions within the hierarchy, or at least their utility to the Lord of Hells. Tevin, I see, is more of a field agent, if that makes sense. Like, for lack of a better term, kind of a Skunk Works operative.

He's the Archie Goodwin. Yeah, sure, yeah. That's a 40s reference for you there, guys. Yep, that's good. Nero Wolf. It shows that you're well cultured. Oh, thank you. Old. Old.

Sorry, I'm literally the, yes, I'm sorry, I'm gonna shut up. You're so much younger than all of us. Yeah. We're just my age. We're just my age. We are the same age. Is that true? Dani and I are the same age. Yeah, we're only like the same.

I think you're like a few months younger than me. So it stands! Nine, yeah. We would've gone to high school together and been best friends. Yep, yep. Yeah. Might have been one grade over me, I don't know.

In terms of the hierarchy, Xerxes is more home base, admin. Xerxes, in my mind, is shackled to the side of Asmodeus, partially because of the context of how that pact was made was a major point in the history of Asmodeus' presence in Exandria. And because there is still a kind of that burning kernel of goodness that will never burn away. There is a joy in keeping him nearby to watch him continue to suffer, really. Zerxes?

Yeah, Zerxes? Yeah, Zerxes. Okay, but how is he shackled to the Lord of the Hells side? In a sexy way. Definitely in a sexy way. With fuzzy hair and cuffs. Y'all, this episode's horny as fuck.

69. Not complaining, not complaining. Omar likes it. It's true. Oh, hey buddy. Are we getting some Omar cam? I think right now it's just staring at me. Maybe fisheye of me.

I'll just move it so it's a little bit more on Laura too. There you go. Oh, sorry, thank you buddy. Sorry, sorry, back to sleep. Back to sleep. I love how every single time we put the Omar cam on him, he just goes to sleep. I know, we get like-

It must be comfy or something, or maybe he just, he doesn't wanna move. Or he's miserable. Yeah. He just gives up. Oh, no. Other stuff to talk about? Other stuff to what the fuck is up with?

Yeah. The party returned to Baciris. Yes. Re-re-connoitered with Dancer. There was a little bit of a back and forth about which D character we were going to interface with. I'm sorry, that was one of the funniest parts of this campaign so far. I feel guilty. I definitely wanted to go see Dancer.

Yes, you did. And everyone was really, really against it. And I should have listened to the group, probably. Nah, it's your story I needed some resolution with Dancer I don't know this other dude and we got resolution

if we hadn't gotten seen Dancer we wouldn't have gotten resolution with Shithead that's true yes which is the most important part of the campaign but I don't know did I fuck up should we have gone The most important part of the campaign. For good. But I don't know, did I fuck up? Should we have gone to see Devaxian or whatever his name is? D? D2? D squared? Don't look at me, I ain't going to give that answer. Did you game out a path where we did go see D? Loosely, yeah. My job before each session is to try and figure out a loose idea of what choices you

might make and be somewhat prepared, and then throw it all away. Because we do some random option that was not anticipated. Yeah, that's great. I feel like, I'm just guessing. Neither were wrong. Correct. That's very generous of you. I think my choice was wrong. No! No, we got three things out of Dancer.

There are different paths. I intentionally put out threads that there are things happening in the world in all different directions. You can choose which thing you want to pursue or none of them. The Devaxian Path would have put you on a different way to possibly discover elements of this artifact, or discovered you couldn't, or have to do something else to get to that point. Also, it would have put you in Wildemount, and there's things happening in Wildemount that I've kind of nudged a bit. You mentioned some Dwendal stuff, or Dwendalian Empire sort of stuff. Ludinus was seen in Rexxentrum, which is odd, because you also saw him on the moon recently,

but apparently meeting with King Dwendal. Yeah. What was he doing? Who, Bells Hells, at least, doesn't really know who King Dwendal is. Those who have historical knowledge would know. He's a prominent political figure in the world. Yeah.

But, yeah. So there's all sorts of weird options out there, but they're all happening simultaneously, and it's up to you to decide what you want to pursue. Oh boy. And instead of that path. Instead of pursuing any of those important threads, we went back to Dancer, who is drunk.

I needed resolution, and the worst part is I didn't get it. She didn't give me, she didn't absolve me from my sins. That's Matt letting you know you chose poorly. No, no. It's letting you know that a journey towards resolution doesn't happen in an hour. But it needs to. That is such an FCG way of looking at things.

At the end of the 22 minutes, it resolves. That's exactly what I was thinking. He's been watching a lot of WandaVision. Yeah. Sam's been in a writer's room for the past four years. So he's like, no, it's got to be a button. I'll go resolve this storyline. Nope. Life in go resolve this storyline. Yeah. Nope.

Life in Exeter is messy. Yes, it is. Matt, I will just say, you definitely said the Devexian path, and I just wanna point that out. The Devexian path. We know it's Devexian. Am I just gonna keep saying no to this point? We know it's Devexian.

You were the one who just a moment ago wanted to be like, oh, I'm not gonna tell you, I'm just saying. I know. It's Devexian. It's, come on. We saw him. We saw his face. You saw his your memory I don't know how you saw his memory if he hadn't already woken you up Okay, because we asked you about so I'm so sorry from what I could find going back through all of my notes I tried so hard to find this thread. You looked in Imahara Joe's mind,

and you were the one who saw Dee with a bunch of stuff. FCG did not see Dee. But you described him. And so did Imahara Joe. And then when FCG did sending to him, he was using, FCG was using your description from when you saw Dee in Imahara Joe's memory. I am pretty sure that that is,

I don't know what voice that was. I'm pretty sure that that was the path. If I am missing something, I am pretty sure that that is I don't know what voice that was I'm pretty sure that that was the That that was the path if I am missing something. I am so sorry you never got to anything Danny Keeper we need like a lore keeper sting. That's true You need to record a jingle for you I will I will Can I just use hot boy we still have hot boys we have lots of hot boys I recorded like 20 of them Please do, that would be fun. Can I just use Hotboy? We still have Hotboys we never used. We have lots of Hotboys still. That's true. I recorded like 20 of them.

