Critical Role Campaign 3 Episode 41
Oh dear gods ... Sam, what now? I almost expected him to come up squeaking: "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!" like in Bill & Ben ... Matt looks SO uncomfortable right now. And then the watering, gods help us ...
Sam: "I was holding a semi squat over there so people couldn't see my wang!"
Stickers! Everybody should go nuts over stickers, it's like THE LAW.
Here we go. After two weeks with reuniting with The Nein and a week off, it's just been TOO LONG ...
Oh ... oh! OH!!! Dorian! And look at everybody's faces! :3 Thanks for that, Robbie ...
FCG: "What you looking for over there, Chetney?" Ashton: "Your destiny?" Chetney: "Shut the ... FUCK!!! Now I gotta think up a new one-liner!" Ashton: "I don't know, I think I kind of saved you from that one."
Oh yes, Orym would be a cool were rabbit ... also Imogen as Bojack Horseman ... either way Fearne would be cute. :3
Sam's flask gets aired almost immediately ... WERE BASS!!! Yeah ...
Travis confusing Imogen and Laudna too ... Matt: "Yeah, it's catching!
Yup, important consumer advice: DON'T GET BIT!!!
FCG: "What if you haven't finished?" Chetney: "Well then, you know, disappointment."
The portable hole does not get too wet. I cannot believe nobody picked up on THAT potential minefield of innuendo ...
This menagerie is COMPLICATED.
Yes, let the ship know. Extra spell slot is a good thing, clearly.
Cardio, man ...
Oh gods ... Fearne is about to trip balls isn't she? Ah yes, a con save ... 8 ... yeah ... here we go. Yup. Acid trip. Totally. Oh this is gonna be so much fun ...
Fearne: "Why so far? I'm not gonna DO anything." The while group LOSES IT COMPLETELY. Of course. And now she's POISONED for the next 24 hours. Of course she is. XD
Roll FOR the Gorgynei? Travis rolls a NATURAL 20!!!!!!!
Twilight Tigers?
Two Imogens ... yup ...
Everybody "wolfs" out. Meanwhile Imogen pulls a Jurassic World Chris Pratt ...
Markings, smart. Chetney: "Nice penmanship."
Ashton hoping for a were tree ... meanwhile Fearne is still totally blasted. Yhe others are fascinated.
CSN FCG recognise hotness? Oh gods and now they're trying go see if HE can trip out too. This is SUCH a bad idea and I'm totally here for it. XD
Wow, FCG has quite the constitution. Oh wait, here we go ... con save ... 17? Nuts ...
No. Save Laudna's big drug stash for later ...
I think Letters MIGHT be reading too much into their luck right now. And now Fearne is trying to communicate with the Changebringer. This should be interesting ...
The Changebringer says Hi. Oh. It's s frickin BEETLE. Fearne is being attacked by a bug and she thinks she's being visited by a god ...
Yeah, that was just weird.
Oh yes. Orym's eternal quandary ...
FCG: "This fire's HUGE!!!" Ashton: "Why's this smoke all hitting ME?"
The basics ... hmmmmm ...
Okay, guess it's time to get to THE MEAT of the matter ... ah, here we are, the Moon. Do tell, sister ... ooooooh, backstory ...
"It's yhe shadow if a roommate that never goes away." Holy fuck that is PROFOUND, Matthew ...
Glyph work? Ahhh ... okay, so looks like Chetney's still got stuff to learn. Oh wow, that's pretty cool, actually ...
Whoa. Even cooler ...
Oh wow, and now Chetney's getting some ACTUAL on hand training. Does this count for experience points?
More backstory! Yay!
The Ivory Syndicate ... hmmm ... Dorao the Dead ... double-hmmmm ...
Yes, how IS Fearne now?
Chetney would be a were cockatoo ... okay ...
Oh, they actually had us going there, didn't they? XD And then with the were horse again ...
Surreal conversation. This is fun ...
Fearne! Stop flirting! XD
Marisha rolls a 6 ... Matt: "Well ... it's a good thing they're good trackers." Oh yeah?
What are Liam and Laura having a little private giggle about? The Twins are at it again, clearly.
Apex War? Stratos Throne? WHAAAAAAAT?!!!
Oh my gods, is Marisha actually having NOTEBOOK FATIGUE?!!!
The Savage Garden? Sam prompts a wave of bad 90s pop rock jokes ...
