Ultragramps, 1 month ago

Fan Art Gallery: Grim Tidings

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Ultragramps, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Louis Armstrong - When You’re Smilin’

Fan Art Gallery: The Whole World Smiles With You

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by Anastasia Nova

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by Chris Gatlin

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by Netta Knight

Ultragramps, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Marisha’s Fan

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“R.I.P. F.C.G.”

Ultragramps, 1 month ago (edited 1 day ago)

♪Episode Song References♪

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• 00:28:00 Cindy Lauper - True Colors
• 00:56:08 Iron Maiden - Moonchild
• 01:02:35 Laura ♪(waggles tongue) ♪ Werner Thomas - Der Ententanz (the Chicken Dance)
• 01:18:00 hip hop inhale exhale sample
• 02:08:58 Eric Carmen - All By Myself
• 02:09:45 “everyboody” Backstreet Boys - Backstreet’s Back
• 02:20:25 Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town
• 02:25:00 Dashboard Confessional - Vindicated
• 03:11:28 Aerosmith - Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing
• 03:18:28 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
• 03:36:45 “together” Rick Astley - Together Forever
• 04:19:16 Robbie sings an unknown song

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Highlights

• 00:19:17 Liliana explains the containment of Predathos and the plan to breach it.
  "We’re supposed to be what can break the final boundary. We have somethin’ within us, somethin’ that the gods can’t stop. Only we can truly reach it. From what he (Ludinus) said, in order to get it beyond and back into our realm, it needs a vessel, somethin’ to carry it past that threshold.“
• 00:20:19 The darting eyes of Travis
• 00:22:55 Laudna:“You say it doesn’t care about us. What makes you think apathy is any better than disdain to a God Eater?” Liliana:”…It’s real tired of bein’ here and it’s real angry at those who put it there, and it’s real hungry."
• 00:24:56 Marisha thanking Liam for the fancy notebook
• 00:33:54 Liliana:“Do you think, should we stop all this from happening and re-seal or maintain Predathos’ endless slumber, that those of us who know this, those of us who are designed to be part of its freedom are just going to be allowed to walk free? What, you think the great temples of your world aren’t going to hunt us down one-by-one til there’s no possibility of this plan ever coming to fruition?You don’t think every great politician of our world that isn’t tied into this truth isn’t going to try and bury each and every one of us for what we’re part of?”
  Orym:"Cold comfort for my family in the ground."
• 00:40:58 Teleport to the Bloody Bridge.
  Imogen:“What do we do when we get to the other side?”
  Liliana:"Find those who you can trust and find me when you need my guidance. I’ll see you in your dreams."
• 00:42:20 Travis:"Whoa! Her flex on 'em! (regarding Liliana’s time stop spell) I mean, fuck her."
• 00:48:04 Laura rolls a 1 for a critical (heh) group deception check at the Malleus Key back on Exandria. Liam follows with a 3 and Taliesin with a 4.
  Travis:“That’s so fitting. I just said it.”
  All right, as you all emerge and begin to descend the staircase that leads down from the top of the Malleus Key, you coasted down amongst the various ruins and the large military tents and gathered bits of materials. You can also see other war beasts from Ruidus have begun to make their transition to Exandria. The military defense of the Malleus Key is growing larger. You can see the edges of the actual Tishtan site. There are signs of massive battle. While you were gone, it looks like either a major scuffle happened and a section of one of the inner walls of it is blown open and there’s a massive cave-in landslide that happened there. So it looks like the escalation of might and assaults on this space (or at least defense as well) shows violence is increasing.
  As you’re taking these in and you begin to maneuver, you, Orym, notice that two Reilorans are gliding by. Not walking, gliding. What you see are two mystics that take attention as you come down the steps and begin to pursue.
  Orym:(to Imogen)"We got a tail."
• 00:51:00 Laura:“I get it, Travis! I rolled a one!” (revenge from last episode)
• 00:52:48 Matt:“Ah, Natural Six.”
  Travis and Marisha celebrate successfully avoiding a Reiloran army.
• 00:54:15 Liam:"That’s a tall drink of warder."
• 00:54:28 Laura:“If we look around, do we see Planerider Ryn? Do we see an armless statue anywhere?”
  Travis:“Just as a hat rack.”
  Liam:“A potted plant. Just decor outside a tent.”
  Matt:"While this is where she was turned to stone, you get the immediate sense that she’s been relocated."
• 00:55:26 Orym:“Why is that woman dressed as a hot dog?”
  Matt:“Orym rolls high enough to see into the real dimension. Why do thy have dice? What does that mean?”
  Laura references The Neverending Story
• 00:58:30 You see different temple-themed armor sets, pauldrons and chestplates that are adorned with the symbol of the Moonweaver. You can see the holy symbols that are hung on the edge of iron spikes that are jammed into the ground that hang and dangle, where at the end of the chain, you see swinging a medallion of the Duskmaven. You can see all manner of captured holy imagery that now is set upon the outskirts of this site as a warning and as a a sign of pride that any who steps beyond stops here…you see the familiar sight of what looks to be a cloak that, as it hangs tattered and torn, as it flows with the occasional breeze, you can see the familiar symbol of the Changebringer, her face still standing there from the side, looking off to some unknown horizon.
• 01:00:50 Marisha:"40 years using this spell and still don’t fucking got it. Aw fuck, That’s right. Ah, fuck."
• 01:01:48 Travis:“Sure you don’t wanna just use a deception check to try and get around?”
  Laura:"Hey, fuck off…It doesn’t matter and Marisha saved the day and it’s fiyeen."
• 01:02:38 Travis, hit by a karma truck, rolls a 1 on the next stealth check.
  Liam:“That’s just right!” (callback to C2E102)
• 01:03:20 Marisha’s Fan is a tribute with “R.I.P.F.C.G.” on it
• 01:04:11 As the shadows to enswirl your troop and you peel off from what was the feigned perimeter walk of your group from the site, you begin to make a western beeline in the direction where you hope you’ll be able to see the encampment. The tension begins to fade after about five or so minutes when you do not see any of the other perimeter guards following suit or taking note of your divergence from the site.
  Now as you all quietly walk under the stars of the Exandrian sky in silence, looking across the distant rocky barren horizons of the Hellcatch, really the first moment hits in where you get to begin to process what you’ve lost.
• 01:10:47 Ashton:"I hope she’s right. Really do. I hope her ends are fucking great because these means are just not forgivable."
• 01:13:25 Evoroa becomes the first Bormodo on Exandria. The first to experience "The Blue Promise"
• 01:15:15 Imogen:“He said you knew where Ludinus was. Do you have a city name? A location?”
  Evoroa:“Yeah. I don’t know where it is, but he’s referred to it a few times. It’s called Aeor. It’s where he’s getting all these things and where…I don’t know where else he’d be.”
  Travis:“Motherfucking Matt Mercer. MFMM”
  Marisha:“The Cerberus Assembly has been obsessed with that Aeor shit.”

