Critical Role - Night of the Living Bits | 4-Sided Dive | Episode 17: Discussing Up To C3E73

Episode Date: October 10, 2023

In this Halloween themed episode of 4-FRIGHTED Dive, Ashley Johnson, Liam O’Brien, Taliesin Jaffe, and Sam Riegel pull questions from the Tower of Inquiry, discuss their latest adventures in the Shattered Teeth, and play a puzzling game of "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes." 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. Give us your gamer knowledge, Sam. Meh. Yeah, I'm Italian. And I also f***. Yeah. I am Italian. And I also.

Okay. As an Italian lady, I'm going to stop this now. We're going to go ahead and roll. Let's roll for Tavern Keeper. Sam and Ashley, y'all are at disadvantage because y'all hosted most recently. Hold on to my sausage finger. Five. Got it. Two. Love it. Love it. Two. Love it, love it. 18.

Four. 19. Okay. That's a five. Yep. It's a Taliesin. It's a me, Taliesin. I'm stepping away. Never me.

I'm stepping away, far away. All right. Now I'm stepping away or far away? I'm feeling it, pal. No, I'm feeling it. Welcome to our perfect little pumpkin patch as we usher in spooky seasons with our second four-frighted side. Four-frighted dive. Fuck my life. The side of the four-frighted dive. I am Taliesin Jaffe, your 17th tavern keeper. Holy shit. And I hope you're not expecting any silly, overproduced,

four-sided dive Halloween shenanigans like we did last year. Because frankly, we have way too much to talk about. And Travis isn't here on the show, so there's really no one to scare that's going to be that much fun. Ashley Johnson is here to dish on how Fern, that's right, made not one, but two sexy deals with otherworldly beings. My bad. Oh, rock it.

Sam Riegel's FCG played in Fairy Poop. Sure, why not? Feels real. Liam O'Brien is gonna talk about how Oram's boss fucks with ravens. Hot. And Ashton is a bloody titan. Wait, no, a titan of blood. Taliesin Jaffe, please explain your fucking self.

So, let's open a can of Foresighted Dive's canned bits by Moppo and enjoy. And speaking of Moppo, let's take a second and shout out Moppo, our new executive producer, creative director, CFO, CEO, and CFO of Critical Role. That doesn't make sense. Wait, wait, what? I mean, that's not a thing.

We didn't put an angry mop in charge of our channel, right? No, no. What's going on? Moppo's not our boss now, right? Moppo, explain yourself. Fine. I didn't want to have to do this, but I guess you've left me no choice.

Wait, Taliesin, are you all right? Taliesin isn't here right now. Now there is only Moppo. Moppo, you better release Taliesin from whatever spell you've got them under because we've got a fucking show to do. I'm done taking orders from lower life forms. Now you all take orders from me.

The entirety of Critical Role is now under my control. And all I had to do was kill one pesky googly-eyed broom to do it! I remember that day. The day they went looking for a googly-eyed cleaning appliance to use for the first four-sided dive. And they picked Broomy instead of me. So, with the help of creepy plastic Santa, I finally got my revenge.

We'll return with episode 11 of Force Tide and Dive back in March. I've been your 10th tavern keeper and- 10th, double didged. I know, and I guess now I have to clean up or something. Whoa! What just happened? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, What just happened? Whoa, whoa, whoa!

It's a total blackout! Ah! Ah! What happened? Oh my god! You monster! How on earth did you get Creepy Plastic Santa to be your accomplice?

I made him an offer he dare not refuse. A new body with real skin. A chance for him to finally be with his beloved Liam O'Brien. No, don't do it. No, no. No. No.

I love you, Sam. No. Mm. Yeah, nope. I hope the cameras can't see this. But with Brumia's demise I had but one tiny taste of power I wanted more

So with creepy plastic Santa's help I devised an even greater plan The total takeover of all of Critical Role Get ready for my never ending torrent of big But steamy-weathered notes It's not possible Critical Role! Get ready for my never-ending torrent of vague but steamy-weathered notes! It's not possible! Isn't it?

No one ever asks about the key ingredient in four-sided dives' canned bits! It's a powerful aphrodisiac, tailor-made to make people horny for unlikely character shippings. Remember last episode when Laura and Marisha said they'd never planned for Imogen and Vlodna to get together? It was me.

Okay, no, no, it wasn't. Literally no one has imbibed any of your canned bits. We just pretended to. It's on film. Oh, really? You doubt my power? Well, then, why don't I show you

what I'm capable of? Oh, Liam! There's someone who's been aching to meet you. No. Liam! Look at me, my darling. We can finally be together. Do you love me? Please tell me you love me. Okay, I'm out. You have no idea how much pain I've endured to feel your warm touch upon my skin. I have skin now.

Leave, don't go. I can't hold for you. I'm sorry, creepy plastic Santa. Oh, not as sorry as I am, Danielle. But welcome to Full-Sided Dive. Let's fucking connect some inccillary full-sided dive. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Welcome back. My hair was oddly wet, and I found it like I was somehow rubbing up and down on the floor,

but it's kind of gross. But let's begin the night with our open discussion segment. What the fuck is up with that? So let's start. I mean, the shattered teeth. The shattered teeth. Before we go into that, I feel like we should acknowledge what the fuck we're wearing. Why?

Is this the what the fuck is up with that? Yeah, what the fuck is up with this, that, and this and that. And the other thing. This was a thing from last episode, for those of you who didn't see it. Like you. We think we drew random stuff out of a hat. Why are you looking at me? I wasn't here. I wasn't here either.

You were the only one who was here. You tell us what happened. You tell us what happened. Oh, for once you actually are the one who knows. Why the fuck am I talking like this, Sam? We drew out of a hat, and we were randomly assigned Halloween costumes. Look at these gams. Oh my gosh. Show off those gams. They go all the way up, don't they?

I can barely think straight. I believe I drew Thirsttrap Waluigi. I mean, I'm feeling it. Did you know? It's me, Thirsttrap Waluigi! Did you fully comprehend what that meant? I have STDs! Oh wow! Someone Googled, I'm so proud of you.

I don't know, I've never played, I don't know. Waluigi is Evil Luigi. Have you ever played any Mario Brothers games? I played some Mario Kart with my kids, and I played Super Mario Brothers when it came out. Like back in the day? Back in the day. How about you, the Hulk? What are you dressed as? Well, if you couldn't tell from my New Jersey Garden State license plate, I'm a New Jersey swamp monster, so I'm going to attempt to speak in my home dialect for the entire show.

What's that dialect going to sound like? What's that guy going to sound like? All right, I got you. Fucking forget about it! Oh, wow. Okay, that... God, what got you. Yeah, no, okay. Fucking forget about it! Oh, wow, okay. God, what's happening over there? Okay, anyway. I am obviously a luxury puppy. That's my first guess.

Which I am anyway in life. Those are real puppies. I'm just a little luxury puppy. You're just manifesting? Just a little luxury puppy. Or more minions for Cruella de Vil, if she had a whole bunch of minions. Yes. Raiding a Batman villain.

Yes. It would work very well. A rich bitch, one would say? I am a rich bitch. And you? I am a party alien. I am an alien who's here to party. What are you dressed as for Halloween, though, Taliesin?

Oh, um... Taliesin. Yeah, honestly, I'm not, like, mostly that I'm going to someone who goes to a 3D movie at a drive-in at this point. I don't really... Yeah, you're dressed kind of like you. Yeah, no, it's, yeah, it's the... And young Miss Carr, what are you supposed to be? Shop. I am also just dressed as myself. I'm a professor witch. You are a professor witch. You look great.

I actually really like those glasses on. That's day wear. It's a little on the nose, DCC. This is just who I am. Wait, DCC? Yeah, what is DCC? Is her middle name? That's right, I knew that.

And I forgot. I feel like the pulp song Ease and Whiz at this point. Just, yeah. This is the spaceship landing at a rave. Yeah. All right. Post. I think now we can get to the series.

Well, I mean, there's a lot to talk about, but I'm excited about the Shattered Teeth. Me too. Oh my god, it's the best place we've ever been. It's so strange. I'm loving it so much. Me too. What do god, it's the best place we've ever been. It's so strange. I'm loving it so much. Me too. What do you like about it?

Honestly, it's so big, it's varied, and it's absolutely bonkers. Even for D&D continents and otherwise, it's just bonkers. The notion of all of these different islands constantly moving, each with their own vibe. It's cool to spend some time on some lost islands and also those little flying critters that there was. Oh yeah, what were they called again? That Matt embodied so beautifully. Oh, yeah.

The ones that shot all over us? Yes. Those were amazing. So far, everything that we've met has been weird and cool and interesting and different. And the perpetual fog and the moving islands and the map that has like two locations for each island. Just to show kind of the common movement. So cool.

It feels reminiscent of the Happy Fun Ball. I could spend a campaign there. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Danny Carr. What? What were those cute little animals called? Dolabos.

Dolabos. Dolabos. Dolabos. Dolabos. I like a good Dolabos. But it's D-O-L-A-B-O-S. All right. I'm going to bring you over to my mother's house.