You did? It was a really late night. I feel like I've got, oh no, it's the cord for the microphone. I thought I had like a fuzz in my shirt, but it's the microphone. Hey guys, I think it's time to pull from the Tower of Inquiry.

Oh, we're there now. It's a simple process. Step one, pull a block from the tower. Step two, we read the number on it. Step three, Danny reads us a Critter-submitted question that corresponds to that number, step four, we go around the table answering said question, step five.

Profit. Sex. 69. And if the tower should fall, there will be hell to pay. Hell, I say, hell! Sorry, Omar. I'm sorry. In the form of a nasty little note

nestled away in that box labeled consequences way over there. Okay, with that in mind, Laura, will you go please pull a block? Yes, I will. Let's see it. All right, the first. We really should pull out one of the numbers and change that number to 69.

Of course we should. We should have. We don't have 69 blocks. Oh yeah, it's like 52 blocks or something? It's 51, yeah. 51 blocks. We should just pick some fun numbers that we like.

We could get a second set. 420, 69. Yeah, I like that. 666. Yeah, 66. 666. Oh, I feel like maybe this was a bad choice. 24601.

Uh-oh. Oh. If I know, if I get consequences on my very first block on this very full tower You're really funny. It'll be pathetic especially after our last time Whoa, I chose bully. Oh It's all wiggling Have you seen the video of the guy going you and it breaks it in half, but then drops? Try it.

Diddy backs up. I'm so scared of Jenga blocks, you guys. Nicely done. Oh, it's number 27. 27. This one's fun. They're all fun. They're all great questions.

All right, great. Well're all fun. They're all great questions. All right, great. Well done, Laura. Thank you. What do you, from JR Techip, and then the pronunciation next to it is Cheddar Biscuits, but it's JR Techip. I don't know how that helps. But from JR, what do you think your character would do if they were suddenly dropped into the Age of Arcanum? Ooh. Ooh, that's a good question. Ooh. Well, my character comes from the Age of Arcanum.

That's true. So he might be totally at home, although he doesn't really have any memory of it. But would you even have a personality? Do I now? I guess I would probably see a whole bunch of other robots around and freak out that I'm not special anymore. Everyone I meet in this campaign says, you're so special and unique,

I've never seen anyone like you. But FCG seems like it's getting annoyed by it though. It was annoying, but now it's come full circle and I'm like, maybe I am special. Also, Chetney's been telling FCG to start a cult. Wait, he has? Yeah. Yeah.

Wait, I've missed this. And you were in between them. Oh, it was once? Yeah, but I've missed this. And you were in between them. Oh, it was once? Yeah, but I've been thinking about it. Because Fresh Cut Grass, everyone he meets has said, there's something special about you. And of our group, there's only one of us who gets to talk directly to a god. And Chetney's out there saying like I think you should start

a cult or something. So I feel like FCG is starting to buy into this. I mean the current timing in Exandria is pretty ripe. I'm just saying. Yeah, I mean I guess you do have the makings

of a cult leader. Everyone Andrea's pretty ripe. Just saying. Yeah, I mean, I guess you do have the makings of a cult leader. Everyone telling you that you're special and you have gifted abilities. What would Frida say about you trying to start a cult? Well, he better join or else he'll be smitten, smited. He's already smitten. Yeah.

Be smitten while he's smited. What would your characters do in the age of Arcanum? Canum. It's pronounced Ar-kuh-neem. Ar-kuh-neem. Perennium? It's wild because like, Laudna always wanted to pursue a path of

like being like a powerful mage and wanted to go study and you know embrace her natural abilities abilities no she no she has some okay i started with some. And Delilah just kicked them up. Yeah. Got it. Yeah. So, yeah. And that was the whole reason why Matilda went to go, was, like, so intrigued by the attention from the Briarwoods, because she was like, oh, they picked me.

Like, I'm going to be this. Yeah. Because she was like, oh. And she thought that that could be,. And she thought that that could be and her parents thought that that could be her path to like a better life

and to like maybe get you know, into like school or something like that to help with her abilities. So I think she would try

and it might be like a good opportunity for her to easily kind of have what she always wanted or what was intended when she was a kid. All of it. Yeah. I think it depends on where

in the Age of Archon too. The only views you've gotten are pretty much of like Avalir and discussion with the places. And Aeor. But those were the majorocracies that floated above the world of Exandria. There's a lot of people that lived down on the ground that had no magic and no access to magic.

Sure. There was a thing, I think there was some places in Exandria that the class had some issues. Now, Aether Arcanum was worse. That sounds like, yeah, it would have been terrible. Yeah, there was a whole lot that would be fun to explore down the road.

Aww. Did Ruidus, forgive me for not understanding fully. That's all right. Ruidus was around during the Age of Arcana? Yes. Okay. Ruidus has been around for all of history

up until it was discovered that the very beginning it wasn't for a brief period of time. Okay, okay, okay. That was schism time? Nope, before. Before the schism. Divergence. The founding, technically. The founding.

