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Transcript: Yasha struggles against her chains - Critical Role C2 Ep60 3:27:02

In light ep C2 Ep069, this seems like a good scene to bring back. There's a lot of set-up here to what happened.

Scenes runs:

1. A Dream from the Stormlord 3:27:02 to 3:32:26

2. Yasha, Nott, Jester, and Caduceus talk it out 3:32:26 to 3:41:09

3. Yasha Confronts the Stormlord 3:41:09 to 3:54:13

1. A Dream from the Stormlord

3:27:02 Matt: "Yasha."

Ashley, touching different parts of her face: "Huuu! Immediately red." She hides in her hood.

Matt: "In your exhaustion, the darkness comes comfortably as a night's rest, and an evening's respite. And though you don't awaken, you can feel the thunder. You can feel it roll and vibrate through your body. With each impact, there's a flash of light behind your eyes, like a heartbeat of a dull blue glow."

3:27:43 Matt makes three low rumbling thunder sounds and then a louder, sharper one. "A deafening blast of thunder shakes your eyes awake, and you are soaked, standing on the precipice of a mountain. You can see the heavy clouds before you with slight little breaches between where moonlight and stars are briefly visible before they are consumed once more by the storm." Matt makes two more thunder noises mimicking lightening striking. "Arcs of lightening shoot across the Xhorhas sky. You're cold, shivering, your hair matted over your face, you're eyes barely peeking through.

3:28:34 Matt mimics another lightning strike and thunder. "Through another arc you think you see an arm through the clouds. And it's gone." Mimicked thunder. "Another flash of light, and you see what looks like a humanoid form reaching from the storm towards you. Your instinct is to turn and run, but you watch as the head kind of turns. Another flash of light and it's gone. You sense a presence behind you. What do you do?"

3:29:27 Ashley: "I turn around and walk towards it."

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Transcript: Clay Family History - Critical Role C2 Ep70 3:31:05

This was such a beautiful Clay family lore drop. Husky firbolg ASMR story time. Transcript by @smidge-art, posted with permission.

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Scene runs: 3:31:05 to 3:34:41

3:31:05 Caduceus: "The day after the Raven Queen ascended, three of her champions were given the task of dealing with one of the heroes of the war. And his body could not be maintained within a city for reasons that are lost. He had to be vanished. And these three heroes were named Clay, Stone, and Dust.

3:31:39 Caduceus: "They argued for many days what to do. And Stone said they should give him to the air so that the beasts of the realm may carry his memory. And Clay said that we should give him to the earth and what grows from them will be a monument to his glory. And Dust said that we should give him to the fire, from the ashes of that fire great works would arise.

3:32:08 Caduceus: "And they prayed to the Raven Queen for guidance in these early days, and the Raven Queen eventually answered. She said that she had already taken what belonged to her, and that we were to- these three heroes were to find the Wildmother and ask her guidance for what to do with what was left.

3:32:33 Caduceus: "And they traveled far into the woods and waited for their visions. And eventually she spoke to each of them in turn. And she told Stone that he should take the limbs of this hero and walk the plains until he found an oasis and a red and gold veined cave and the beasts would gather there. That he would feed the limbs of the hero to the beasts that would water there. And upon that site would be a menagerie whose creatures would be a gift to the Changebringer from the Wildmother, to remind her that nature is infinite.

3:33:13 Caduceus: "And then Clay entered into a forest until he found a spring. Water surrounded by a circle of crystal and stone. And there should he plant the head of the hero. And upon that site will be a garden, whose flora shall be my gift to the Archeart to remind her that nature is beautiful.

3:33:33 Caduceus: "And then Dust, took all that was left. And walked into the mountains to the north, and found a cave with a black onyx pool of fire and magma. And was told to burn what remained. That the ashes would be mixed into the brick and ink and steel and everything that is made there will hold that hero's mark. In this kiln will be the creations as a gift to the Allhammer to remind him that nature is the origin of material.

3:34:10 Caduceus: "And these three families have guarded and accepted the dead for all this time in these three temples. Each of us, on occasion, making a pilgrimage but very rarely. Somewhere there is a member of the Dust in the north, ready to help.

3:34:41

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Transcript: Caleb clothing list, CR C2 Ep61 3:09:49

3:09:49 Yasha, reading Caleb’s list: “Dark muted purple coat that’s fur lined. New boots...”

Jester: “New boots. He could use some.

Yasha: “that are dark charcoal grey in Kryn style. Breeches and shirt.”