She makes the best Dolabos. There's like dozens of these things. I want of these things. I know we can't, but I want to hit every one. I bet every one's unique. There's 43. There's 43 islands? Are there lesser islands as well, little islets, or is it just the main 43? There's 43. Okay. There probably is, but I don't think you should say that out loud.

It would undermine the confidence of some of the islanders. We could if we wanted to just ignore the Malleus Key and make it our purpose to go to every single one. To just screw it all and just go explore. Hide on the shattered teeth. Be like, someone else is going to take care of this. If agony and anguish befalls the rest of Exandria, does the shattered teeth feel it?

Like, are there consequences in a place that is so isolated from the rest of the world? I mean, it's the only continent that can technically dodge. So, yeah, takes the dodge action. But also, they don't see the moon. Or at least... Not when we were... Not when we were on the ship. Not when we were on the ship, yeah.

The navigator didn't see it. Who is the navigator? Oh, she's coming. Professor Witch. Professor Witch. Oh boy! Sorrelia? Professor Witch. Sorrelia.

Ow, yeah. So, the thing with Sorilla, the navigator, not being able to see the moon is because she was talking about Ruidus, specifically, because Ruidus is locked above Marquette. And so in certain parts of Exandria, like the Shattered Teeth, like Wildemount, you cannot see Ruidus,

because it is locked in place above the Hellcatch Valley in Marquette. Are you saying that the world is round? I am. It's just so vast that you can't see that. Just so far. No, the world is round. I was going to say, I don't know if you can answer this, but does that mean it's in, like, I'm going to fuck up this word.

Geo-sense orbit? Imagine the beam is my hand just reaching up and holding it. It has to be because of the elevator. Okay, everything clicks now. That's weird. I don't think I knew that. I didn't know that either, though, just now. That makes sense. So that makes sense. It does.

Hey, guys, I write a recap for y'all every week. I know. I think I just didn't realize that the moon's always right there. I don't know why I do that. I have a highlighter and everything. You guys, I don't think Ruidus is really a moon. I think it might be something else. You think it's a space station? You think it might be something else?

Yeah. I mean, but there's a hole. It's something. It's a casino. There's a hole. It's a casino? I mean, it's technically past the border. You could put a casino there.

International waters? Yeah. I'm, for the shattered teeth, I'm, so here's what I want to know. Everything about you and your character, Jonathan, were there partially, mostly, to delve into your backstory. Yes. It's a back story, yeah. A back story.

Which is, your back story. Which, so we know you have Titan blood. Yes. But. We know you have titan blood. Yes. Do we know what kind of titan or what specific titan? One would assume some sort of earth titan. Were we given a name? I think we were. There are names of the titans that are involved in the Shattered Teeth. It doesn't necessarily mean it's those titans. I do not have those names in front of

me. You've got to remember the Titans. Just hang out. We need you. The two Titans that y'all know the names of are Rau'shan and Kamort. They're the two Titans in the Shattered that were felled during EXU Calamity. And those are the ones whose names you were given, but that is not, we don't know if you are descended from them or if whatever happened is from them or not. We don't have a name for that Titan yet. Wait, do you have pockets in your skirt?

Yay. Oh my God. Fuck. Why didn't you just say something? What do you think you're going to find there? I genuinely don't know. I mean like. Well, like, did you give Matt any of this?

Any of the Titan stuff? Was that you or was that Matt? That was not me. I love giving Matt very little. Or my general rule, and I actually broke this with Ashton just a little bit, is I do not tell Matt anything that my character does not know. You don't tell Matt anything

that your character does not know. You don't tell Matt anything that your character does not know. Yeah. Got it. That makes sense. If it's the motivation of someone who fucked with me, I don't know what that motivation is, or maybe I at least know what they said. But if I don't know where they came from, I don't know where they came from.

And so you didn't say, I suspect my Ashton has tight blood. No. They wouldn't have even known what that is. Oh no. Ashley just spilled. Oh no, you have a spot. I have an extra Dr. Pippa spot.

And what would it mean if you were part titan? Does that mean that you have magical powers? I don't know, I mean. Like inherent, not just granted by this shard of glass in your head? Yeah, that would be interesting. A Titan's magical? God, I wish Matt were here.

I mean. I love how you're barely moving your mouth because of your mustache. Can we pause the Shadow Teeth talk? Let's discuss this mustache. Yeah, no, I'm happy to. Like the islands the Shadow Teeth moves. So when I got here tonight,

they, it's a play, Thirst Trap Waluigi, they, well, first I was going to shave my mustache, my real life mustache to play Waluigi. Oh, yes, that's right. Who forbade you to do that? Laura Bailey. Yeah, loudly. Said to me and in front of all of you

that I was forbidden to shave and have a mustache because we're about to take some promotional photographs. I was excited about this because I love a mustache. I like my mustache, too. I love a mustache. We were all at a dinner table together, and he said he was going to shave a mustache, and Laura said no, and everyone between them went. She didn't just say no.

She was like, Samuel Regal, absolutely not. She gave full name. It was a Laura move. The water cup shook like the Tyrannosaurus was gaining on us. Samuel Regal Tram. Go to your room. So instead of shaving, we pulled an audible and we got this lovely, realistic mustache,

which before the show was strapped to my face with an elastic band, which we thought looked stupid. Yeah. But we fixed it. But we fixed it. But we definitely fixed it. So now I have a piece of toupee tape on my real life mustache

that is taped to this fake life mustache and it's holding it on. And it will be hell to pay. The plus side is that, you know, when you take that off, the rest of the hair will still be there. And then Laura will still be mad at me. Yeah. Inevitably.

I also like that giant frog house. Oh my god. That was so cool. Frog? Turtle? T was so cool. Frog, turtle, frog. Taurus? Taurus? Frog. Frog. Froggy Toad.

Oh yeah, because he jumps. Turtles can't jump, or I'm not gonna. She was a turtle. Yeah, the lady inside him was a turtle because she needed a frog to jump. Yes. That was amazing. I want to live there.

Yeah. That was so cool and I want to see all of the art. Oh, yeah. Lanterns on the inside. I also want an action figure play set. Yes. With little pegs. You can open it up. To put the characters down.

Stick them in there like a Polly Pocket. I don't know, though. What about all the young children who watch our show and try to capture frogs in the woods and try to recreate this for themselves? And build miniature houses inside of frogs? Yes, you cannot do that. Leave the frogs. What the hell is going to happen to those themselves. And build miniature houses inside of frogs. Yes, leave the frogs. What the hell is going to happen to those fucking kids, man? That shit's crazy.

Yeah, licking frogs. Dang. Oh, my youth. She was awesome. Such a funny idea. Yeah, she was great. Yeah, what an off-the-wall character. I was not prepared for so much wholesomeness. Matt just feels like he's having fun. The shattered teeth is just fun. Yeah, what an off-the-wall character. I was not prepared for so much wholesomeness. Yeah.

Matt just feels like he's having fun. The shattered teeth is just fun. I like that. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love the Yabriah Woods, right, I like your trinicathons and whatnot, but I like a good, wholesome, happy, kind character. I like Orym's mother. I like, I like-

Orym's mother was great. Yeah, yep. With, well, that's a tangent, but with her, I said, just give me Cherry Jones as a halfling. Oh! That's what he did. Amazing. That is absolutely what he did. Well, I was trying to think

of all the other delightful characters we've met. We've also met all these pirates who are delightful. There was a ghost pirate ship. And I can't believe anyone was spying on us on the we're meeting these ghost pirates. You've got to be kidding me. Oh, my God. I mean, Frog House is pretty great,

but I wouldn't mind going on a two-week cruise where you gambled. Yeah. And listened to music and you raved on the deck of the ship and a little bit of hanky-panky, if you're so willing. Shit. Yeah. There was some actual soap opera romance going on. Can't French kiss if there's no teeth.

If there's no tongue, it's just teeth. I don't know what that is. Just like clicking. Oh, I wonder how that was. You just hear the sound of clicking during the slowdown. I believe they call that the shattered teeth. Yeah, all right. Hey! You almost banged the captain.

I mean. I did almost. What would we classify as? That wasn't what I was planning on, but. Oh, you went to his bed. I did, I just was, I was trying, I was trying to make him leave. By going to his bed? Well, no, where I was just like,

I'm just going to take a nap here. You can go do your captain stuff, and I'm just going to sleep. He did his captain stuff. And then I was going to, you know, look around his cabin, but he didn't go. He didn't leave. He thought he'd be a gentleman and just leave you there to take a nap in his bed.

In his private quarters. Yeah. I was trying. I was really trying to persuade and just be like, you can leave me here. I won't touch anything, I swear. I mean, it worked out. It worked out.

It worked out. That was a riveting 20 minutes of time. It was. My. It was frightening. It was? It was scary. It worked out. That was a riveting 20 minutes of time. It was! It was frightening. It was? It was scary! You could've died! I could've died.