The founding. Okay. Oh my god. Sorry, I'm sitting right behind Matt, so I keep forgetting that he's just like right here. No, it's okay. And I keep answering questions behind him. I'm so sorry. No, no. It's probably so annoying.

No, I feel like you're my JoJo stand. Like, you're just like part of the journey here. I'm just crouching over your shoulder like, yes. Matt, why don't you go pull one, and we'll keep the journey here. Just crouching over your shoulder like, yes. Matt, why don't you go pull one and we'll keep the train running. Thank you, JR. Thank you, JR. Take your pay.

For your... Pay, pay. Okay, okay, okay. Pay, pay. Pay, pay. Pay, pay. Pay, pay. JR, to pay.

Pay, pay. I hope pay, pay is cool about us. I know. Like clowning his name for three weeks now. I'm sorry. It's not, we fucked it up. It has nothing to do with it.

I messed it up. Yes, Matt, I'm glad you chose that one. 20. 20. I'm gonna put it here. Agents of Chaos. Yep, make it real difficult. Oh god, this is terrifying.

The next one should be the bottom level. You gotta play aggressively. Yeah, I agree. Be aggressive. From Applebee's SoulCycle on Tumblr. Nice. Incredible. Shout out to Aabria.

Aabria. For all, including Dani, there are so many quotable moments in your show. What's your favorite one-liner from any campaign? Ooh, that's a good question. It's a hard's your favorite one-liner from any campaign? Ooh, that's a good question. Hard question. Favorite one-liner from any campaign? Jeez Louise.

I mean, there's a lot of good ones. Pay. Pay. God damn. Life needs things. Yeah, life needs things to live. Life needs things to live. You pooping.

There's a lot of Taliesin quotes. Your secret's safe with my indifference. I mean, everything Caduceus said. I hope that someday you'll find someone to mourn you. The whole conversation with the dinner of Trent Agathon. Caduceus was just... Taliesin was tapping into the deep wisdom that he has a reservation on. It's love that makes people, not fear. Fear. What was it? It's love that makes people, not fear. Fear. What was it?

It's love that makes people. It's love that makes people, yeah. And he was like, fear is the... I don't know. It was an incredible speech. Whatever, it was good. Check it out. Basically, anything that we say

is pretty fucking great. It's great. I'm trying to think of one free... I mean, yeah, basically, like, anything that we say is pretty fucking great. Great. I'm trying to think of, like, one for each. I mean, yeah. No, it's... One for each. And the answer would change every single time I thought of this. Like, they're all so good.

Yeah. Basically gods. I have an intelligence of six. I know what I'm doing. Yeah, that's a good one. Episode one. That was episode one? It was episode one because...

Wow. Yeah, because I went back at one point to. That was episode one? It was episode one. Wow. Yeah, because I went back at one point to find my first tweet or something that I had when I was watching the show, and it was quoting that. But it was on my Facebook because I wasn't really on Twitter yet because I had a Twitter account. Oh, God. Yeah. How about one more question from the tower? Just one?

I guess I'll say Marissa. You can make people do it again. You have the power. I do? But don't, though, because then we'll do this all night. That's okay. Can I have a Corgi do it? Sure. Let's see what happens.

You're going to knock it over. That's okay. Let's see what happens. Plow him into the consequences. You're gonna knock it over. No. That's okay. Let's see what happens. The ASPCA has not viewed this episode. Oh buddy, do good. Do good, buddy. You got it, Omar. Oh boy, I'm excited about this.

Which one? Oh my god. Look at him choosy. That's cute. You want that one, Omar? With your tiny little legs. You gotta have him do it. You gotta have him do it?

Okay. He's gotta do it. Let's get in front of the camera. This is absurd. I gotta get a close up. Okay, can you grab that? You got this. Can you grab that?

Grab it. Grab it. Come on, boop it. Boop it. Come on, you can do it. Boop it. Boop it. Boop it. Boop it! Boop it! This is perfect Jenga. Yeah! 24!

Good job, Omar! Oh my gosh. Okay. 24. You did so good, buddy did so good. Yeah, boy. You're cold. That's an expert Jenga player. Yeah. The Tower of Terror player. What is this? The Cinemacorgographer. From JD.

JD. What item in your inventory currently means so much to you and why? It can be a magical item you are currently attuned to or something a fellow player or NPC gave to you. I'm going to go with the magic item. I'm going to go with the magic item. I'm going to go with the magic item. I'm going to go with the magic item.

I'm going to go with the magic item. I'm going to go with the magic item. I'm going to go with the magic item. I'm going to go with the magic item. I'm going to go with the magic item. I'm going to go with the magic item. I'm going to go with the item you are currently attuned to, or something a fellow player or NPC gave to you. Pate. Pate de Rola. What happened to my inventory?

Is he an item? He's a person. He's a lot of things! Oh no! I love his voice. All the Chetney gifts. When you busted that out, it was just so good. Well, as soon as you told me,

I'm going to take this path where I can give life to my little, tiny, terrible creation, I was like, what is the worst possible voice I can think of that I can make her, or at least everyone around her, regret that she chose this path. I mean, the circlet for me. That's easy.

It's good. I don't have much. You don't. You eat everything you get. Or you give it away. You don't keep things. Oh, I think my pack of cigarettes is pretty special. I don't know.

Flipping that coin has meant a lot to you. That's true. That's true. It's sort of become my thing. By the way, I heard this crazy thing. Maybe it's not real. Maybe it is real. There's this thing I saw on TikTok about coin boys.

