Critical Role - Wrong Distance Relationships | 4-Sided Dive | Episode 13: Discussing Up To C3E60

Episode Date: June 13, 2023

Its a mini Bells Hells reunion! Laura Bailey and Ashley Johnson tell us all about their adventures with Team Wildemount and Liam O’Brien and Marisha Ray fill us in on everything going on with Team Issylra! There is also the Tower of Inquiry, cute mugs, and a very artistic game of MonsDRAWsity! 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. I think Matt is going to take these 20 MacBooks that he found just when he was dumpster diving. He's done 20 of them? Yeah. That's amazing.

Good deals? Is he going to give a good deal on it? I think he's going to give a pretty good deal on that. He should make sure that he signs the tweet, though, so that we know that it's him. Oh, that's a great idea. You know, we just need to make sure that it's actually him. Yeah, like confirm.

Never know. And not a scammer. Yeah. I know that I actually have the NFT code for it's actually like him selling her nowadays. Yeah. I know that I actually have the NFT code for the image, not the tweet. Oh no. The image of the tweet. Oh cool, cool, cool, cool. That is so impressive.

How much is that being sold for? Uh, nothing. I'm gonna use it to wipe my ass tomorrow. Oh, we got it, we got it, we got it. Wow. Did you find the NFT in the dumpster of Circuit City just like Matt did with the MacBook? Same dumpster. Same dumpster. Oh, God. Hey, guys.

Oh, boy. Who wants to be tavern keeper? I didn't last time I was here, so that means I don't have to do it. No, it's not. You're not off the hook. That's not how it works? No. Probably means it'll happen.

It'll do the right thing. It's up to you. No, it won't. I'll do the blue day. Okay, I'm taking the black one. Bye, Daddy. We love you. Bye. It sounded like you called me Daddy. Bye, Daddy. Bye, day. I'm taking the black one. Bye Danny. We love you

I'm lucky called me daddy. Bye daddy I think she's all pretend. This is the best. I don't want to Okay, and it happens again then you have to be keeper I'm getting all the I'm getting all the good writing from sorry. I keep hitting the mic. I keep oh you just yeah You don't wanna you don't want to consume all the writing. Yeah, I don't wanna be you know taking up all the tavern keeping Okay. All right. Let's go Oh wait You did have a 16 you did it twice in a row

Yes, yeah, okay, Liam has to roll again cuz he's You did it twice in a row. She got it twice in a row. Wait, did she? Mine's cocked. Yes. Yeah, okay. Liam has to roll again. Because he says it's cocked. Roll it again. Roll it again. Roll a natural 20.

Roll above a 16. Nope. You were 12, yeah. Gerd. This is ridiculous. Where am I standing again? Right here? Got the schadenfreude? Gerd Bermit. This is Foresighted Dive,

the internet's most spontaneous and unscripted talk show about a TTRPG actual play genetically engineered for maximum off-the-cuff shenanigans. Hello, I am Ashley Johnson, your 13th, lucky 13. Now I'm just riffing.

Now I'm just making shit up. Or was I? Oh yeah, your 13th Tavern Keeper. We're so pleased that you've chosen this show for your eyeballs and other general pleasantries. We know that sometimes teleprompters can make shows feel stilted and overproduced. And that's why for this four-sided dive, we'll be conducting a little experiment

where we do the ice-cold prompter read without the prompter, starting now. Open the Red Book to your right and turn to page 69. Is this right? Nice. Oh, wow. There's joy. Oh, my God. A choose-your-own-adventure happening here.

Okay. God, I'm so nervous. What is this going to be? Okay. Whatever it is, it's going to be good. 69, baby. Team Wildemount battled their way through the horrors of Malleus Myr and found a magic staff capable of teleporting them home.

They used it, but we don't know where they ended up. It's like being stuck in traffic on the five. We don't know where we're going, but we'll get there eventually. Now, look inside Chetney's leathery tool sack. He has a leathery tool sack? Whoa, what? Where?

Where's the tool sack? Did we move it when we were fucking around? It's over there, it's over there, it's over there. This is like a treasure hunt. This is actually kind of fun. Oh, wow. Oh, wow, look at all these toolies. I was picturing a different leathery tool sack.

Yeah, me too. Take my sweet-ass time. Laudna, Orym, and Ashton find themselves in Issylra. Where they, sorry, where they've joined up with a humble farmer with superpowers, a cobalt soul apprentice with a sassy talking book, and the most fabulous dwarf to ever walk the surface of Exandria, Marisha Ray. Oh, fuck. I already fucked up the... Wow.

Marisha Ray is also here. I messed up the joke. I messed up the joke. Now, look inside Santa's little pocket. Oh yes, Santa. Santa. Alright, alright. What is going on here? He's so scary.

He's... No, I don't think so. We spruced up the set here recently. This is so cool. I love this new set piece.ced up the set here recently. This is so cool. You know, notice what I'm pointing out. I love this new set piece. The forum tried to bring common sense to a philosophical debate about the morals and ethics of divinity.

We get it, Flame Guide. You went to Yale. Now open the door. Now I'm scared. I'm really scared. This is your life. Oh, okay. Go back to your mark and open me. This is so fun, actually. We do, we do, we have fun.

Okay. Do you love the laxadaisical pace of all of this? My goodness, we certainly are off the rails, aren't we? Is this any better? Later, we'll be playing Monstrosity. Welcome to Foresighted Time. Let's do a crappy show. Welcome back. Let's begin the night with our open discussion segment,

What the Fuck is Up With That? Yay. All right. Topics, everybody. This is real book club. Yes, it does. So let's talk about the town of Hearthdale. So book club. Yes, it does. So let's talk about the town of Hearthdale. So book clubby. Okay, did everyone get through chapter seven?

We did not. I did neither. I was never in a book club. Is anyone ever in a book club? Yes. Are you in a book club right now? That makes sense. I'm not in a book club right now.

Our book club's name was Show Us Your Wits. Oh, that is so great. I'm not in a book club right now. I mean. Our book club's name was Show Us Your Wits. Oh. Nice. Oh, that is so great. I actually really love book clubs. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway.

I love good books. Okay, anyway. I love good books. I love good books. More like Town of Midsommar, am I right? Oh wait, start over? What, the show? Town of Hearthsdale?

More like Town of Midsommar. Uh-huh. Who do we trust? Who do we trust? Who do we trust there? You guys talk. You guys talk amongst yourselves. This is our thing.

Yeah, this is you guys. Yeah, this is you guys. How are we going to do this one? The two halves of a whole other shit going on. I know. It feels oppressive. Look, we haven't even scratched the full surface of it. It feels sad.

Yeah. Yeah, it's our first time. Oh, go ahead. You go ahead. I was going to say, I don't know if it's actually that creepy or if it's just us projecting onto the town. We basically saw two maypoles

and went, this town is creepy. Right, right. And that's it. That's all we have. I don't know. Matt made a point of when he was throwing out different, we walked through a crowd of people or maybe it was, I can't remember, maybe it was in that town hall meeting where everything went bad.

But it just went from NPC to NPC and someone's like, I tell you, if that guy touches my wife one more time. Yeah, that's true. So I think that tells us. What? Yeah. That the churchies from up north are not great. Not good. So a prince of his would be the right.

Yeah. It's, yeah. One more time. The delegation from the Dawnfather's temple So Prince of Iz would be the right? Yeah. It's, yeah, like, the delegation from the Dawnfather's temple is a little, they're a little intense about what they're doing right now. It's full on like, rich out-of-towners paid to bring in, like, the temple of the Dawnfather kind of a thing.

And the town was like, nah the Dawnfather kind of a thing. And the town was like, nah, religion's not really our thing. We're kind of more like- We're woodsy types. Woodsy, druid-y, you know, super pagan kind of vibes. Right, but the Dawnfather's people were like, you need to buy these tapes and take our courses.

Yes. Or else. And they built a giant Dawnfather temple in the middle of the town. I think they gussied it up. Yes. Or else. And then they built a giant Donfather temple in the middle of the town. I think they gussied it up. I think it existed. Oh, I thought they built it. A whole stone edifice

in the... The temple of the Donfather? I could be wrong. My brain is Swiss cheese. The only thing they've said is that it was built. So I imagine that they built the whole thing.

Okay. So it's kind of how, like, Protestants are. 100%. We should definitely zero in on a specific religion. We should definitely zero in, yes, on a specific religion to make sure that we offend. Yeah. And then to as many people as possible. Religion has caused some problems in the world.

Some, not all. Which we are all aware. 100%. Yes. I'm saying in big capital letters, which we are all aware. A hundred percent. Yes. I'm saying in big capital letters, religion. I'm not talking about any specific. No. I'm specifically talking about Exandria, not any world real.

Yeah, don't yell at us, please. Just, you can yell at me on Twitter. I can take it. All right. So who do you guys trust? Do you trust anybody? In this town? No one.

No one. Yeah. No, because Matt subverted our expectations. And we're like, oh, we're going to the groovy hippie meeting where they're talking about, like, how they can help us. We have to go to this cottage and meet this sagely, wise person who lives in a house of flowers. And that person is fucking hardcore and wants to murder every priest in that temple. I feel like... Like most hippies.

Yeah. Yeah. I feel like we did okay trying to talk to Abudina and trying to make our case be heard. And then she definitely went like, Hmm. Two lives, one life. Yeah, no, I hear you. So murder was kind of how it felt.

Yeah, it's like we've tried that. Uh-huh. It's intense. It's weird that you guys have a whole thing that we don't know about. I know! But you had a whole thing, too. I know, it's weird that we have a whole thing that you don't know about. Yeah. It's intense. It's weird that you guys have a whole thing that we don't know about. I know! But you had a whole thing, too. I know, it's weird that we have a whole thing

that you don't know about. Yeah. It's weird. Have you? Do you guys think about us every day? I used to the first couple of weeks, but then I stopped. What are these? I'm not very smooth at this. What are these Eidolons?

Am I saying this correctly? Yeah, that's an Eidolon. Yeah. That sounds right. What are the Eidolons? What are the Eidolons? What are the Eidolons? Hey, guys. Danny, come back.