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Evoroa:"Well, so a lot of this tech was being brought in there. We were able to combine it with some of our initial designs of shifting and changing up our developments for various war implements here on Ruidus. They had developed a lot of things based around this thing, this Malleus Key he was talking about.
So part of my thing was to help originally to design tools that were used to burrow through the outer layers of the glass pillar where Kreviris was. It’s an impossiblly thick layer of glass, but the Exaltants, when they came in here and began to consult with us alongside Ludinus, they began to speak as they communed with the being of the planet, moon, I guess, to you. There are multiple layers to this glass.
The outer layers were simple enough to get through with some of this tech we designed, but the secondary layer that we got through was like adamantine. It seemed like it had some sort of divine magical origin in its construction. You know our standard designs were too slow in trying to get through there, given the rapid timeline of what was going on and mounting opposition from Exandria.
As you said, across the bridge was starting to grow tension, so Ludinus was going to go back to seek out what tech was available. There’s supposed ot be a continued source of it being excavated from his troop, his Vanguard, his allies, but there was a problem there. Something called, he called it the Dominox. It had begun to take up root there, was causing struggles with their excavation, and so he was going to take care of it himself. That was just a few days ago.
From what we were understanding, there were certain implementations of magical synergies and the technology that was being presented as part of our study group, that the tech had a unique understanding of the weave of godly magics, divine-type magics, and how to unravel them on a very base core point. So this was the basis of our project, a means to penetrate the secondary glass shell that contains Predathos within. So, taking inspiration from the, what’s it called the Malleus Factorum and the other trickles of nearby tech and essentially develop it in a smaller scale that we’d be able to go through these additional layers of the divine glass. So, apparently the glass veins that run through the planet are the remnants of Predathos’ last form when it was locked within its prison, so that’s the theory.
So, we’ve been unable to map deeply without the help of the Exaltants, and when they’re able to connect with the aid of the Weave Mind to deeply bind with the essence of Predathos, they were able to feel out the extent of the vein network. We were uncertain of the source. Just knew they were resonant with The One Who Sleeps, but from what we’re gathering, that was likely a reflection of its form when it was sealed away, so the glass is what its body once was then turned to be its own prison. Whatever is sleeping within is within its own glass prison and the layers between, and that’s where the tech and the Exaltants, that’s where all of this is supposed to come together is to break past these boundaries and then free it from its prison shell of what it once was. Yeah!"