Laudna: "Are you feeling pure today? Chetney's like the least pure person I know."
Wow, Laudna is getting WAY too excited about this ...
Laura looks SO TOTALLY enraptured by Matt's descriptions here ... it's adorable.
Wow, sober Fearne blows that nature check BIG TIME. No Fey Realm advantage? Matt: "No."
Hahaha ... Laura realising that Matt's describing the cave set from the old campaign 3 intro before Matt does is so cute.
Yes Fearne. SERIOUSLY. ASK PERMISSION FIRST. FCG totally makes an insight check ...
Sam: "I can't even tell if YOU'RE lying to me right now, as Ashley Johnson." Ashley: "You'll never know."
Ashton's having hammer envy, apparently ... XD
Oh, so, like, it's stinky?
Bones. Okay ...
Orym makes a Perception Check. Yeah, this'll be high ... Nat 20. OF COURSE it is.
Oh yeah. This place is a total MURDER HOUSE.
Romance the statue ... XD
Seraatani, aka The Wildmother. Oh hello ...
All right, here we go ... game time. Time to get serious, Chet.
Oooh ... Nice offerings there, Chetney ... oh, so he has to do a Zen meditation thing, then? Sounds about right.
Ah, so it's just late afternoon. Yeah, stop planning going to bed, then.
And again Laudna is like WAY too invested in this ...
Chetney: "Fortune favours the sexy."
"I've got a pocketful of ball bearings. The Marisha Rey Story."
All right, who's hot the Immovable Rod? Rolling ... Taliesin and Sam role-playing to see who's got the Rod ... XD
Okay, check the spooky tunnel ... wow, that was anticlimactic ...
FCG casts Enhance Ability on Chetney ... but WHAT is he actually about to DO?!!!
Chetney's personal business ... Laura (quietly): "That's gotta be Santa, right?"
Oooooooh ... moonbeam. Okay ...
A presence ... Matt: "And that's where we're gonna go to break!" Sam: "Presents arrive? That's gotta be Santa, right?"
Part 2 ...
Orym and Fearne are REQUESTED to make Perception Checks ... okay, this can't be good ...
Oh, so this is gonna be like a multiple choice test? Isn't that like a bit too easy?
So they're like ... all possessed now, then?
Whoa ... Matt's getting pretty worked up in this bit ...
Holy fuck, Chetney is HULKING OUT right now! And now Matt's getting a battle map ... meep!
Uber Chetney is TERRIFYING ...
ROLL INITIATIVE!!!
We don't know WHAT the fuck is going on, nobody wants to actually ATTACK anyone ...
Oooh ... Imogen tries to look unto Chetney's head and she gets SHUT OUT by ... SOMETHING. Something ancient.
Chetney's turn ... oh shit here we go ...
Letters? Oh dear ... FUCK!!! HE'S ATTACKING!!!
Taliesin: "We are literally our own worst enemies."
FIRE CLAWS!!! Ouch! Oh no, not Mister too!
Attack of Opportunity for FCG ... NAT 20!!! But half damage cuz he's wolfed out ...
17 points of damage on Mister ... wait, that's right, he NEVER gets hit, we have NO IDEA how many hit points ... OH FUCK MISTER IS GONE!!!
And now he's going after Fearne too!
Laura: "How do you know you have to attack us?" Travis: "The voice in my head I'd telling me to."
Form of Dread AND Mirror Image? AWESOME!!!
Fuck me, Chetney has LEGENDARY ACTIONS right now?
Matt: "It's not really a TPK, one of you will survive." Yeah he is enjoying this WAY too much right now ...
FCG tries to use his Trusted Companion connection to get through to him telepathically ... and he is just NOT THERE right now.
Spiritual Weapon ... a steak? Yeah, Matt doesn't have a mini for that. Oh, a STAKE!!! That might work ...
Raging and Reckless Attack! Go Ashton! 22 to hit? Yeesh ...
Liam: "Yeah, Orym us going to ... shit ..." Laura: "Poop his pants."
Awwwwww ... Orym's sweet and adorable half finished wolf carving might actually save the day? Please please please ...
Howl of the Hunter? Oh wait, never mind ...
Imogen casts Blindness ... and FUCK that is a great save so it totally fails ...
Everybody's so confused!
Fearne casts Scorching Ray! Fuck! Haphazard aim, though, doesn't do too much damage ...
