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Episode 86: Doorways to Darker Depths
Bell’s Hells, after arriving on the red moon, Ruidus, trekked into one of the vilages in the outside of the central capital city of Kreviris. Encountered some of the locals, made some friends, ran into some enemies, took some out took some captive. Then in the process of looking for a means of continued travel towards the city of your destination, some of you ran into Otohan Thull, who has been seemingly, progressively on the trail of you since your arrival.
Through a brief bit of a chaotic scuffle and an escape, you all whisked yourselves away into the sky, and, facing an oncoming storm, sought shelter a little ways north from this small astral body.
Upon diving into a nearby chasm, delving into its depths and finding some odd water network caverns and continuing to follow this strange source of water, you trekked though these winding tunnels, found a high splashing waterfall, climbed to the top, and found ancient ruins emerging from inside this rock clustered cavern, seemingly from times long forgotten.
As you trekked through these ruins and began to look for a way of getting back to the surface or finding a safe space to rest, at the very least. You found some unique elements lost to time, forever locked in this moment before cataclysm. Then found the source of this burbling river of water that was carving from the rock.
Out of curiosity, Fearne transformed into some multitude combination of various water creatures. A Leaf Sheep Sea Slug. Upon pushing through the forceful water, you eventually found yourself in a less cramped space, in a less constantly pressured, coursing water. Clambering upward towards a light source, you breached into what seemed to be an unfamiliar lake beneath a blue and dappled sky. Beautiful cold air surrounding forests and mountain tops with white snow dusting across their peaks.
Previous Episode “Intense Interrogations”
- CritRole Recap
- Episode discussion
- YouTube VOD
- Alternate Front End VOD
- Marisha Raygun Highlights The MOST CLUTCH Banishment
♪Episode Song References♪
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- 00:31:59 “marking its way” Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles
- 00:34:27 Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreets Back)
- 01:09:20 Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles Again
- 02:27:40 The Sailor’s Hornpipe
- 02:34:57 Barenaked Ladies - One Week
- 02:45:10 regular roll Judas Priest - Breakin the Law
- 02:54:54 ♪don’t you wanna rest?♪ Good Charlotte - I Just Wanna Live
- 03:04:58 Elton John - Candle in the Wind
- 03:58:09 Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles Again
Highlights
- 00:16:14 Laudna:“What? I’m a B-boy.”
- 00:23:33 Liam:“Do you have a Czepeku?” Sam and Marisha start dancing again from the ad read.
- 00:24:31 Travis:“I’ll be back, lemme know when you’re done…”
- 00:25:37 Taliesin:“Sluggish?”
- 00:27:34 Fearne:“Watch Me!”
- 00:28:01 Taliesin blushes at Liam’s suggestion about the immovable rod
- 00:30:24 Matt:“You start drowning.” (Liam imitates Ace Ventura 2, rhinoceros birth scene)
- 00:31:03 Travis:“I’ve started to walk away and find my fortune elsewhere.”
- 00:34:54 The Myth of Big Carrot
- 00:43:25 The difference between Ashley and Laura when checking on Sam’s shenanigans.
- 01:04:04 FCG has another stressful bird encounter
- 01:08:00 Sam shows off his earring to Laura and calls himself a ‘bad boy’
- 01:10:10 Travis:“Balls. Ass. Weiner…”
- 01:19:17 Chetney:“…and I let the muses guide my chisel.”
- 01:22:02 Orym gets an answer from Caleb Widogast.
- 01:23:27 Travis:“Just use your spell thing and do your stuff!”
- 01:24:08 Eric Bauza a.k.a. the new Bugs Bunny.
- 01:25:53 Laura reveals that they can only exchange spell slots and sorcery points when on the surface of Ruidus.
- 01:27:45 Imogen gets an answer from Keyleth revealing their location in the Caramarin Reach area of Issylra.
- 01:33:16 JESTER! Laura can’t stop smiling when they finish sending.
- 01:47:00 Liam:“We are in Bangore, Maine.” Stephen King reference to where he lives, though Derry is the town mentioned most in his novels.
INTERMISSION
Now with one and quickly four members of your troop all diving into the darkened waters of this lake, mid-evening, what are the rest of you doing? - 02:10:53 Laudna:“You, come here, it’s ghost ship time! (raspy noise)”
- 02:12:15 Critical Role Presents:
The Animated Adventures of Boaty and Ropey
- 02:12:41 “Uh -huh.” Matt and Marisha perform dueling throaty voice noises.