What is that? It's like a phenomenon. Oh, no. What are you going to tell us? It's like middle schoolers and high schoolers, they call themselves the coin boys. What is that? What are coin boys? It's like a phenomenon. Oh no, what are you going to tell us? It's like middle schoolers and high schoolers, they call themselves the coin boys, and they always flip a coin, and they're like, live by the coin, die by the coin.

And the teachers will be like, are you going to do your fucking homework? And they're like, I don't know, we'll see. And they flip the coin. No, that's not real. That is, genuinely, there's no hope for the future. Real. I feel like my character is an unintentional coin boy.

Oh no, you stumbled into a TikTok fad. I did. Oh, that's awful. The coin boy. Maybe you started the coin boys. Maybe I did. Wow. that's awful. The coin boy. Maybe you started the coin boys. Maybe I did. Wow. Is that a real thing? Do the coin boys know that they're following God?

A fake robot? Yeah. They're part of the, maybe I can be what your cult is. It's the cult! The coin boys! The coin boys! Oh shit! Oh shit! I'm doing it.

I'm doing it. No. I'm doing it. Some of the change fingers are like, I like this it. No. I'm doing it. Some of the change bringers like, I like this. I think Kyle added in the prompter is literally Two-Face from Batman. Yeah, it's true.

That's true. None of you can be Harvey Dent. None of you. Thank you, JD. Thank you, Appleby Soulcycle. And if anyone has a question, I'm not gonna say evergreen, I object to that word. If you have a question for the Tower of Inquiry,

you can enter it at critrole.com slash tower, whenever you'd like. Sam has strong feelings. I have strong feelings. He wants more poignant, timely questions. I do, but there's no way of doing that with our shooting schedule. Yeah.

Look guys, I tried. You do great, Danny. It's not your fault. Taylor and I tried so hard. It's whoever's in way of doing that with our shooting schedule. Look guys, I try. You do great, Danny! It's not your fault! Taylor and I try so hard! It's whoever's in charge of the programming on our channel. What the actual fuck right now? What the actual fuck? My god, it's the flat white please all over again.

You should explain that. Oh, no, it's already explained. That's right, it was on the flash. It was a flash joke, but it was before that. But not explained. It was a slack joke, but it's not even a joke. It's not even a joke. Sam just made fun of me for my coffee order.

Yeah, for no reason. For no reason. You're such a bully. Why are you bullying Marisha? It's love teasing. Well, it's a satire of bullying, because there's no way Sam can actually bully anyone. Oh, shots fired.

That was funny. Do I retaliate? I'll need a coin. It's so funny, because we were just talking about how to deal with bullies before we rolled camera. What do you say? You just say, yeah, totally. Yeah, totally. Yeah, totally.

Or run away. Or what my son does, it pretends that he didn't hear them. I mean, honestly, yeah. That takes a lot of power away. You're stupid! What? I'm sorry. That's amazing. Bye.

It's effective. Takes the power away. Yeah, yeah. I like it. Yeah. And with that, what do we do now? And with that, let's slide into the deep dive. In a stately Angelica Houston-esque voice. Yes, Sam. Do your best Angelica Houston.

Does she have a distinct voice? She's breathy. Maybe you should do it. You've just never seen Ever After. Danielle de Barbarac. There you go. Would you kindly provide us with a healthy supply of yum yum whatzits?

I'm really glad we're keeping yum yum whatzits. That makes me happy. Now we're gonna take turns pulling questions from our tankards. And since I'm the tavern keeper, I decide who goes first. And that person will be me. Woo! You are my girlings.

How is FCG doing having reunited with Dancer and meeting her new automatons? What does he think of them? We answered some of this already, but Dancer, we saw two new automatons, right? Yeah, you saw Cookie. We saw Cookie. Would you please listen to the show that you're on? I'm so sorry.

Why do you care? You're not going to watch it. I'm sorry. I'm not. Well, I might watch this one. I'm on this one. We met Cookie, and we met Pussy Two. Pussy the Second. Pussy the Second. Pussy the Second, Electric Boogaloo. Yes, that one. Pussy the Second was the flying bird contraption,

and Cookie was a crawling thing? Yeah, it was more like a moving tripod-type containment. I love it. Assistant. I think Fresh Cut Grass was genuinely jealous that Dancer had upgraded and moved on and found such cool new friends and didn't seem to miss FCG very much. But I guess FCG's just going to start to get over it.

Look at that, that's growth. I guess so. Aww. You're next. I mean, yeah, she basically said, like, you're just gonna have to get over it because you're not gonna get what you want from me. It kinda sounds like what Dancer said.

Maybe, oh shit. I shouldn't talk to Keyleth about, like, how to get over not getting closure. Oh, you'd get to. Yeah. Her answer would've been, I'm the wrong person to ask. Oh wait, we can't talk to Caleb for a while.

Well wait, is she with us? She's still with us. Is she? No, she just sent you through. Kimothy Oliphant? No! Tower of Terror, that was our secret word! Kimothy? Kimothy!

Whoa! That's your secret word! What do I do? Is this like Pee Wee's Playhouse? What happens now? That means that Sam, you must come and pull from the tower. Yay! Yay!

Oh my god. This excites me. Has this ever, has this been a thing? We've been talking once before. I was like, I don't think I've ever been present for this. Oh my gosh. And I'm so excited. Whoa!

