Quite sad that I’m not fully caught up with C3 cos big things are happening (yes I’m 100% spoiled) and I love that Dorian is back!
Critical Role
"Is it Thursday Yet?"
Community to discuss anything Critical Role related.
Drop by our welcome post and share any feedback/suggestions if you have any. The FAQ post is also a thing.
What is Critical Role?
Critical Role is a group of nerdy-ass voice actors who sit around and play Dungeons & Dragons.
Streams every Thursday at 7pm PT and then rebroadcasts the following Friday at 12am and 9am PT on Twitch.
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Current shows
- Critical Role Campaign 3: Main D&D 5e campaign, streamed every Thursday at 7pm PT, except last Thursday of each month
- Candela Obscura: Horror drama campaign using their own game system, live streamed every last Thursday of each month at 7pm PT
- 4-Sided Dive: Talkshow with a roundtable discussion of 4 guests, to talk about recent episodes and answer fan questions. Streams every first Tuesday of the month at 7pm PT
- Midst: Sci-fi fantasy radio drama, airs every Wednesday on Midst.co
- Re-Slayer's Take: podcast about a lesser-known band of heroes updates Mondays 5am PST
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Links
- Critical Role's official website
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- Critical Role Podcast C1E0 - C2E19
- Beacon
Resources
- Interactive Map of Exandria
- Interactive Timeline
- Episode Transcripts
- Encyclopedia Exandria
- Critical Role wiki (fandom)
- Critical Role Stats
- Official Daggerheart Toolset
- The Omen Archive
- Episode Discussion Index
- CR Funny Moments (TVtropes)
- CR ABridged Art Archive
- Other Live Play TTRPGs
- CR Bibliography
(google docs spreadsheet)
(TY Dr Friedman!)
♪Episode Song References♪
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- 00:38:28 ♪Eliza♪ Hamilton Musical - Burn
- 00:52:50 Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
- 01:00:00 Astrud Gilberto - Girl from Ipanema
- 01:25:54 Megan thee Stallion - Body
- 01:27:24 "do you remember" Earth Wind & Fire - September
- 01:31:29 "makinhisway" Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles
- 01:32:15 Aimee's recorder John Williams - Jurassic Park Theme
- 02:44:39 Oasis - Wonderwall
- 02:44:43 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
Highlights
- 00:01:53 "Impendent woman"
- 00:06:00 Juicy Couture callback to Chetney's sweatpants
- 00:18:53 Opal gets the Spider Queen info download on Ruidus and The Sleeper within (Predathos)
- 00:19:48 Aimee begins to sound feral getting into character.
- 00:21:26 Opal attempts to use perfume to calm the Spider Queen
- 00:22:54 Matt's happy Bless dance
Dariax:"Come at me Queen!" - 00:23:45 Anjali:"Boof."
- 00:25:49 Matt:"Channelling our friend, Luis."
Aabria:"Zerxus! Arkwards (awkward)!"
Matt:"It saved Avalir."
Aabria:"Oof. Too soon. Too fucking soon." - 00:26:45 Just trying to get "dick-adjacent"
- 00:28:33 Aimee:"Remember the handies!"
- 00:33:33 Aabria:(cursing Bless under her breath)"Motherfucker."
- 00:35:25 Erica:"Thanks so much. Honor to be nominated, happy to be here."
- 00:36:26 Erica:"Yeah it actually says, 'Fuck Aabria'."
- 00:41:41 I have made you. I have given you martial prowess, I've offered you magic to serve my aims. Perhaps it is my fault for not telling you the stakes. There is a being, a beast, a monster that followed my siblings. This thing followed them, chased them, and threatens to return. I have no love for the Spider Queen or her working, but she fights now to defend her life. And i serve life and death. That means so do you. Morrighan Ferus, why are you fighting, and what are you fighting for?...
You are no abomination, Opal, when she agreed to wear the vestige, she knew or didn't consider what that would entail. I have not asked that of you yet. It is a conversation. What she agreed to, she agreed to. So you have a choice to make. I can tell you. Should I tell you?