Ashton tries to talk him out of it, but in an Ashton kind of way. So he hits him too. Another 15 points of damage! Then he swings and misses on the second ...
Holy fuck he uses his last Legendary Action to SMASH ASHTON'S HAMMER INTO HIS OWN FACE!!! Ouch! Thank the gods FCG takes half of that damage ...
Temporal Morass? Oooooh ...
Hmmm ... so right now Ashton is just "the guy with the hammer" to Chetney? Oh that's SO BAD ...
Sam sneezes and Ashley's SO caught up in this that she doesn't tell him to "Stop it!" ... XD
Howl of the Hunter again! Here we go ... everybody but Imogen is now Frightened! Not good!
Sam: "You can be Frightened when you're raging?" Apparently so ...
Oooh ... FCG's bolt thrower! And that is PAINFUL, clearly!
FCG: "Chetney, please! You're killing me here!" Chetney (wolf voice): "Promise?"
Orym's Goading Attack! Sweet! And Travis rolls a NAT 1!!! Bur he has LEGENDARY RESISTANCE?!!! FUCK!!!
Phew, 12 DOES NOT hit Fearne ...
Fearne changes into a SEXY wolf! Okay then ... Matt: "I'm gonna use a fox, to make it a sexy wolf." Liam: "A fox IS a sexy wolf."
She tries to talk him down ... and Ashley has to be reminded that SHE'S A WOLF!!! XD And it STILL works ... whoa, he PERMANENTLY LOSES kne of his Legendary Actions!
Imogen throws a Psychic Lance and Travis rolls balls to Magically Resist ... but then he uses his Legendary Resistance! Bah! Still hurts, though ...
Ashton tries a Baseball Atrack ... but he's at disadvantage ... HYPER Rage? Hmmm ... no that's a shit roll. Oh, second one works, at least ... and then he's just A BLUR as he disengages ...
Chetney goes for Laudna ... Blood Curse of Bloated Agony? Seriously? Fuck ... there goes one of the Mirror Images ... and a second ... whoa, that was almost SO BAD ...
Laudna tries Chill Touch ... nope, not happening ...
HOLY SHIT ... FCG actually threw a stick to make Chetney go fetch and it fucking WORKS. Spiritual Weapon attack!
Orym dashes over and JUMPS ONTO CHETNEY'S CHEST!!!
Imogen shouts Dissonant Whispers at 3rd Level into Chetney's head: "Fight this fight this fight this ..."
Chetney uses his Legendary Action to try znd swatt Orym off. It hurts him but he's hanging on ...
Fearne drops her sexy wolf and casts Daylight on the dagger in Chetney's chest ... and now Orym and Chetney are both BLINDED for a round ...
Ashton drops Rage and holds his action while completely failing to drop his fear ...
Chetney tries to take three more swipes at Orym at disadvantage because he's blind and it's a total shitshow ...
And the statue DOESN'T WANT HIM to get too close in case it gets damaged? Interesting ...
Laudna casts Darkness over the hole and the beam of light vanishes ... and Chetney SHRINKS!!! Still possessed, but still ...
And Laudna loses her Spiderclimb so she just drops like a stone ... but lands pretty sweet. Phew ...
And Chetney just charges right at her, no longer blinded ...
Wait a minute, that means Orym is now pretty much THE SAME SIZE as him right now, right? While he's still hanging onto him ...
FCG tries to get through to Chetney while THREATENING THE STATUE?!!! Crazy ... it doesn't really work, though ...
Orym basically just starts battering away at Chetney's face with his shield ... oooh, okay, that kind of works. Now he can SEE AGAIN, at least ...
Imogen tries Calm Emotions on him ... balls, Travis is falling CRAZY WELL still, it fails miserably ...
Fearne tries Charm Person ... Chetney: "You're hot." Fearne: "I know. You're gonna fight this, okay?"
Okay ... sounds like this all MIGHT be starting to work ...
Ashton tries to just INTIMIDATE him into knocking it off and Taliesin rolls CRAZY sweet while Travis totally tanks his save ... and THIS ONE works! Nice!
Sam: "How do you wanna SUBDUE this?"
Whoooooo ... Chetney snaps out of it, nice. And Ashton bitchslaps him.
Chetney pulls out the dagger, the Darkness drops, the moonlight comes back in ... oh shit ... wait, that sounds GOOD. No, looks like he actually pulled it off ...
Practical joker Chetney even while he's fucked up ...