• 01:32:10 Orym uses the sending stone to attempt to contact Dorian.
• 01:34:00 Aabria:“You know what? I think I’ll take it from here. I think it’s time to see the other half of the story.”
  INTERMISSION
  So, my lovely Crown Keepers. Kymal. After the events of our interlude those long long weeks ago, you all moved north past the Silvercut Crossroads to lay low in the Wildwood Valley. The settlements you dares stay at for more than a few days are more village than town, but the narrow edge of your escape from Poska and the Nameless Ones has you cagey. What’s the true distance of her reach? How far would your sister go to find you? And what do you think, Fy’ra Rai, she would do if she found you again?
  It’s been almost a month of low living. The six of you, Cyrus included, have a small cache of brumestone that you all harvested from your slow moving getaway platform. Yeah, honestly, like the first three weeks was you just slowly drifting. Yeah, you guys were able to harvest the brumestone from your platform. You have it secreted across the six of you, so in the event that you have to scatter, you all have access to an incredible amount of money, were you able to find a place to fence it.
  You are not too far from Kraghammer. Westruun is a little farther away, but those are big hubs. Poska’s reach might get there. The Myriad, the Clasp, the people that were pushed out in Kymal. You are some of the few survivors of whatever went down there, and a big city isn’t safe.
  But two weeks ago, something new began. Whispers reached even your remote ears.
  A solstice, the Moon of Ill omen, the Blightstar lost from the skies of TalDorei, trapped over Marquet. Disenchantment of old and powerful magic. No sending, no teleportation, no resurrection. Those of you with connections to the gods of this world, the Wildmother, the Spider Queen, the Matron of Ravens, and even the Observer. You have felt a pressingg on the threads of your connections with them, from the Prime and Betrayer Gods, your first inkling of fear, and even from the Observer, a new bit of interest, curiosity about the goings on in this world.
  And then a message from Orym. Desperate. So sad. Halfway around the world, he bade you find the Tempest in a tone that pushed your group from hiding to haste.
  So you find yourselves on the road once more headed south, then east towards the Summit Peaks and Zephrah.
  This time has been dark and difficult for you all not just because you have had to settle for living and hiding; no longer around the glitz and glamour of Kymal. The standard of living that you were all adjusted to. Even Cyrus has been showing signs of getting a little antsy, a curiosity, a need to move in a new direction. Then, again, Opal’s been getting pretty dark lately.
  Aimee gives the camera a stare
• 01:58:53 I like that you said dreams because I think your dreams were the thing that went first. It is not that you go to sleep and have nightmares, but I think in your youth you would go to sleep and dream or have a nightmare and have some memory of it upon waking, even if it slips away across the day. But every night now, for two weeks, you go to sleep and you wake up exhausted as though your body has been tense, moving. Recovery is difficult and whatever happens from when you close your eyes and give yourself over to sleep and waking is a void and lost. Any time you reach within yourself towards Ted, towards whatever that connection is for clarity or understanding, the first thing you notice is that every dawn, if you reach for Ted, she is exhausted. If you ask her, if you press, she tells you little and less. She doesn’t want to worry you. It’s not your fight.
  And that’s the important thing. You know there is a fight happening and you have no recollection of it.
  Two weeks, and now you’re on the road again, traveling long days down the road, exhausted. It is at some point, just a few days into your journey towards Zephrah, towards purpose or adventure or whatever comes next after your last big quest, you feel it. Something inside you breaks. Too tired. Too much holding it together. Your mind is yours and Ted’s and hers, and she has been whispering to you. You feel that fear, that concern oppressing, a hastening, and it all becomes too much.
  You all walk down the road, and Opal stops. Frozen, she’s looking a thousand yards away in a direction as if she’s listening, trying to hear, trying to understand, but she is stock still.
• 02:03:21 Aabria:“We gotta get these chuckles out now. I’m so excited.”
  Robbie seems to be the only one terrified by that statement and looks around incredulously.
• 02:05:35 Aabria:"What did it feel like for Morrighan when she made her deal with the Matron of Ravens, when she committed herself to becoming a paladin of her cause?"
• 02:07:37 Erica:“Whatever curdles the stomach of death incarnate, that’s pretty scary.”
  You turn towards that feeling of gravity and you look at Opal, trying so hard to shake off whatever this is. You see it in a flash, in a caw, a birdsong, before it hits,
  and Opal, it’s not that she raises or levitates off the ground, but she seems to grow massive and then she explodes out in every direction.
• 02:09:50 Matt gets to live the dream and does the ad read for the Wizkids Battle Cam in Sam’s absence.
• 02:12:01 Spider Queen:"It means I need you to come with me and I need to sever the ties that keep you with them."
• 02:12:46 Neat spider web FX in the background!
  Opal:"Wait. Where’s Ted?"
• 02:14:39 Telepathic group chat by Rary’s Telepathic Bond is granted by Aabria
• 02:15:17 Mic Drop Moment Aabria:"Let me be so clear. Aimee Carrero, love of my life. If you pull a punch, I will know, and I’ll make it worse. So I need you to swing."
• 02:16:54 Fan Art Moment You see Opal, a crown, and then a pink crown below it, eyes dripping black, a set of arms reaching out, a second set of arms reaching down.
• 02:19:36 Amy:“My ass is sweating.” (callback to Aabria in Calamity?)
• 02:20:03 Matt begins the dance of Dariax rolling low.
• 02:20:38 Two plus two is four
• 02:22:45 The gems strewn about are fragments from Opal’s explosion
• 02:23:35 Aabria:"I will Venmo you $20 RIGHT NOW if you cast haste on Opal."
• 02:25:35 Aabria:"You stand by a weird dick of gemstones."
• 02:29:12 Aabria:"You can certainly try."
• 02:30:50 We Meet Ted!
  Aabria:"If Opal did CrossFit for three years and was pure raw red meat diet. This is meat beat bandersnatch Opal. (Meat Beat Manifesto?)
• 02:32:38 Erica:"Fuck you, Ted."
• 02:32:56 Aimee breaks