Danny, come back. Danny, come back. Daddy, come back. Sadie. Sadie, what are the Eidolons? The Eidolons are what Elder Abaddon Daddy, come back. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. The Eidolons are what Elder Abadino has. What? The spirits? What Elder Abadino was

praying to her spirits. She says that the I... Oh, I'm good. Very natural. The things that she was praying to, she had and was saying, like, oh, they'm good. Very natural. There are things that she was praying to she had and was saying, like, oh, they're the ones that are helping us and everything like that.

So what do y'all think of these Eidolons, y'all? Eidolons, yeah, that's right. Wood spirits. Like Princess Mononoke style. Yes. Awesome. You can trust those ones. Yeah, honestly, yeah.

I trust some neutralist wood spirits. Kyle, I think you need to use words. We're so confused. What did I do? Oh. Side note, I love your Night Circus pin, Dani. Thank you. Did you see that? I had that in a pantomime, too.

My BFF and favorite person. We were basically in a book club together. We were. And Night Circus was our first and only book so far. It was. And eventually we'll read another. She has a sequel. Not a sequel, but her second book is so good.

Wait, is this book club just the two of you? Yes. Yeah. It was an accidental book club. It was an accidental book club. Yes. And then when I was in France, I found a French version. Yes.

And I sent her a video, like the lovers we are. We're beautiful. Guys, did you see all that shit on Laura? Yeah, God, yeah. What is she covered in? What is, she's in trouble right now. Oh my God. Wait, what do you, who do you trust?

I don't trust anybody right now. I don't get like, like bad vibes from the vibes from the Eidolons, but also. We haven't gotten a lot of vibes from them yet. There's no, we've only heard of them secondhand. I mean, it's too soon. We've been there for seven seconds and we're trying to make big things happen fast. A little weird gremlin in the system.

There's not a lot of time. I'm right here. Like Orm doesn't want to turn into a full on serial killer. I'm going to put some on my waist though. There's not a lot of time. Orym doesn't want to turn into a full-on serial killer, but they need to get out of here and get back to the thick of it. Yeah, and it's like when I'm 100%. I'm back, baby!

I'm gonna switch right now! What'd you do? Did you fix all that explosive diarrhea? Yep. Good. Everything's fine. Yeah, me and you talked about this a little bit. It's very transactional for us at this time.

Like, we do not have time to try and convince a bunch of townsfolk one way or the other how to feel about the gods. So we're just like, cool, those are your ideas. They are set in stone. We're not going to change your mind. Can we have a teleport spell, please? Going to try once this Hail Mary pass

to just fix this peacefully, and everyone just walks away, and it just came close, maybe, and fell apart. So we just got to hammer it through. Yeah. I'm really curious what the DC on that persuasion check was. Pretty high.

It sounds pretty high. Pretty high. It's also one of those things, as soon as all the guards were like, well, cool, we'll just arrest you and send you to Vasselheim so you can tell this story to them. I was like, oh yeah.

Yeah, no, that tracks. That makes sense. We should have guessed that that's what they would say. We don't have time for that. No, we don't have time. Gotta go. Gotta go fast. So Elder Abedina. Sure seems interesting.

Crazy lady. I mean, I feel like we covered her. Yeah, what about our new guests? Okay, new guests, all guests, new faces, whoa! Has there been a dive about the previous guests already, or are we talking all our guests? Yes. No, I think there were because we just weren't on that episode.

They weren't on that episode. So we can get... Yeah. Aabria. She has a name. Aabria and Christian were on the show. Yes. My favorite.

And Travis and Sam, right? Yes. But we haven't gotten your guys' take on Deanna and Frida. I love them. I love them too. So sweet. They're just so fun to playida. I love them. I love them too. So sweet. They're just so fun to play with. I love playing with Aabria.

Yeah. First of all. She's so good. Oh, she makes me laugh. So good. Yeah. She tickles. She like knows like my exact type of sense of humor that just gives me the giggles.

Yeah. And I just think I just love her. But also playing with Christian for the first time. Yeah. So I just think, I just love her. But also, playing with Christian for the first time. Yeah. Like, so fantastic. My God. He's instantly in.

Yeah. Like, there was no moment of like, oh, I gotta figure out what I'm doing. It's just like, yeah. Yeah.

Instantly in character and like, pulled us all in like, oh shit, take it seriously, Christian's looking at here. Yes. It was awesome.

Totally blew me away, but just what they brought was so incredible. Yeah. And so wonderful.. Yes. It's awesome. Totally blew me away, but just what they brought was so incredible. Yeah. And so wonderful. I'm gonna miss them at the table. You know. Which I'm sure you guys will feel that the same way. With us being gone. I don't really care for Rami Carrero much. Well, okay, so

Bordor Prism and Denise! And Denise! What is up with them? Denise. Denise is so good. It's crazy. I feel like we talked about this a little bit too. They all knocked their character descriptions

so far out of the park when they came in, and I feel like it just really set the tone. Like, Amy describing Denise as a woman in a male-dominated field who will try and push their femininity to make sure that they still have that claim. So she was like a lady cop with crazy acrylics. Yes.

And that just stuck out instant. You're like, oh yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. Yes. And it's just like, that just stuck out instant. You're like, oh yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. Yes. Which is so, yeah, it's so specific. It's so specific. It's so specific, and you're like, yes. And then Emily talking about, she's like,

oh, she's kind of like the emo girl, but instead of song lyrics tattooed on her arm, there were runes. They're all just these incredible identifiers. Ukarsh talking about how he's basically walking around. Hot boy. He's so cute. He's so cute. But he's basically walking around in a canvas sack

that was once used for potatoes. It's just all... Unassuming hot boy. Unassuming hot boy, yeah... Unassuming hot boy. Unassuming hot boy, yeah. Unassuming hot boy. Prism with that 149 points of damage. She's a ringer. She knows the game inside out.

And she's curious and inquisitive and is, like, bristling with ideas all the time. Just like lightning at the table. And then hot boy, former Hot Boy. Former Hot Boy. Former Hot Boy. I love the, he is on the other end of the spectrum from Emily, but is using that to his advantage

and throwing up all over himself. Yeah, he just went fetal in the middle of one of the fights. Hysterical choice. He was like, I don't know what to do, so I just lay downal in the middle of one of the fights hysterical choice so i just lay down which like is kind of the right yeah it's the right response that is how you respond if all of a sudden you have these insane abilities that's what we'd really all do oh my god i'm sorry i love it and a monster over top of you you just lay down just hope it ignores you and then carrero is too is just too powerful, always.

From her narrative telephone, where I was like, I feel like I'm watching a Scorsese film. She's just too powerful. And I did a legitimate double take during the game where we're having like a quiet fireside chat. She's telling me, Denise is telling Orm her story and telling it and I'm listening quietly

and she goes, da-da-da-da when I was with Dariax and I was in the middle of my feels role-playing with her and it took like a good three count

and I was like, what'd you say? It took a second for it to sink through my thick skull. I couldn't tell if it was just a really good RP

or if you actually were like, what did you just say? Oh, that's right, because you guys didn't know who they were, why would you know who they were playing? Because you didn't even know who they were playing. Yeah. Yeah. I was always surprised. I didn't remember.

Dariax, like that was Dariax's lady. Uh-huh. He fucked up. Oh no, I talked with Matt a little bit about it and he's like, Denise can do better than Dariax. And I'm like, yeah, I think so. Oh, man. Well, the party's still split.

Party's still split, you guys. It's weird. Despite my joke earlier, I really miss you guys. I know. I'm looking forward to rejoining us all together. I'm actually doing okay yeah i miss being at the table it's hard but it's i mean it's so wonderful playing with with new friends and new people of course yeah but it is it's funny how you get so used to family at the table yeah and then it's just but it's so fun having different energy because it's funny how you get so used to family at the table. Yeah. And then it's just...

But it's so fun having different energy, because it's just like a different playstyle. Yeah. And you're like, oh, shit. Alright. Let's see what's going on here. Like, we're so in lockstep with each other. You know, that core eight of us. Like you said, I think

it's good for everyone involved to have a little little bit of a shake yeah yeah i mean i think most of us know each other's characters so well and know each other as like players so well that we can guess how somebody else is going to react to a situation yes so it's fun to have people that you have no idea what they're going to pull out of their butt yeah oh yeah 100 oh yeah i always feel Aabria, because the way she describes things is so beautiful. Yeah. Where I'll just end up staring at her, and then I'm like, oh, my God.

How did she just say that? And I'm just complete rapt attention. I once told her she's like a poet laureate. Yeah. Like, in the way she talks. And it's just like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's wild. She's also a troll. She's also a troll, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's wild.

She's also a troll. She's also a troll, which, you know, I love my trolls. Yeah. So how's everybody doing? Doing good. Oh man, so good. Let's just get some check-ins

all around. Doing good. So, Team Wildemount, how do you feel about how the arc wrapped up? Oh, that's us. That's us, that's us, that's us. Well, I rolled very poorly on our final moment wait and our teleport spell backfired

oh my god i genuinely don't know what the heck yeah you guys might end up like in the ocean or something right it was uh you could roll between a one and a five and and out of a hundred, and that you would fuck up the spell, and I rolled a five. You rolled five? Maybe you'll come out all fused together. It's possible. I don't know what, it might just mean I have to roll again, and we all, like, are destroyed.

I forgot about that. Or we might end up in the middle of the ocean. Just destroyed. I don't know. Yeah. I forgot, because it's been a minute. Yeah. Wow, that's rough.

That wrapped up. Maybe Amy and Karsh and Emily will stay. Maybe. Yeah, they might be the new crew. Oh, okay. Like, this is the end of this episode, and I thought, we've got to find a way for our guests to say goodbye,

but there was no, it doesn't make sense for our guests to say goodbye. I didn't want those characters to go away. Of course you would come to the city with us. So they're just, they're still here. I was watching it at home and I'm like, okay, this is where they split. They're going to split now.

