#or maybe (spoiler for c3e118)

[quipxotic]

You've spent 118 episodes wondering about what's up with the red moon and hearing conflicting versions of what Predathos is, and finally you're here at its doorstep, and you're NOT going to go in and find out for yourself what the truth of it is?

I am the least risk tolerant player of D&D in existence and that still couldn't be me. I'd want to see it for my own eyes and make my own choice, an actually informed choice in the only way that is possible to be informed in this situation. Especially with Matt reminding them SO many times that stories are written by the winners, continually sowing doubt in what they have managed to learn about Predathos.

Just leave? You want the D&D party to walk away from adventure? The thing they exist to experience? What an anticlimatic and disappointing end to the story that would be, and that's assuming Matt would even let that happen. That there isn't someone (like Ludinus) out there to trigger it anyway.

No, let the protagonists of the story deal with the overarching threat of the story, as they were always meant to, and let's see what happens.

[quasieli]

[ID copied from alt text: A half body digital drawing of Orym from Critical Role, set against a cloudy background with a large white moon and smaller red moon at the top behind his head. Orym, a young, muscular, Halfling man, is standing with his back to the viewer, half his face visible as he looks back over his shoulder. He is holding his sword, Seedling, across the back of his shoulders, with green-blue leafy vines tangling across his hand, as well as the bottom of Seedling and his pauldron. He has a stoic look on his face as he looks back in the direction of the viewer. End description.]

Shoutout to Orym of the Air Ashari for being The Guy of All Time and getting me out of a bout of art block. First piece of 2025 🥰