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• 02:34:40 Erica:“I’d like to go to a Denny’s.”
  Aabria:“You get a giant hot dog that looks like a pussy. We haven’t forgotten that.”
  Matt:"I’ll never forget it…"
• 02:36:10 Erica:"As fur back as I can get without doing that thing you said."
• 02:36:22 Under your feet, you see an arrangement of those opalescent gems. It’s a little pattern of four. No perception check, it just sort of looks like a dick…
  Erica:“Wow, it’s so big.” (callback to Kymal)
  Anjali:“There it is! Everybody drink!”
  Aimee:“There’s an ash hole right next to it.”
  Aabria:"No!"
• 02:37:50 Robbie:“Dorian was up front, tooting a little tune on his flute, okay in his own zone. Then in that amount of time, Opal levitated, burst forth spiderwebs and gems, shot a bolt, and nearly killed one of our friends…”
  Aabria:"It really popped off."
• 02:38:47 Dorian:“Better get your head in the game, Bossy Genassi.” casts Bardic Inspiration on Fy’ra
• 02:40:54 Robbie makes a funny noise of confusion.
• 02:42:08 Aimee donates her failed pinky nail to Matt while Robbie says “doo doo” repeatedly about his stats.
• 02:42:30 Dorian:“Hey, buddy. You wanna tell me what’s going on?”
  Opal/SQ:“She doesn’t know.”
  Dorian:“Who’s she? You’re she.”
  Opal/SQ:“Am I?”
  Dorian:“Are you?”
  Opal/SQ:"Are you?
• 02:46:00 Matt:“That’s the password on my luggage.” (Spaceballs reference)
• 02:52:27 Robbie decides to touch the bunny ears. Henry Crabgrass is disappointed.
• 02:53:35 Aabria:“You feel the dick under your feet.”
  Matt:"If I had a nickel…"
• 02:55:12 Robbie:“Don’t get Jumanji-ed!” (SNL Jumanji Skit)
• 02:56:03 Spider Queen:“You won’t stop me from making her mine without killing her, so what are you all prepared to do? Because I will not die to that.” (likely referencing the ongoing Predathos threat)
• 02:57:47 One of the spiders crushes one of the dick gems, simultaneously broadcasting and deleting the memory contained within:
  There’s a word, Aevilux, a splinter group. She tells a story, looking at you with shining eyes, mismatched color. A long time ago, a group of people found something called a beacon. They learned from it some great entity or god, a concept that sought to know itself, to understand via experience in the world of Exandria, it split itself apart. This one found far away. These people that worshiped the Luxon, found, created magics within themselves to split their own souls apart so that they could learn who they were via observation. As a child, town in two, you observe yourself, you learn who you are, what you like, what you want, what you need, your purpose, and then rejoin, find unity once more.
  Your mother was one of these people. So, Ted, Opal, Georgina, are you. You and Ted found each other again, reunited to something stronger than your wholes. (hehe) You understand yourself because you understand Ted. Ted wants to protect you because she is protecting herself. She’s not lost to you, she is you. You are something rare and magical in the world of Exandria, and the memory of that is gone forever, in the moment of knowing it.
• 03:03:23 Aabria:“You did get a sense of Submissive and Crushable from these.” (giggety)
• 03:04:30 Matt opens with a casting of Bless much to Aabria’s displeasure, since it was so effective during battle in Kymal.
• 03:04:50 Aimee:“After all the handies, Cyrus?” rolls a 7 on a performance check for the “handie”. Aimee then does a happy rodeo dance.
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• 03:07:25 Dariax grants bardic inspiration to Dorian, who has been training him as a bard up until now.
• 03:09:18 Aimee pulls no punches and plunges everyone into darkness in which only Opal can see.
• 03:11:53 Erica:(Barbie voice)"The dick gems are sentient!"
• 03:12:57 Spider Squirrel!
• 03:19:40 Aimee:“The candles were wet all the time.”
  Erica:“The candles were so wet!” (giggety)
• 03:25:05 Grab those sticky dick gems!
• 03:28:14 Aimee:"You’re so confident. I mean, not in this moment…"
• 03:31:23 Erica:"I actually think I’m good, question mark?"
• 03:32:31 Erica:(Barbie voice)“Grab as many jewels as you can!”
  Fy’ra:"That’s what I said!..Bossy Genasi is apparently my name now."
• 03:35:35 Dorian flies out of the darkness, but fails his dispel cast and lets out a small fart. "Aw, damn!"
• 03:35:56 The Dorian/Dariax names finally catch Aabria in the episode. Almost made it.
• 03:38:20 Erica:“oh they really are dick gems…”
  Matt:"She tends to rub off on ya.“
• 03:45:03 Opal:“This isn’t about you, Ted.”
  Ted:“You’re literally talking about me.”
  Opal:”(okay) shut up"
• 03:46:29 Rent-A-Sister
• 03:47:12 Fire Genasi plus flammable perfume (callback to Kymal Part 2 @ 1:50:45)
• 03:51:21 Fy’ra:"Dodge, dash, disengage, what the fuck?“
• 03:57:24 Dariax is struck by three eldritch blasts in the darkness.
• 04:00:34 Dimension Door escape
  Matt:”…I know because I’ve had people Dimension Door into dragons before.“
• 04:02:53 Bardy Party
• 04:03:33 Fan Art Moment Dariax doing the Van Damme splits
• 04:13:51 Corrupted memory
• 04:17:47 Forbidden Gushers
• 04:24:35 Fan Art Moment Opal’s new 6’5” form with extra arms

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Ultragramps, 1 month ago

Aimee Faces

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“Opal’s been getting darker lately…”

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She took the crown willingly and the Spider Queen needs a champion right now.