Run! This is not where you die! I did not make you mine to fall here. - 00:49:45 Aabria:"Do I want to be mean?"
Robbie:"Sure."
Matt:"Yeah. Always go mean." - 00:51:26 Cyrus is struck. Matt and Robbie look down and then at each other with instant regret for tempting fate.
- 00:52:10 Dariax:"Wait, uppies, uppies!"
- 00:56:12 Fy'ra Rai asks the Wildmother's blessing to assist the Spider Queen. The response, though unspoken, is an invitation for Fy'ra Rai to pledge herself to the Wildmother as the official champion before joining Opal on her path.
- 01:03:44 Fy'ra with arms wide
- 01:08:13 Fy'ra Rai pledges herself to the Wildmother after being counterspelled and finding Dariax in a panic.
- 01:08:30 "It's all I have."
- 01:12:33 Matt explains to Anjali that they're still in the first round of combat and he hasn't gone yet.
- 01:13:16 Opal's cast of Suggestion succeeds on the Double D's "Just walk away. Go see Orym."
- 01:13:42 Aabria:"Naur."
Erica:"Aur naur." - 01:15:25 Aabria's slow grin at the suggestion to find Orym.
- 01:23:56 Aabria:"Yeah, she didn't give you syphilis."
- 01:27:03 Aabria:'How do I get the back of her knee vagina?"
Matt:"If it worked for Scott Pilgrim, it can work for you." - 01:29:34 Dariax finally gets his turn. Casts Mass Cure Wounds and leaves.
- 01:32:35 Matt:"I'm a messy baby."
- 01:38:48 A spider crushes nearby gems and Opal loses the memory of her name before it was Opal.
- 01:41:40 Giant spider with mammalian teeth.
- 01:43:36 2nd failed death save (rolled at disadvantage due to the poisoned condition as per DM flavor)
- 01:45:26 Opal:"You've taken everything from me, I have nothing else to lose."
SQ:"That's definitely not true." a spider minion immediately kills Cyrus Wyvernwing. - 01:45:53 If you watch closely, you can see Robbie's eyes flash right under the brim of his hat in a cool-looking way. The beginning of Dorian Storm's revenge arc.
- 01:47:07 Mic Drop Moment SQ:"Well, at least they know it wasn't your fault because you decided to run your fucking mouth."
Matt:(exhales)
Even through it all, you cannot help but hear the shake in her voice. - 01:49:54 Matt does the Hastag Blessed Jutsu
- 01:51:27 Fan Art Moment Morrighan's brutal revenge kill on the spider that killed Cyrus.
- 01:52:33 "...and I look over to the dick gems..."
Drama & Dickgems replaces Dungeons & Dragons for a bit.
- 01:53:24 "...like a tiara, cheaply made, where the gemstones fall out." (callback to the Byroden Beauty Pageant crown)
- 01:54:10 Morrighan:"I want you to know that no matter what you do here, you can always come back. No matter what. I know you don't mean it and I know you'll never ever be her abomination."
Opal:"Sorry."
Morrighan:"You don't need to be, this is bigger than all of us." - 01:55:12 Erica:"There's so much blood and it's all over the dick gems."
Aabria:"Please take inspiration." - 01:57:03 *As you turn your back on Opal, taking with you the dick gems and the sense that there is some part of her the Spider Queen will never take away from her. You are joined at your side by the spirit of Cyrus, as your time with the Matron of Ravens is just beginning. One of the duties of her chosen is to escort people 'Home'...
- 01:58:23 Aabria:"Stress piss brought to you by WizKids." (pun!)
- 02:04:57 Dorian casts Geas at 7th level compelling the giant spider to hunt and kill the Spider Queen for a year.
- 02:09:52 ASMR session
- 02:11:37 Mic Drop Moment Anjali:"I just gave myself to the goddess to save Opal. I'm either gonna tear that shit off her head or I'm going to be fighting beside her for the gods."