- 02:16:40 Fearne busts out the boon from the undead pirate captain to reduce cold damage.
- 02:24:50 Fan Art Moment Undead Pirate Laudna in a Captain Morgan pose, riding her animated boat beneath the surface of the lake (maybe with Mister swimming the other direction nearby): “Aye, we’re going to the bottom of the sea.”
- 02:27:41 Pirate Laudna:“All aboard the Queen de Rolo!”
- 02:36:06 Matt:“…because right now, you’re a dope underwater captain.”
Marisha:“Arr!” - 02:36:58 Pirate Laudna:“Give yerself to the Kraken, yarr!”
- 02:37:32 Liam and Laura laugh about how Ashton might be dead and they’ll be more worried about Ropey.
Taliesin:“Spoiler, Ropey’s my new character. I’m going to have so much fun!” - 02:38:09 Pirate Laudna:“That’s the siren song of the cannons over the open sea.”
- 02:38:39 The technicalities of Ropey and Boaty.
- 02:41:33 Matt:“They don’t talk, you just imagine they do. That’s really, actually, what it is. This is the world in Laudna’s head.”
- 02:53:10 Pirate Laudna:“Surface, Boaty! Yarr!”
- 02:55:35 Liam imitating Pee-Wee Herman “What should I do, Chairy?”
- 02:56:15 Laudna:“They got Boaty!”
Chetney:“What’s wrong with Laudna?” (only Laudna “hears” the animated objects) - 02:59:54 Liam:“Dead gnomes make no toys.” Reference to “Dead men tell no tales” from Treasure Island.
- 03:00:46 Marisha:“If we sleep for like four more hours, will we finish our long rest?”
Matt:“I’ll allow it.” - 03:05:55 Pâté’s introspection:
There’s somethin’ about the fleeting nature of existence. Consciousness is ever a fluid thing, you know? One day you’re just granted understanding of the world around and you spend the rest of your days trying to grasp the concepts of what the meaning of it all is and right before you wrap your fingers around it, it’s snuffed. Yeah, but I’m just a little dead thing. It’s okay. I don’t know what I’m doing. - 03:07:01 Hey there Delilah.
- 03:30:54 Rock and Stone #1
- 03:38:22 Sam jealously says, “Oh, they’re so special.”
- 03:41:43 Another Pee-Wee’s Playhouse reference. Laura’s reading of the scroll, “Mekaleka hi mekahi nee-ho”
- 03:45:56 Sam’s Lil’ John impression. “What?! Okay!”
- 03:47:40 Ruidus flare
- 03:49:22 Fan Art Moment The Ruidus flare and the reactions of Imogen and Fearne.
- 03:49:32 Rock and Stone #2
bonus Delilah music (click to reveal)
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I’ve started to walk away and find my fortune elsewhere.Map of Northern Issylra
Martinet Ludinus Daleth’s origins are here. He is credited with much of the arcane corruption of the Savalirwood around Molaesmyr while researching the ascent of the Raven Queen before founding the Cerberus Assembly.
Before the fall of Molaesmyr in the mid-500s, Ludinus Da’leth noted a list of fanes of fey magic energy and fey beings. He was consuming them as a resource through a device and returning “to gather every number of years to feed the root”. Eight of these locations and beings were crossed off his list, though it was unspecified which eight. The fanes listed were as follows:
- In the far northeastern side of the Flotket Alps
- In the center of the lake in the middle of the Rime Plains, probably the Ivory Lake
- Three within the Savalirwood
- Within the Ashkeeper Peaks
- In an island to the northwest of presumably Molaesmyr, across the water
”All aboard the Queen de Rolo!”
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- 00:35 The Silt
- 03:10 Matt:“These are weeks after the one-shot at this point, but are definitely getting involved in their own way…”
- 06:42 Travis:“What if the All Minds Burn is the other half of Predathos and that’s why it hasn’t woken up yet, and if you plant that seed, it’ll wake it up.”
Matt’s laughter is mysterious and unsettling. - 08:34 The Idea of a Rubber Hose style “like cuphead” image of Laudna, Boaty, and Ropey is born.
perfect fan art
by Rohan Ramanujam- 09:03 Bonus Ropey
Sam’s Flask
A recreation of the Bell’s Hells made from construction paper and cotton balls.
Signed
by: Sam
Age:47Action Economy Sheets
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CZEPEKU