More of Sam's favorite seconds. Only one hand, one hand Sam. You didn't do one hand, Laura. Yes I did. I kept my hand to my side. And I'm so excited whoa Do one hand Laura That's true. That's true. I was thinking fingers. I'm so sorry This seems not like it's not gonna. I think you got it Wait is that true is that the rules once you pull on it on it, you can't choose a different one. You got it, you got it. You got it. It is a Lenin. Why did y'all do this?

47. No, you gotta put it on top. Oh, that's gonna do it. You can do it. Oh my god. Wow! Wow. I'm so scared right now. Wow.

Oh no. This has to, don't, don't, don't. Stop it! Stop it! It's your turn. I know. He wants to do the consequence. He does. Okay, from Lux.

From the start of the campaign, the party has seemed very sectioned off into close groups of two or three. How do you think the party's recent split and reunion have strengthened, weakened, or rearranged the relationships or traveling groups which were created pre-stream? How do you think the newer relationships were affected?

I personally believe that world peace. Was that a real time question for you, Sam? Dani, it will do. I'm very glad. That one's pretty topical. That's a good one. That's a topical one. Could you repeat the question?

Talk about the, it's sectioned off into close groups. Group dynamics. Recent split, how'd that affect y'all? I mean, you can speak to this too. You're watching this unfold. Yeah, but I want your answers better. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. I wanted to see what you say.

I think it's been interesting to see, at least from my perspective, it's been interesting that the first group that sort of knew each other coming into this, Fearne, Orym, and Dorian. The EXU crew. Well, Fearne and Orym mostly, I guess. They still check in once in a while,

but I feel like they drift other ways now. Like Orym and you get along quite a lot. And Fearne and Chetney obviously have a special connection. And Fern and Ashton have a really. They do, they do. I think some of, honestly some of the dynamics of the show in the entire history of Critical Role depends on who sits next to each other.

Yeah. That's why we mix it up from campaign to campaign. It really affects the relationships at the table. Yeah. Because it's just so much easier to have, like, an intimate moment with someone next to you. Yeah. I can barely see Taliesin. Like, he's way over there, and you're blocking him.

Like, you and Liam are blocking him. It's really hard to have a conversation with Ashton, too, for me. Like, it's hard. Yeah, because Liam is just, like, blocking him. But I don't know how, but that's bullshit because Ashley has, like, so many great moments with Ashton. That's true. So it's hard. Yeah, because Liam is just like blocking. But I don't know how, but that's bullshit because Ashley has like so many great moments with Ashton. So it's just my problem. Yeah, you're just bad at this.

I'm just shit. Well, she, this is fun production fact for ya. Ooh, production facts. We actually, we think about the table setting a lot, especially when it comes to like, you know, I just spit. I didn't see it. When it comes to, that you know, I just spit. I didn't see it. When it comes to, that's good. That's good.

When it comes to like one-shots or people with guests, if you notice, we never put guests on the in-seats where Travis and Taliesin are sitting because when you are inherently on those, essentially the outside seats, most people's attention are focused inward towards like where you know, Ashley is sitting or where

you're sitting. So the people who are sitting on the outside, we try to pick people who can hold their own. 100%. And who we know will jump in regardless. And that's why I'm not there.

Because... That's why you have to be the center of attention right in the middle. All the time. Are you always in the middle? I feel like... I feel like you've been in the middle on every campaign.

Could be. Could be. We put Travis on the end a lot because he's... But he's also big. Because he's bigger, too. He's so long. Travis also prefers the end. Yeah, he prefers the end. You sit he's bigger too. Travis also prefers the end.

Yeah, he prefers the end. You sit next to Marisha. I guess that's technically how the table works. Yeah, the table goes like this and I'm right here in the center of the V. Right. Yeah. Yeah, it's in real time.

So we rarely put guests on the outside because it's easier to engage. Because if you're on that outside seat, you often are seeing people's shoulders facing away from you. That was fascinating. Look at that. A Tower of Inquiry question that led us to so much

more. Maybe I misjudged the Tower of Inquiry. Maybe you should pull another one. Okay. No! He wants consequences. He wantsalkyrie. Maybe you should pull another one. Okay. No! He wants consequences. He wants to do it. Could you do it? Oh my god. All right, one more quick one.

If you do this, Sam, I don't think I can do it. I'll respect you for the rest of my life, which is saying something. That is saying something. Staying over here. There's no way. There's no way this is gonna...

Shit, I have to respect you? What is it? It's hot! 43. That's part of it. If I put it here, it falls. Yes, yes, yes. If I put it here, it stays. Correct.

Maybe I'll do the middle. Okay. What? This carelessness. That is incredible. That is incredible. Rest of your life, Laura. You promised on national television.

Sam, you're a talented genius. Wow, that's so sincere. I don't care if it's not sincere, I'll take it. I love it. From Emily S., if your character taught a class, what would it be and why? Oh, that's a good question. Composting.

101. You can totally see Laudan at the nature center just teaching people who come in. It's like a weekly Wednesday night class. I think just breath work. That's great. Yeah. FCG would do well in Ojai.

Yeah. Just some sort of meditation class or something like that. Just using your chest cavity as a sound bowl. Or maybe a baking class. I come from the south, but Imogen would be in charge of the local FFA. What's an FFA? Future Farmers of America. Imogen would be in charge of the local FFA. What's an FFA? At the school. Future Farmer. Future Farmers of America?

Yeah. Oh. That was big. They didn't have that at my performing arts high school. That was big in Texas. No, they did not. How about, pick a character for me, I have too many. Marwa.

Marwa? Marwa would teach scavenging. Dredging. Dumpster diving? Maybe. No, but scavenging along the edges of water and basins or in places of historical value that aren't private land. Like foraging? Surv for. Survival. But for personal gain. Archeology for personal gain?