- 02:18:03 Fy'ra Rai joins the call.
Aimee:"Now entering: Fy'ra Rai (great impression!) - 02:19:13 Fy'ra:"No, I have a sister to walk beside."
- 02:23:49 SQ:"You are aware of the danger. Do you know what she's up against? What your goddess is up against. Ludinus doesn't know. He is a petulant child."
- 02:25:25 You are locked in a moment with the Spider Queen, a long one. In the time that you have known them, you knew that she'd circled your friends, finding her way in through the vestige you all found. Though you were not there when it was found, you were part. Who to tempt? Who to bring over? The Spider Queen is many things, but not a fool, and she knew better than to bark up your particular tree too hard. But she is Rattled. You know that all of this, the death and destruction and compulsion is from someone with no other recourse. Who calls themself a god and what happens when that pride is shaken; When mortality is back on the table? You are looking a woman in the eye and she needs all the friends she can get.
- 02:32:03 Opal:"If we see another side to this, I'm going to call you a cunt with my whole chest."
- 02:33:33 Dariax finishes climbing down. Seeing Dorian and Morrighan leaving Cyrus' body behind, he obeys Opal's warning and leaves in direction of Dorian.
- 02:42:42 Dorian:"I want revenge, Dariax, badly. Do you think you can take revenge against the universe? Do you think you can fight back against gods and monsters?
- 02:46:46 Dorian gives Dariax his lute and Cyrus' favorite cup and sets him up in a good spot to make a living as a busker. Then he turns away, drops his smile, casts invisibility and leaves to find the Tempest.
- 02:48:19 Aimee:"He left us. He left us!" Jurassic Park reference
- 02:49:15 "Titties out in blue and chiffon" Dorian seeks the Tempest in Zephrah. Erica does a titty dance.
INTERMISSION
It is here, Dorian Storm, after emerging from the tree, the Voice of the Tempest that you've briefly encountered in your previous travels with Orym before you and Fearne and him made your way to the continent of Marquet, to adventures that have thrown all manner of chaos, challenge, and sorrow into everyone's lives since. Still holding close to that pain, you watch as Keyleth approaches, acknowledging you, present though magically cloaked, and says,
"Dorian, it is good to see you. What brings you to Zephrah?"
- 03:09:13 Dorian begs Keyleth to retrieve the body of Cyrus.
- 03:17:05 Dorian receives a sending message from Orym.
- 03:20:43 Keyleth:"It all comes to the Hellcatch, where the god eater that sits in the core of that moon seeks to be released and devour the pantheon." Keyleth briefs Dorian on the situation with Ruidus.
- 03:24:48 Dorian:"Well, I would say 'To the Ends of the Earth', but it seems as if we're already there."
- 03:29:42 Reunited and it feels so good. Laura enters with a titty dance inspired by Erica. Lots of hugs happen.
- 03:36:59 Dorian doesn't know how to talk to Evoroa and reverts to pet talk.
- 03:37:27 Fan Art Moment Evoroa's cytaa skittering out, grabbing food from Dorian, screeching, and returning to the robes.
- 03:43:22 Dorian:"It's a long story. My brother died. My two best friends became the champions of the Matron of Ravens and the Spider Queen."
Imogen:"How long ago was that, Dorian?"
Dorian:"Yesterday." - 03:47:33 Dorian:"It almost feels like years of lore."
- 03:48:13 The classic Exandrian stage play of Pac Man
- 03:48:32 Dorian:"What is your plan in all of this?"
noises
Dorian:"That is not a good sound." - 03:50:45 Imogen:"Are you back, Dorian?" (John Wick reference?)
- 03:56:06 You begin to recall a handful of stories that Dariax had mentioned in passing of a particular woman that taught him that you can be both attracted and deeply afraid of a person.
- 03:59:30 Liam becomes the Aliens Meme Guy.
- 04:00:00 Ashton's booze run.
- 04:02:47 Cheers.