Actual Play Without Pity

Primarily a Critical Role/Actual Play blog. Immune to the feeling bad condition. She/her, an adult, see pinned post for how I do spoilers but in short not spoiler free. Bureaucrat of https://criticalrole.miraheze.org. Views here unless otherwise stated are my own opinion and not those of that wiki.

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New Campaign, New Pinned Post!

Tags, spoilers, logistics:

I will be spoiler tagging the latest CR episode until Wednesday morning Eastern Time (for Monday VODs) or the first morning after a full day of the episode being out as VOD. I otherwise usually spoiler tag podcasts and TV shows that drop one at a time for 2-3 days, and anything else (books, movies, video games, shows that drop as a full season) for several weeks if not months. If it's not an actual play show and you want me to spoiler tag something for longer than usual, send me a message off anon.

I am very spoiler-averse. I block both main and spoiler tags and turn off the askbox when seriously avoiding spoilers for Critical Role and I don’t follow people who don’t spoiler tag. If you spoil things in a reply or reblog from me/on my post (this includes spoiling things in the tags of your reblog and includes tone spoilers) you will get one courtesy "please don't" reply/DM and will be blocked the second time.

Critical Role tags are #critical role when I want to main tag, #cr tag when I don't, #cr spoilers for spoilers, #cr discourse for discourse I think is worth tagging as such. I will use cr spoilers for any Critical Role channel aired show (eg, Candela Obscura, Age of Umbra, random one shots), not just the main campaigns. Other tags should be fairly intuitive but please don't hesitate to ask if you're confused!

Other:

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ok I got to get ready and drag myself to an appointment and work it's just. House Halovar doesn't like the Shapers; we know this from Yanessa insulting Tansul and from Wick's nat 20 history check just now. If an actual god showed up the Candescent Creed falls apart. House Tachonis actively defaced Tansul's holy site and tried to turn his celestial to their purposes, and Occtis was raised from a young age to think little of those who believed in the gods. Houses Einfasen and Cormoray (and Royce) fought against the Shapers in the Shapers' War. Thjazi is a proud orc of Dol-Makjar who has consistently fought against power structures. I think part of why I am so irritated is, well, 1. extended sleep disruption due to my building's fire alarm going off shortly before two in the fucking morning but more importantly 2. a great deal of stupid Campaign 3 discussion in-game and out was a mindless equation of The Gods (TM) and Power while dismissing the many, many power structures that existed entirely independently from them, and it feels like a few people are slipping back into that and it's like well this is a very shallow understanding of the concept of power in the Concept of Power game, can we not.

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Robbie's comedic timing is absolutely flawless

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Vaelus doesn't know what chalk is, canon

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"points of chaos" I am rolling my eyes so hard it hurts

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go off Wick punching fixed him

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guys the anchor is the fucking theater and the play and the orcs good LORD

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straight up. i do not think the sundered houses are doing a ritual. i think they are having a meeting. i think the play is a ritual. why do you guys think there is a ritual. for real.

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like generously, I am aware that I've seen the trailer and obviously they haven't, and all three tables as well, but like. the Sundered Houses are meeting and the Schemers SPECIFICALLY know that Einfasen and Cormoray aren't pushing back on open insults and accusations towards House Tachonis from commoners. There is ZERO hard evidence that Thjazi worked with the Sundered Houses and OVERWHELMING evidence he worked against them, EXTENSIVE evidence for a ritual at the theater that probably doesn't need any extra work to go off, and similarly, no evidence that there will be extensive refugees from Dol-Makjar, only a handful of people who might need to flee (Hal, maybe Romina, obviously Demodus).

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guys the anchor is the fucking theater and the play and the orcs good LORD

[utilitycaster]

straight up. i do not think the sundered houses are doing a ritual. i think they are having a meeting. i think the play is a ritual. why do you guys think there is a ritual. for real.

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guys the anchor is the fucking theater and the play and the orcs good LORD

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absolute badass move from Thaisha and Hala and I'm glad both the priestly houses are actively being hunted.

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well i'm awake and this is not the WORST i've slept on long front half CR episode, somehow, and anyway THAISHA MAGE SLAYER LET'S GO

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Hello all my building fire alarm is going off having woken me from a deep sleep and it's really important you know I was one of the first people out of the building even accounting for those wrangling kids and pets because I listened to the fire marshal in and didn't stop to grab my laptop or whatever. however also in the event of a real fire at 2 in the fucking morning i will apparently find myself with phone, keys, id, credit cards, work shoes sans socks, and a light jacket over pajamas.

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Well nothing is on fire so let's see if I can get back to sleep as sadly I do have things to do tomorrow morning

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Hello all my building fire alarm is going off having woken me from a deep sleep and it's really important you know I was one of the first people out of the building even accounting for those wrangling kids and pets because I listened to the fire marshal in and didn't stop to grab my laptop or whatever. however also in the event of a real fire at 2 in the fucking morning i will apparently find myself with phone, keys, id, credit cards, work shoes sans socks, and a light jacket over pajamas.

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ok good night, no spoilers, remind me to talk about how the history of araman enables this sort of narrative in a way exandria did not when i finish the ep and reopen the inbox byeeeeeee

[captainofthetidesbreath]

wait, that means the gem that cursed Alba is still in Telmora, bc the Tachonis army never got to Timmony and is still there.

[ariadne-mouse]

Cyd on the floor of the tavern in holding before getting turned to stone

[captainofthetidesbreath]

wait, if they need 47 sepulchral lords, and you need 8 paladins to make 1, that means to enact this plan, House Tachonis needs to kidnap... 376 paladins