Yeah, like this is about the history, more like I want cool things to sell and or keep for myself, which I respect. So one of my big regrets about this campaign is we don't get to spend more time with Marwa. I know, I loved Marwa. Where is she? She was in Jussar.

Yeah. And they're like the ship, ship shop. I can? She was in Jussar. Can we never go there anymore? In the ship shop. I can send you back to Jussar if you want. Can you just send her to us? Sure. Maybe she got jettisoned somewhere when everything was happening. Let's say that she's in the broken teeth,

or the shattered teeth, or whatever they're called. We just run into her randomly? Yeah. That'd actually be pretty funny. I'll think on it. What am I supposed to do now? I was reading a question that I've been holding for forever. Oh, I'm sorry.

Because I said Kimothy Chalamet. Whatever. Okay. Some of the piece of paper has now been twisted and folded. Go on. It's true. Marisha. They just hate it when we read our names.

It's so funny to me. Laudna mentioned her interests in Eidolons and Primordials. How does she feel about these nature spirits? Why do they speak to her rather than the gods? Yeah, that's a great question. I think Laudna will, once again, and we're going to have to talk about this. Because Laudna was already like, I don't think the gods are down for whatever I am. And then you did that radiant or that turn undead, which hit me in a bad way. So I think, Laudna, that's just further confirmation that like.

The gods don't like you. The gods don't like me. But I think for her it's like well everyone is so conflicted and then also when our group split up our group was very heavily focused like you guys were dealing with like a lot of hrf arcanum stuff and dealing also with people who are very like god cent. And then ours was the opposite where we were dealing directly with people who were like affected negatively by followers of the gods. So I think Laudna is just like,

oh, well if there's like another way we can do this that just doesn't rely on the gods again, then we should explore it. And then it's also still questioning Just kind of her entire relationship with the gods. Oh my goodness. I mean look he's a booty. He's like witching he's sleeping dreaming Laura What was it like for Imogen to confront her mother above Ruidus? How is she feeling towards Liliana now? I'm actually curious as well.

I think she's gotten fucking sick of it. That was so cute. You're like, tee hee hee hee. She wanted so bad to believe that her mom had the best intentions and was looking out for her and everything that she's experiencing is showing her that that is not the case. And it's hard, because like me, Laura, I see it like,

like I want so bad for Liliana to be good, and for her to be able to find that redemption. And I feel like when we had that moment with Ludinus, when everything went to hell, and I just didn't roll well enough, that we would have been able to bring her over to our side. And now she's so deeply entrenched with lewdness that I don't think it's gonna be possible.

But who knows what surprises you have for us. But yeah, she's kind of over it. She's kind of over having that hope. That's depressing. Thanks for that depressing thought. Matt has a very good poker face. Yes, he does. I've honed it on Travis for a decade. Where he just stares you down.

I heard that if you want to foil a lie detector test, you squeeze your sphincter really hard. Oh, really? You pucker your sphincter. I heard that you just have to put a tack in your shoe. You just step on a tack because you focus. That's my secret. You just always pucker.

I think so. That's what I'm saying. I feel like you're always punching your sphincter. Wait, you can fuck up a lie detector test by squeezing your booty? There's a lot of ways. They're not admissible for a reason. That's old tech. What if you think making that face would give it away?

I just imagine Sam in the middle of a deposition. Like, it's so much work! The detectives are like, never mind. Let's move on. I wasn't there that night! Matt. They hate it. I know. This will be the... They hate it. I know. This will be the first time that the Shattered Teeth

has properly been visited. Yes! Not counting when it was stumlinous and climity. Is there anything you're particularly excited about or anything you can tease about the continent? I'm very excited. It's something that I haven't had the opportunity to really kind of bring into the game.

It's a very different continent than everything else in Exandria. It's a continent. They call it a continent, but it's a series of islands that are clustered together. Because it was once a continent, it's historically and colloquially referred to as a continent. It's a collection of land masses. But it's a weird space. There's a number of reasons why it hasn't seen a lot of attempts at the outside cultures of Exandria to try and bring it into the modern political stream of everyone else in the world. The trade is challenging, and the people that live there are unique in their own right. The destruction of Dominus definitely left an impact. While the

essence of the Shattered Teeth is elementally tethered by the nature of that destruction and isn't dangerous in the ways that the various rifts to the elemental planes that the Ashari look over are, it is still a very chaotic place in how those energies affect it to this day. And that's all I'll say for now. It's fun. I can't wait to see it. We haven't been to a new place in so long.

Like a truly... Yeah, we've kind of been... Will this be the last continent-ish place that we've seen? There's plenty of places in Exandria that you guys haven't seen. But I mean, like, are there any other large land masses that we don't know about?

Everything that's been noted in current books is known Exandria. Known Exandria. Correct. But, like, so we could go to the other side of the world. I was waiting for it. I know we're not in session, but FCG just died. We start the next session.

We'll just jump in right there. What do you want FCG's last words to be? It was a plate. Only if we can replace Sam with that fake Sam that you got off of Central Casting. Oh my god. Gotta get him back for something. We gotta bring him back. Yeah, there's all sorts of interesting weird places. There's also like, you know,

beneath the waters of the ocean and other odd spaces in the world. Like there's a whole bunch of places in Exandria that we could eventually explore if we get the opportunity. That's true, there's gotta be some, especially because like shit fell out of the sky. There's merpeople, and there's merpeople. Merpeople! And we barely got into the Underdark area, right? Yeah, there's subterranean worlds.

