Livetweets of 2-79 Through the Trees
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“Then I'm going to gouge my eyes out with my staff.”
”Careful with that pencil!”
What We Know About The Cobalt Soul Archives
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Thanks to @lucidorelle for this art piece!
Let loose in the library with unrestrained access to the full underground reserves of the Cobalt Soul, the Mighty Nein flooded themselves (and us) with information. Much of the information was already established in previous episodes, while some of it shed a little more light on the world of Exandria. Here, we’ll unpack and repackage the episode’s deluge in nice, easy-to-read sections (though we’ll add relevant context where required). We’ve updated our quote compendiums as well:
Read MoreTO ZADASH!
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It’s good to have focus on your goals. Declaration count: 12.
(0:27:12) Sam: Then to Zadash we go!
(0:28:47) Sam: To Zadash!
(1:11:43) Sam: To Zadash!
(1:19:54) Sam: To Zadash!
(1:21:42) Liam: To Zadash!
(1:21:43) Sam: To Zadash!
(1:27:59) Laura: To Zadash!
(1:28:00) Marisha: To Zadash!
(1:28:01) Sam: To Zadash!
(1:35:19) Sam: To Zadash!
(1:47:05) Sam: To Zadash!
(1:50:30) Travis: Finish the rest of the night then we head on to Zadash?
(1:50:32) Sam: To Zadash?
(1:57:21) Sam: To Zadash!
(1:57:24) Taliesin: Back to Zadash!
(3:39:45) Sam: To Zadash!
(3:44:32) Travis: No, we’re trying to go back to Zadash. All: To Zadash!
Media References and Puns of 2-78 Between the Lines
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Thanks to @ChenevivMi for this art piece!
Having fun isn't hard when you have a library card to use their teleporters ALL OVER THE WORLD. Briefly.
Media References
(0:00:35) Sam: Hail, Zariel!
(0:01:00) Sam: ...their collaboration with Beedle & Grimm [...] with their exclusive platinum edition box of Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus.
(0:02:20) Sam: Praise Beelzebub! Praise Mephistopheles!
(0:03:32) Matt: Our friends at The Deck of Many.
(0:04:38) Sam: I feel like listening to Bauhaus right now.
(0:05:32) Matt: ...Felicia Day!
(0:06:25) Someone: *Yoda noise* Marisha: Content, we have! Travis: Yeah, Yoda.
(0:08:42) Someone: *sings intro to “Immigrant Song” by Led Zeppelin*
(0:22:14) Travis: I never knew you were such a fan of Grape-Nuts!
(0:29:54) Travis: *singing* Wild horses! (by The Rolling Stones)
Quick Answers 75
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Updated to 2-77.
Who in Vox Machina has dealt the most single round damage?
Pike. In Episode 1-99, she killed 20 ankhegs with one Fire Storm. Assuming each ankheg had at least MM average health (and Campaign 1 monsters almost always had significantly more than average or max suggested health), she dealt 780 damage. And we didn’t forget to count Keyleth’s Tidal Waves against the fire elementals. Or her ice storm against the horde of skeletons (690 damage). Or Pike’s Destroy Undead against the skeleton horde (which immediately destroys the undead without counting as damage dealt. Also, we weren’t given an exact number of skeletons destroyed, so we couldn’t give an exact amount of damage, even if we wanted to.)
Which Campaign 1 episode has the original visit to Dalen’s Closet?
Episode 95.
I was wondering if it were possible to list the items the M9 gave Fjord at the end of the episode 73? Stats too would be cool!
We’re not sure specifically what all they ended up giving to him, but what was mentioned:
Jester: Handaxe (+1)
Jester: Inescapable Lash (Requires attunement, allows the wielder to turn a successful attack into a grapple and then restraint)
Caduceus: Shield of Retribution (Requires attunement, allows the wielder to make a reaction attack with the shield after a missed attack against them)
Caleb: Glove of Blasting (Casts Scorching Ray once per day)
Nott: Dagger of Denial (Requires attunement, +2, can seal any lock. Once a lock is sealed, it cannot be unsealed unless the blade is reinserted into the lock. Sealing a lock unseals all previous locks.)
Do we know the spelling of the Mighty Nein’s stuffy neighbors?
House Bilan. Our Wildemount NPC chart has all confirmed name spellings.