They're going to come, they're going to come. Okay. Okay. They're together. Yeah. And then my content brain, my production brain was like, I was talking with Kyle and I'm like,

Kyle, I don't know, we just might need to be prepared for like 12 people on the set. It's possible. We just need to think, maybe stools, and we'll be, you know, and windows will be stacked, you know, like it's dance team, you know, everyone. I don't know how we're going to do it. I don't either. I genuinely don't know how we're going to do it.

But maybe I, that five means that like, oh no, only the three of you ended up in a box. No. True. No, that would be devastating. That's like a re-devastation after we've just been split from our OG party. Yeah, Imogen hasn't dealt with enough.

Yeah, Imogen has not. We definitely need a pile more. I think all of us have dealt with a lot at this point. I feel like your guests thematically are very wholesome and kind. Except for the killing of a goat and skinning it. That's just a goat, that's me. That was a survival.

Explosion of goat. That was amazing. Am I going to get exploded? I don't want to be exploded. Yeah, the goat performances were kind of my favorite. Spot on. My favorite, I think my favorite thing that Matt has ever

done at the table is when I can't remember whose goat it was. I think it was I think it was FCG's. He made this one noise where he like walks out and he's all like sassy and like bell bottoms. Or like his little like foofs. And then he out and he's all sassy and bell bottoms. Or his little foofs. And then he was like, right. He was really sharp, but it was confident at the same time.

And that was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. I do love seeing new guests take in Matt's sound effects. Yeah. Front and center. Yeah. Because we've had a few moments, like, with, like, Amy and Emily and Ukar doing the same thing, where they'll, like, he'll just do one of his kind of standard toolbox of sound effects.

Right, where for eight years we're so used to it. Did you hear that? Did that really just happen? Because they're so good. They're so good. Even when he's writing. Yeah. Question coming in from me. What's your favorite map sound effect? Oh gosh. Well, I can't do it. So this is just, I'm going to look stupid, but the... Was this my plan the whole time?

The knife or the fork in the table sound effect. Yes, I love when he does that. It's so good. That's the thing, it has different frequencies depending on how big it is. So it can be like fast or it can be like. See, I can't do it. It's the big rubber knife.

Yeah. Oh my God. It's not a rubber knife. Yeah. Oh, my God. It's not a knife. That's not a knife. Yeah, I like when he does the writing. Yeah. I can't do any of them. His uncorking glass bottles.

Yes. Oh, yeah. What's that one? I can't do it. I can't do it. He just does a sound where he uncorks a bottle, and it's always like... I don't do it. He just does a sound where he puts a bottle in it. So I was like, I don't know. He'll just do like a door opening and you're like,

you don't even think about it. It's just like, yeah, the door opened. Yeah, the door opened, the chair squeaks to the. This is why one of us is the GM. And we're not doing it justice either. We're not, we're not. We're forgetting GM. And we're not doing it justice either. We're not. We're forgetting a lot because we've been doing it for eight years, but still, every third episode,

he'll do a thing and I'll go like. Yeah, and you forget and you're like, holy shit, you're good at this. I hope there's just a cut of just our sound effects, our shitty sound effects. Oh man. Everything's everything I want. What are you guys looking forward to in your arc? But yeah, we were kind of getting to it.

Your guys' guests were so wholesome and were kind of going for the straight man approach. Ours really was like being on the New York subway. And three weirdos from different doors came in. You're like, oh, we're in this train together, I guess. But to be fair, that has been Orym's experience every step of the way. EXU, holy shit. Bells Hells, really?

And now this, going, what did I do? Yeah, he's just the world, really. This is, hells. Really? And now this going, what did I do? Yeah, he's just the world. This is just the world. Oh my god. At first, I wasn't sure how it was going to go because we're already a team with Laudna and Ashton. And then I just, knowing Amy's play style, I was like, oh, she's going to come in like a cannonball.

She's going to come in hot. And then knowing that Emily is also capable of big troll energy, and then Utkarsh kind of being the wild card, there was a hot second where I was like, oh, is this going to be just sheer chaos? Is it going to be too much? But it's not, at least not yet. And I think Ukarsh kind of balances it out as well with the way he's playing.

We're really striking a balance so far. Yeah. Because you don't want our guests to have the pressure of like, oh, there's all this lore and all this stuff. You just want them to come in and have fun and experience it as it's happening. But we're also aiming towards things. So you want them to have fun,

but you want to like keep striving towards the things that you're striving towards and not lose all of, like we've just all been through hell together. So you want to keep

that plate spinning as well. But I feel like this is plate spinning. Is it? Yeah. You just really want to keep that plate spinning. That's not a plate.

It's not a knife and it's not a plate. What you're thinking of is more like this. Yeah. It's more like that. Oh my gosh. Yeah, especially. Hm? Oh, thanks, cool.

I did want that. Oh, I thought I was handing you a plate for a second. Yeah. A plate. Well, yeah. Should be good. I'm also looking forward. Just from this point forward.

I don't know, like the hard climb. Because Aurum's been such a Boy Scout this whole time, and I've been enjoying that, but things are so dire that it's not going to be possible in the same way anymore. Or he's decided. How do you mean? Elaborate for me. I mean, world-ending stuff. We don't really know what exactly has happened, but it is the magnitude is so massive and things can't be left the

way they are. And Orms watched both the leader of his home potentially murdered like we don't really know he doesn't know that and and lewdness's plan came off kind of did it come off and lewdness wants to unleash something we have no idea what effect that's going to have on the world so really little like i really don't want to like kill anybody here and he doesn't where he is but we don't have time to spend a week going up to Vasselheim and sit in a court and describe things. We have to go now. But I wouldn't have thought that we had time to go to Malaesmar either. That's true. Yeah.

We're days before you, though. That's true. You're not there yet. Wait, we were going over to Vasselheim? Where are we teleporting to? We're teleporting back to your hand to dresser yeah that's right that's right nevermind okay that's right but how weird is it that like you guys's people all heard i'll heard him talk yeah all heard lewdness yeah and none of our people did well your guys yeah they weren't they were just there. You, like, ran into them, right? No, yeah, but, like, the whole city of Uthodurn

hadn't heard Ludinus talking, right? That's true. And all of your people, you all heard Ludinus. I think it has to be with some sort of, like, our... Wherever your proximity... Yeah, your proximity to the ley lines. Or is it, like... Oh, yeah.

Or is it that some of the stuff that we did, we actually succeeded, right? So, like, or is it that some of the stuff that we did, we actually succeeded, right? So like, if we hadn't succeeded in some of the shit that we pulled at the event, like the whole world would have heard it. Yeah, we don't know yet. I don't know. So then that part is based on the Nexus points and because these certain areas were closest to the Nexus points. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, they heard it.

Because Uther is pretty far away. Yeah. That's true. Giant phone lines. It does seem to. And underground. That is's true. Yeah, they heard it, like, giant cables. Utherard's pretty far away. Yeah. That's true. Giant bone lines. It does seem to- And underground. That is also true. Oh, yeah. Maybe Utherard's like one of the only cities that didn't hear it.

Right, shielded from it, maybe. It also seems so far, and once again, we're still early on, like, you guys kind of got the, oh no, the gods, we gotta save them though. You seem to find more like pious people, whereas I feel like we're dealing with the opposite in the spectrum of people who are like,

No, we killed them. No, fuck that, exactly. Well, we got them both. We have both extremes in one city. Yeah. It's gods away or the highway and tear down. What have the gods done for us? It's a lot.

I don't think you guys have been on... Have you guys talked about Keyleth and seeing Vex? Oh my gosh. Nope. That might be a question. I think a little bit. Y'all talked about it a little bit whenever y'all were on with Taliesin. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. Oh, that's right. Because we did have one right after. Right after that. Okay, okay. Okay. Oh, that's right, because we did have one right after that. Right after that moment. Okay, okay. But please feel free to discuss it more, because, dear God.

That was... We must... Yeah, we talked about having all three of each of our campaign characters in one spot. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We did a lot of free of each other. I'll say it again. It was pretty dope. It's wild. Yeah. It was pretty cool it's cool and and and what does it mean is keeleth uh okay somewhere i just got to be i

i need her to be but uh where is she what i need beau to be okay is beau okay is caleb okay is beau okay yeah yeah? Yeah. Vax is an orb. Vax is an orb. I mean, where's that even? Is it possible to un-orb somebody? Is it better

that he's an orb than dead? I mean, I think. Is he a dead orb? He's already dead. So now he's just an undead.

He's an orb. He's a dead orb. Wait, so he's like he's just an orb. It's just a lens. It's like this big lens. It's a dead orb. Wait, so he's like just an orb. Just a lens. A dense energy like the center of a black hole. Yeah. Honestly, it reminded

me of the spinning circle of doom. Same, same. White stone. That little bit. I was like, what if we can un-orb that thing? What is that going to be? That's another person and we just didn't know you. I'm so sorry. I can't remember if I talked about this the last time we were here, but what I wonder is if Vax

is the champion of the matron, right? He's dipped in whatever the juice is that she used to jump to godhood. Right? So whatever that just for you, Lola Bailiff. So is the reason that... He's dipped

in the juice. Is the reason that Vorb was needed, uh, is because he's got the essence of whatever the matron used or, or is made up of and figured out her way to jump from mortal to God? I wonder if it's because... Sorry, I'm just going to talk. Yeah, get over here. Come on in. I wonder if it's because Ludinus specifically said he needed the sliver of divinity.

And if Vax is the matron's champion, he would technically be the sliver of divinity. I always thought of Vax as a sliver. So is that, is Vax, you know, is he like the key that's getting in the hole? Yeah, is he the key? Is he the key? I heard about the key in the hole. I didn't miss anything. I don't miss anything.

Innuendo was made. But yeah, no, but sincerely, he might have been the key to actually making it all work. Yeah. So, yeah. Sliver of divinity and all. Want to know. Did you hear Utkarsh slash Bordor

at the end of our last episode? I think it was the last episode, and he was like, man, this group's got a lot of baggage. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot.