"Chain-me-up protocol, visitors welcome" ... Chetney's STILL flirting with Fearne, then ... XD
Somehow I doubt Chetney's gonna get superhuge again next time he wolfs out ...
FCG: "Chet, where are you looking? Is it your destiny?" Chetney: "No, FCG, that's in here." Oh gods ...
Oh yeah, that's right, Chetney us just STARK NAKED now ...
Laudna gets Pate to help her do a Cinderella stitch-up job on Chetney's clothes.
Chetney inspires the while group to strip down znd go running around naked ...
Meanwhile Orym smells Will on the breeze? What the fuck does THAT mean? It's coming from the statue? Fearne's sticking around for him, at least ...
Now Orym is ON THE STATUE? Okay ... there's a hole in the sheath ... he tries to slot his sword into it ...
Okay, this is weird ... HOLY FUCK, has Orym just earned himself a magical sword upgrade? That's pretty fucking sweet!
Okay, there we go, back to the streaking ... XD
Oh my gods, did Fearne just perform a completely selfless act of generosity? Cool ...
And that's it for tonight ... cool ... for once a nice tension free ending ... phew!
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Let’s Talk About the Orb
852 words
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dimension 20 (Web Series), Fantasy High
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ayda Aguefort & Kristen Applebees, Adaine Abernant & Ayda Aguefort, Kristen Applebees/Tracker O'Shaughnessey (minor)
Characters: Ayda Aguefort, Kristen Applebees, Adaine Abernant, Fig Faeth (minor), Gorgug Thistlespring (minor), Tracker O'Shaughnessey
Additional Tags: famous au, where the twist is we're not doing it the easy way, u think research can't get u anywhere think again everyone knows darwin, D20bingo
Summary:
Ayda's a famous researcher. Kristen's the prophet of Cassandra. Adaine's the oracle. You'd think that means they get to decide what they do because they have a lot of power, right? Sike. Please enjoy this little story about them escaping an elitist event to go hang in a cafe.
AO3 link here or use the read more down below. For the @dimension20bingo slot: famous AU.
There were many things Ayda Aguefort found fascinating. The effect of caffeine on different species. Why some spell components are more powerful than others. What the effect of heat is on specific plants. The list went on and on. But she didn’t care for small talk.
Now, she fully understood that in order to keep getting funding she had to keep presenting her findings to those who had gold coins to burn. That part was fine, she enjoyed standing in front of her holograms, confident in her full understanding of the subject. But the parties afterwards? Not so much.
After a few of those ridiculous parties full of small foods, elitist humanoids, and objectively ugly priceless art- Ayda made a friend. Or more, Kristen decided she was her friend.
Kristen Applebees, the first prophet of Cassandra, spoke regularly at these events. With her goddex at her beck and call, the elite could not deny the existence of this forgotten god. So instead they made sure she stuck with them. Kristen knew, though. She went to the events, ate all the tiny food she wanted, and spoke to everyone who seemed a little miserable.
Ayda had never seen anyone look as miserable as Adaine Abernant, the Oracle.
Kristen and Ayda had just been heading toward a plate filled with miniature tacos when they spotted some blonde hair peeking out from the top of a fern.
“Oh I gotta know what that’s about.” Kristen made a sharp turn towards the fern as Ayda Mage-handed some tacos. Might as well achieve both goals.
“Hi.” Kristen said to the fern. “Are you okay?”
The fern wiggled and an elf around Kristen’s age stepped out from behind it. Her hair had a few leaves sticking out and she grimaced. “Hello. Some of my parents’ friends are here. I despise them and they will endanger me if they spot me.”
“Endanger you?” Ayda repeated.
The blonde girl sighed and looked around, then snuck into one of the hallways. After exchanging a questioning look, Kristen and Ayda followed her.
“So, what’s up? I’m Kristen by the way.” She extended her hand.
“Adaine Abernant.” Adaine shook it.
“The Elven Oracle?” Ayda cocked her head.
Crossing her arms, she replied, “the Oracle. Elves cannot claim me for themselves, especially considering the fact that they tried to lock me up in an orb.”
“I’m sorry. The Oracle. I am Ayda Aguefort.” She held out her hand like Kristen had done, hoping it was still the correct move.
Wordlessly, Adaine shook it.
“So, you wanna get out of here? I know a cafe we can go to, you could explain the whole giant orb thing?” Kristen drew a circle in the air.