You could've gone through with it! I know. Which is worse. I know. I ranked that moment up there with Scanlan, Scambo, and the Triceratops, because it was, both of them were two heroes going in blind, not knowing what they were doing,

bouncing off the walls, trying anything, and somehow coming out the other side. What's the, what is that, what happened again? With Scambo? Well, I was just alone in a house with a- Full of guards. A whole bunch of guards and I turned into a triceratops, but you were alone with a ghost in his quarters.

You could have- I could have taken him. He's just a bag of bones. He has a deadly sword that speaks. Yeah, we saw that stat block. Oh, no, yes, we did. That was intense. Was that after we stopped shooting last time?

Yes. Matt showed us, as a spoiler, he showed us the full exalted stat block of the sword. What's the sword's name? Grast Char. Grast name? Graschar. Graschar? Graschar. Yeah. I don't know if, are we supposed to be dumping that out here?

I don't care. Oh, jeez. Taliesin's the host. What are you doing? The paper for it was this long. I mean, without getting into the lore of it, if I had that sword and I knew what it was, I would give up my quest to save the planet and I would help take it over. Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty impressive. It's probably good that we don't have that anymore.

It's probably good that we gave it to an evil ghost pirate ship. I think that that's going to work out super well. Yes. Can he use it to unleash untold evil onto the world? Probably. Just on the coast. Maybe just in the Shadow Keep. Yeah, only in the water, like Aquaman.

Yeah. He can find all of his things now. And so when you guys were looking at this stat block, I actually went away to pee. I missed most of it. Was it something that was bound to you? Can you give away the sword? Because Chetney gave it away pretty easily.

I can't remember that part. My eyes started to glaze over from all the shit on that piece of paper. Yeah, I don't remember. part. My eyes started to glaze over from all the shit on that piece of paper. Yeah, I don't remember. Yeah, it was a lot of stuff. We don't, yeah, it was just, boy, the relationship would get very unhealthy very quickly. There was lots of damage stats, all that juicy stuff,

but there was also a page ripped out of the Encyclopedia Britannica and glued onto it, because it was a lot of lore. It was a lot of lore. A lot of lore. Yeah. It's a very old sword. Old sword. In the middle of that also,

you sacrificed some warmth for stuff. I did. Yeah, lost a little warmth. I really wanted to get that sword back, because I thought it was so funny. And every time Madge did the roll, I was like, I want it back, because it's really funny. I really wanted Travis to have another talking sword.

I kind of wanted Sam to have it. I was so curious what would happen if we could figure out a way to get it to Sam. Oh, if we gave it to FCG? Yeah, FCG with the talking sword. That would have been something else. That would have been amazing. Yeah. I would have paid money for that.

There's still time. What I also loved about that moment, forget the sword, but just what I love about Fearne is like the whole time you're thinking like, is she, she's either completely naive or she's devious as fuck or is it's both at the same time? Like naive of the ways of Exandria, but just a little imp, just a little devil brained. Just a little bit of an imp. It's like tall, hot puck. I'm into it. Yeah. I mean, not that puck isn't hot. It's tall punk. Puck. Yeah. Tall puck. Tall puck. It's great tall, hot Puck. I'm into it. I mean, not that Puck isn't hot. It's tall punk.

Tall Puck. It's great. Yeah, there was no plan. Once he stayed in there, I was like... That was evident. Pure id. Yeah, I was like, I don't know what to do. You were sublimating all over that thing. Why am I in here? I should just leave. Oh, wait. You don't want to reveal it, but you were given a bane.

Yes. Which was you lost five hit points permanently. Yes, but it did come with a bone. And then you also gave a number. And we don't know what that is. No, no, Matt said, see me after class, which could mean anything. Yes, it did come with a bone and it's cool.

It's cool? It's cool, yeah. Do you think we'll know what it is soon? Now, no, you said it. Maybe, it depends. It depends. It, I wonder if I should give a little bit of a hint. I mean, it does have to do with cold. With cold, okay.

So. Oh, yeah, so it's a warmth and a cold. A little warmth, a little cold, you know, you'll see. So we'll see, we'll see. All right. But I was glad we got to, you know. And you helped him find true love with, what's her name? Cirilla.

Cirilla. Cirilla. Cirilla? Cirillia. Cirillia. Okay, you did, you already did. Cirillia. Yes.

Yes. Who, I guess they fucked? I hope they did. I think the term is wrong. I mean. Oh, God, you beat me to fucking two at you. They bombed. They bombed.

Maybe she doesn't have to go up to the crow's nest all the time anymore. Maybe that's finally, you know, a little bit of it. What's she going to do now that she doesn't have her spyglass, though? That's what I keep thinking. What is that about? She doesn't have eyes. Well, I guess you can't tell us yet because we don't know.

But that, I want to know what that's about. Wait, do you know what the spyglass is? I think she's referring to the fact that Orm stole it. Yeah, I know, but is it a magical spyglass? You don't know. I don't know. You just grabbed it. It's on a ghost ship.

How much normal stuff do they have? Yeah, and there was a lot of talk. Forget about Orm's motivations, but there was a lot of talk about stealing the captain's things and then he's going to chase them all down. So the whole time I'm like, but this isn't the captain's, right? No, technically not.

They're not going to chase us down, but who knows? It's not the captain's things. I feel like we kind of made some friends. I feel like we've made friends and influenced people. It was so fun. Bell's House finally has fans. They just happen to be on an undead ship in Shadow Thief.

Yeah. Weirdly, those are the kind of friends that I'm happier to have. Yeah. Just saying. Out by the trash fence. Yes. Wow. Deep cut there. Then everyone decided to get a tattoo from a guy who doesn't really give tattoos because he's dead.

Where did everybody get their tattoos? Because I don't think we ended up talking about that. Well, you start. Inner thigh. Inner thigh. That's where we get a tattoo. That could be in there. Like right here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Right in the gams. Right inside the gams. She has to shave part of the fur off? Oh, God. That's right. Who knows? Yeah, it would hide. It would hide in the fur.

Does she have reverse pubic hair? Wait, what reverse? Wouldn't that mean that she doesn't have any? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. If that's reverse? I'd also say a flaming bell could take an awful lot. That could mean an awful lot, the more I'm thinking about. A flaming bell? Yeah, especially. I would interpret it as a whole bunch.

There's a lot of interpretation there. For you, maybe the flame has made a fire. Mm-hmm. Little flaming bell. Where did you get your tattoo, did you say? Well, I joked about butt cheeks, but Orym put it on shoulder blade opposite his full-sleep tattoo.

Cool. Amazing. And it looks like the AOL symbol. Wow, another deep cut. I don't have a lot of surface area that is... I don't have legs, and my arms are sort of... You have legs. You also have a head. I do have wooden legs. So maybe on one of my shoulders, or I guess one of my shoulders.

On your back? Well, then no one will see it, though. I wear a backpack all the time. Oh, yeah, that's true. Could you meld it or put it beneath the grass or razor claws or whatever they are now? Sure, sure. Although I think in my new design, those actually moved to up here. You could actually.

Because this is a Everlight. Not Everlight. That's a different character. That's a different character. Change bringer symbol. I got a pitch. Okay. What if it's inside visible at the back of the Easy Bake Oven?

Whoa. Cause it's a flaming bell. Sure, sure. But I wonder if it's so people can see. Maybe I'll put it on like one of my forearms. Those are nice and visible. That's a good idea. That's a good idea.

Yeah. Oh, and I'll start working on sleeves. You don't gotta stop doing that, you know. I'm Mario! I'm Waluigio! And you have a full back? I got a full back. What all is on there? It's more of a carving,

like a stonework. It's been etched in, so it's not really a tattoo. That's so cool. So, yeah. It's got the big primordial language thing, and it's got some filigree with it. We gotta get a full back tattoo mock-up now.

Yeah, yeah, I suppose I now have to do that. You also have to get it in real life. Pull back tattoo? Tell us, how many tattoos do you have in real life? I have one. Because I was gonna have more than 2020 happened and I just haven't gotten around to filling in the other bunch that I'm in.

Right, right, yeah. I got a little short list, but. Yeah, I gotta get in there and get back on that, though. How many tattoos did you guys have? I just got the, I got a little short list. Yeah, I got to get in there and get back on that, though. How many statues did you guys have? I just got the, I got two. I got the VM that we all got, and then I got a little, well, that's just plants. You have two also. I have three.

Three? I do. One of them is hidden. On your inner thigh. I only have one. I want more. I want many more. You should get a lot more.

I know, but I promised my wife that the next one I get would be something special for our family, and I need to get a lot of pressure. Well, get on it. Especially finding somebody who will tattoo your children also. I can get a little sketchy. My first tattoo, I got at 15. Oh, yeah? So, yeah. I bet it was little sketchy. My first tattoo, I got at 15. Oh, yeah? So, yeah.

I bet it was super high quality. It actually was pretty high quality, but it's so not something I would get now. Because it's a dumb butterfly. I was going to say! I was sitting going, should I say, is it a butterfly? Is it a butterfly?