I want us to make a pinball game someday and just have black metal balls. Right. And then light up the mallet. That'd be so cool. That'd be so great. We should talk about this all of the time. How much we want to make a custom pinball machine. That would be so fun.

Me too. How do we make it? Have it for the office. Can we have it for the ball pen? I don't think they're like, I mean, they're not inexpensive to commission, but we can. It's commissionable. We can make an electronic one, too. Like, I don't know about you guys, but I always played pinball on my computer.

Oh, yes. You did? That was the title of my live journal, was Awaiting Deployment from the pinball game. Loved the pinball. Oh, my gosh. That's good. Well, hey, the screen's been wiggling for me to get to this.

It's going like, pay attention. Oh, it's cute, it's like it's alive. It's time for a pull from the Tower of Inquiry. I don't know what just happened. Y'all know how this works by now. Blocks and numbers equal questions. The tower and falling equals confounding consequences. I can't read.

Consequences to the power of infinity plus one. So, with that in mind. Word soup. Laura, do you want to go pull a piece of wood from the Tower of Inquiry? Of course I do. Pull some wood, Laura. And I'm going to have a piece of your zucchini bread.

Join me over here by the spoon. It's banana zucchini bread. She makes chocolate bread. It's really good. I see the one I want, and I see if it's, oh yeah. Oh wow. Yeah. Good times.

47. 47. Let's see here. Smooth like butter. Quick, you have to create a new god for the game. What type of god are they and what is their name? From non-binary code on Twitter. That's for all of us, yay.

New god. Quick, quick, create gods. That's hard. Hmm. I feel like the thing with gods is that they cover a lot of territory. I would elevate to Vexian and make a god of circuitry and code. Oh, that's cool. We could use a god of tech, a god of circuitry and code. Oh, that's cool. We could use a god of

tech. A god of industry. Untapped territory. That's cool. That's cool. I'm gonna pick... I think Fern should be a god. The god of chaos. And fun times.

Oh, Fern the Traveler! Just together. Wait, is he the god of chaos? fun times. Oh, her and the Traveler. Just together. Wait, is he the god of chaos? The Traveler? Yeah. I mean, embrace, you know. Embrace, oh yeah. Okay, so she needs to be something else.

No, but it'd be wonderful. I could worship both of you. Wait, fun times? He would also have to become a god. He is a god. Sure, sure it is. Fun times and silliness. I'm not good at answering these questions.

And theft. Yeah. Do we have a god of, like, theft? I mean. Of, like, roguiness? Is there a god of roguiness? It kind of falls into, like, betrayer a little bit. But there's also, like, I would say the change bringer is kind of a god of rogueness.

Because she's like, go your own way. Do your thing. But, like, mischief, right? Yeah, it's more mischief. Mischief? Why would I think Traveler was mischief? Yes, that's right. Embrace your chaos.

I know the show. Traveler is mischief. But Traveler is full of shit. Let chaos reign. That's from this show I know the show. Traveler is mischief, but Traveler's full of shit. Let chaos reign. That's from this show that we do here. Traveler is just a fae being. No, he's not. Traveler's not a god. No, he's a god.

He's a really big one. Yeah. I'd say maybe, so kind of Jester territory, but the Ruby of the Sea is like god of burlesque. Me. And sensuality and drag queens.

Yes. Let's have a god of drag queens. That would be awesome. That sounds great. And just cake in all the ways. God of cake. All for it. That's a lot of gods.

The Ruby of the Sea is the god of cake. It just fits. Cake and cake, you know? Today is just all hand gestures. I don't know. I have to keep thinking about it. I feel like you kind of already did this once. And it was Jester.

Your character. With the traveler. Yeah, you made one already. I also wouldn't mind if Nana Mori. Oh, Nana Mori needs to be. I think Nana Mori needs to be something, because there's duality and, you know. We don't know.

Is she like an archfey? Nana Mori is an archfey, right? Hag? Because hags are fey as well. No, but she's more than a hag. She's an ultra hag. She's a hag and something here, too. Maybe it's two hags wrapped into one skin.

Oh, yeah. That's, yeah. Marisha Way? Do you want to pick? Yeah. Would you like to pick a piece of wood? Marisha Way protein? Marisha Way.

For the record, I would promote Galdric and make him a god of animals. Oh yeah! I want a god of animals! Why didn't I think of that? I want... Yeah, you can pick that. We don't have a god of animals yet. I mean, that's kind of the Wild Mother.

She's nature. Yeah, that's true. But I was thinking like, you know, like the god of like cats. Oh gosh. Cuties. Friends. Oh gosh. I was thinking like, you know, like the god of like cats. Oh gosh. And you know, god of friends. Cuties. Oh gosh, I am the god of cats. Oh no! That's Caleb.

Ooh, nice. 15. 15. Oh, you chose violence. She did. I did. What is your favorite part of each other, of each of your characters? I'm sorry, I can't read.

What is your favorite part of each of your characters i'm sorry i can't read what is your favorite part of each of your characters performed gm of each of our our characters what is your favorite part of of imaging what is your favorite part of fern okay okay lightning titties! Lightning titties! It's my favorite part of any of these shows. Where you going? Nowhere.

Huh? She's just checking Twitter over here. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I don't know if you see it there or are there. You don't know. Nowhere. Huh? We're just checking Twitter over here. We live in a living heck of a family. I don't know if you see it there or are there. You don't know. Hmm. Laudna just feels like it's her unbridled optimism, no matter what, just trying to see the best in the things.

Split tie for me between Orym's kind heart and everything I get to do with a sword on the battlefield. Ugh, so cool. You made fighters cool. Yeah. Are you going with lightning titties? Um. Which is really great to go with. I really like it.

Stick with lightning titties. I really like being a magic user. And I mean, obviously Jester had some really awesome spells too, but it's so fun to fully commit to being a sorcerer. Yeah. I also really like, and I know this seems like such a no-duh, but it's a duh in a minute, but how you will use your spells, like, narratively, where, like, I feel like whenever I go through spells, I'm like, okay, I'll cast blah, blah, blah.

But you'll do it in a way where it's like you've upgraded or you've learned this new thing and you're like, I'm going to do this and I won't realize that you're doing a spell. But it's, I don't know, it's cool. My sister called me after I got Fly. She was like, what did you do that you got to Fly? And I was like, I got a spell. And she was like, oh, you totally made it seem like it was not just a spell. I was like, yeah, I just, it was a spell.

I love it. It was a spell and I wanted a cool reason to use it. I feel like it was such a cool thing to learn because I'm like, man, I never thought of doing it that way. Of like of like making it part of i mean it is part of the role play of like oh now you can do this new thing now i think like that's because of you liam like you did that a lot with caleb too i would purposely yeah not share the spells that i chose as a wizard the ones that i found even when i get them in scrolls but like'll be like, I'm not telling you shit. So that I could... Strove me crazy. Yeah.

When you would have it in a scroll. Yeah, the items. That drives me crazy. Yeah, it's cool to get, like, to not know what another person can do until they... I think we've all, like, learned that to different degrees. It's like, over the last eight years, is that you can use this stuff to... I know you're slagging me for something, but I don't know what it was. No, she's laughing. Laughing a laughing a like bowl gate that happened once and that was so that was such

end of the world it was the end of the world there were reddit threads about our stupid game the fact that was mad that you hold hold onto a bull without sharing the bull. To be fair, you're the one who's usually in possession of a bull, not me, so. It wasn't my territory. I overstepped my bounds. But with all of it, with like a sword or with spells, you can, over the years,

have learned to love, you know, saving things for, it was a story beat. Yeah, for sure. It's so much fun. I love it. What about you, answer? I mean, I feel like I just, I really, it's so fun playing just a button pusher.

And I feel like, you know. That's a a way to describe it yeah I it's just it's fun sort of I also like I know you never see this but I also like that I have a tail because I always in my head yeah I'm always in my head I feel like Fern is like when she's doing something naughty there's like a little bit of a wiggle. I am fully gonna picture that now. I never thought about your little fawn tail. But I mean, you can't see it under her dress when she's like, oh, playing with something. You're like, Gielgud is like,

I'm never the character until I've got the shoes on, and you're like. Yes. It's my tail. That's why you do your shimmy. Yeah, a little bit. I'm thinking that my little tail is wiggling. I'm gonna fully just envision just a little shimmy under her skirt. Just a little shimmy.

Yeah, that's so cute. Yeah, I just like that she's a button pusher. I also feel like... Oh, you're out of control. Yeah. It's so fun. I also feel like I can be a little bit of a troll because I feel like some things can be taken so seriously. And so sometimes I like to just kind of like relieve the moment with humor, which I do kind of in all instances when it's like, we're at a funeral. But isn't it funny that someone's dead? You know, like it's inappropriate moments because that's how I deal with things to try to just like take the pressure out of a room.

But that's so fun to just kind of like, am I going to get away with something? And then just what I've talked about before of everybody being like, please don't. Please don't do this right now. And that's when my tail starts to go. I like to imagine those moments that her eyes go a little more fully goat-like. Oh, yeah. And then the smile gets almost like the Grinch who stole Christmas, just kind of curls up. A little better.

Wait, did you pick one yet? No. You didn't pick some wood? No, I didn't pick some wood. Not here. Well. All right. Hey.

Hello. Just called it out. Hit it right on its head. Let the right one. I'm always afraid whenever it's you over here doing it. Let the right one in. It's full reckless abandon. Yep.

Let the right one in. Are we playing where abandon. Yep. Let the right one in. Are we playing where the one you touch you have to pull? No, because I've touched a bunch. But there is a rule that you can only touch with one finger.

I'm doing that. Checking my options. Ooh, that's nasty. Oh no! Oh snap. This tower might be coming down today. You can do it.

And if it falls down I just have to do something silly. That's fine. that's my life. Oh, oh, oh, that is such a maneuver. Ah, give me the number. It's six. Six! It's not done yet, don't read that,

because it could all go down. Oh boy. Good job. Tell a small detail about your character that no one knows. From Pandy, my sister, had a teddy bear when she was little. His name was Pandy. Pandy.