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Ultragramps, 1 month ago

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“I look like a Georgia O’Keefe painting!”

Ultragramps, 1 month ago

Fan Art Gallery: Bad to the Bone

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Orb Talk (click to reveal)Orb 1: “My son is here”
Orb 2: “Where are the others?”
Orb 1: “They fell…he was too strong”
Evil orb: “We warned you, the boy should never have been allowed to live.”
Orb 1: “What did you know of this?”
Orb 2: “What have you done?”
Evil orb: “Reliquiae will fall.”
Orb 1: “You betrayed us!”
Evil orb: “You die at the hand of he you should never have spared”
Orb 1: “You promised peace, you swore it!”
Evil orb: “You ended the peace when you weakened our blood”
Orb 1: “You cannot hide! If they come for us they come for the Feywild next”
Orb 2: “Blood is thick”
Orb 2: “The Briar will hold”
noises
Evil orb: “It is done.”
Orb 2: “You broke the oath. Should you brave our lands, we will be prepared”
Evil orb: “the Shadow will flood.”

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Ultragramps, 1 month ago (edited 16 days ago)

♪Episode Song References♪

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• 01:27:33 “From a distance” Julie Gold - From A Distance
• 02:19:53 “5 to 9” (missed opportunity) Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
• 02:50:18 “it’s just a bear, not yet a-blighted” Britney Spears - I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman

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Highlights

• 00:02:35 Aoife:“Two for two.”
  Harry:"It was a bad start, as a morning."
• 00:08:40 The group chooses clerics to pursue: Dolly after (Malakine) the Tiefling cleric, Endellion after the Human cleric, I after (Parvus) the Kobold cleric, Kelnys after (Barabask) the Elven cleric, Raidion with the (Grawnoth) Dwarven cleric and Morgan pursues Genevie, the Human cleric…
• 00:12:12 "Heh, what would/wood."
• 00:15:37 Parvus showing a bit of the old kobold. "It is…I am here, it is I, I am here."
• 00:17:34 I:“What is a Parvus?”
  “Parvus is my name.”
  “What does a Parvus know?”
  “Parvus knows enough. Parvus knows little of what Parvus sees here.”
  “Why is a Parvus?”
  "Dignity."
• 00:23:35 Fan Art Moment I and Parvus perform the Kobold “palm touch and sniff” greeting
• 00:24:56 Kelnys speaks “friend” in Elvish (LotR reference?) and then helps Barabask enter the tower.
• 00:29:22 Kelnys obtains Elven Chainmail +1
• 00:32:58 The Kobold diety (referred to as Themself) was a spy during the Divine War.
• 00:33:25 Item: The Cloak of Many Fashions
• 00:34:11 Ben:“Endellion finds this beautiful sword, she chooses not to take it and go back.”
  Hollie:"I didn’t say that."
• 00:37:45 Dolly discovers the lifeless purple form of Alakash, the tiefling diety.
• 00:42:42 The Ring of the Orator
• 00:43:50 Alakash has a fable like the third challenge from The Princess Bride.
• 00:53:14 Ben:“Raidion thinks to himself, ‘i wonder if there are goodies in this room…’”
  Harry:“Radion thinks, ‘Magic shit is fun.’”
  Ben:"Dwarves are so cool."
• 00:58:58 Morgan weeps
• 01:00:41 Ben:"Some goodies…"
• 01:01:13 Morgan is too distraught for investigation
• 01:05:55 Endellion spots something on the horizon beyond the Allanite mountain range.
• 01:09:22 Raidion casts Detect Magic and the effect indicates that a significant amount of time has passed since the magic was present.
• 01:15:45 I decides to withhold information about the kobold god
• 01:16:08 Endellion relays the suspicious behavior of Genevie to the group after they meet up
• 01:18:38 The group come across three orbs (Palantirs / LotR reference?) in the central temple. Also the body of Theolon, the elven diety.
  One orb is pure white, another black, and the third is a shimmering constantly-changing light
• 01:22:10 Theolon was known as “The Once Wild”. It’s in fact a phrase that you heard at a party all that time ago. Theolon used to be a god of Chaos and she was turned. Alakash always said it was him, but Alakash would. Theolon tipped the balance in favor of The Virtuous when she changed sides. There are some who think she kept some of that Wild-ness.
  When you look at elven culture (high elf or wood elf), high elves like Barabask revere the civility and the decorousness and the new goddess she became. Generally speaking, wood elves tend to revere her free-ness and how in-tune she was with the natural world.
• 01:23:46 Harry:“So, so magic. The greatest presence of magic you’ve ever felt in your life is coming off these three orbs.” (likely Transmutation magic)
• 01:27:51 TALKING ORBS! Sound FX by Paul Bondy aka InsideInfo
• 01:29:39 The orbs have gone dark, but there’s still light. You can see how the walls of this chamber that cracked, and just put your eye to a crack in this wall, and you’re looking out towards the West. There’s a view of the Allanites and there’s a view beyond the Allanites.
  There is a tree.
  There is a great tree, as tall as you are now. At the top of that tree, color and light. At the peaks of the mountains, you can see it’s almost in lock-step with the Topography of the Allanites, occaisionally peeking above it. It’s what looks like a great thorn bush.
  I:“What was The Briars?” (to Endellion) "What did you see?"
• 01:32:40 Raidion:"When I was alone with Grawnoth, he told me to meet him somewhere. Baruun; there he would reveal the truth. It is not now to ask. This is as you (to Dolly) said, Way Above Our Pay Grade. We’re not just going to go trudging across Reliquiae, across the Allanites, to some tree that we see. We can’t do that, we can barely fight wolves. I say we deal with our business here and then we make our way back. We’re not fighters, we’re mercenaries."
• 01:33:58 Dolly:“Interesting time to find fasion.”
  Endellion:"I don’t know, Kelnys has changed, mate."
• 01:36:17 Endellion agrees that meeting Grawnoth is the next move.
• 01:41:18 Raidion:“The Web is Wide. Let’s use it.”
  Endellion:"The Web is also sticky and dangerous."
• 01:42:43 Arguments in the temple
• 01:45:51 Fan Art Moment Kelnys arrives, carrying the body of Theolon and the arguments stop.
  Kelnys:“Here is the body of the great and beautiful Theolon.“
• 01:47:57 Fan Art Moment I comes to Parvus’ rescue staring down a massive orc cleric (second largest after Morgan)
• 01:49:25 Carvilius explains that Aurum (dragonborn diety) held suspicion of Themself (kobold diety) and that they had questions.
• 01:52:35 Morgan, Kelnys, Endellion and Dolly begin to fade to gray as part of the corruption. They gain resistance to necrotic damage. They also gain additional damage (1d4 necrotic) to their successful attacks and lose 1, 2, 3 and 4 maximum HP, respectively.
• 01:54:45 Grawnoth succeeds in identifying the corruption.
• 01:55:36 Barabask:”(to Kelnys) You brought the body. You are deserving.”
  He goes into his pack and he gets some parchment and scrolls out a letter and hands it to Morgan.
  "Take this to Jasmee at the festival. She’s a high cleric of mine, she will see. But this must be remedied. He looks at you Raidion, self-appointed leader.*
  "They may not have long."
• 01:58:36 Morgan names his Captain of the Guard, Brynhilde, as the team’s contact in Baruun.
• 02:00:39 Theolon’s wounds indicate that they were killed quickly, while the rest show signs of drawn out struggle. Everyone gets a Greater Healing potion.
• 02:04:56 Wounded blighted wolf execution and a blighted vine combat session.
• 02:15:08 Endellion new appearance after being sprayed with the corruption "Death becomes her!"
• 02:16:05 I:"Nice!"
• 02:17:00 Snow begins to fall on the Mountain of Eternal Spring, bad omen.
• 02:18:06 Initiative! Nobody rolls above a 15, another bad sign.
• 02:20:37 The team looks up and sees a landslide of blighted earth coming towards them.
  The landslide is going to move a set amount every round. It’s going to move on initiative 20. You have to make it 400 feet.
• 02:26:05 Morgan rolls a 1 on the die determining whether he starts prone.
• 02:27:37 Doug:“Ouch.”
  Harry:“God, he’s good! The immersion!“
• 02:28:33 Harry:”…and you all rolled like stink.” (adorable censorship)
• 02:29:22 Aoife rolls a Natural 6!
• 02:32:49 Harry gets self conscious about saying avalanche rather than landslide, but it was snowing on the magic peak, so he’s not far off.
• 02:34:58 Hollie:“Fine…Fine. Fine! Yeah! Whatever” (The dice have been unforgiving)
  Harry:"I love how much you hate D&D"
• 02:37:01 Hollie:"But he doesn’t have the Umbilical Cord of the Great Dragon."
• 03:07:56 Morgan falls unconscious.
• 03:09:51 Kelnys:“Let’s go back later.”
  Endellion:"Find the body, yeah."
• 03:17:59 Alex:“This would just be a phenomenal run past. Just bink and carry on running.”
  Ben:"Be well!"
• 03:18:46 Harry:“You don’t see the bear. Just gonna cross that column off…”
  Doug:"Just the odd flash of a red jumper."
• 03:23:38 Doug inspires Hollie and Ben to join his imitation of a meerkat leaving the chasm
• 03:24:40 Morgan survives and dives out at the last second with a 20 roll. The bear’s corpse is seen in the landslide as it passes the team.

Ultragramps, 1 month ago

I have seen Wario. I have not seen response to this post. Best to let the thirsty wait, since they sat the last one out. FAFO, amirite?

Ultragramps, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Combat Round Breakdown

by DustSnitch

Legendary actions are bolded, the hyperlinks are for D&D spells publicly available on D&D Beyond or Critical Role Wiki, and reactions are italicized and placed right next to their trigger.
The casters’ number of spell slots are listed from their lowest level to their highest (ex. 1/1/1 means the character have 1 spell slot of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level).