It's a butterfly. Every person I know who was under 18 got that butterfly. I'm like, oh, okay. No. It's a thing. I'm fuck. Every person I know who was under 18, like, got that butterfly. I'm like, oh, okay. No. It's a thing. I'm not a butterfly girl. No, no one really.

Well, maybe I am. Yeah. I mean, we all are in our own way. Dani, any ink? No, sadly. I cannot get tattoos, unfortunately, because of my blood condition. Oh. I remember talking to you about that.

But I've wanted them. I probably would have been the kid who, the 15-year-old who got a butterfly as well. You told me you wanted to get, well, maybe I shouldn't be putting your private business out,

the Black Widow tattoo. One of these days, I wanted to, one of these days, I want to, at some point, figure out a way to do it, but I've always wanted

to get a Black Widow tattoo on my left ring finger because there is a quote from the comic book, Black Widow. Actually, left ring finger because there is a quote from the comic book Black Widow, actually it's from Daredevil, but from her that's, I am my own woman first, last, and always. Is that all on your finger? No, it's just the

hourglass. Oh, okay. Jesus. Love that. Is that from the Bendis run or? It's from the 80s. Oh, from the 80s even. I don't remember who it was. Can you get Hannah tattoos? Or I was going to say I've got a good custom temporary tattoo. I do love it. I sometimes draw it on my finger. Just to have it there? Really in the feels.

Love that. I'll always draw it. Love that. But my beloved has lots of tattoos, so she's always like, I'll get tattoos for you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I would be covered if I could. I think that they're just beautiful. Yeah, same. Same. You will as time goes on. It's hard with work, but I don't fuck that.

I know. We've got to do a whole bunch of work. You can cover it with makeup nowadays. Yeah, that's no problem. They got that stuff. Anyway. We, in the Shattered Teeth, we've landed, right? That's where we left off? Yes. And got through a cave.

And are we... Jesus, are we going to just be stuck here forever? How do we get... Can we teleport out of here? We don't even know, do we? We can get out of here. We can't. You teleport with me? I can, except I've been using the staff for other things. And then does it not work once... It runs out of here. Wait, can't you teleport with me? I can, except I've been using the staff for other things.

And then does it not work once? Well, it runs out of charges. Well, maybe don't use all the charges. No, until like the next day.

Oh, so. But I've been using it. It's a cool, it's a cool magical thing besides just the teleport. I just assume once

we've got our stuff done, we take a nap and everything. I guess so. we've got our stuff done, we take a nap and everything. I guess so. The hands are killing me. The chubby fingers. That's a lot. Oh my God.

What are we doing? What is this show? This is really something else. I mean, and beyond all this, and boy, I could talk about where we are and what we're doing in our tattoos for forever and that really fun fight that was really gross and I enjoyed.

Yeah, gross science that he pulled into us. Ugh, the stuff coming out? Disgusting. I hate it. A whole bunch of gnarly fights recently. Yeah. Love it. I've been messed up a lot in these fights, too.

Mm-hmm. God. How do you, you were a cleric. You were a cleric. I was. How do you do it? Well. What do you mean?

Well, so here's the thing with the clerics. Okay. I don't know if the people know this. They're primarily healers. Sure. Okay. Laura would disagree, but carry on. Well, okay, but round one of combat,

you want to heal, no one's hurt. No! Nothing to do. That's not what you do at round one. So instead, I've been saying, maybe I'll just go in and fight a little first, and then I'll heal people on round two or round three. That's your first mistake.

But I go in, and then I get fucking destroyed, and then round two, I spend saving my own life or running away or being revived. And then by round three, the fight's over. So how do you do it? You got to kind of treat yourself like a wizard. And you spend that round one getting yourself situated. Like round one is just not about having anything getting done. Yeah, you set yourself up with something.

Yeah, you sit down, you figure out where you want to be, where you're close enough to everybody, where you can kind of be there on the battlefield in an appropriate space. If you have some defenses to put up for yourself, you get yourself a little area of protection. You seem so selfish.

I'm a giving lover. I like to give. I feel like I would always love when I would get low initiative but obviously you can't be in charge. You only got low initiative. I only got low initiative. So it worked.

I think what Taliesin is suggesting though is that you use that first round to put yourself in the middle of the orgy so that you can be a given level. That's what I've been doing, but then I keep getting knocked down. Then you keep getting knocked down. Well, maybe it's just bad at table tennis. No, you've got to figure out a way of just making yourself an uninteresting target. Because things will start to go wrong, and then you're there to just kind of nope everything out of the way.

Maybe that's my problem. Yeah, you're not trying to my problem. Cleric's hard. Yeah. You hit something. You were a good hitter. You had your mace. I did some damage. Were you a cleric cleric? Yeah, she was a cleric. Super cleric.

Yeah, she was a monster, too. It was a war cleric, if I recall. I think that sounds about right. Yeah, it was a special kind of cleric. I mean, you had a big face. I had a big face. I will second, I hate, I've created a character who is super fast with initiative. I'm almost always first, and I hate it. I hate being first.

What the hell do you do? Especially when you're not a caster, I gotta run out, I'm going, what are we doing? Do we want to hurt these people? Are we fighting anyone? What are we doing? Do we want to hurt these people? So I run out there and sometimes I'm all by myself. And I'm little. But as Caleb, I could watch, I could, hey, as Caleb, I would just sit back and watch everyone go out and figure out if I was going to throw fire or do buffing or something. Yeah, a little bit of buffing.

Everyone loves a little bit of buffing. I try to do some buffing, but. I feel like you're doing so good as a cleric. Oh, you're the only one. No, Wait, do people not think you're doing... Nobody thinks I'm doing well as a cleric. Cool, they've all told you. What are your go-to spells? Do you use, like, Bane?

I've never used Bane. Part of my issue also, my cleric issue, is I'm trying not to do anything that any other cleric in our show has ever done. Oh, a little bit of a problem. What is it? Guiding Bolt? I didn't take that.

It's kind of the tried and true for the to do damage with clerics. You are basically making a, I mean, you are. I'm making this for her. I was actually wondering that, because you never use it. You never use it, and I was like, I think he's doing that on purpose.

I tried not to take spells that were known by our other cleric. You never use it, and I was like, I think he's doing that on purpose. I tried not to take spells that were known by our other clerics, even Spiritual Weapon, which was very much a Jester thing. I use sometimes, but I try to use it in different ways, or I try to use it sparingly, because it's such a Jester thing. And Guiding Bolt up the butt

is such an Ashley Johnson thing. I don't want to take that. You have used Guiding Bolt all You are following three clerics, so a lot of the tricks have been brought out. I love that they're curved. Put that Lightfield shit away. It's trying to bother me. Just lean that way.

So I understand you not wanting to do a one-for-one with any of the past clerics, but some of them are useful for a reason. So you could try dropping one or two in a rotation. And also, what's in character for you? It's not what other people have done. Forget Bane, but Bless is a good one for you. I've never used Bless. Bless is so you.

Wait, what's a Bless? It just makes people around you better. Yeah, it makes everybody better. It's like a dex d4 or something like that that you get. Yeah, on everything. That's the one. Yeah. Because that's something you can do right at the beginning when you don't know what

else to do. So simple. Maybe this should be the show. And you literally are just, it's just you going, How everyone should play. You're just like, bless. Telling each other how we should play our characters. This is Happy Day.

You, you need a lot of help. I need a lot of help. You just need larger dice and standard shapes. Only because you asked. Only because you asked. They're all weird shaped and I can't even read them and I can't add them together because I don't even know what they say.

My favorite is when you do a lot of math and you're like, it's 21. Wait! It's 21. Because I don't trust myself. Like, I'll do it quick and then I won't do it quick. But I'll add it and then I'm like, okay. I'm doing long, like, adding on my paper with. But I'll add it, and then I'm like, okay. I'm doing long-div, like adding on my paper.

I've seen you do that, and I'm like, oh, that would be helpful. I also bought a calculator, but I keep forgetting. We know that reverse math is hard. Reverse math. I've never been great at math, and it kills me, because I've always been wanting to do stuff and going to school for something in science. And I couldn't, because math is shit. I heard reverse nap, and I'm not good at that either. Reverse nap? I would love to figure out how to nap backwards, even.

Wasn't reverse nap being awake? Yeah, I'm really not good at that, to be fair. That's his worst skill. I don't do well. Yeah, other than that, Keyleth apparently is all about going to the moon. I'm just moving on a bit, because we can. Yeah, that's great. Bloody Bridge.

You mean Kimothy Chalamet? Yeah, yeah. Kimothy Chalamet. That's right. I want to go to the moon. I do, too. That's all I want. Can't we just go to the moon?

Because we got to get our shit together. You know it's coming, Beau. It's not time yet. No, we're not ready to the moon? Because we've got to get our shit together. You know it's coming, but it's not time yet. No, we're not ready for the moon. Almost, but it's not time yet. Why can't we just go? You've got to go do a scouting mission. I mean, Orym every episode is like, let's go to the elevator, come on. I know.