Sorry. Pandy. That's a detail that nobody knew. Nobody knew. Yeah, that's so sad. That tower is wobbling. It makes me nervous. I know.

It's still shaking. This one's hard because it might be that no one knows it on purpose. So don't pick that one. Pick a different one that is less meaningful. I feel like Ashley already went. She talked about her tail. I talked about my tail.

Yeah. Lana also has a tail. No. This one's hard. What's good to reveal that's not revealing too much? Good watching. Yeah, good stuff here. Good TV watching. Yeah, good stuff here. Good TV watching.

I've thought of a couple of things, and I'm just, do I want to talk about them now or wait? It could be something totally lame, like they have a mole on their upper arm Orm's mom is a is a midwife in Zeppelin and Derrick and Nell had three daughters in addition to Will and Nell is uh like an herbalist and um one of the triplets god it's either it's Maeve or Barony and I'm confusing the two right now because on my notes is works with her and is an herbalist and then the other is a full-blown druid of the Ashari and then Leta is the was one of the Tempest Blades who has taken over for this has been said but it was taken over for Derek um I don't know if she was there Alita might have been somewhere in dressar when all that happened because Keyleth wasn't alone when she was communicating with us sure oh yeah What you got? Laudna did have a brief friend before Imogen in her long, lonely road through Tal'Dorei

before she made her way to Marquette in the form of a young girl who wasn't afraid of her. And that's all I'll say for now. A young, like a child? Yeah. It's so Frankenstein-y, I love it. A little bit, yeah. We'll cut out all the dead air.

Right, Co? Yeah. Yeah, I'm a genie. Oh, God, what can I say? I can faff a little bit. Okay, I got Imogen was after practice got better hanging out with you of, like, being able to put up a wall, of blocking out people's thoughts of, like, unless it was completely overwhelmed. There was a lot of people it was harder. But if she got intoxicated or if she was, like, excited in any way, then she couldn't hold the wall up.

It would go down. It's like someone getting drunk and their accent coming back. Exactly. So if you get drinking times, you can just hear it all? Yeah, which is why we had a few drinks and I listened in on Dorian's mind. So I read his thoughts without meaning to. Meaning to? Yeah.

So I learned he was a prince before anybody knew he was a prince. Oh, that's right. Oh, that's right. Man. What I love about Imogen is how morally gray she's been in different ways. And how, like, the temptation to just not do the right thing. You know, like, it's a burden sometimes, really. I just have to keep doing it. Do I have to keep doing the right thing you know like it's a burden sometimes really i just have to keep doing do i have to keep doing the right thing i want to i love that so easy that temptation and never

quite giving into it but it's always there that's my pure part i know i almost feel like imogen's the most unpredictable for sure you're just like, what are you gonna do? Nobody knows. Nobody knows. Yeah, everyone anticipates Fern's unpredictableness. Yeah. Yeah. But sometimes it's the more level-headed ones

that makes you be like, oh, what? Is this the day Imogen says, screw it and kills you? Yeah. Because I can also feel be like, oh, what? Is this the day Imogen says screw it and kills her? Yeah. Because I can also feel, not in a weird way, but I can feel Laura's energy by me when she's getting ready for something and I'm always like...

What are you going to do, though? God. A little bit of... Fun fact. Um, some of Fern, there was a little bit of a, something about her, I guess that was kind of a inspo. There's like these old, there's this old like creature-ish and like old Swedish Norwegian fairy tales called, I'm going to butcher the pronunciation of this, Skagdru, where it's like these beautiful women in the forest, but they sort of will pull people in,

and then they're just sort of these hideous creatures, and then these, you know, you can never leave. So I was like, oh, that's pretty fascinating. So that was kind of some of the, I was like was like oh i kind of want to do something like that but they're like these little forest nymphs that are just like you know beautiful but then you get up close and you're like ah it sounds like i like that okay i'm gonna go pull up these woods oh it's your Oh, we're getting all four. God, that L hit the end of that word. I'm gonna go poo. Lower. Lower? Lower. Live on the edge.

You can live on the edge. But I don't want whatever's in there. Pull it from the very bottom. Oh. I'm gonna do this one. Oh boy. Oh dear, oh dear. Oh. Thoidy, Thoidy.

Thoidy? Cheat code. Amazing. Oh boy. Yes. Oh boy. If your character was a card in the Deck of Many Things, what would their card do?

From Granny Num Nums. Ah. Incredible name. What would their card do from Granny Num Nums. Ah. Incredible name. What would their card do? This does not require you to know what the cards are in the deck of many things. You're making it up. This is like if your character was in there. Like Aurum's would raise your character level two levels

and turn your alignment to neutral good. That's cute. That's pretty good. Imogens would be... Roll a d20. Anything above a 10, you get the ability to detect thoughts at will. Anything below a 10 unleashes a storm

that kills everybody around you. Whoa. Good. I think Laudna's would be, you get turned into a marionette for an hour and you can't do anything about it. Are you a living marionette? Oh, God.

You still have your thoughts. But you're stuck as a marionette. But you're stuck and you can't do anything unless someone. Are you living there yet, Ev? Oh god. You still have your thoughts. But you're stuck as a man. But you're stuck and you can't do anything unless someone's puppeting you. Oh. Oh, that's so sad and amazing. I'm so sorry for Chucky. You could go really on brand and say

like an arch mage inhabits your puppet. Yeah. If the mage cares enough about you, I guess. Oh, no. Ooh! Yeah, if the mage cares enough about you, I guess. Ooh! What have you done for me? I feel like Fern's card would be if you're in a room, you could steal things out of everyone's pocket all at once, and it'd be like, you'd have it all. That's cool.

So hers is like only a good card. Only a badass card. Yeah, only good. I'm only gonna do good. Just like orange. Wait, because the deck of many things is also bad things. No, no, no, but it's good and bad. Sometimes it's amazing, like you get a witch.

Okay, I'm gonna go with that. Sometimes a pit fiend shows up. Exactly, yeah, or sometimes, okay. I'm gonna go with that. It's like two thirds, two thirds are bad. Exactly. Yeah, or sometimes, okay. I'm gonna go with that. It's like two-thirds. Two-thirds are bad. One-third are good. Like, really good.

Yeah. That's why people risk it. Yeah. Yeah. Gambling. It has to be worth it. Thank you, NonBinaryCode, PerformGM, Pandy, and GrannyNumNums. GrannyNumNum!

And if you have an evergreen question for our Tower of Inquiry, you can enter it at critrole.com slash tower inquiry. And with that, let's slide into the deep dive.

Danny, help! We need the things! Oh, the tankards! Give us that! Give us our drinks! Fern absolutely called Maury Granny Num Nums. Oh my gosh.

Granny Num Nums! Can we gosh. Granny Num Nums. Can we call her that if we ever get to visit her again? I hope we get to visit her again. Thank y'all. You're welcome. We're going to take turns. Everybody's cup is so cool. Pulling questions from our tankards, and since I'm the tavern keeper, I'll decide who goes first.

Liam. Sure. Bye-bye. Wait, I want the zucchini bread. Yes, take a piece, please. So good. How is Orym handling what he saw at the solstice now that he's had a couple of days of putting one foot in front of the other?

Well, not well. He feels like an abject failure. He feels like he has spent six years of his life trying to find himself again and to... Does he? Yes. Make up for what happened six years ago with his husband and his father and his leader. And this entire time he has been lured into a bear trap that was set by Ludinus. So everything, all the struggle and the doubt and everything,

it was all just a big fucking episode of Punk'd run by Ludinus Delef. Oh, no! And confused by the moment, like, there she goes, she's down. Who is that? What is that? And I mean, I haven't talked to talked mad about this but a little bit i think i rolled too to be like what is this guy in the moment and i didn't roll well but i know

from my backstory and i like when i worked out ages and i've got like a notes written out somewhere that orm was like four or five when vaax came to visit Zephra for the year. I'm crying to my zucchini bread. What? So it is likely that they saw each other, not spent time together. It's not like Orm was around Keyleth in those days at all, but they for sure saw each other in that year. Right.

So I've been playing with... Four or five, do you remember that at all? Yeah. I mean, I remember bits of four and five. I do either. Maybe little bits. Little bits. Four is dicey, but five...

I got plenty of five. At any rate, I've been imagining that, like, it's starting to, like, chew at the back of his brain why it was... why that person showing up kind of like, you know,

it tickled the back of his brain, but I wasn't sure why. And that's how I think of it. Not doing good. And like the Boy Scout, I don't know. I mean, he's going through the motions right now, but at this moment in time, I don't think he feels mean, he's going through the motions right now, but at this moment in time,

I don't think he feels like he can make a difference. Aw. The moment of Orym pulling out that sword, and it felt like giving up. It was very, very upsetting. I mean, when he joined in with the rest of the people, the warriors. Mm.

Mm. Heartbreaking. Well, Laud people, the warriors. Mm. Heartbreaking. Well, Laudna, Marisha. I hate your funny answer. All that note. Let's see. Hope you picked the creator flash question. Nope, it's shot two.

The gallows seemed like it was tailor-made to inspire Laudna for nightmare fuel. Yep. Are you hoping to return there at some point, or are there creepy town vibes, or are the creepy town vibes enough for her at the moment? Yeah, speaking of not wanting to be a downer, I remember having several lines,

thoughts pop through my head of things that Laudna could say about seeing a place where they used to like execute people by hanging and laudna had all of those thoughts but once again because laudna's trying to like compartmentalize and not be a total downer in this definitely downer of a of a moment in bell's hell's timeline she just went i'll i'll store that one away with all the other trauma too, and just didn't say anything. In terms of nightmare fuel, I don't know.

She's seen worse. Not too much there, I think, for nightmare fuel inspiration, but she definitely went like, oh yeah, hey look, a weird thing that happened to me once. And then just kind of kept going. Not as bad as mine, though. You kind of, yeah.