• Otohan Thull: More than 440 HP, 2/2 Action Surges, 12/12 Psi Dice, 3/3 Legendary Resistances
• Orym: 102/144 HP, Action Surge 0/1, 2/6 Superiority Dice
• Laudna: 117/117 HP, Spells: 3/3/3/2/2, Sorcery Points 9/10*, Unsettling Presence: 0/1, Mirror Image in Effect
• Chetney: 97/108 HP
• Ashton: 33/132 HP, Rage: 4/5, Chaos Burst: 4/5
• Fearne: 67/83 HP, Spells: 2/3/3/1/2/1, Wild Shape 0/2
• FCG: >17/113 HP, Spells: 1/1/3/1/1/1/1, Channel Divinity 0/2, Divine Intervention 0/1, Staff of Dark Odyssey 4/8 Charges,
• Imogen: 75/83 HP, Spells 2/3/1/2/1/0/1, Sorcery Points 5/13, Mage Armor In Effect

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End of Combat Status

• Orym 0/144 HP, Action Surge 0/1, 0/6 Superiority Dice, Indomitable 1/2
• Laudna: 55/117 HP, Spells: 0/2/2/2/0, Sorcery Points 0/10, Unsettling Presence: 0/1
• Chetney 23/108 HP
• Ashton: 0/132 HP, Rage: 2/5, Chaos Burst: 2/5
• Fearne: 49/83 HP, Spells: 1/3/3/0/0/0, Wild Shape 0/2
• Imogen: 1/83 HP, Spells 2/3/1/1/0/0/1, Sorcery Points 3/13

Faithful Care Giver- FCG: Dead, Spells: 1/1/2/0/0/0/0, Channel Divinity 0/2, Divine Intervention 0/1, Staff of Dark Odyssey 4/8 Charges

Notes

• This total is assuming Marisha is marking off 1 Sorcery Point for every use of Quickened Spell, because otherwise she would have ended the fight using 3 more sorcery points than her maximum.
• With four attacks and two action surges, it’s safe to assume that Otohan is a level 20 Fighter with access to the maximum 12 psi dice.
• Exaltant Fury restores both of Otohan’s Action Surge, gives her Resistance to all damage, and increases her Armor Class by 4 to 25, one higher than the AC of Campaign 1’s final boss.

Ultragramps, 1 month ago

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Ultragramps, 1 month ago

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Ultragramps, 1 month ago

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Ultragramps, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Producer: So you have a Critical Role mini campaign for me?

Writer: Yes sir, I do!

Producer: Great so what’s it about?

Writer: Well the whole idea is getting to explore some smaller stories set in the world of Exandria, so I thought it should include multiple direct conversations with deities, planar travel, legendary items, missing time, elemental rifts, and lost civilizations.

Producer: <eyes wide> Wow, these must be some legendary adventurers.

Writer: They’re a group of level 3 misfits with a flair for pageantry.

Producer: You don’t think that’s a bit too grand in scope?

Writer: Well I’ve got 8 episodes. It’ll probably be fine.

Producer: So tell me about the story.

Writer: Well we’re going to meet our 5 heroes who are waking up from a night of revelry and urine antics only to discover they’re missing time.

Producer: You mean beyond normal missing time from revelry and urine antics?

Writer: Yayaya!

Producer: Ah ok, so we’re going to spend 8 episodes putting together the missing pieces?

Writer: No we’re never going to talk about it again.

Producer: <confused> Oh ok, well so what happens next?

Writer: Well they run into this woman named Poska who runs a local thieves guild and she wants their help stealing an item from a ship!

Producer: Ah ok, so what’s Poska’s deal?

Writer: Well she wears a red trench coat and she’s evil.

Producer: That’s her motivation? She’s evil?

Writer: Yea and she wants them to retrieve this item, which turns out to be a Vestige of Divergence but a super evil one!

Producer: That’s from the thing!

Writer: Yes it is. So they get the Vestige of Divergence which turns out to belong to Lloth the evil queen of spiders and they decide they can’t turn it over to a thieves’ guild. But they need answers, so they go to this giant ash hole just outside the city.

Producer: Oh giant ash holes are tight!

Writer: I mean, I guess.

Producer: So what happens at the ash hole?

Writer: Well they discover an elemental rift powered by an incomplete rune, so they have to find out what the rune means or it could be disastrous!

Producer: Oh no! How are they going to do that?

Writer: Well they’re going to have to head back to the city to get the help of someone who can read magic runes!

Producer: Back to the city? But that’s where the thieves’ guild is!

Writer: Yea it’s real dangerous, but they gotta go. I mean this rune could spell bad news maybe.

Producer: So do they find this person who can read runes?

Writer: Yes sir, it turns out its Gilmore!

Producer: He’s from the other thing!

Writer: And Gilmore tells them that he can’t read the rune but he knows it comes from a lost civilization far to the south and if the group goes and gets more runes he could translate the original.

Producer: He needs more runes of a language he can’t read to translate a rune he can’t read from a civilization that’s been lost for centuries that you can walk to in a few weeks?

Writer: He does.

Producer: So what happens next?

Writer: Well Gilmore helps them out by selling them any magic item they want at a discount and giving them a cart for free so they can escape the city unseen.

Producer: What are you talking about, he literally just met them.

Writer: Yea but he likes them now.

Producer: I suppose that’s fine. So they escape the city unseen?

