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[faersflower]

Exu: calamity spoilers no context

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[forgotn1]

Laerryn, the Slayer of Titans

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[fisherrend]

So I’m rewatching EXU Calamity and I’m finding myself wondering about a lot of things, but one in particular.

The Astral Leywright is described to have “one chance and one chance only to work, and that is today” due to the Apogee Solstice. So even without all the issues and troubles, her plan of telling the city once they were up in the air again - which would be one month later - wouldn’t do much because the one chance had already passed. Even if she could somehow delay their departure to another plane for a month, wouldn’t that mean that they’d be stuck in that plane for 120 years? The Leywright was made possible by storing energy from Exandrian leylines, how would they be able to absorb and store possibly entirely new sources of aether, if there even are sources to gather it from? What if brumestone goes inert when they reach another plane, as it is a material plane substance?

I feel like Laerryn really needed to talk this through more with sensible people like Cerrit. Someone logical and not magically arrogant.

Not sure what my point is with this post. Just thinking out loud, I guess. I absolutely love the series, third time rewatching it, I guess I just like to pick things apart and try to futilely logic my way through magic.

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[thebloodredroses]

"A man stabbed you in the back and you had the decency to stab him from the front right through the fucking heart"

DAMN that’s hot

#cr spoilers #cr exu spoilers #exu calamity #I suppose this counts as liveblogging now

[sympathischeufos]

"Surely they knew?", a distant future reckons

I think about this line from the trailer a lot after the (most recent) second episode. Which leads me to the thought that, at its core, ExU: Calamity is a horror story.

Our protagonists are doing the equivalent of wandering downstairs alone to check out the weird noise, flipping the light switch which doesn't work and going "well, I am sure it's nothing". At some point, you just know, someone is going to get The Bite and not tell anyone until it's too late.

I think Nydas is the first for whom this has sunken in, after the prophecy.

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[snoozette]

Place your bets, place your bets!

EXU Calamity: who eventually throws everything into Armageddon?

Your choices are:

a guy with apparent seething hate against the Gods, who literally just struck a deal with a prince of hell

the granddaughter of the guy who lifted the city up in the first place and probably also the Raven Queen's daughter - and we know how family-run power thirst usually turns out

the probably most well-known person in the city who's constantly deflecting and seems to have an ungodly sum of secrets stashed away

a brilliant scientist (an obvious red flag) trying to throw an energy-unstable city into another plane

the chief of trade actively enabling her

or

the spy-bird playing walkie-talkie with his kid trying his best to clean shit up.

honestly, no idea at this point. My money's on Cerrit or Xerxus, it's usually the nice ones who get duped and f things up.

.edit/ why tf do I always mess up the tags? Critcal role? Wtf? Seems I'm not the only one though ;;

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[blorbologist]

I was bouncing Calamity thoughts around with @animatedamerican and came to a thought:

The tragedy of Avalir is not love, or hubris. They both play a huge part, don’t get me wrong, and make the demise coming Thursday so deeply personal to us and the characters.

But I believe it all has been set in motion by a lack of perspective.

No one, not one of the entities involved here, is willing - or maybe even able - to remove their feelings, priorities, concerns from the equation and look at things through the eyes of another. None - bar the villains.

Laerryn and Loquatious love eachother, they love eachother and it seeps through their every interaction - but they can’t fathom understanding the other’s perspective. They’re what actually clued me in to all of this - because how could you love someone, so clearly, and not at least love their adoration for what they care for? It’s not a lack of love, or too much love; it is, however, tied a bit to hubris. From Laerryn’s perspective, Loquatious’ management of the media was trivial manipulation - useful, but not something she needed to understand, so why devote the time to it? And from where Loquatious is standing, the splendour of Laerryn’s work pales to her own grandeur - what’s the science compared to the mind behind it?

And this extends beyond the cast, beyond the now - the druids and wizards, too, could not consider the thoughts of the other. Because of course the wizards would poke at some weird weed in their city! They’re wizards! They will poke the unknown with a stick to learn what it does, what it can do for them - and the druids never though to consider this. Of course, telling them would likely not have helped much either - because on the wizard side of things, if those superstitious, foolish druids told them no. Well, what do druids know of power? What do they know of methods - they cannot give due importance to what they say, cannot consider why the druids might do this and go to such lengths.

There was no easy solution - no way the tree could have been introduced, or kept secret, or ever allowed to accomplish its purpose, because its creators and inadvertent gardeners each could not, would not, think of how the other might react to it. This has been a tragedy in the making since its very conception.