But there's things to do. You can't get in the Wonka Vader until you've actually gotten the golden ticket all the way through. Danny, you just said something about a scouting mission? Yeah. That's going to the moon. Yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying, is, you just said something about a scouting mission? That's going to the moon! Yeah, I know! That's what I'm saying, is that you all need to do your scouting mission. Yeah, Kimothy suggested that we go have a

peeky-poo. Yeah. Just a peeky-poo and then we would come back? Yeah, peeky-poo, come back, tell everybody what you saw. I don't know if we can get back! I mean, I hope we have a peeky-poo and get hoovered up the tunnel and then we're on the moon. It's a win-win situation. When they know that we were there? Like, how are we going to do this?

It's a moon. There's a lot of places to hide. I know. Do you have to, is there like a lot of activators work? Maybe we won't come back. Maybe it's a one-way ticket. Maybe it's so plush, we want to stay. A very plush moon. I mean, it looks, from what Imogen saw,

it looks beautiful. She was talking about its own ecosystem. Just vibing. And we need masks and goggles, and we need to make sure, because there's dust, and we need to make sure that we're properly prepared. You just went through this on the playa. Well, actually, technically the opposite, but yes.

Are we going to go full total recall? Yes, I hope so. Get your ass to Mars. When you're here to crunch your air. No, that's all I've ever wanted. Ever since I learned that there was a tiny red moon that acted weird, I'm like, we got to go there. We got to go there. Of course. I want a little Art Deco spaceship. I'll take the elevator, but man, I want a little rocket so bad.

God. Yeah, maybe we could think of other ways of getting there. Like the opening of the Flash Gordon film. I just want to just do the whole... Do you think with all the brilliant minds of the Age of Arcanum, that anybody, any wizard that we never heard about, that's not even in the public record,

came up with a bubble ship, a rocket ship, and they've been up there already. A bubble ship, like in the movie The Explorer starring Taliesin Jaffe? That's correct. Co-starring, for fuck's sake. No, you were starring in it. I was in for four seconds of that fucking film. You were so good. I got cut out.

I got cut out. You did not, you were awesome. Mostly got cut out. You were starred in you were awesome. Mostly got cut out. You were smart in it. You just need to enchant some stuff to get, like, what, like, Odulluk's Resilient Sphere, and Fly, right? Let's get Essek, Keyleth, and Percy in a room. They can get the space. They can figure something out.

That's everybody you need. Yeah. You know. We can do it. We can figure it out. We've got all sorts of people who could figure this shit out. Oh, this hat hurts so much. Is it too tight?

Yes. It's too tight. It's too tight. There you go, authentic. Why don't you just wear it a little higher? Because I'm a thirst trap. This is how thirst traps wear hats. Well, since you can't wear your hat anymore,

and it's actually now weirdly, it's distracting me, I think it might be time for a Tower of Inquiry. Whoa! Is that for me, Taliesin, or just anyone? I think it's for a pull, and I think you're the one to pull it. Do it. You're thirsting and trapping. Ooh!

This is a very spooty process that begins with us drawing a block from the tower, reading the number on it. That's been artfully carved into it. Artfully carved. Our professor witch, Dr. Danny Carr, reads us the corresponding question. You have a professorate, so you're a PhD witch, Danny Carr. PHW? Yeah. A foot. I already did it. If anyone causes the tower to fall, there will be dire consequences! That is very close to falling.

I already pulled, I got number 44. Ooh! You're the one who pulled it. Oh! Oh! Yes! It's Halloween, so you know that that's going to be some fucked up shit in that box.

Yes! Go to the consequences box. Consequences! Go to your corner. You have to read it silently. There shall be consequences in your next choice. Maybe Danicar will read some teenage self-insert fanfic or out loud or something.

I don't know, there'll have to be a funny accent. Silently. I can read lips. I don't know. Wait, what? It's for Bloxy. Oh, it's for later in the episode. It's for later.

Okay. I have a thing that I have to do later. Later. Okay. That's a very satisfying consequence for the audience, I'm sure. You look like a total fucking serial killer. With the red light.

I'll also say the fact that the pumpkin man is blinking has just finally created an agent. I love him. Do we that the Pumpkin Man is blinking has just finally grown in age. I love him. We appreciate the Pumpkin Man. Oh, God! Absolutely. This whole thing is so good. Look at this guy.

I love him, and I want him in my yard all the time. Never let that leave. Aw, I like that you're giving him scritches. Was that rented, or do we own it? I probably do not own it. Nox made it. Nox made it? Yeah, it's probably one of our very special,

I will make things creepy. After tonight, why don't we just move that to Marisha's office door? Just put it in there and close it? Yeah. So not to bring us back to this, but there was a question! Yes!

Number 44 from awkward underscore Ramble. If your character was banished to a different universe, what world-setting genre, other than high fantasy, do you think they'd prefer versus what they'd thrive in? Example, Jester might prefer Regency Romance, but she'd thrive in a

murder mystery. What's a Regency Romance? Oh. Regency Romance is like, um... It's a Darcy shit. Oh, okay, okay. Pride and prejudice. And zombies? No. I know, I'm sorry. So this is actually eight questions.

Like genre... What question? Are we talking about Thirst Trap? Thrive Inn versus... Not fantasy, so not fantasy. Somewhere else. Where would they live their best life? Uh, Thrive Inn versus... Not fantasy, so not fantasy. Somewhere else. Where would they live their best life?

I mean, FCG would probably prefer the world of iRobot or something, just to be surrounded by a sci-fi situation. But Thrive Inn, boy. Thrive Inn, I think they would thrive in boy thrive in I think they would thrive in like genre like a

caveman type of sort of primal medieval like a medieval sort of thing because he's got all these gadgets like a historical drama Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur scored kind of vibe? I'd love, yeah, okay.

That works for me. Gosh. I mean, mine's easy. Like any good, like really filthy cyberpunk story, like any of the stuff that's really grungy, Max Hedrum television series sort of thing, just lots of trash, be into that. It's easy stuff.

I'm going to go with, I'm going to do a little bit of a curveball here. I feel like Fern would have a good time in like a Christopher Guest sort of show. You know?

I keep touching my nose and I keep rubbing it off. Is it very smudged? Yeah, it's pretty smudged. Yeah, it's got black stuff all over it. We have nothing to help with. I'm going to go with that. Okay. I could see Orym having a good time visiting the world of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,

and sort of extending out his knowledge of sword fighting. Kung fu movies? Yeah. And just like leaping through trees. It's so good. Oh, it's one of my favorite movies. I can't believe it.

It's so beautiful. Such a great story for its central character. Yes. And Michelle Yeoh. Ugh. Michelle Yeoh in that movie. Come on, what is better?

She's so good in that movie. Yeah. She's so good in everything. So much grace. God. Well, I suppose thank you, Awkward Ramble, for allowing us to have an Awkward Ramble. Wait, does that mean because it knocked down,

is that the last one of the night? That's the only question we can do. You could pull from the chaos. I mean, I don't know if this has ever even happened before. From the first pull and it's gone? The pile of Quah. I didn't want a couple more Quahs. I had a feeling that that was going to take a dive.

I'm not going to get one or two more from the shit pile. Yeah, I know. Let's just pull more from the fucking shit pile. Okay. Yeah, pull from the rubble. I'm going to let you. You're going to let me go? Yes, please don't make me get up

because I don't know if all this shit is going to hold up. No, I'm going to give you reprieve. Oh, wow, yeah, okay. Showing my bits and pieces here. Aren't you wearing pants? I'm wearing pants, but you never know. There's a lot happening. Oh, giant bags of candy down here

that they did not mention. Oh, I saw it. Let's see what's in here. I was hoping y'all wouldn't notice, and then I would just take all the candy later. This is not candy. It's real bad. What's going on with this?

I thought it was a Kit-Kat boat. Everything I'm going to wait for it until later. 42! That's a great number. Yep, there's peanut butter cups. Those are just the best candy. Lurker in the Thread, if your character had a heraldic crest or coat of arms, what would it consist of? Goodness.

Coat of arms. Mm. Mine's very simple. It would be the two moons plus a sword down the middle with vine and flower wrapping around. Easy. Ew. Yeah, that's what I thought, too. You think they'd change the flavor of Kit Kat? Or is that just melty?

No, it tastes weird. Sorry. I mean, food today is not that. We did buy that for the Halloween show eight years ago. Ugh! It's like your barroom blitz. It's a very nice vintage. I will not hear it.

I feel like Fearne's coat of arms would be just stolen from other people's coats of arms. It would just be the queen's. Yes. Many different coat of arms cobble together. I'm trying to think what I would even do. I mean, the hammer is fun. I love the idea of just the shattered, fully shattered coat of arms sounds a lot of fun. I love that natural crackle so much, with maybe the faux dunamancy symbol kind of sitting in the front of it.

Maybe mine would be like, I don't know, like a heart and a coin and feet. And a buzzsaw, yeah. Not the tongue? The tongue. The flesh tongue? The tongue's real. Yeah. The tongue I get to keep with me always.

