#C3E54

[its-your-mind]

your honor I love her

[softbean]

"I don't know how to explain this other than to say it feels like you were supposed to be there."

[marvelousbelladonna]

Sam’s flask and shirt

I love the idea that Marisha gave Sam the pictures as a bargain to keep Sam from using picture of her

[ariadne-mouse]

Drix is giving so many rancid vibes. He's a restaurant that only has menus viewable by QR code. He's a Candy Crush app. He's an AI art engine. He's a car console that's 100% touchscreen with no dials or buttons. He's telling you all of this is a good idea.

[big-moon-little-moon]

critical role fans will be like "the uthodurn arc is so good!" and then this is the uthodurn arc

[stone-stars]

Transcript:

Murph: You see a giant figure attempting to push open a door. Before anything else, you recognize the giant greatsword on his back. Howl. Your mother's sword. Calder: Need a little help? Murph: Gowan turns around. Gowan: What are you doing here, Calder? Calder: Looks like you're struggling with that door. Just wanna make sure you know you can always ask for help.

Calder: What can we do for you? Command us. Gowan: With all due respect, Calder. I always thought you would've made a great ranger, but… you are not a ranger. You left. So, the most I can ask of you is to please look out for mom and dad. But, I'll talk to my rangers and I'll figure out a way to take care of this. Thank you all for everything.

Murph: He… looks away from you. Gowan: I already have help. There's nothing you can do for me.

Calder: I-- no. No. I don't wanna be protected anymore. I wanna help.

Calder: Well. You're my brother. The least you can do is let me try.

Gowan: Calder. I'm proud of you. You've gone out on your own, and you've met people who seem like great friends. And you braved the tundra, you came out, you warned us, and we appreciate that. But again. You chose not to be a ranger.

Murph: Gowan starts to walk towards you. Gowan: Alright. Can you make a hard choice here? Calder: We can make a choice together, that's what we can do. You don't have to do it yourself. Gowan: I made a deal with Alexandrite, Calder.

Calder: What are you worried about? Gowan: I'm just-- I'm worried about everyone. I don't know how Mom did it. It feels like everyone who died, died on my watch.

Gowan: She told me that she'd already snuck replicants into the village, and that she'd take out everyone one by one until I gave her the Ice Knife. She can't get in here. Havoc won't let her. And to prove it she killed my best friend, and told me if I told anyone, Mom and Dad would be next. She replaced our neighbors. Have ya talked to any of our neighbors? Because they're watching the house. They absorbed Ingrid. And then you told me she's bringing in more from the lake. She knows everything, Calder. She's everywhere. Calder: Yeah. Yeah, we might be fucked. But we can be fucked together. We can-- we can go down fighting, or you can-- or you can sacrifice yourself like some martyr. But that's not gonna help us. Gowan: If it was just sacrificing myself, I would gladly do it, Calder. But what would you do in my situation?

Murph: Calder, as you are battling with Ultrus here, it feels like the world is being pulled apart as Glen is trying to remove this helm from your head. You see like, cracks. As you look up into the sky, you see the battlefield projected. You see that Callie is missing, you have no idea where she is, and you see that Sol is bleeding out on the ground.

Gowan: Knife to Mom's throat, what would you do? Murph: And he pushes you.

Calder: Ultrus! Make a deal with me! I will let you go. I’ll let you choose your side in this war. Just… don’t let Glen hurt my friends. Ultrus: You would give up yourself? Calder: If that’s the choice you ask me to make.

Calder: I might've done the same thing. I might've done the same thing. But you have to understand that somebody coming in this thing with fresh eyes, somebody who's seen her up close, you don't know the duplicity that she's capable of. You're acting on intel that you got from Alexandrite! Gowan: The intel that I got from you was that Gregor was compromised! And that just meant I stayed around until she killed Ingrid! Calder: So she wants us not to trust each other. She wants us not to work together. She wants us fractured and weak, like this. Gowan: We are fractured and weak, Calder! She's here already! Calder: So circle up with us!

Gowan: Well, if there's one good thing about being a leader in a time like this, it's-- it's that I'm really glad I got to make you a ranger. Calder: Yeah. And… and Gowan I think we're gonna have… we're gonna have a long time together, fighting side by side. Gowan: I hope that we could be so lucky.

Calder: You are my brother, aren't you? Murph: You see the bloodlust kind of leaves Gowan's eyes, and he looks down, and he goes Gowan: Yeah. Yeah I am. Okay.

[secretsalute]

I really really enjoy Chetney and Imogen’s relationship. They snipe at each other a lot but when the chips are down, they got each others back.

Imogen’s like Chet’s an Son of a bitch, but he’s OUR son of a bitch.

[somewhatsentientspellbook]

𝓣𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓪𝓼 𝓸𝓵𝓭 𝓪𝓼 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮 𝓞𝓵𝓭 𝓶𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝓹𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂'𝓻𝓮 𝓷𝓸 𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓻 𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓼 𝓒𝓱𝓮𝓽 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓼𝓮𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓼 𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂

𝓙𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓪 𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓵𝓮 𝓹𝓾𝓼𝓱 𝓗𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶 𝓭𝓮𝓬𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓣𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓖𝓸𝓽 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓫𝓫𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓞𝓵𝓽𝓰𝓪𝓻 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓽

[scriptmyworld]

it’s so funny now that you can tell exactly when something someone else is saying reminds imogen of laudna bc of the tone laura uses

deanna: it’s hard to not want to be the object of someone with that much focus’s attention

imogen, thinking of laudna: yeah…I know.

[aeoris4lovers]

f.r.i.d.a: mr pock o’pea, he believes the earth is flat!

chetney: oh yeah, it’s a whole fuckin thing

[deprecious]

When i tell you that i literally started crying when Fearne yelled "Kill it!" to "No no!"

[puptergeist]

"It's hard not to be the object of that much focus's attention, you know?"

"Yeah... I know"

[bananathebookworm]

The best part of all of this is watching Travis trying to keep a straight face while interacting with the things he created.

[marvelousbelladonna]

Fearne plinkos the baby worm down a cliff

[ariadne-mouse]

For anyone not watching with subtitles, the tone marker for Drix was

[reedy and pompous]

[pagerunner-j]

Reminder: if you enjoyed tonight's CR ep but have not yet watched the legendary one-shot The Night Before Critmas, please remedy that at your earliest convenience. It's sorta-kinda Chetney's origin, but is even MORE blatantly about Santa, Christmas, and perhaps even a certain nightmare before.

Also, Matt gets to play, Liam gets to DM, there's a delightful guest, and there is absolutely (fictional) stabbing in the offing.