Can you also track the spellings of locations?
Done! Confirmed spelling names can now be found on our Wildemount Locations table on the Wildemount General Stats page.
Volunteers Needed!
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Update: While we're still in the thick of it, at this time, all slots have been claimed by volunteers. Thanks to everyone who is working on these, and to everyone for their interest!
Are you:
Sad at the lack of a new Critical Role episode tonight?
Interested in watching or reading a transcript of an episode of Critical Role this week?
Then have we got a volunteer opportunity for you! We need help tracking The Mighty Nein’s spending. If you’re interested, here’s what we need you to do:
Send us an email at critrolestats @ gmail. com letting us know you’re interested in helping.
We’ll respond as soon as we can with an episode assignment and a link to a Google Sheet for you to fill out with your findings.
You can read through the episode’s transcript, available on the Critical Role Wiki, or watch an episode (1-51 here or 52-77 here)
You can listen to a podcast version, but be aware that the timestamps are different, and we need the ones corresponding to the YouTube video.
Record your findings in the provided Google Sheet and let us know you’re done (or if you’re interested in picking up another episode)!
What We Know About the Cerberus Assembly, Part 2
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Thanks to @kimchidraws for this art piece!
The Mighty Nein seem to be on a collision course with both the Cerberus Assembly and Caleb’s past, so we figured it was a time for a bit of a recap on both. As a reminder, we talked about the Cerberus Assembly over a year ago when the Nein were back in Zadash, and we’ve talked about Caleb multiple times. We won’t be rehashing everything in those articles, but there’s plenty of new information that we’ve added to our compendiums:
Read MoreMedia References and Puns of 2-77 A Tangled Web
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Thanks to @ArseQueef for this gif!
Media References
(0:00:50) Sam: You know, doing some brute force spear-phishing, jailbreaking the malware, all for the LULZ, hacker style!
(0:01:14) Sam: Password? Psh, it’s Swordfish. It’s always swordfish.
(0:02:17) Sam: Debugging the worm, defragging the rootkit, gleaming the cube…
(0:03:06) Matt: I feel like, somewhere, Matt Lillard is getting a nosebleed and doesn’t know why. Taliesin: I feel like Angelina Jolie owes us a sequel to Hackers. Matt: Hack the planet, guys. Hack the planet.
(0:04:22) Matt: I will be flying to Sweden, ‘cause I will be attending Heroes Comic Con Stockholm.
(0:05:10) Sam: Starting my SYS dot INI file… Matt: Oh, god! Sam: Got my Gateway 2000! Travis: Netscape, baby! Netscape!
(0:06:21) Liam: Wanted, dead or alive! (by Bon Jovi)
(0:06:34) Matt: I’m not gonna lie, I kind of like this Mr. Robot reimagining … Liam: The Rami Malek thing is going too far. [...] Liam: Could you give us six seconds of monotone? Sam: Rami Malek monotone? *monotone* I don’t know what you’re talking about.
(0:07:43) Matt: There’s something so elegant about the contrast between this beautiful ring and the Vex’ahlia persona and the Casa Bonita Dive Team t-shirt.
(0:09:27) Sam: DDoS! Right, denial of service?
(0:10:01) Liam: *screams like a goat*
Livetweets of 2-77 A Tangled Web
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“I am proud of you. You are a fine Expositor, which you now are, because I say so. Now, I will not mention that you said, 'F*** the Cobalt Soul.'"
“Oh, don't tell anybody that. I meant it more on like principle.”
Monster Analysis: Sylas Briarwood (Dalen’s Closet)
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Thanks to @Knight_of_Water for this art piece!
First Appearance: 1-24 The Feast
Encounter Appearance: Dalen’s Closet
Armor Class 21
Darkvision 120 ft, Passive 17
Speed 30 ft, 30 ft flying (bat form), 20 ft flying (mist form)
Resistant to necrotic and nonmagical weapon damage
293+ damage taken, 30 HDYWTDT by Vex’ahlia
Healed 22 points from Regeneration
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a widower vampire in possession of a great anger must be in want of revenge. However little known the feelings or views of such a vampire may be on his first entering a wedding rehearsal, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding vampires, that he is considered as the rightful owner of one death or more of Vox Machina.
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