Monster Analysis: Lucien, Cognouza Incarnate

Monster Analysis: Lucien, Cognouza Incarnate

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  • First Appearance: 2-111 New Homes and Old Friends

  • Encounter Appearance: 2-140 Long May He Reign

  • Armor Class 20

  • Speed Unknown

  • Darkvision, Truesight

  • Resistant to fire and necrotic damage

  • Immune to psychic damage

  • Immune to charmed, frightened, and stunned

  • 689 damage taken, 58 HDYWTDT by Jester

Though several battles throughout Critical Role’s tenure have stretched across more than one episode, this is the first in which the featured antagonist of the encounter took on new abilities for an entirely distinct second phase (much like the many epic Final Fantasy boss fights Matt was pulling inspiration from). Fusing completely with the city, Lucian grew in size and power as he attempted to bring Cognouza to Exandria, forcing his will over the city as he became Cognouza Incarnate.

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Longest Episodes in Campaigns One and Two

Longest Episodes in Campaigns One and Two

With the announcement that the campaign 2 finale will be over SEVEN HOURS LONG, several critters have posed questions about the length of past episodes. This episode will absolutely take the lead, and (hopefully) hold it for many years (or millennia) to come. Fun fact: If you’ve watched every single broadcast of Campaigns 1 and 2 live, you’ll have watched over 1000 hours of Critical Role before you finish the first half of 2-141.

As most of you have assumed, we WILL be livetweeting the full broadcast of the campaign 2 finale, non-stop, and will be compiling our tweets into article format immediately afterward. To help us through the full work night, any caffeine you can provide us would be greatly appreciated.

Breaking our usual pattern on Twitter, we are going to sacrifice those last few characters in our tweets and switch to #CriticalRoleSpoilers for the campaign finale, instead of the established standard tag #CriticalRole. We still encourage you to put in your blocks on both our account and the #CriticalRole tag for future episodes if you need to remain uninformed, but we will make this deviation for at least one night in abundant caution for this Thursday’s major events.

With the announcements out of the way, let’s get into today’s stats for… Critical Role.

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Media References and Puns of 2-140 Long May He Reign

Media References and Puns of 2-140 Long May He Reign

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Media References

  • (0:19:21) Travis: Zoom in! Zoom the f*** in! Laura and Marisha: Enhance!

  • (0:19:45) Marisha: He’s rocking some Illidan realness.

  • (0:19:50) Sam: That is straight-up Criss Angel. [...] Matt: Mindfreak.

  • (0:21:44) Sam: The walls have eyes.

  • (0:22:24) Travis: Naruto? Marisha: Naruto drifting.

  • (0:22:46) Marisha: Do a barrel roll! (Star Fox 64)

  • (0:27:40) Matt: He’s going to use the rest of his movement to Superman off to the side.

  • (0:40:54) Sam: *singing* Minus eyes! (“Private Eyes” by Hall & Oates)

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