#beacon tv

[ariadne-mouse]

In e105 Cooldown, Robbie and Matt have some back and forth about Dorian's new sword and abilities, prompting the below background exchange that happens around full unrelated sentences from Taliesin, nevertheless faithfully captured by the closed captions & pieced back together here:

[deramin2]

This perfectly sums up the energy of Critical Role.

Moments before Cryptid Producer Max ran in front of them to get out of the shot, Liam barely pushed away a chair, they crashed into the end of the hallway, and the camera operator gently kicked a "caution slippery floor" cone into them.

[marvelousbelladonna]

Some new art from today’s episode of Abridged episode 51

Look at Keyleth!!! 🥰

[tinysluttywizardwaist]

new Mighty Nein Art (x)

[samuraiko]

CR's BEACON and a bit about it

So of course I had to get in on this because I'm all for discounts and early access and NOT giving money to Twitch and YT if I can help it.

And yes, the site is getting SLAMMED at the moment, but I've now managed to get in, and it's working great.

Couple notes:

If you have the same email address for the CR shop and for Beacon, once your Beacon account is created, it auto-applies the discount to the shop. You will see the price crossed out and a discounted price next to the item (limitations do apply, they go over that).

I gather there is some wonkiness going on with the Discord, so I'd suggest waiting a day or so on that one.

Cooldown (the immediate after-show filming) IS WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD. Listening to them conspiracy theorizing and Matt answering a couple things (or in more cases, "You don't know!") is just great to watch.

Yes, there is subtitles/captioning, and it looks like it's done by the same folks they have doing the main eps.

Re-Slayer's Take is *NOT* the main cast -- it is run and played by other people. I gather this is in a similar vein to Midst, but them allowing other groups to "play" in Exandria. It is also all-ages-friendly.

There is an app in the Apple store and Android store -- IT IS CALLED POCKET BEACON. HOW FUNNY IS THAT?!

http://beacon.tv

UPDATE: I've seen a couple of Twitter posts about the app possibly being geolocked -- cannot confirm or deny as I live in the United States and thus cannot check (and am reluctant to dick around with my phone).

UPDATE: Someone brought up in the replies that captioning/subtitling is not yet on everything, and in a couple cases, it's a bit wonky. Again, hopefully to be straightened out sooner than later.

UPDATE: Someone else in the replies wondered about whether coming in on a live broadcast late means you can still start from the beginning or not.. IF SOMEONE CAN CONFIRM OR DENY THIS WITH TONIGHT'S BROADCAST, DROP ME AN ASK AND LEMME KNOW, PLEASE!

I'll add more to this post as I encounter things!

STILL MORE UPDATES!

you can join late and start at the beginning, it looks like they upload the whole episode rather than doing a live broadcast.

however, it DOES NOT have subtitles, though the speed and quality can be adjusted.

there is also no break material, just a quick fade in and fade out.

also no ads

AND STILL MORE UPDATES!

In a rare non-Apple access win, can confirm that Pocket Beacon does not appear to be geolocked for Android, at least here in Australia!

EVEN MORE UPDATES!

Re: captioning, 4-Sided Dive does not appear to be captioned/subtitled (yet).

THE UPDATES KEEP ON COMING!

The Android version does appear to support Chromecast

[somewhatsentientspellbook]

the conflict, the drama, the angst, catch it all next time on CR

[crabridgedart]

Keyleth, Voice of the Tempest - Art by Jonah Baumann, featured on CR Abridged

Source: Beacon

[disasterpurplebois]

What’s the most important thing for a DM to have?

*Brennan Lee Mulligan clawing through the wall* SNACKS

[bananathebookworm]

I really hope Brennan comes in to take a swing at Narrative Telephone... I feel like he would break the game both as the lead storyteller and as a listener.

[luckthebard]

Subscribing to Beacon just to get access to the members only AMA and ask Matt about the Zadash monorail.

[slayerscake]

Do you think the CR cast was nervous about launching Beacon tv but then that whole Watcher thing happened and they were like can't be as bad as that

[ariadne-mouse]

Robbie Daymond reports that Orym is Dorian's first love but Chetney was NOT Dorian's first kiss (sorry Chetney).

[deramin2]

LeVar Burton did the lower register voice work for Undead Thordak. It was originally supposed to be Lance Reddick. After Lance passed away, his wife specifically requested LeVar finished the work.

(Per the The Legend Of Vox Machina Final Roundtable for S3 E7-12)

[marvelousbelladonna]

Donut gate

[cringefaecompilation]

[gildedraven-goldenwhisper]

OF COURSE we get Essek Thelyss on the episode that airs the same day that Beacon was announced...the shadowhand will see us now indeed