so a while ago i realized that melora's boon (the song from the heart of the world) and mee maw's burden had very similar chords in their openings, as well as general instrumentation. and i thought "woah that's a really cool musical parallel for emily to have set up!"
i was listening to some other instrumentals today, and as it turns out... it wasn't just those two songs.
[Audio Description: Clips of the openings of "A Sign From Melora", "Mee Maw's Burden", and "A Rare Appearance", followed by a clip from naddpod c1e97 that features the opening of "Melora's Boon" under Murph speaking as Melora and Emily speaking as Moonshine.
The first three all have a similar progression of three piano chords spaced slightly apart. The last also does, but adds a fourth chord as well.]
like you have:
a sign from melora, first used for moonshine's prayer to melora when she's unsure of what to do after learning about marabelle
mee maw's burden, first used for mee maw revealing that she has crick rot, continually used to represent the burden of the living and things taken on to protect others
a rare appearance first used for, well, melora's first appearance when she shows up to help heal the crick
and then melora's boon first used in that clip-- at the heart of the world, when melora reveals she's given up her corporeal form and gives them their boons
yeah. these songs being musically connected is something that i can feel normal about.
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Critical Role: Final Words
Updated as of 9/15/2022, spoilers up to C3E34.
So given RECENT EVENTS, I thought it would be interesting to make a record of the "last words" of each Critical Role PC before their respective deaths, regardless of whether or not they were rezzed later on.
Obviously your mileage may vary here, since it can be hard to parse out what's said in and out of character, and it's possible I missed things as I was reading through the transcripts.
I'm only focusing on the main game here, as a note, so no Calamity.
Big thanks to https://kryogenix.org/crsearch/ for making searches a lot easier.
If there are words in brackets, that means those could also be final words, but I'm not sure if they count.
So let's get started! (Spoilers below!)
Grog's Death, C1E11, 3:33:33:
Scanlan: Grog are you okay?
Grog: Yeah. (scoffs) But a tickle. [No one told me he had a lightsaber.]
Vex's Death, C1E44, 4:21:10:
Vex: I'm trying to-- Brother, I'm going to go look at the stuff that they're finding, okay? Be safe!
[Later on, she also said "All good, Kima!"]
Grog's Death, C1E50, 28:36:
Grog: Yeah, I would not turn down some delicious boar.
Percy's Death, C1E68, 3:52:20:
Percy: No matter what today, I forgive you, but I cannot let you leave.
Vex's Death, C1E80, 1:46:45:
Vex: You don't got no wings anymore.
Vax: She dead?
Vex: No.
Scanlan's Death, C1E80, 1:54:22:
Pike: Oh, sorry, Scanlan, I didn't see you there.
Scanlan: Well, I'm behind a dragon, honey, it's okay.
Scanlan's Death, C1E83, 2:11:00:
Scanlan: You so dumb, when thieves stole your horse, you chased them down and said, "You forgot the saddle!"
Percy's Death, C1E83, 1:27:19:
Percy: She's down and vulnerable!
Raishan: Not as down and not as vulnerable as you think.
Percy: Oh, shit.
Vax's Death, C1E88, 4:22:00:
Vax: [to Vex after she frees him from a Kraken tentacle] Love you!
Keyleth's Death, C1E97, 14:59:
Keyleth: We're gods!
[Marisha may have said this out of character, but Vex then said she heard Keyleth say this at 28:35, so it's canon now.]
Vex's Death, C1E102, 2:28:15:
Vecna: Come, and be the next sacrifice for the new age.
Vex: You're a dipshit!
Vax's Death, C1E102, 2:19:23:
Vax: No one walks away.
[Alternatively:
Vex: *rolls a nat 20 on a con save*
Vax: *unintelligible yells*]
Vax's Death, C1E112, 3:44:23:
Vax: All right, fucknut, let's do this.
Vax's Death, C1E115, 1:40:12:
Vax: How lucky I have been to have had all of you. How lucky, indeed. Thank you.
Vex's Death, C1 "Dalen's Closet," 2:03:50:
Sylas: I've been thinking about this moment for so long, I planned so many elaborate ways to torture you and tear you apart and--
Vex: Tell us about them.
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Molly's Death, C2E26, 3:57:23:
Molly: [to Keg about an enemy] You got that one?
[Alternatively:
Molly: *spitting with blood*]
Caduceus's Death, C2E55, 58:30:
Caduceus: Are we moving?