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Transcript: Network D&D Beyond Ad – Critical Role C2 Ep072 0:27:55

This is a double transcript of the famous Mad As Hell scene from the 1972 film Network and the Critical Role C2 Ep072 D&D Beyond ad that parodies is. I'll first present them separately and then line by line so you can see exactly what they changed.

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Network

Scene runs: 0:53:36 to 0:57:37

Howard Beale: "I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression, everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job, the dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter, punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local news caster tells us today we had 15 homicides, and 63 violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.

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Transcript How Fjord looked as a kid - Critical Role C2 Ep011 3:04:42

This feels way more important after the encounter with Wursh the blacksmith in Ep058. How Fjord was perceived as a half-monster by the people who raised him defines so much of his current behavior.

Scene runs: 3:04:42 to 3:05:51

3:04:42 Fjord, clearing his throat: "I understand. I know what it feels like to be ashamed or worried about what you look like. I do."

Nott: "But you're pretty handsome, you know, for, like, a half-monster thing." Whispering, "I think Jester likes you."

Fjord nods, looking like that stung.

Fjord: "You think so?"

Nott: "Yeah."

3:05:03 Fjord: "Well, I didn't always look like this."

Nott: "What?"

3:05:06 Fjord: "I wasn't always a handsome half-monster thing."

Nott, hesitantly: "What did you use to be?"

3:05:14 Fjord: "A kid, just like anyone else."

3:05:16 Nott: "Still a monster thing, though."

Fjord: "Yeah."

3:05:21 Nott: "Oh. Just a less handsome one."

3:05:23 Fjord: "Yeah. Stumpy, short. Big teeth."

3:05:26 Nott: "Were you a fat kid?"

3:05:28 Fjord: "Little bit. Just sort of mis-proportioned. Listen, if we get to the-"

Nott: "Do you have any pictures or…?"

Laughter.

Fjord: "If my MySpace is still up, you could see them. Goes back a tick."

Marisha: "Oh no!"

Nott: "Did you ever have braces or anything?"

3:05:47 Fjord: "Nope. No, I did my own dental work."

3:05:51

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Transcript Fjord asks Caduceus what the plants say - CR C2 Ep038 0:13:17

Reading the Talks Machina question submissions this week, I was struck by how many of them asked how Caduceus felt about Melora not talking to him or not in the way The Traveler talks to Jester. Some asked if this was a conscious character choice, and they were nearer the mark. Caduceus is heavily rooted in Zen Buddhism, and his response here really demonstrates it. Melora is talking to him all the time.

Caleb is wrong that the plants are "not saying anything." Fjord is nearer the mark saying he hears nothing, but he doesn't at all understand why. Caduceus is trying to show they're all hearing is the plants and animals around them. Link to sounds. He basically gives Fjord a Zen koan.

A koan is "A paradoxical anecdote or riddle without a solution, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and provoke enlightenment." (OED) They're sort of a parable told as a riddle with the tone of a joke. "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" is an example of one you may have heard.

A main theme of koans is to demonstrate that we overthink things, and don't pay attention to simply what they are. All of The Mighty Nein hear the sounds of life and nature around them. The others think this means they're hearing nothing. Caduceus is pointing out they're really hearing everything. If they open themselves to listening, Melora talks to them all constantly.

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Transcript: Decomposition Cantrip - CR C2 Ep028 & Ep030

I noticed some interesting things about the spell Decomposition that Caduceus used in Ep030. It spawned a bit of fiction based on these transcripts.

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Transcript: Things you do are good, people are just people - Critical Role C2 Ep029 4:10:04

The companion transcript to this analysis on The Philosophy of Caduceus Clay and how it contrasts traditional D&D.

Scene runs: 4:10:04 to 4:11:16

4:10:04 Keg: "What did you say to me, Nott? 'Some people are just good.’"

Nott: "Maybe? I may have been drunk at the time."

Keg: "I was, too."

4:10:21 Caduceus: "I mean, really? I mean, people aren't good. That's not how this works. I mean, Things that you do are good, or bad, but people are just people. And you guys just keep doing good things, and all I've seen is you doing good things. I'm not sure what the confusion is about."

Nott: "Well, we used to be— No, you're right."

Caduceus: "Yeah, I know."

4:10:57 Shakäste: "Every once in a whole, I run into people, and I find that a lot of people do a lot of talking, but I've always found it's the people who hush and do good things are the best ones, and I'd say you're in that class."

4:11:16

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