You know, I bet growing up with Nanamori that Fearne just has a literal coat of arms. Probably. Yeah, probably Fearne's coat of arms would just be arms. How did it take that long to get to that joke? We really... Did you find the good stuff? I have Reese's peanut butter cups. Oh boy, that's the shit right there. Happy Halloween, everybody. One more question, or what are we doing?

Let's... We can come back to it? I think we'll come back. Let's come back to it. Let's come back to it. We've heard a lot of this. It's pretty good. Yeah, we'll do a little more later. Awkward ramble again. And thank you, Lurker in the Thread. And if you have a surprisingly goopy evergreen question,

goopy, for Hard Day, Tower of Inquiry, or, you know, Pile of Qua, you can answer it at criticalrole.com slash tower! Exclamation point. Is there an exclamation point? Critrole.com slash tower. Critrole.com slash tower.

No exclamation point. Why do they put it there just to throw people? To make you sound excited. Oh. Do you know what punctuation does? Yeah, but they put a dot, there's too much punctuation in the world these days. And another thing.

No exclamation point. I know, here we are. There's too much punctuation in the world these days. And another thing. I know. Here we are. I suppose it's time to slide into the deep dive. Oh, okay. We're doing the deep dive. I hope our audience is also wearing costumes tonight. I hope so, too.

You should be. We could put the word out. Yeah. Professor Carr, are you grabbing our four tankards with the questions that you've lovingly crafted? The set is attacking me, so yes. The conversation, it's got a lot of attacking bits. Thank you. I want to itch my nose so bad.

Just go for it. Yolo. Yolo. You can even just, ah, and you know. A little beauty. 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 Liam,

because he tried to wind his way out of doing the tower. I'm trying to get. And also because this is hilarious. I got one. Hey! There it is, all right, here we go. I can't manipulate my fingers and I can't see. Orym was instrumental in saving Keyleth

from the same toxin that killed Will and Darig six years ago. Darig. How does he feel about that parallel? How do you feel? Well, not great. There's a lot of weight on everyone in the Bell's Hells right now. It's heavy.

And, I mean, mixed emotions because, you know, part of him, he's relieved and so grateful that he could save his leader and repay so many favors to her that she's given all the Ashari. He also wonders, like, gods, why couldn't my husband and my father still be here? Maybe we couldn't save them. But this woman has lost so much herself. There's a lot of loss going around for everybody in the Bell's Hells. And it's just a part for the course

where everybody's at right now, you know what I'm saying? Every answer you give tonight sounds like a high school theater monologue. I just don't know, man. I can't take it anymore. You need a folding chair. I can't take this town anymore. Folding chair and a big steering wheel.

You say that, but I am hearing every fucking person I really knew in New Jersey who talked the way I am talking right now. Oh. No, a lot of them were assholes. And the outfit really sells it, I think. It really does. Garden state.

It's just New Jersey. We have good tomatoes. It's a beautiful state. It is a beautiful state. It is. Everyone's just familiar with the crusty booger up at the top near New York City, but it's farmland, beaches. Yeah, deep into the nasal cavity, everything is.

Yeah. Are we still talking about New Jersey? Yeah, I was going with the booger metaphor. All right, all right, all right. Too far in. Who's next? This guy? I think we're going around.

Sam, how did FCG feel talking with Gerana about his own need for therapy and to let people help him in order to help others? Well, FCG, I think, has realized over the last few months of traveling with the Bells Hells And FCG is not the greatest therapist. Doesn't really know enough about the human condition to really provide any insight into any of that. Wants to, but wanting to do something and being skilled enough

to do it are two different things. Like me, doing accents. I'd love to. I just can't. I mean, you do do them all the time. I feel you. I do do them. Yeah. Do do them. Boo boo. But it was a really, it was an eye-opening experience talking to her

about sort of his path forward and what he wants to do. It's tough because he's looking in all these different places for meaning. He's looking for meaning in helping others. He's looking for meaning in the gods above. He's looking for meaning in a sense of purpose.

What's their mission? What's their duty to this world? He's looking for meaning in his friends. It's as if all of those answers are unsatisfying, and he still hasn't figured it out yet. And I don't know that I, Sam Riegel, have figured it out yet. I love FCG so much. I do too. I love FCG so fucking much. I feel like in the beginning with letters,

that when he was helping people, it's grown more nuanced with time, even though he's doubting himself. And then when you was helping people, it's grown more nuanced with time, even though he's doubting himself. And then, like, when you were helping people, it felt like you were really trying to fix them. And maybe he's learned, maybe they're learning that you can't always fix people. You can just support them and be there for them.

If you try to change people, it's time to change people. I don't know. Maybe that one doesn't work. Maybe you start with changing yourself and then work out from there in slow circles. But I love that whole scene. That made me really happy.

Yeah. It's wonderful. Matt is a good therapist. I just want to say, side note, if I set on fire, it's because my sound pack is like 9,000 degrees pressed into my spine right now. Yeah. Yeah, a couple of my spinal chunks might fuse together by the end of the show. That's why I'm

not turning around completely to see people. I just assumed you were doing the Keaton Batman thing. So if you start yelling, you're not doing a monologue from Glen Ross. You're actually on fire. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay, here we go. Always be closing. Ashton had hopes for a mutiny aboard the ghost ship. Mutiny!

What were their plans or goals, and are they happy when the mutiny turned into a dance party of love? Yeah, so Ashton has kind of subconsciously gotten a hold of the notion that all authority is bad and is really just upset by all of it at the moment. And also kind of wanted a ghost ship a little bit for their own. But yeah, the chaos that got spread was perfectly acceptable. Walking away from it was like, not to go too far into a weird context, it was very Captain EO.

We went out and literally it was just like everyone was suddenly happy and dancing and boning. Does Ashton like fun? Yes, Ashton absolutely likes fun, except it's just the fun that Ashton likes is not necessarily fun for everybody else. And yes,

Ashton definitely likes fun. There just hasn't been a lot lately. We need to ask Ashton what kind of fun they would like to have. Yeah, well, I mean, once they've got a little bit of their... Once they've got a little bit of their... Once they've got

a little bit of a couple questions answered, that is definitely... Drinking with friends is great fun. Yes. You do a lot of drinking, but I always felt that that was, or assumed that that's to numb the pain. That's not fun. Multi-purpose.

Did they enjoy the beer garden back in Zephyr? they did Zephyr they very much did they enjoyed a good dance party they enjoyed the museum it was a lot of fun they enjoyed especially

they enjoy fights with shitty people but they also enjoy fighting with friends if everything is on the level and copacetic. Getting up to no good? Yeah. Especially when you're... Especially for people who kind of have it coming, at least in their head,

is kind of nice. And yeah, just taking care of people is really nice and fun. Are they a good dancer? Well, depends on who you ask. Them? Yes. Oh.

Okay. But is it like mosh pit dancing, or are they actually decent? It's mosh pit dancing. Oh, okay. But it's dancing to a big beat. It's the jumping up and down, you know. Do we got to find a rager for you? I would love a rager.

Yeah. I'd kill for a rager. That'd be great. You have killed find a rager for you? I would love a rager. I'd kill for a rager. That'd be great. You have killed for a rager. I'd kill again for a rager. Dare them to catch me. That base is going to drop on somebody and they're not getting back up. Drop the base is a threat? Always, always!

For a second I thought you said ranger, but you've also killed for with ranger. Yes. Yeah, no, they like fun. It's just, it hasn't been a lot going on lately. It's been a lot of- It hasn't been a lot of fun. It's been a lot of- Which is why the-

I mean, the ghost ship was fun. The ghost ship was so nice. They were so charming. We were so into it. They were so jolly. I really could, I want to be on that boat with those dead folk. We didn't ruin that for Matt, did we?

He didn't have like a super creepy thing planned and we made it a fun pleasure cruise? Probably. I've known that boy a long time. He was giggling. I'm sure he went home giggling his ass off. Yeah, you're talking about the person who role-played as Grass.

Okay, okay, okay. He loved it. True, true, true, true, true. He seemed like he was having the time of his life. Yeah. And I loved him romancing himself. Oh my god, that was the best. Watching Matt romance himself is the best.

Only because half of them's hidden behind the table. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Has Fearne answered one of these? Yeah. Fearne is the member of Bell's House that is the most optimistic about everyone surviving this adventure. Why does Fern maintain this positive attitude?

How does she feel as a fae that is best friends with mortals? Yes, this is, I think she just doesn't know how to deal with it. Because this is, being in this mortal world, it's hard because you, you lose things that you love. So I think, I think she thinks if she's, she just pretends that that's not a possibility, that everything will be okay. Um, because she doesn't want to deal with it. And doesn't want to deal with her problems. So she. What problems?