Let's see if you've got a happy one. Shake it up, shake it up. Sorry. Oh, this is the meat. What was it like for Fearne to reach out to the Wild Mother in the hopes of contacting Orym? Do you think the wind was a sign? Mm.

Boy. Oh, oh, I forgot about that. Yeah, me too. Should you be on the lookout for breezes? Oh, yeah. Good call. 31 passive perception. If there's a breeze, I'm sure I will feel it.

That was nice. Stormfront coming through. I feel like, I mean, Fearne is, I feel like, a little lost without Aurum, which is her compass of somebody to sort of, you know, I don't like using this term, but like keeping her in line in a way. An anchor. Yeah, an anchor is a better way to say it.

And I think she only knows the Wild Mother through Aurum and has seen, you know, the moment in the gods or not and what they do. And also with what happened with Changebringer, with Laudna, like there's, it's a complicated, it's complicated. The wind, I think she thought that was the wind and nothing. Because, you know, she doesn't know how to read signs by gods. And I think she was just like, well, like I thought, I'm not going to get an answer. But also I think she wanted to do it privately because it's kind of vulnerable. It's a moment of just also kind of admitting like, well, I don't want anybody to see this in case, you know, because I've said how much I don't sort of, I'm not into the gods or, you know, not liking Changebringer. Yeah, it was a moment of vulnerability.

So it was just kind of, yeah, I don't know. But I think that the wind is probably, she's like, that was a nice breeze. Do you think it was a sign? Oh, that's nice. You don't think it was? I don't... Oh, do I? Ashley? No.

I don't. But maybe it was. I don't know. I don't know. I don't right now, but maybe I'll change my mind. We'll see. Is it happy? Whoa, did you land it in there?

I did. Did you throw it in my cup? I did. I'm going to read that question. I'm going to find a happy one. It's been a tough time. We kind of answered this one already. Hold on.

Questions. Hold on. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Oh, this is a fun one. How do you pick the thumbnails each week? What is the process like for that?

Oh, this is good to talk about. Thumbnail queen. That's great. Oh, gosh. It's a blast to choose a thumbnail. So, I don't think

we've ever talked about it. We, when we do the photo shoots for the thumbnails, we get basically every possible scenario. Uh-huh. And, like we when we do the photo shoots for the thumbnails we get basically every possible scenario and like when we did i got a lot of people going they they must take a photo after every week or what happens when we did the laudan one where sam was carrying yeah yeah um

but no we just knew that sam was a healer and you were like frail as fuck. Yeah. 100% Anyone's gonna die it's gonna be Lawd and so we got shots of him carrying you. You also I should throw in run the photo shoots.

Yes. Laura runs the photo shoots. And does like all the like Photoshop retouching and yeah. Yeah. All of it.

A lot of the pictures that we took luckily this last shoot we didn't have to do too much of it like once we did the costume changes and now we're like in like kind of loose costumes for it. But all the black stuff, like a lot of it had to be comped together.

And a lot of stuff during COVID, like we shot individually. And then I would just Photoshop us together to make it look like all of us were in a picture together. Like campaign two with all when you had to put all of us together. Yeah. And, you know. Yeah. Because we were all... Yeah, there's a lot that it looks like maybe,

oh, I got a shot of, you know, how did we get a shot of Matt looking at them in this way? But it's not. It's just a picture of Matt looking a weird way, and then it's a picture of us, like, and it looks like he caught us being sneaky, but really. You're just really good at it. It's fun.

I love Photoshopping, so that's what I used to do. But then we send it over to Aaron and he puts all the beautiful watercolor effects on it and everything, but I choose it based on, like, kind of how a big moment that I remember or, like, a big moment that Dani will point out sometimes, and then I'll go, like, oh, I think this is gonna be a thing for the episode. I don't wanna give too much away, or like a big moment that Dani will point out sometimes and then I'll go like,

oh, I think this is gonna be a thing for the episode. I don't wanna give too much away, but also like I wanna have like a fun nod to the moment or I'll pick one that has to do with like, oh, well, we've had a good one of Ashley. She had a good moment last one, so I chose her, but then she also had a good moment this episode, but so I can't use her again

cause I don't to use her twice and you know. I love choosing them. It's one of my favorite things. We keep talking about it because we have a lot on our plates and I'm like there's been several times it's like well maybe you shouldn't do the thumbnails anymore. I'm like no that's my one of my favorite parts. Yeah. We all have those sayings that we've been doing since the beginning that we just won't let go of. Yeah. It's like, you sure? You should stop doing this. No! No, it's mine! But I love it. I will do it forever.

It's true. Shall we pull more? Yeah. Liam, let's do it. What do we got here? I'm going to sneeze. Bless you. What does Orym think of the coincidence?

Are we all right? Two minutes, all right, yeah. Sorry, I stole her. Sneezed. He'll ask somebody before they sneeze. For her soul. A little bit of both, yeah, go ahead. What does Orym think of the coincidence

of traveling with Dariax's ex? Dariax's ex. Denise. Denise! Denise! I think Orym is again getting pinged with little, little bits of fate vibe here and there. And that's too big a thing to be a coincidence.

Yeah. And Orym does feel like, O Orm's not a worshiper. He never has been, but there have just been too many moments in this story where he can feel like a god's finger touching the, touching the scale. Like a finger on a scale. Can I throw out a really wild theory that I just thought of? Not an innuendo until she laughs and then it suddenly is. Mm-hmm. I didn't rub the scale.

I didn't circle the scale. I just put a finger on the scale. Danny, save us from ourselves. This would be so boring. I have a theory. Okay. Yeah, Danny's theory. I have a theory that you only made me think of because terrified of you.

You only made me think of because you said this. What if, okay, so if it is like crisscrossing fate and stuff like that and pulling people in, what if it was supposed to be Dariax that got pulled? And instead Denise came in and remember she said, I saw him across the room and I was going to talk to him and then I got pulled. What if she like intercepted his fate string? Whoa. I don't know how any of this works. That really doesn't make any sense. No, it's fine.

I'm here for it. You're like wibbly wobbly. Yay. That's cool. That is cool. Like her being there intercepted like whatever was picking people and pulling people out and everything uh they'll know i like it i like it too okay bye that's cool fun theory that's it that's a short answer just it's it can't be random how could it be random yeah i think there's

something else like something that comes up a lot We talk about the gods constantly in this campaign. And I think just because in 2023 so many people are agnostic or atheists. We're like, there's no gods. Or I don't care about the gods. But in this world, the gods are very, they're here. And some of them do wonderful things. And some of them do terrible things. Orm is the worst person in the story to be like,

well, we don't care about the gods, do we? Like, maybe Ludinus has a point. Ludinus killed two of the people he cares about the most, arguably the two people he cares about the most, in order to have his really cool, cool story. So it's going to be really hard to win over Orm to that. And there's no... He thinks he knows how it's going to go.

Who knows what happens if you break open the moon and spill out the fun inside that. A lot of people could die. Maybe it's like a Cadbury egg. Full of goop. It's just sugary and creamy inside.

Maybe it's a Wonder Ball. There's toys inside. Yeah. That's what it is. Cinder egg, figured it out. Finally! That's good, that's good. So much chocolate.

Are you looking for a happy question? So much, kind of. Sorry guys, I put more happy questions in. We're going through a hard time. I talked a little bit about this one. Laudna is doing a lot of compartmentalizing right now. What all is going through her mind and why is she afraid to let those emotions show?

I think she just sees, you know when you're going through a hard time, but then you also have a friend who's just having a complete meltdown. So you don't want to, you know, you don't want to put any of your meltdown onto their meltdown. So you're just like,

yeah, I'm here for you, buddy. But then you're taking their meltdown. Yeah. And then you feel even worse. Yeah. Yeah. So I feel like, especially Ashen has very verbally been like, I am not okay. It's clear that like, Aurum's not okay. So I think she's just trying not to like, add to the chorus of people being like, this all sucks though, right?

But no, she's having a meltdown in her head as well. And mainly is wondering like, are her friends alive or dead? And also, like, did we utterly, completely fail on every conceivable level? Which it feels like we did. A little bit. I mean, the fact that the moon is tethered and everything has gone to shit, it feels like we failed. It feels like we failed.

And Aurum's exact same thing. It's just, like, we failed. It feels like we failed. And Orym's exact same thing. It's just like we failed. It's broken. But that's but I have to go through the motions because that's what I do.

Yeah. So I'm going to keep all I mean he shared it with Denise because it felt like it's the middle of night and I can share this with a stranger

but I can't drag down my friends who I've been Right. I have a role that I fill in this group. Like Laden and Ashen had that conversation. He's like, you don't have to, like, put on a smile or, like, compartmentalize through it.

But, I mean, kind of like she's, you know when, like, that feeling, like, in your throat, where if you, like, you're about to cry and you know if you, like, say words, you're going to cry. Like, Laudan is, like, teetering on that edge at all times. So she's just like, if I just smile through it, it'll be okay. Oh, no. We don't have to do a lot of the things we do. We do them anyway. Yeah.

Yeah. Because we don't know how to do any different. Also, for Lautner, think about this, too. She, for many years, probably said years probably said herself well that was the craziest shit i will and will ever see yeah what i went through that's that's it i've i've received my allotment of crazy shit yeah what's going on yeah yeah it's up there it's on par for sure so it means that like her soul, the whole like fader chance, her soul is faded

through all of this. You were like dragged through hell to be ready for this. That's a good way to put it. I like that. Everything in her life is just preparing her

for this. This music is so perfect for this moment. It's wonderful. I love it. So uplifting. I'm gonna pick a happy one. I'm going to pick a happy one.

