Frumpkin’s Litter Box

Like any litter box, this one is full of shi... My Critical Role Tumblr - a vain attempt to save my main from the deluge.

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Did they have Kattigan playing a Candescent Creed version of Longinus in the fake Ko’Therai?

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Argh, it was Hal and the Schemers that painted the blades, not Shadia. Shadia actually used them and therefore turned them from relics into props through use, but it was Hal and co who actually painted them.

Shadia reforged them into anchors, but it was through the usage, not the painting.

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I wonder - did Cyd and Teor’s light powers show up around the same time in the Falconer’s Rebellion as Bolaire’s awakening? If so, what was the instigating force/incident, if there was one? Did anything else happen for some in our cast at the same time?

[ariadne-mouse]

Marisha: who did not level up?

Taliesin: I'm in a handbag.

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Sylandri, the so-called “shaper of life.” Yeah. More like the ultimate narcissistic control freak.

Even the smallest infraction of her rules got punished, even telling others not to use a particular word and making the mistake of using it in example.

You were kept essentially as children forever romping in her idyllic garden, but you better learn the steps of her dance perfectly.

You had to go to her to ask permission to have children - what an efficient way of breeding out dissenters. Too bad for her some druids managed to survive her death, but at an extremely high cost.

Now she’s gone the elves can’t breed at all; she took their ability to reproduce with her as a final assertion of power. It might take a while, but their Shaper is going to take her dolls with her, only they won’t have their easy path to Faerie anymore.

I’m sure we’re going to hear more of how draconian life was under her rule as the campaign goes on - sometimes the nicest houses on the street hide the most abusive parents.

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“Fuck th’Creed, I hope they all get eaten by big snakes.”

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Oh, Wic! I’ve never had more respect for you. This girl from the Western Suburbs of Melbourne fuckin’ salutes you, you magnificent bastard.

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Oh gods, the meeting of the Sundered Houses is going to be at the Villa Aurora.

There’s an angel captured in the basement.

Tsul’rekshi loathes captivity.

Tsul’rekshi exists to destroy “the tallest tower.”

Tsul’rekshi knows the angel is captive in that basement.

Set the insane 30’ angel free then sit back and giggle?

Me thinks that the Hallowed Round isn’t going to be the only battleground that night (Obrimus Manor will be as well, but Villa Aurora looks set to be a hilariously awful powderkeg).

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So Julien tried to take Tyranny’s bra off at a party? Is that the reference from the strap snaps? At least that brings some context. I’ll have to rewatch that after this is over to be sure.

It actually was an RP thing.

Now I just want to know about the crying.

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Apparently tonight’s ep (c4e28) clocks in at over 5 hours long. I didn’t manage to have my chronic illness fatigue nap today, so let’s see how much of this I’m understanding by the end of this. >.<

[bryancookie]

happy pride month from our favorite queer people

[littlebosslady7]

Seven Shining Tenets from the Doctrine of the Beam.

Holy words from the Candescent Creed. (src)

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The Snap Heard Around the Table

Man, there’s been a lot of talk about that bra strap snap Bolaire delivered to Tyranny in c4e27.

Meh blather beneath the cut.

My 2c worth is that I hated it; it seemed to come out of nowhere, and wasn’t addressed again. It wrecked immersion and at the time seemed out of character for Bolaire.

Do they wear bras in a fantasy setting such as Araman? I would have thought it might be breast bands or stays, but then again this is a place that also has pizza pockets and cartons of icecream, so wtf do I know?

Would Tyranny wear a bra, mistress of chaos as she is? One might be built into her absolute abomination of ruffles Candescent Creed outfit as I don’t recall her saying she’d finally joined Wick in costume, but even then I’d think it’d be built into to the costume, and without a snappable strap.

Mostly, much like the aforementioned pizza and icecream references, actually, it just brought my immersion to a skidding halt with such a modern reference. I mean, I live in these times and I still don’t know what Palo Santo is (referenced in c4e1 as potentially being the scent in Vaelus’s censer), so that has to be a very specific USican reference, if not Californian.

But!

There’s already been a lot of talk about how misogynistic a move it was and it was, but after I went away and thought about it, though I still was firmly back in my teenage years facing that shit from both the idiots at school and the idiot I had the misfortune to have as an elder brother, I realised that whilst Bolaire is a very old being in a lot of ways, he’s also very juvenile in others. In his own way he’s as damaged as Azune as until he started thinking for himself his entire existence was war on behalf of others, and he’s still in his teens in regards to his own identity.

The thought that it was Taliesin fucking around and having fun in a game with friends for once - gasp, how dare he. OMG, etc. It annoyed the hell out of me, sure, but he really hasn’t done it often, especially in this campaign, and if I can grit my teeth and forgive freaking Sam and his sexual comments and deliberate derailings of scenes, or Aabria and her very distinctive laugh and joking about (and I do! This. Is. A. Game! Sam bugs me all the freaking time, just for the record. I love Aabria, even when Thaisha’s decisions annoy me), I can forgive this one lapse from a guy who has made so many characters I’ve absolutely fallen for. I may be grinding my teeth at this choice, but once in 27 episodes is a much better record than multiple instances in almost every episode they’re in. I love you Sam, but please stop derailing scenes and pay attention, for the love of god, Montressor.

So in the end I come to the conclusion that for me it’s a jagged little pill I can swallow with a lot of chewing. Taliesin and to a lesser degree Bolaire have reminded me of a guy I went to high school with for quite some time now, and this incident just put an underscore on the Bolaire side of the scale. I remained friends with said guy after we graduated, though I still remember the snaps, so it obviously bothered me but not enough for me to poke him and tell him to piss off.

Taliesin is of the same generation we (my friend and I) are (get off my lawn); I guess it’s just that Gen X showing. I don’t like it, but I get it both in character (Bolaire is an ancient teenager that Tyranny brings the worst out in) and out (it’s a freaking game with old friends and Taliesin was making a joke that landed badly).

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Is Alogar not Hal’s son? I’m rewatching c4e1, The Fall of Thjazi Fang, and Thaisha/Aabria specifically describes Hal’s face as looking so much like “your brother’s, and like her son and our daughter’s.”

Was Alogar originally intended to have been Thjazi’s son and it was retconned, or does it still stand? Does Hal know if it’s still standing?

Hal strikes me as the kind of guy who would take in Thjazi’s child as his own and loves Thaisha so much that it would never be a question they’d be together, but was it a misspeaking, a retcon, or a plot reveal for another time?

[jonnyrig]

While I definitely miss the Soldiers being together, I am LOVING Wick's cleverness being able to shine now that he's in a more familiar environment. He's not good at breaking rules, but he's really good at taking rules and turning them in his favor.

[lovelyswampwitch]

"You're not supposed to do hanky-panky with the constructs of gods."

"And yet they were given the equipment for it."

Yanessa, we're not buying your turkey-baster "wish" explanation you monster fucker bitch.

[raisondetriment]

I was looking for an entirely different clip and happened to pause on the most amazing frame, so I had to share