Could it all be mermaids? That'd be so cool. A whole mermaid, can we do a mermaid one-shot where everybody's mermaids? It's possible. I demand to participate in this one. Wait, so, there's like fawns, like ferns. Could there be like mer-fawns,

and you're like deer head with a fish tail? We'll talk. Okay. Yeah, they're called abominations. So we know what Marisha's mermaid was whenever she would play mermaids with her friends. I already claim I want to be like a Ursula, but like a hot Ursula.

Oh, that's good. Ursula's hot? Okay, but I want to be like- I get what you mean. Yes. Sorry, I love me my divine, you know, Ursula. Aorbitons or just submarines. I don't know.

Mermaids wasn't enough for you. We're going too deep on this. Oh, I'm a jet ski! Oh no. Oh god. What was your question? Okay, my question. Sam, where did shithead come from? Was the bird your idea or Matt's? It was my idea. Originally, I thought that FCG might have an animal companion, an animal familiar. So I had the bird designed, and it was gonna be a familiar that had a love-hate relationship with FCG, because the shithead would always shit on FCG's head,

but FCG needed shithead because it helped in battle and stuff. But then, I think I found out that Ashley was gonna do Fern and had Mr. And then you had Pate. And I was like, I don't think we all fucking need animals. But I already had this thing designed. And so I just, I sent it in an email to Matt.

I was like, just do something with this. His name's Shithead. And that was it. That was it. I also love that his motivation was just like, I just don't like him. So deep. It just bothers me.

It's like, what are those Australian birds that just hate people and they just dive off? Those are Icelandic birds, too. They're not the magpies. What are they? In Iceland, I think they're called kir birds. I think so, yeah. But magpies birds too. Yeah, yeah. They're not the magpies. What are they? In Iceland, I think they're called kir birds. I think so, yeah. But magpies too.

That's right. There's just some animals just go. And not just like I hate people, but like a particular person will come by on their walk and they'll be like, everyone else is fine, but fuck this person in particular. And so I just love that idea. It cracks me up.

Like that girl who kept trying to thwart them on her bike rides to work. And she would have the helmets and would put sticks on it. And the bird was still like, wham! And she was like, ah! Screaming for the whole video. Yeah, it's great. But also, it's cool because it let me read into it whatever I needed to read into, you know. What was it you, speaking of good one-liners,

you're like, it's a personification of my guild! Yeah, it is! To me. Everything's a symbol to FCG. Uh-huh. Should we go around one more time, speed round? Marisha Ray, you're up. Yeah, because whatever we don't get to we can get to during the game rounds

What was it like oh, okay? Yeah, what was it like? Marisha What was it like for you to see keel is so wounded and go through a quest specifically to save her It was so sad It was like oh man That's my girl she all fucked up Yeah It's wild it's a meta ass campaign

Yeah To see like I figured it might be based on specifically your character and Liam's character. They're both characters that their history is tied directly to Campaign One elements. So it was like, oh god, nerve-wracking to not mess it up, but also exciting to be able to bring that back. I think I said it before, but I've always dreamed about having multiple campaigns historically in the same world

to have opportunities like this, and it's been really fun. Yeah. It was wild, because I think of Keyleth, I feel like a lot of us think of Keyleth as being so hard to kill. Yeah. She's so beefy and powerful. She always killed everybody in the PVPs and everything.

Yes, yes. Always made it to the end, and then she, to see her get so close to death, it was like. No. Laura Bailey, speed round. Consider the planning it took to get her there, though. Laura, how does Imogen feel about agreeing

to plant the brood pit from the All Minds burn? What was that interaction like for her? This is kind of like, she came to the realization. I think when we were in the Gray Valley, that's when we were getting the perineum flowers, right? The perineum flowers, yes. And seeing all of the demons running amok and realizing the gods were the thing

holding this horrible force at bay. And this is just one little bit of it. What else is happening in the world that the gods had been controlling up until that point? And she just hasn't had a lot of interaction with deities in her entire life. It just hasn't been a part of it. And all of her powers came from something else. I think she kind of was like, we gotta put a stop to, we really do, at whatever cost.

If it means being the end for herself, then that makes sense for everything else. Like, so when she agreed to plant the little seed, I think it was a, yeah, we're gonna fuck up the planet anyway, so I plant this there. Yeah, maybe it helps us. Maybe it helps us.

Worst case scenario, it'll be destroyed in the end too. Yeah, maybe it helps us. Maybe it helps us. Worst case scenario, it'll be destroyed in the end too, you know. Yeah, I don't think she... it's not like she had a problem with the giant mind weird oozy creature. You know, I think she was more entranced by it. Cool. Oh, right. Matthew Mercer. Last question of the round. Pick two. Pull one. Read them both at the same time. That one. It's a little close to what you just answered.

Okay. Matt, how do you feel about... Matt. Matt. Matt. I hate people. How do you feel about losing Rattanish in that battle? Oh, yay. Did you have more plans for Otohan's second in command? Yeah, it's always a little sad

to lose a recurring antagonist character, even a low-level one. And for him, my hope for that encounter was when either things would turn sideways. If he was present for a lot of that battle, it would have been a different... For sure! It was already dire. It was meant to be a very difficult battle already. Which is why when you guys were talking about splitting up, I was like...