Ayda glanced back at her fellow researchers. Most of them were standing around in a little circle, coats in hand. If they were leaving, she’d be allowed to leave too.
“Can we just leave?” Adaine raised her eyebrows.
“There’s no specific end time on the invitation, so we can technically leave whenever we want.” She squared her shoulders and added, “what are they going to do, stop us?”
Adaine looked back once more. “Okay, let’s go. Don’t let the elves see me.”
After successfully smuggling Adaine out of the building, Kristen led them through a long series of narrow streets covered in colourful shops and posters. The pebbled walkway felt unfamiliar underneath Ayda’s feet but she didn’t want to risk being seen flying away from the event. She tried to keep a map of the area in her mind but the environment was too new to her and she stuck to trying to look at everything they passed.
Finally Kristen led them into a cafe with large windows, a few long pillows covering the windowsills where cats snoozed in the sunlight. In the corner there was a coffee bar with all sorts of treats. Behind the bar stood a girl with the sides of her head shaved and a whole set of piercings covered the length of her ears. When she looked up from her work, the girl winked at Kristen.
“Uhh,” Adaine started, seeming lost in the space.
“That’s my girlfriend, Tracker. She makes good coffee, I promise. Over there’s more quiet spaces if you want to borrow one of the books from the bookshelves.” Kristen pointed to a corner mostly taken up by cats, then to a towering library-grade bookshelf filled to the brim with colourful spines. “And if you want to see a fun performance- there we got Fig and Gorgug, they’re a band.” She waved to another corner.
Ayda followed all of Kristen’s pointing until she lay sight on who she presumed was Fig. A relatively short tiefling girl wearing ripped fishnets, a plaid skirt, and a crop top grinned wildly as she watched her friend do tricks with his drumsticks. “Fascinating,” she whispered to herself.
“What?”
“Nothing of importance.” Ayda turned her head back to her new friends.
Three minutes later, they sat in the music corner each with a large coffee and some cookies.
Kirsten picked up her mug. “So, let’s talk about the orb.”
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Classic Forestcraft Deck (Update, after 10 more packs pulled)
So, last post I did I showed off and broke down each card in a Forestcraft deck I made using only cards from the starting pool you get, plus any cards I got from a 10-pull of the very first set in Shadowverse, the Classic pack.
Well, since then I've actually done 2 more ten pulls, with the latest 10-pull being what reminded me to make an update post. I haven't updated the deck with the newest cards I got, mainly due to me not being sure what I want to do to change the deck up just yet, so this update is only looking at the deck after adding in my additional pulls from my 2nd 10-pull!
I won't go through every single card once again, but I will explain what I added in and removed, so we can see the process I thought of while making it! So, without further ado, here's the /slightly/ updated deck!
So, the deck still looks very similar to last update, but I have indeed added a few new toys and removed a few! Namely, I removed the playsets of Treant and Elf Tracker that we previously ran, clearing up 6 slots in the deck. I first added some extra copies of cards that I wanted to run more of, namely an extra copy of Elder Treant and a foil copy of Fairy Bringer to max out a set of her!
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Now, let's talk about the three new cards we added!
The only new spell, Woodkin Curse was a choice I wanted because we summon so many low powered monsters. After all, we focus on swarming with cheap and weaker monsters, so being able to reduce a potentially threatening enemy down to something a Fairy can kill is really helpful, plus the Curse itself is a relatively cheap card as well!
On the surface, Archer seems like I'm just running a worse Elf Tracker, and it potentially is. A 2/2 for 3 mana isn't as strong stat-wise, but I think Archer can have some pretty good potential! Depending on when you drop the Archer, playing it early on could make for some consistent damage if it isn't removed by your opponent, with how many Fairies you are summoning due to their large amount of cards that add Fairy to hand.
Fairy Caster is the last pick here, and one that was a little tough to make. I remember I mentioned how I didn't want to add Dark Elf Faure since we already had quite a few cards to get Fairies into hand, but I think the fact she has to attack to get the Fairy into hand as opposed to Caster just adding 3 off of one summon also keeps me off of running her. I did try a few builds with Faure, Caster, and both/neither, but the games I played showed Caster to just be a better pick overall!
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Well, that's about all of them! Since I did open another 10 pack, I'll just update the other decks I made with new cards and make posts on them later, then at some point once I decide how to/if I want to change this deck Ill make sure to let you all know!
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