I can feel it. Maybe not. You're making me feel real guilty. No, no, no. No, no, no. We've been going through some shit. How is Fern feeling about Imogen and her lightning marks

as well as her dreams? Fern waking up Imogen from her nightmare is the most scared we've ever seen her. Yeah. That was complicated. There were layers to that. So I think

Fern knows that Imogen's dreams in some ways give us answers and also could give us a clue into where our people are if they're still alive. So there's curiosity there of like, OK, but also being terrified of putting her in that position because we could lose her and the lightning marks another thing that terrify Fern because we're not quite sure what those mean yet and I have theories but I'm not going to speak them aloud because I don't know if they're true and I'm going to keep it to myself um but also I think I think she got got so scared because if we lose Imogen it's kind of like she's

somebody that we know is going to be able to help us in this fight and wanting to protect her but also the heaviness of if we do lose lose her and if i have to see laudna again and tell her what happened i can't deal with that and also losing another friend because everybody's already almost gone. It's like she's not used to this much loss and these feelings of sadness and being scared. And she just doesn't know what to do with it. And I think it's just like, no, no, no, everything's going to be OK. We're OK. We're OK. I'm just going to keep putting the mask on. We're all fine. Right. Right. then i'm fine you're not fine fuck

we're talking about the game right yes of course um yeah so that's that yeah there's lots of layers to the team compartmentalization! Team compartmentalization! See? A weird thing to high five. Now that we've done it. But it's also like, if you compartmentalize or you do those things, you can't all of a sudden stop doing them. Yeah, because then you will absolutely break and then you don't know when.

It all will come flooding in. Yes. And you're just like, who knows how long before that stops. Yeah, you can't break the dam. That's when you turn into a giant ball of white light on the N a city block. Dun-da-da! Ugh, too far.

Laura, what has it been like for Imogen to have her sending spells fail? Just balls. Then one of them worked! Yeah. This episode just has to be called Sad Questions. Sad Questions. Yeah. The more I said it down, Sad Questions. Sad Questions and Zucchini Banana. yeah this episode just has to be called sad questions sad questions yeah

sad questions sad questions and zucchini bananas I think it helped you know I didn't know for sure if Matt was gonna let it slide

or if I was like I thought maybe if we could do it and we were close by then the sending spell might still work

cause maybe it's the distance so I don't know it worked when it was close by and that's wonderful it's not distance. So I don't know. It worked when it was close by and that's wonderful. It's not a complete wasted spell slot.

Yeah, sorcerers. Fifth level. You don't get to relearn that shit. No, it goes away. Sorcerers are good at their six things. Really good at their six things. Really good at lightning and psychic things.

Lightning and psychic Pokemon. But yeah, especially in this time when all you need, this is like the most dire time to have a spell where you can communicate over long distances. And it's just failing her. Like the panic of not knowing if you guys are alive or not. And through it all, still, through all of our weeks of play, still not knowing if you guys are actually alive on the other end of it. Or if, like, you got exploded and we got bamfed away.

Just like the goat. They got sploded. You got sploded like a goat. Maybe that's why she freaked out so bad about a goat I don't know but yeah no it's it's awful

I kind of like not having it for a while I guess in a Sam Riegel like way of hating as a player

as the outside of it that's cool yeah to not have immediate cancers to not know yeah to be trapped

in the dark. As a character though, like, it's awful. Just the worst. I got two sending stones. Yep. Yep.

It's literally if your cell phone suddenly stopped working. Yeah. And your internet stopped working. Yeah. You're like,

wow, I can't reach anybody. Anybody across the country was okay unless you went to them. And there's like a big storm just like swept across the entire United States. And now suddenly your internet and your phone aren't working.

And you're like, oh, great. What happened? It's the end of the world. It would be like the end of the world. Speed round of sadness. Speed round of sadness. Let me see what we got. What was it like to try and convince the Flame Guide to leave the town for Marquette? Oh, you kind of talked about this. Let me see what we got. What was it like to try and convince the flame guide

to leave the town for Marquette? Oh, you kind of talked about this. The usage of that's un... Well, no, this is different. The usage of that's unfortunate, which was our signal to start kicking ass, as the ignition phrase seems to sum up Orym's feelings about

the situation. Yeah, I mean, he- Wait, let me see it. I guess, yeah, we did circle this a little bit. He did not really think they were gonna be able to get through this squeaky clean and convince them to walk away. He still had to try.

There's still that part of his heart and soul that is like that but he wasn't willing to give it a second try like he was ready to throw down the second he caught a whiff that it wasn't going to work so again yeah this is just oram's you know candy shell breaking i guess it's they got to break some eggs like that he has a candy shell and it's breaking. That's very sad. I don't like it. That's very sad. But can I eat some?

I know. What is Orem's candy inside of him? Is it chocolate or is it candy? Ram-nam-nams. This is a good one to jump off of that one.

Laudna had a great line about their goal that everyone should stop killing in the name of the gods, whether it be for or against. Do you think this sort of sums up Belle's Hells attitude towards the gods in general?

Yeah, I think at this point in time, Laudna is so confused. I don't know, I don't want to speak for the rest of Belle's Hells. I guess you can, like, chime in. Do it up. We just, like, had every example and demonstration in front of us that we have like no control and don't know shit and don't know what's going on so right now i think laudna is just trying to like not speak in absolutions or say like you know with assertiveness

with assertion. That's probably the better way to say that. That, like, yeah, gods are good, or gods are bad, or we should have them. So I think right now her middle ground is just, like, maybe we just think about us and not the gods and don't kill in the name of, you know, them one way or another for like a minute.

But Abu Dina, Abu Abba did not seem to care about that answer. So that sucked. Damn it. Well, I think the gods are such a large thing, so unknowable and out of our control that all of us, certainly Oram, but I think all of us, all we can do is focus on the people in our lives. Yeah, 100%. I think that's probably the best way.

That's probably where we're at, Dani. Is it feels like, because Ashton kind of said something similar. You've kind of said something similar. over the like 30 foot radius that is us right here in this moment that we can control because we can't deal with everything on a large scale right now. And that mortal elf, we think, is dangerous. That's the most dangerous thing I see right now.

Not a god. Ludinus. Yeah. Sadness. I found a happy one. Hey! How is it getting to utilize Speak With Animals so much these past few sessions? What is that

spell like for Fern? Well, me, for Ashley, there's, I don't think, anything more than I wish than to be able to talk to my animals. Yeah. To be able to talk to my dogs. What do they sound like? Or to just talk to any animal, because I love animals. Yeah. To be able to talk to my dogs. Oh, what do they sound like? Or to just talk to any animal

because I love animals so much. I just love, I love ugly ones and I love funny ones. And I love round, roly-poly ones. And I just love them because they're so funny.

I just wish I could, me, I wish I could talk to them. So being able to, to, to utilize that. And I think for Fern, it's just, I think for Fern, it's probably not that big of a deal.

Because I feel like she would just talk to things anyway, even if they would talk back to her. But for me, it's really fun. Here for you making Matt talk in doofy animal voices as much as possible. Now that I know that Matt does all, like, the voices that he's doing with the goats, the fish, like, oh, I'm gonna milk that. The nervous goats.

I'm gonna milk his speak with animals. So good. He was Henry Crabgrass. Henry, yeah, after Henry Crabgrass, I was like, all right, here we go. Henry Crabgrass, the sun tree, just a long line. Trinket. Trinket.

What does Imogen believe would happen if she chose to let go and pulled by the red light attached to Rudis as seen in her dream? As seen in her dream. As seen on TV. Is she tempted in her dreams? Fuck yes.

Fully tempted to just go. To go up that rope ladder. Yeah. Jack and the Beanstalk, that shit. In her day-to-day, though, when she's awake, less tempted. Surrounded by friends and realizing, like, what's at stake. But still tempted. Sure.

Sure. But in the dream, it's super-duper hard, especially when, you know, you feel that weightlessness or that power that you get in a dream, right? Where, like, you know, we all have dreams where we can fly. And it feels so good and so natural and so right. Like you should have been able to do it all the time. When the super ego goes to sleep, the id can play. Yeah. So, yeah, she's tempted. Ego goes to sleep, the id can play. Yeah. So.

Yeah, she's tempted. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's time for another poll from the Tower of Inquiry. Oh, my. Laura Bailey. Laura Bailey. All right. This tower is nerve-wracking.

I'm real scared. Let's go, Laura. You got this. You're a pro. Ooh. Oh, that's nasty. Oh, what? You nasty.

Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. You got this. There's a lot of weight on this one little spot. Oh, you saw it. Oh yes, yes you did. That's a number two. Oh.

Oh, you can put it on that side. I know, that's cruel. Oh shit. You guys. You've got this. This is coming down. That thing's dying. From Isaac Slayton, how did you come up with your character?

What led to their design, both in-game mechanics and aesthetics? I feel like we've answered this before. I had a nightmare. Yes. I had a nightmare. This is an older, four-sided, this is an older tower question, but if there's anything you want to play with. Any new stuff that we haven't talked about? I had a nightmare.

It was a spooky flower girl with no jaw and black eyes, like voids for eyes. Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. And like old Victorian clothes. And she came rushing towards me down the street. And I woke up and I was like, oh, I'll do that. That sounds cool.

I have night terrors. I have nightmares. I don't know if anybody else has. Yeah, you've got crazy nightmares. I scream. Yeah, I'll hyperventilate sometimes. I'll wake myself up from emoting. Do you guys ever wake up and feel like you just can't move?

Like something's holding your body down? Yeah, like full sleep paralysis. Yeah, sleep paralysis. Never had that. It's not fun. It's not fun at all. Sorry. I also have had, have also have nightmares about storms.

Oh, that's right. Tornadoes are one of my reoccurring top nightmare villains. Like in my dreams, tornadoes are usually sentient. And it's like coming for you? Yeah. Have you ever looked up what that means? No, I haven't. I don't know what that means.