I don't know. No, I think it stresses her out. She loves everybody. She loves everybody so much. And thinking about possibly, I think, having had those moments where Orym was gone and Laudna. I think after that it was like oh that can't happen again because that's a terrible feeling yeah I think that's one thing

that probably stresses Fern out it's a little bit like the Cheshire Cat leaving Wonderland to come to Earth and seeing like yeah how painful it can be

yeah that doesn't compute with everything I know no normally I just roll around and disappear in a smile. Yeah. What's this feeling in my chest? Sorry, Chris.

Cookier comedy version of Wings of Desire. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, too weird of a throwback. Yeah. Yeah. Did you make a cigarette with your... I'm going to make one with mine, too.

Are you going Frenchman now? French Wario. French Wario. What is the meaning of this question? What's the difference between Wario and Waluigi? One of them is a parody of Mario, and one of them is a parody of Luigi. But why wouldn't it be Wario and Wooigi? Wooigi?

Wooigi? I guess that doesn't make sense. Wait, Luigi always came to me. You just said it out loud, I think. I feel like you answered your own question right there. Wait. I think it's that because it's Dopia. It's sillier.

Waluigi. Yeah. Waluigi? Yep. Waluigi. Luigi. And Wario? All right, we're going again.

I want to see your hand get it right here. Well, I pre-shoved my giant mitts in there. Okay. Robbing me of my fun. Tell us what it was like for Aurum to visit Zephra and for you to finally meet the family members that you dreamed up, like the triplets and Aurum's mothers. Well, I touched on this a little bit.

I love that with all these campaigns to make, like, to dream up Ostrad and Eadwulf, to dream up all this whole family. And I've been dreaming about this family since a little bit before the Vex and Percy wedding one-shot. And, like, I was mapping this all out. Yeah, yeah. Darragh was sort of like the land... He was teeing up Orym. Oh, wow.

And I don't know if you remember him talking about the triplets when they were little. Derek wasn't sleeping a lot because all his kids were a lot younger. As you know, as a father, you don't sleep much with kids. So, you know, you don't want to give Matt too much detail so that you can be surprised. Yeah, because he'll fuck it up. Yeah. Fuck it up. So bad.

But I also, you know, with Caleb, his past is not that sunny. And the twins lost their mother, and the father was a fucking schmuck. So I really enjoyed creating, even though he or himself had lost, he had the most loving family. And I thought about Caduceus and his family a lot, too,

when I was dreaming all MP11. Yeah, that was a departure for me, too, of like, maybe I'm just going to not have any of those problems. It's kind of nice. Pretty great. Kind of nice. I wonder if we're going to run into Caduceus. I'd love that.

Me, too. I feel like Fearne would love Caduceus. Oh my god, they get along so well. Yeah, they really would. Oh boy, they would. And they should be like, oh, I'm just going. Me too. I feel like Fearne would love Caduceus. Oh my god, they get along so well. Yeah, they really would. Oh boy, they would. They should be like, oh, I'm just going to stay here. This is where I'm supposed to live. I don't think we need the rest of the show.

I think we should just start improvising now. Got a room upstairs. You're fabulous, my god. I mean, you're not slouch either. Although a little short, but that's okay. Well, that's okay. You guys are even dressed right. What pals they would be. A little short, but that's okay. Well, that's okay. You guys are even dressed right.

What pals they would be. What pals they would be. I can cosplay. I can role play Caduceus until my fucking heart is dead. It's just the easiest. Are they the same height, too? Caduceus is probably a little taller. Maybe.

Caduceus is like seven foot. Oh, yeah, okay. He's taller than Fern. Fern's a little taller. Maybe. Dusis is like seven foot. Oh yeah, okay. He's taller than Fearne. Fearne's a little over six foot. I think at six feet with the horns. Orym just thinks everybody's nine feet tall. Yeah. Yeah, Clay would totally be in it.

Just never leave, just never leave. Yeah, just stay. You're the best. Just stay. Oh. We'll see. We'll see. Okay, I'm drawing. Speed round's going great. Oh, this is a speed round?

Yeah. Okay. What is the deal with Marisha's flat white coffee joke? Oh my god. People need answers. I mean, boy, that's the most wonderfully inside weird joke. As she explained, the surface level

explanation is that she sent a message in our company's Slack with her coffee order, which was a plain, flat white with vanilla. And that was her coffee order. Which we do every time we're here. Which is a very normal, not weird

coffee order. And I have the back story for the structure of the joke, if I can get another here. I had an improv teacher named Billy Merritt, a truly gifted improviser and comedian, and he taught me the rule of 37s, which is most time when you hear about the rule, the comedy rule is the rule of threes. Say something, say something again the third time. Very funny punchline. But he taught me the rule of 37s, which is, yes, something is funny after three mentions,

and then it is not funny on mention four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, or thirty-six. But? But 37. It's very funny.

And so if I keep saying this flat white coffee thing, eventually it will be funny. You were already, like, it had already briefly been a thing for like 10 seconds. There was a little joke. Wasn't there like a standup of, I think it was Gilbert Godfrey who came out and everybody was clapping and he was like, thank you, thank you so much, thank you so much. And he just kept going.

Thank you, thank you so much. And he kept doing that. That was the entire show. Thank you, thank you so much. And I could see how that would just become funnier and funnier, and he was still doing the bit. So good. That's a very good bit. So good. Oh man. So stay tuned. I'll let you know when it becomes funnier and funnier and you can still do the bit. Yeah. So good. That's a very good bit. So good. Oh man. So stay tuned.

I'll let you know when it becomes funnier. Oh, well, yeah, we won't know, will we? Goddamn it. Ashton is a Titan of Blood and has some sort of connection to the elemental Titans due to the actions of the Hishari. What does he think of this and how does he feel about the Hishari now? Well, there has probably been a little bit

of overcommitment into this now. Overcommitment? Well, I mean, that was a big Nature of Horrors vacuum, and a whole bunch of their past and a whole bunch of who he was at the beginning of his life is just a giant question mark. It is just nothing that will ever get filled. of who they are and what they think about the world was kind of rebooted and reforged at the age of seven, eight, nine,

wherever that was in a completely different place with a completely different group of people being raised by a state institution. So that's kind of, that's kind of all they've got. And that's the beginning of a personality, more or less. And so having the sudden opportunity to get those previous years filled and even further back into some sort of generational knowledge

is kind of intoxicating at the moment and there's not a lot of judgment happening about whether or not that's a good thing or not and what it actually means. But Ashton's real into it right now and is definitely leaning hard into it. That's great. That's great. We hope. We really, really hope it's great. Because, yeah, that could be great. That could be a problem. We will see.

But, yeah, it is definitely this missing thing that has been denied for their whole life. That is suddenly available and feels real and concrete in a way that nothing ever has before. What a crazy moment for it to happen right before you get laser rocketed to the moon. Yeah. Oh, I'm not going to go into that, but I mean, yeah,

it's kind of specific. Specific? Speaking of mystery. I know, I don't want to give anything away. I don't understand yet. Yeah, I'm trying not to give anything away, but it is definitely starting to learn just how badly life fucked you is really an interesting,

an interesting moment, especially when you're about to go meet the people upstairs and just see just how badly they fucked you. Do you mean HR? Yeah. I'd like to register a complaint. So yeah, and that's very, he's very specifically leaning into it.

It's, even with not enough knowledge, leaning into it probably before he should. We'll see. That's fine, I think you're the last. Yeah, bow tie crew, go. What? Bow tie crew. Bow tie?

Oh yeah, we're bow tie. Okay. I never get to wear this as a matching cummerbund. Tell us everything about Fearne's flirtation with the Champion of Asmodeus. Oh, yes. And Klausk. I mean, goodness, he was just so hot.

Like, what was I supposed to do? I don't really think there's much more than that. Does Fern flirt? To flirt or to consummate? Does she want things to actually happen with these people or is she just flirting because she flirts? Yes. I don't know.

I don't know. That's just what's coming out as Fern. And so I'm like, well, whatever. I'll just go with it. I think she's very flirty by nature. Just for fun. Because it's fun. But.

Like, is she flirty or is she horny? I mean, maybe both. Why categorize? Why categorize? It depends. Like if it's somewhat, you know, if, if. If it happens, it happens. If it happens, it happens.

Okay, if the flirt up here and then the horn is just like a little beep that pops up. Yeah. It's just, it's a little flirt. And then if someone is like, goes a little further with the flirt, then it's like, oh, okay. Well, we can make this happen.

There's a vibe. Yeah, but I kind of think she does flirt a little bit just for fun. Yeah, I think it's just a funsies. And sometimes I think it would be very different with somebody that she cares about more on a deeper level. I don't know if she's ever really experienced like full love for somebody before. Like that. She hasn't had a significant other? I mean...

A serious boyfriend, girlfriend, other? Does that vulnerability ever actually happen? I know that's a question you might not be able or want to answer, but like, that's a lot of self-knowledge there. I don't think I can get into it yet. Oh! I don't think I can get into it yet.

So that means there is an answer. Yes. Ooh! So many micro-expressions. Juice! Juice! Yes, there is. So maybe we'll get into it, but yeah. Woo! Yeah, yeah. I don't know, we'll see.