Oh, no. I know, thank Keyleth. Oh, boy. That's why you were like, I don't think you should go with me. I really don't think you should go with me. Keyleth's like, I can handle it. Well, that was also because I didn't want to have to

bring a really powerful NPC to do the battle for you. Right, yeah. I was like, she has other things to do also. She's not your chaperone. Yeah. But the intent was to be a difficult battle, and he was meant to be, are there things where you would have to flee? Or if things were to turn enough and he could see it, and he could see it really early on, he was going to himself flee. And he has a move set to be hard to chase, especially through the city that he knows so well. And that would have been a scenario where he would have been well aware of your proximity to Ground Zero, to your activeness, and mucking with your plans.

And he would have, my hope was he would have then been kind of an informant to bring attention back to you guys and kind of ramp up that tension quickly. But you stopped him, so good on that for what little time it'll buy you. Oh, nice. Well, and he... It's a win.

Win's a win. Also, like, hang on, because now that he's dead, because we saw him fight Ashton, and he was doing barbarian shit, right? Yeah. But then he wild-shaped. No, that wasn't him. He didn't wild-shape.

That was the mage. Oh, that's right. He was banished, and then when he bamfed in, all of us at once. Oh, that's right. That's right. Yeah. We ought to haunt him.

And the mage wild-shaped and was trying to take off. That's, oh, that's right. That's right. Yeah. We ought to haunt him. Yeah, straight up. And the mage, wild-shaped, it was trying to take off. That's right. Okay. It's technically a druid, but yeah. Druid, yes. You were outside looking in. It was hard to see.

That's true. Yeah, you were just climbing across the rooftop like a terrifying nightmare. Yeah. That is so creepy. It's awesome. Looking through the hole in the ceiling. Jesse, like, so full, like, grudge. Just, like, hair coming down. It's all shadow except through the hole in the ceiling. Jesse, so full, grudge, hair coming down. It's all shadow except for the one eye that's all...

Amazing. It's very Junji Ito. I think that concludes that round. Before we do whatever comes next, I don't know what comes next, I have three more ship names to propose. Oh, thank you. Okay, for Imogen and Laudna. Hi-yah! Is that a good one?

I like that one a lot. Okay, that's one. Horse and Buggy? No. Okay. Because she's decomposing bugs. Okay, sure. Or Ghost Rider. Ghost Rider! That Ghost Rider's pretty great. Is it like decomposing bugs? Okay, sure. Or, ghost rider.

Ghost rider. That ghost rider's pretty great. That's good. That's pretty great. That's good. I still like horse ghoul. Horse ghoul is pretty good. There's also ghoul ranch. Ghoul ranch.

Like ghoul ranch Doritos? Yes. I think he's good. He, yeah, is my favorite. Hard to spell. If you go with Ghoul Ranch, then maybe people will send us Doritos instead of Werthers. It's time for another pull of the Tower of Inquiry.

Is that right? Yes. Oh my God. We have another pull of the, it's gonna fall. It's definitely gonna fall. Who do I want to suffer? You. You motherfucker. That's really good at this game. God damn it. Who do I want to suffer? You. That's really good at this game.

God damn it. What? Laura, I'm again really sorry for yelling at you about using two hands. I'm just really silly. I'm sorry. No, it's okay. Like, I'm not the biggest rule stickler with this game. I feel bad. This is not good.

Get a close-up. Get a slow-mo going. Get the phantom camera on. Do the base. Do the base. The very bottom level, Matt. I know. I know. The very bottom. It's funnier if we also... Yes, you can. Yes, you can. There's no way.

He can do it. He can't do it. Matt can do anything. It's impossible. It's impossible, Captain. He's doing it. He's doing it. No way. He's doing it. It can't be done, Captain.

33. What the fuck? Get out there. No! Are these glued on? No, not this time. Oh my god. What the fuck? Whoa.

Oh god. Am I in frame high? In like 20 seconds when no one's around. Yeah. Okay, so from Dicedragon73, what has been the most heartbreaking thing that has happened to your character this season, and what was the most heartwarming thing

that happened to your character this season? Well. Deep sigh. Well, he died. Yeah. You lied. It was pretty bad. That, you died. You lied. It was pretty bad.

That was pretty bad. But then getting a makeup ring was pretty heartwarming. You dying was pretty sad. Yeah, it was pretty sad. Making out, pretty heartwarming. That was good. How about you, buddy? Oh, I think learning I was a murderer is bad.

This is a funny question. But falling in love with, getting screwed by Frida was pretty good. Aw, screwed. Yeah. That's cute. Also gross. Because we're machines? Yeah, because we're machines. Why is that gross? That's cute. Also gross. Because we're machines? Yeah, because we're machines.

Why is that gross? That just sounds gross. Just because your wiener's made out of a drill. That's not gross. Drill dick. No, what? It's true, drill dick. We need a ship name.

He's got a tatchable. We need a ship name. They've got a tatchable. And it's gotta be gross. Y'all already have a ship name, it's Love Letters. Oh, that's true, that's true. Oh, that's so good. That's true.

Thank you, Dicedragon73. Say Black and Decker. Black and Decker. Black and Decker. Remember. Matt, what's the most heartwarming and saddest thing that's happened to you as a DM this season? Saddest, hmm.

Saddest thing would be having to say goodbye to Eshteross because I really liked him as an NPC. Terrible. But narratively made sense. Heartwarming would be watching your characters come together, honestly. Aw. It was an unexpected romance and creation,

and then watching it become the Rachel Ross of the campaign, where everyone's like, no, but really, when are you guys going to? I'm way better than Rachel and Ross, I'm just saying. I'm saying it's like the longevity of everyone going like, all right, come on. Let's do this. Thank you, Dicedragon73.

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