[Unsure about this one since Tal doesn't RP talk a ton during combat, so this is from even BEFORE the break.]
Nott's Death, C2E83, 3:11:39:
Nott: Teach me how to read and write. Just kidding, I'm very smart.
Fjord's Death, C2E98, 3:13:10:
Fjord: Intruders!
Yasha's Death, C1E30, 4:03:00:
Yasha: I am your champion.
[This actually occurred in the episode BEFORE her death, which was episode 131. We're counting this since it was said before she failed her last death save, even though she was technically still up and moving.]
Jester's Death, C2E140, 2:22:55:
Jester: Arty!
Caleb's Death, C2E140, 2:37:57:
Caleb: You're killing her, you're killing her, you love her, you're killing her!
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Bertrand's Death, C3E3, 4:08:02:
Bertrand: Lieve'tel...
Orym's Death, C3E33, 3:14:45:
Otohan: We've met before.
Orym: Yeah.
Fearne's Death, C3E33, 3:32:15:
Fearne: Boy... that was a hell of a run.
Laudna’s Death, C3E33, 3:29:19:
Laudna: We’ve seen the leylines. I know where they’re converging.
[Another instance of last words spoken the episode BEFORE she actually died.]
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Vaxleth + cuddles to make up for a loss of words
Thank you for the prompt! I hope I did it justice!
This takes place after the events of C1E97!
Vax woke up to an empty bed. For a second, he panicked, his mind fully aware that Keyleth had died earlier and he had missed it. Had he missed it again, had something else happened to her? He sat up and then relaxed when he saw her resting in the window seat, her knees up to her chest as she looked at the moon. It took him a minute to realize that she was crying.
Quickly he got up and went to her, wrapping his arm gently around her shoulders. She turned, buried her face into his chest, and sobbed momentarily. Gently he rubbed her back until she quieted, and when she pulled away, he wiped away her tears.
“Hey. You should be resting.” He said lovingly.
“I know.” She replied, her voice a bit weak from the day's events. “I couldn’t sleep.”
“You should have woken me. I might have been able to help or at least make you tea.” Vax said. He motioned towards the bed, and when she nodded, he gently picked her up and carried her over, setting her down softly on the blankets. Then he tucked her in before climbing in next to her. He couldn’t get over the vision of her holding weakly onto his sister’s broom, covered in blood. He wouldn’t know what he would do if he lost her.
“I know, but I just needed a minute, to try and calm down. I tried meditating, but I couldn’t focus my thoughts.” She sounded so defeated, and it broke his heart.
“That’s understandable after the day you have had,” Vax replied, gently running his fingers through her hair as she liked. She leaned into the touch with a cat-like motion, and he smiled. If she were Minxy right now, she would be purring.
“I died. For a split second, I was somewhere else. I thought maybe I would see my mother, but I didn’t. A part of me knows that I didn’t spend enough time there to know for sure, but the other part of me wonders if it's because she’s not there.” Keyleth sighed. “It seems foolish to hope.”
“Hope is never foolish, Kiki,” Vax reassured her.
Keyleth took a shaky breath. “All they found was her leg… we never found her body. Maybe she’s still out there somewhere?”
“Then we can look for her. Someone somewhere has to know something. Emon and the Council owe us a big favor; I’m sure they can put out inquiries and such. And if that fails, then we things get settled at home, we can go ourselves.”
He felt Kiki freeze briefly, and her green eyes flash to his. “Do you mean that?” She asked, her voice so quiet that even his keen hearing had to strain to hear her.
“Of course. You should know by now that I would do anything for you, go anywhere… I want to be with you, my love.”
Keyleth blushed, and she reached up to pull him in for a kiss. “Well, I knew that.” She teased. “But I meant you saying that Zephrah is home… did you mean that?”
Vax smiled. “Yes, but you missed the point, Love. Zephrah is a beautiful place, and I would enjoy settling down there, but anywhere you want to settle or be, is where I will be. Where you go… I go, and your people will be my people. I promise for as long as I draw breath.”
Keyleth didn’t know what to say to that, so instead; she hugged him tightly. He felt tears again, but this time he knew they were happy, and he felt a few of them slide down his cheeks.
“I love you, Kiki.” He whispered into her ear.
“I love you too.” She said after a moment. She pulled away and kissed him softly before settling down against him with her head on his chest. “I think I can sleep now. Will you hold me?”
He nodded and began running his fingers through her hair, keeping an eye on her as she fell back into slumber.
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