I should look it up. I have tsunami dreams. Tsunami dreams as well. Tornadoes are the most common. So that's why I wanted to make her nightmares be storms. Storms. That's cool. Also, I have trouble with certain stimulation,

like certain stimuli, audio stimuli especially, gets overwhelming for me. And so if I'm hearing a lot of people talking or something, it actually gets overwhelming very overwhelming and stressful yeah and i can't differentiate between like who's talking when um so i that's one of the reasons i had that be an issue for her as the inability to block that out it's cool yeah uh mine's not from dreams uh when i didn't know if fax was gonna be taken out of the game uh i wanted a backup character so i started thinking about it and i love halflings um and i don't like some of us and i think i have different points like

making a backup character i'm not really a fan of like i just wound up here i don't like, some of us, and I think I have different points, like making a backup character. I'm not really a fan of like, I just wound up here. I don't know how. I liked thinking of, I always like thinking of characters that have a reason for being there. Liev Tell was there, was made the way she was because there was a reason for her to be there. And Derrick was where he was because there was a reason for him to be there wasn't just like hey i'm a stranger and i wandered into this wedding i was like who would be at this wedding so orm was the same idea i was like who would be with this group and i i thought that if if vax died and was gone gone that keela's father

might uh nudge someone from the Ashari to go help her, because she'd be dealing with a lot. And so the idea was for Vax, for Aurum, back during Campaign 1, to have been a widower and be like, I don't have any answers, but I've been there and I'm sorry. And if you need to talk about it or if you just need help then I'm here for that and I love that idea but it wasn't needed because we got to use Vax all the way up to the end of the story but I still really loved the the idea of it so I flipped it and instead of Orim being the one to help

Keyleth in in that hard moment Keyleth became the one to help Orim in that hard moment just sort of like flip the same premise um and I wanted to make a character who held on to kindness as much as he could as long as he could and that was kind of the promise or the opposite of Caleb I love that um a little bit of what I said tonight very first was thinking about like some weird Swedish Norwegian fairy tales but also wanted to make my version of like a really fucked up Disney princess slash villain you know that you're like there's not really morality is not really a thing um and you know inspo of growing up with my mom yeah yeah you've mentioned your mom before. Yeah, and that's kind of, yeah.

I feel like I've talked about it before. Makes me want to hang with your mom. And just a little bit of Jennifer Coolidge. And just a little bit of Jennifer Coolidge. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Also Joan Cusack from Adam's Family Values, which I just always loved her so much.

And that. In anything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right, Marisha. Oh my god, this tower you're gonna. This tower. It's gonna be you or me who brings it down.

There's not a whole lot left to pull from. There's not. I mean, it's really. Oh my god, I hate this. Okay, I feel like I should try and balance it out or something by coming over here that's awful yeah it's going this way so what can fight that

something on the other side okay that's neutral that's fine that's neutral we think no it's fine oh doggy 19 That's neutral, we think. No, it's fine. Oh, doggy.

19. 19. The only way to really balance it is to choose the other bottom piece. Oh, man, that is hell. Because the next block has to go in that spot, which is very likely to bring it to the top. Yeah, I think you should. Oh, my gosh. I don't even want to make vibrations through the top. Yeah, I think you should. Oh my gosh. I don't even want to make vibrations through the floor. Yeah, I'm very scared.

Okay. Okay, I don't know if people... All right. Hey, y'all. The Bells Howls are throwing a surprise party for one of their friends. What aspect of party planning would your character handle? Rachel L.A. writes... of their friends. What aspect of party planning would your character handle? Rachel LA writes,

Rachel, Rachel LA writes on Twitter. That's a good question. Hey, y'all wanted some happy questions. This one has a happy question. Happy question. It has a happy question. Thank you, Rachel. I feel like I would know Laudna's, which is weird.

The decorating. 100%. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The decorating. She'd be like, all right, I'm going to make all the centerpieces. I'm going to source everything. We're going to have a craft day. We don't need to spend a penny.

We're going to go pick some flowers. Full DIY. Full DIY. I think Imogen would partner with Laudna and would be in charge of hanging everything from the ceilings, because she would be able to do it without actually having to climb or anything. This would 100% be Orm's cheat day, so he would go get like 100 pies.

Every flavor he could find, and then have all of it. I feel like Essie G would bake the cake. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I feel like Fern would take care of the literal surprise of scaring whoever came in. Maybe Chetney would carve little table-setting statues. Who would be in charge of music?

Dorian, music. Dorian, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great. And Ashton. And Ashton would do the lights. Disco ball Ashton. And Ashton would do the lights. Disco ball Ashton. He'd start to rage and just. And Fern would probably give naughty gifts. That's good.

Yeah, that's great. Yeah. We covered it. I like it. That was the most succinct we've ever done. We've done it, guys. We did it. We knew what kind of party to get.

Oh, hey, can I bring something up before you make me knock that tower down? Yeah. Am I remembering right that Deanna and Fern and Chetney had a little interlude? Oh, my God. We have to talk about this. We've been talking about it. How is that not a question, Deanna? It was a question for the other folks. Was it really?

Well, I want to talk about it. What did they say? Spill the tea, girl. I don't know if, I don't, they seemed like they really, things happened. Yeah. And they didn't really spill too much tea, from what I remember. It could be kind of interpreted that you either like went and you just encouraged sexy times. Just slapped their butts as they were doing it?

You got it! From Midsommar? You're doing great. Oh. That is so uncomfortable. I'm so big, I don't even know where I'd fit in there. Yeah. Or did Fearne join in?

Hell yeah. That's it, done, not real. They fully had just a grand old time. I mean, Deanna's so amazing. And it's just like, Fern is DTF, bro. So they had a great time. It's nice that Chetney could finally get his courage up. Yeah.

Go pick a piece of wood. All right. I think that was their their sort of answer too. I also might be misremembering because everything blurs together and I'm sorry. It's been a minute. So I apologize. Hang on, wait. No, I do not.

I have to do something dangerous. One hand. Are you going to do the bottom? Just in case. Oh God, it's old. For TikTok. You. Oh my God.

You got this. Hold. Because it just teeter-tottered. Oh, my God. You got this. Hold. Because it just teeter-tottered. It did teeter-totter. But. Oh, you're going for that one? I'm so afraid. Sorry, I mean, I expect to fail.

You got it, you got it. I can only, well, I got to place it. That's the tough part. Yeah, that's the tough part. Yes. No. All right, it's question one and one. I'm so proud of you for doing that.

Nicely done. Oh, we're not out of the woods yet. You guys. No, I don't like this. No way! Liam O'Brien. That means it's gonna be your It's gonna be me.

It's gonna be me. 21. Lucky 21. You're also the host, so you don't have to pull it. Oh, it's true you can dictate it we can just leave it you can also pull as many times

as you want we can leave it for the next group I'm gonna leave it for the next group which is funnier that's what I'm gonna do so number 21

really scared of this thing uh huh number 21 still teetering when your character levels up or making one oh okay when your character levels up or when you're making one when you make a one, how do you decide whether to multiclass?

Is it based on character story, roleplay, or just spur of the moment? From Tyler Howard. That's another good question. Wait, what was the answer? Why multiclass? Oh, why multiclass? When you multiclass, why do you do it? I think it can be a little bit of both, right?

I mean, I know when, like, I multiclassed as a rogue with Vex, I wanted to be a rogue, but also it made sense RP-wise that she would have learned something from Vex. For sure. So, yeah, you can work it both ways. Yeah, it's like with building any type of even in acting you know building a character I feel like it's an you can do

an outside in or an inside out type of approach where you can either like just find a build that you really speak with and then build a backstory around that or let your character kind of let your character guide you let your character guide you it'll tell you that's it it's case by case yeah like with with caleb i knew i was never

going to multi-class i wanted to go as high as i could as a wizard get the highest level and ring all the bells i could with vax the story told me and like orm's gotten some god vibes too but i don't think i'm at least not yet it doesn't feel like it would push me into multiclassing yet. Yeah, with Latna, it was the character informed the multiclass. Oh, fully. Yeah. Yeah. Started out magical, but then the whole Delilah thing made her go a little bit warlock.

I like that we have a rogue Barb now. Yeah, God, that's cool. So great. God like that we have a rogue Barb now. Denise. Yeah. God, that's cool. Yeah. So great. God, that's a potent mix. Which is a nasty combo. Yeah. Being able to do rage sneak attack. On those heels.

Yeah. On those battle heels. Man, and those nails. I love it. She is on her toes at all times. So smart. And you've multiclassed here recently. You're a rogue. I multiclassed

strictly because I started stealing and thieving. Thievery. And now I'm like, why do I do that? But, you know, it made sense in the story for Fern because I was like, this is such a fun thing to do and, you know, she's a little

bit of a pickpocket because it's like, ooh, shiny! I think you can sneak attack in your animal forms too, by the by. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, it would make sense. So if you wanted to

wild shape into something and then use that initial hit, I would make sense. So if you wanted to wild shape into something and then use that initial hit, I'm pretty certain. I also, if I take an extra level of rogue, which I'm, I don't know, it's hard when you multiclass to figure out which one to go up with. Yeah. You're just like, ugh. I think I multiclassed this jester, didn't I?

Did I not? I don't think so. No. I think you were just a heal this Jester, didn't I? Did I not? I don't think so. No. I think you were just a healer. You were a cleric. You were a cleric, yes. Or I'm so used to it. You mean I wanted to?

It makes sense. I don't know, but yeah, it kind of feels like certain classes, the higher levels are not as cool as other other high level classes you know like i think it drew a high level is bad no it's got it badass it's really badass wizard is amazing yeah i don't know what's it like for ranger at the top ranger was not cool at the top which is why i was like awesome i will definitely multi-class into something else because it's not going to be awesome past a level 15. You don't get anything really amazing, at least the animal companion ranger did at the time. At the time. I was going to say, WotC's done a lot of maintenance to the ranger. Yeah, it was kind of a lame-o.

Yeah, it's gotten better. Arrow, arrow. Yeah. Go try to bite them,, get for no damage. Yeah. I am not going to pick from the tower because... You're the host. I don't want to deal with the consequences of my actions.

So thank you, Isaac Slayton, Rachel LA Reitz, and Tyler Howard. Remember, if you have a life-changing question for our super-duper serious Tower of Inquiry, you can solemnly enter it at critworld.com slash tower. We're going to take a quick break,, don't you go too far, because when we come back, we'll be playing Monstrosity while we answer some leftover tank questions. Oh, yeah.

Oh, there's 14 questions. Monstrosity. We don't have time for more. I read them all. Oh, no, three more. I'll put one of mine in your cup. OK, perfect.

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