Writer: No they’re caught by Poska almost immediately.

Producer: Oh no! Do they fight their way out?

Writer: Sort of, they charm Poska and tell her to walk away but she’s real mad about it.

Producer: Oh well, I’m sure it will lead to an exciting pursuit as an entire thieves’ guild starts tracking them down.

Writer: We’re never going to see them again.

Producer: What? They stole from her and they’re in a cart. Surely they’d go after the party!?

Writer: Nah, they have like an hour head start. But if they ever come back to the city they’ll be in big trouble.

Producer: I guess that makes sense.

Writer: So then the party spends a few weeks travelling south and they run into a monk who they apparently first met during their missing time and she helps them destroy an evil version of one of the party.

Producer: And she fills them in on the missing time?

Writer: No.

Producer: Seems like she would.

Writer: Yea but she’s not. So anyway they’re also helped out by this elven woman Myr’atta who’s all “What have you done!?”

Producer: What have they done?

Writer: Unclear.

Producer: So what’s Myr’atta’s deal?

Writer: Well she’s there to deal with leaky energy.

Producer: Leaky energy? That’s sort of vague.

Writer: Extremely vague, sir. But she’s secretly the big bad of the campaign so I had to have a reason to introduce her.

Producer: Oh she’s the big bad!? Why didn’t you say so? So what’s her deal?

Writer: Well she’s evil and wears a purple cloak.

Producer: Didn’t we already do the evil and wears a color thing?

Writer: We did, but since Poska stayed in the city I needed a new one.

Producer: It just seems like you replaced a villain with a reason to pursue the party with one they ran into by happenstance and then switched the color of their clothing.

Writer: Look I’m gonna need you to get all the way off my back about the villain.

Producer: Whoa ok let me get off of that thing.

Writer: So Myr’atta learns that one of the party members has a warlock patron and she wants it for herself so she starts following the party in secret.

Producer: Oh no!

Writer: Then the monk is going to guide the party to the lost civilization and it turns out it’s just filled with people.

Producer: There’s a lost civilization filled with people that nobody knows about? How is that possible?

Writer: Unclear.

Producer: Well ok then. Well at least it should be easy to get the rune translated.

Writer: Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Producer: Oh really?

Writer: Yea they meet this leader there who is just like “Oh yea it means ‘place of burning’”.

Producer: Seems a little on-the-nose and unhelpful.

Writer: Yea super on-the nose and unhelpful.

Producer: So what happens next? Do they head back home now that they’ve got a fully translated rune thus rendering the need for Gilmore’s assistance entirely moot?

Writer: Well they’re told the rune marks a place too full of energy even further south and they need to go there.

Producer: Why?

Writer: Because that’s what I wrote. So they start heading there when Myr’atta shows up and attempts to kidnap the warlock of the party, only the group saves her. But Myr’atta escapes with the warlock’s magic.

Producer: What? How did she steal her magic?

Writer: Unclear. But the party now has to follow her to the place they were going anyway to get the warlock’s magic back.

Producer: I don’t . . . what do you . . . oh whatever.

Writer: And the monk leaves the party and tells her leader that she fears they’re being drawn south for the wrong reasons.

Producer: How are they being drawn? They just came here to find a rune to translate another rune.

Writer: I dunno, they’re just being drawn now. So they’re given a map and told to head south to a ruin and then head south from there, but when they get to the ruin there’s this large floating cube so of course they stop to investigate.

Producer: That makes sense, you don’t often find a giant floating cube outside of a scotch and coke.

Writer: So in the process of investigating the cube they destroy it and they’re attacked by Myr’atta and some stone constructs. Then Myr’atta targets the warlock and steals her magic.

Producer: Wait I thought you said she already stole her magic.

Writer: Oh did I? Well magic is mysterious I guess and she needs to steal more of it for her evil plan to be carried out.

Producer: What is her evil plan again?

Writer: To draw the party to this exact spot where she can use the place too full of energy to empower the warlock’s patron enough to separate it from the warlock so that anyone can use it as a patron.

Producer: Doesn’t that require a lot of convenient choices by the party?

Writer: What do you mean?

Producer: Well if they hadn’t run into her to begin with, or if she hadn’t learned of the warlock’s power, or if the party had turned back after getting the rune translated, or if they didn’t follow the map, or if they kept heading south then, or if they hadn’t destroyed the cube, then her plan fails. And don’t warlock patrons make the choice who they empower anyway?

Writer: Huh. So anyway she draws out the warlocks Patron and nearly kills the party with magic that’s super way beyond their ability level, but then the warlock puts on the evil vestige and defeats her!

Producer: Does she blast her with some evil divine magic gifted to her by a deity!?

Writer: No she just slices her throat with a dagger.

Producer: A little anti-climactic. Are there going to be any consequences for her using the evil vestige?

Writer: None whatsoever. So that’s it. The party heads off for adventures unknown. What do you think?

Producer: Well it sounds like there may be some unresolved plotlines that were included for no reason, but we can address those in a season 2.

Writer: Oh you think there will be a season 2?

Producer: Of course there will be a season 2. We have an audience so starved for content they watched a D&D game about Wendy’s. There may be a few small issues, but I doubt anyone will put in way too much effort to complain about them.

by Boffleslop