The same missing perspective is, to a lesser extent, seen in the other members of the Ring of Brass: none of them have an ounce of empathy for Purvan. The Raven Queen not wanting her ritual repeated is baffling to Patia. Laerryn, not understanding just how terrifying it would be to be a citizen in a city vaulted across planes because she sees the marvel and potential and necessity of doing it now. Zerxus doesn’t fathom that demanding honesty at a time like this will just push everyone further apart, that his Zone of Truth will accomplish the opposite of what he intends. 

Speaking of Zerxus - he projects his perspective on Asmodeus. His tragedy, his martyred heart, must be what is beating in this demon’s chest, too. And Asmodeus uses this. Because he and his ilk can see where other characters are coming from, can see their perspective, and manipulate them accordingly. So do Vespin and Lacrytia, in the breadcrumbs they leave. They can take the place of heros, understand what matters to them, and in so doing can lead them by the nose to where they are most useful.

No amount of love or hate, no amount of hubris or humility, could have stopped this. Because from the very start no one could take a moment to walk in another’s shoes. This has been true before Blight, before Evandrin’s death, before the divorce, before the tree was planted, before the city flew.

It was always going to be a tragedy. It was just a matter of magnitude.

#critical role spoilers #critical role meta #critical role #cr exu spoilers #cr calamity #exu zerxus #exu loquatius #exu laerryn #exu patia #exu nydas #not sure if this made a lick of sense but I need to get back to reading papers on reptile cognition #@ these wizards... if i can put myself in the mindset of a small snake can you please take 5 seconds to consider some Empathy Please

[ahumanshapedspace]

I'd like to add Feathers 🪶 to the list of symbols for this arc, I'd like to submit as support the following list of reasons:

Tempus

The feather Loqatious picked up from Purvaan and proposed to Laerynn with

The feather Tempus gave to Elias

Cerrit and his family

#cr spoilers #cr exu spoilers #cr exu calamity #zerxus ilerez #laerryn coramar seelie #loquatius seelie #tempus #cerrit agrupnin #feathers #evandrin alterra

[wishes-and-curses]

When crowned fire and a throned earth stride forth to join ancient war anew, then Mother and Father shall fall to the hands of their imprisoned kin. And all the stars will weep until the death of light for lost Exandria, whose every ashen breath will wish for death, and never knowing peace, shall stumble ever more to seek in vain the end of horror without name.

Karwen's prophecy (II) // Critical Role's Exandria Unlimited: Calamity, episode 4 "Fire and Ruin"

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[done-dm]

PATIA LEARNED FROM THE RAVEN QUEEN HERSELF????!?!?!?!?

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[nerdlytreasure]

Having Lou and Travis bracketing the table…. The two biggest cheerleaders, biggest fans, biggest hype men at their respective tables is just so damn magical.

#I don’t even know that I’m wording this right #but it’s beautiful #cr spoilers #cr exu spoilers #calamity spoilers #watching critical role #I’m emotionally compromised #cr cast #d20 cast #lou wilson #travis willingham

[helltothenaw]

MADAM HAS NOTICED ME

and agreed with me fuck yeah Aabria

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[justanotherspeaker]

Excelsior | Exandria Unlimited: Calamity | Episode 1

The fuckin run!!! 🤣🤣🤣

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[thebloodredroses]

“Hope that you are forgotten”

You wanna know what’s the first thing that came to my mind when Vespin said this?

“[...] erease my legacy wherever you find it. That silence would be the greatest eulogy I could ever hope for.” 

That’s from Percy’s “in case of death” letter. 

I am literally the “you didn’t connect shit” meme right now, except I didn’t even bother connecting the dots, I just found them in my brain and subjecting you all to this. 

#cr spoilers #cr exu spoilers #exu calamity #I suppose this counts as liveblogging now #I have no idea why my mind went there #I'll try and figure it out once this monster of an episode is over and I've cried all of my tears

[ratherbeinsunnydale]

also the dads having dad feelings is too much for me i think

#cr spoilers #cr exu spoilers #critical role

[lunarthemooncake]

I haven’t liveblogged and memed CR in ages but in the light of the latest EXU Calamity Episode—

#how the FUCK can i sleep after THAT #critical role #cr spoilers #exu #cr exu #cr exu calamity #cr exu spoilers #exandria unlimited: calamity