So we got Devil Guy. Mm-hmm. We got Bone Man. Mm-hmm. We got Bone Man. Mm-hmm. Gnome Man. Mm-hmm. God Lady. Mm-hmm.

God Lady. Deanna. Abria. Oh, yeah. Well, Abria's too powerful. Mm-hmm. She just, I couldn't do anything about it. You know, this is getting a little steamy.

I think I'm going to cool things off with a pull from the- Tower of Inquiry. Let's do it. From the pile of disaster over there. Let's do what we got. Self pull. Self pull. Self pull. Taliesin makes a lot of noise when he moves in this outfit. I know. It's all... Why would you end that conversation, Taliesin? Who could you?

You can't hear in the club, though. All right. This is just very... She's very tiny, Jenga. ...extra of the bad Star Trek episode. Yeah. A lot of... Well, I'll explain. Eight.

Eight is the number. I'm going to put this... Wherever I put this, I'm going to put this over here. Aha. Okay. From Arnie Erickson. Hi, Arnie. Have you ever gone home from a session thinking,

what the fuck do we do now? Is it a barrage of internal questions of what happens now? What do we do? I need to talk to somebody. Or do you wait until the next session to figure it out? Oh, it's different every time. Different every time, yeah. Definitely moments of what the fuck just happened.

What are we going to say? What am I going to say next week with the pickle that we just created? Gosh, I hope I remember what I'm going to say. Uh-huh. Last game, I was definitely trying to remember. I had so many plans and I forgot all of them. If we know that we're getting ready for an important battle or encounter, combat encounter, we frequently will set up a text chain without Matt in it to plan our attack and then totally ignore it.

Or we'll have all these great ideas and plans. First you do this and then I'll do this and we'll do a combo move and it'll be awesome. And then someone else will be like, or I fly up here and do this, and then you guys can do that. And everyone's like, that's good too. And we don't decide. We just lay out five different plans and do none of them. No plan survives contact with the enemy.

I do love what you do, though. And I genuinely mean this. This is not me being sarcastic. It's about 24 hours before it's time to play, you always text. I'm sure I could find all of them in the text thread. So do we have a plan? What exactly it is are we doing here? We need to work something out. It doesn't work.

We don't really have a plan, do we? There's pages of, oh no. I still will laugh. I love it. Every game since you've done this, I have a moment where I'll get the giggles. About when you leaned over to Liam. And I thought you were going to tell him something really serious. And then you were like, do you have a plan? The way you said it was so funny and I could not stop laughing.

And I still will think about that every game since and just start getting the giggles. So, do you have a plan? You were so serious about it. I assume the answer was no. No! We are experts at this. You gotta keep an open mind. You do.

You do. You do. I mean, yeah, you, I mean, like, last game was a perfect example of you dodging and weaving, and, like, it was amazing to watch. God. That was, yeah, just. What happened? Everything kept flowing by you, and you would grab it, and yeah, it was just, nothing touched you. Yeah. We got pretty low in HP, though. Oh, I mean in that fight. Very low. We had a rough in HP, though. Oh, I mean in that fight. Very low.

We had a rough... That was rough. Yeah. That was... It was rough. Harder than I thought it was going to be. The worm fight? Once it was like, oh, that's right.

We got a... I had an interesting thing, because I rolled exactly what I didn't want for my... I got the space build, which it was like, well, this is great when you're fighting a bunch of people, but this is not great for a big bad. So you roll, and it's going to be one of the things. You don't know which one.

A d6 or d4? d4. Okay, and it's space, time, gravity, and reality. Reality. Or I suppose, that, or we call it probability. Space, time, reality, probability. What's probability? Have we seen it probability. Space-time reality probability. What's probability? Have we seen that? Yeah, it's come up. It's the rainbow, and that just means that things go well around me a lot.

Just everything's a little... It's basically, not to get into the technical, it's a roving Bless spell. Cool. For anyone within a range of me. That's cool.ving Bless spell. Cool. For anyone within a range of me. That's cool. Yeah, yeah. Space is really great for a lot of a big sea of creatures, but one big one, it doesn't really...

Just the portal. That's so cool. We used that a couple times. Yeah. Once I was like, oh, if we get near it and we're going to get assed, okay, I'm just going to keep my distance and fuck with it. So cool. Do we want to do one more? One more. Let's pull one more.

You want me to do it? I already pulled one. You want to pull one? I think we've all pulled. Yeah, you're closest to the thing. Who, me, Sam Riegel? Yeah, you, Sam Riegel. Okay, here I go.

Pull one from the chaos. From on top of the pile of skulls. Okay, here I go. Since you- Pull one from the chaos. From on top of the pile of skulls. Why didn't I do this one? My spine is molten. I'm not gonna say a word. Number one. Woo! I love that you pulled this one.

Number one. From Aleos Lofonos, how do you choose an accent for a character? Ah! Great question. That is a good question. It's got to be something you can keep up for several years.

Yes. Like a little British lady, right? Like a little British lady, sure. The only accents that I can do that I haven't already done, well, I did me as Scanlan. I did me, but slightly hoidier as Tarion. I did Miss Piggy for You're Not the Brave.

Love her so much. And then this weird country thing. I only have one other accent that I can do in life. And that is like a surfer dude. So that's next campaign. A lot of factors go into what it's going to be. I mean, the first ones were just what they were. It was just us going, I don't know, let's go.

But then after that, I mean, I chose Zemnian for him once Matt started telling us a little bit about Wild Mountain and telling us the influences on it. And I was like, I could do a German accent as inspiration for Zemnian? Sold. And I hadn't been thinking about that at all as soon as he said that it was in. But then we also know, again, that we're going to be doing this for years. And we talk to each other about who's doing what a little bit, so there's not overlap, and you want to do something different than what you've done before.

So... I definitely, I'd say, I would say, I thought it would be a great way to kind of learn an accent that you don't know how to do very well. It's not. At all. That was a mistake. So, my, yeah, boy.

And then so my next... You're like, I'm going to ace this by the time we end this campaign. I'm going to be so good at this accent. I'll be like halfway through, I'll have it picked up. And then you get afraid to talk because you're like, it's going to sound like shit. I just gave up. Yeah. I was like, fuck it. And then afterwards, I now pick all my accents based on what I will still be able to say if I've had a four-hour awful session.

So it's just, what can I do after I've ruined myself for four hours? That's a good idea. Clay and Ashton are on the other ends of that. God, I wish I could do accents. Like, sometimes I can. We heard some earlier tonight. Yes, sometimes I can, and it's like, wow, I can do it. And then the next day, it's gone.

You've got to have a good Brit, right? Say again? Do you do an RP? You've got to have an RP Brit. A nice classy. Classy English accent, like this. I went to school. I went to school.

Nope. No, we could work on this, though. It's not that difficult. It's not that difficult. It's not that difficult. Longer, everything's got to be long, yes. Everything's got to be long. Oh! There are people in the UK vomiting right now.

Shh, shh, shh! Don't you see a fucking thing? This one American is teaching this other American. That's not a properly known thing. The rain in Spain crash falls mainly on the plane. I so badly wanted a stronger accent with Yasha, because I was like, it's so fun, because there is something about fantasy RP

where you feel like you want to do a British accent, or it feels more fantasy, because every fantasy film that we've seen, you don't hear a boring-ass American accent. So I always wanted that, because you sound so regal and wonderful and I just can't do it. Well, a little bit it's nice too because you're going outside of yourself.

So you just feel different than yourself. Yeah, yeah. Was this Fern voice that you do, is that something that you've done all your life or for years like this? No, that just popped out in EXU and I was like, okay, this is what's going to happen. Yeah, that was just the first game and I was like, well, maybe I'll just try something like she's a little... And then that came out.

If the audience leaves with nothing else, they should know two things tonight. One, you can see my nipples. And two, you have to do an accent to play Dungeons & Dragons. Absolutely. Yeah, it's the only way to play. And if you don't, stop playing. No, not at all. Yeah. Thank you, Arnie Erickson and Elias,

oh, god, I'm gonna mess this up, Elias Lafonos. You have a pronunciation, so I. Oh no, I'm going for it. I actually went for the most super villain sounding one. So, and again, I get it all the time, so sorry. Remember, if you have a burning question for our Tower of Inquiry once it is rebuilt, you can enter it at critrole.com slash tower.

No punctuation. You did so good.com slash tower. No punctuation. You did so good. It was perfect. But we're going to take a quick break, but don't leave because... I've decided I've grown bored of Critical Role and its paltry shows. I've decided to aim higher.

World domination! And I don't need this nerdy ass company anymore so that's why for the C block you will all be playing a game called keep talking and no one explodes

ha ha ha ha ha ha your back is literally burning. Wait, did you... I did not plant a bomb on set or anything like that. Though I can see from the context of the clues why you'd think that,

but I'm a homicidal anthropomorphic mop. What a monster. But if you fail, that pumpkin man will come alive and eat all of you slowly, one by one, while the crew watches with utter dispassion. What is happening right now? So scary. This is amazing. Do we stop?

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