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C4E024 Good Tidings

C4E023 Buried Truths
C4E025 Targeted

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Thumbnail for Critical Role IV episode 24, with a red emblem around the episode number and birds in the bottom corners. A split image having the effect of cracked plaster, with art of a city skyline on the left and a photo of Liam and Marisha on the right. The skyline is tinted in red. A few low slatted rooves sit beneath a large domed tower, with pointed spires surrounding it. The tower itself is wide, with open windows running in a circle around its circumference. Liam and Marisha sit at the Critical Role table. Liam’s fingers are interlaced in front of him, his face looking slightly shell-shocked. Marisha looks at him, some worry on her face.

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Runtime

5h 6m 59s

Cold Open End 00:09:56

Episode Start 00:20:18

Break Start 02:10:45

Break End 02:23:33

“Lord, I wonder where Thimble is in the world right now”

—Marisha, 01:51:08

Meeting the Black Rabbits on the Miller’s Road

New Level 4s

Running Bird Count

138

* See our note on how we count this

“This whisper brought to you by Liam’s Sense of Existential Dread”

Liam sitting at the table giving a dead-eyed smile to the camera. Behind him, Brennan whispers into Marisha’s ear, both standing up. Marisha crosses her arms and Brennan cups his hand over his mouth so that no one can hear his whisper.

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HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing:

Created by Flando Maltrizian, Master of Time(stamps)
Timestamp Description
00:01:15 A prior execution
00:05:15 We establish why Thimble doesn’t know Thjazi’s plans
00:09:55 Critical Role Announcement Playhouse
00:11:25 Bedbreaker Quyen Tran!
00:16:40 Travis-Laura’s merch corner
00:18:55 Intro cinematic
00:20:15 EPISODE STARTS
00:26:35 Recap Ends
00:31:00 Betty Crocker, symbol of the Resistance
00:35:30 Magpies
00:37:45 Hal levels up
00:38:55 Murray levels up
00:44:50 Dark cloaks
00:48:05 Orus’s update (Crow Keepers disbanded)
00:55:25 Romina’s update (Primus will be in town)
01:01:05 STOP IT
01:02:35 Romina is being weird (Bolaire levels up)
01:07:55 Magical Rick Roll
01:18:35 A legislative body that can’t pass legislation? In my fantasy story?
01:22:50 Hal feels very married for a bachelor
01:25:30 The Hand and Wheel
01:28:05 Making the glyphs by waterfall (It’s a Willy Wonka ref)
01:31:05 Rohir is working late
01:36:35 The Amphorae
01:39:20 Thjazi had a falcon
01:41:35 Yep, it was blood
01:49:15 Thimble is the black market
01:52:25 Skull guy
01:53:50 Tunk Hoorman, my newest OC
01:58:20 Demodus is a fantastic roommate
02:01:05 Visages of Creation
02:03:35 Azune’s identity crisis
02:10:50 BREAK STARTS
02:23:35 BREAK ENDS (almonds)
02:24:35 Candlefeast
02:26:45 Symbols and passcodes
02:29:00 Murray’s throat full of nutz
02:30:35 Murray embezzles educational funds
02:34:10 Bolaire plans the gala
02:44:55 Elodie’s manor
02:50:00 What to do when an actor asks for money
02:52:15 No puppets
02:57:00 Any good tidings?
02:58:55 The pope is coming and wants a +8
03:05:05 Murray’s Pump-up Bagpipe Party Mix
03:07:35 Planting evidence to frame House Tachonis
03:09:05 Craft services (sold out show)
03:15:40 The Tanner’s
03:25:20 A creepy little guy (Knife and Palette)
03:37:35 The price is Wick
03:48:40 Ruining things for good (the falcon’s nests)
03:56:50 Murray’s grand theory
04:08:35 Eating paint whispers
04:20:15 Hal is mad at Thjazi
04:30:20 The day of the Gala
04:33:25 Hal’s Gala look
04:36:15 Murray’s Gala look
04:38:25 Hal forces Azune to have a Gala look
04:41:25 King Gus shows up
04:43:55 The Photarch arrives
04:51:05 The Photarch does not like the theme
04:55:10 Gus and the Photarch at the party
04:59:35 Gus and the Photarch in private
05:03:15 Assassination is happening
05:06:30 Episode Ends

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Full time Gameplay time Game 1st half Game 2nd half Mid break 1st start Ad start Ad end 1st end 2nd start 2nd end
5h 6m 59s 4h 43m 6s 2h 23s 2h 42m 43s 12m 48s 00:00:00 00:09:56 00:20:18 02:10:45 02:23:33 05:06:16

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Main cast attendance

Brennan Lee Mulligan, Laura Bailey, Liam O’Brien, Luis Carazo, Marisha Ray, and Taliesin Jaffe.

Absent

Aabria Iyengar, Alexander Ward, Ashley Johnson, Matthew Mercer, Robbie Daymond, Sam Riegel, Travis Willingham, and Whitney Moore.

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Week 2

Episodes in week: C4E023–C4E024.

6
Priest’s Day / Solaire
28th Trozemere
7
Weaver’s Day / Luniere
29th Trozemere
8
Hunter’s Day / Chassaire
30th Trozemere
9
Victor’s Day / Victoire
31st Trozemere
10
Smith’s Day / Forgiere
32nd Trozemere
11
Farmer’s Day / Viére
12
Trader’s Day / Marchandiere
World
  • Search for Demodus Blix is paused while search for Lady Amariya Dacen Cormoray continues [ep. 24]
  • Tickets sell out for opening night of the play KoTher’ai at the Hallowed Round [ep. 24]
  • Convivium Haereticorum gala held at the Archanade Lloy Wing to celebrate the opening night of the play KoTher'ai [ep. 23, 24]
  • King Augustus Valian confronts Photarch Yanessa Halovar at the gala about the Candescent Creed's business in Timmony [ep. 24]
Soldiers
Seekers
Schemers
  • Group meets with Varen Kadorn at the Seven Stars aviary, who informs the group that about 350 soliders are interested in work, and Azune again asks him to disperse a few into the Sundered Houses [ep. 23, 24]
  • Magpies chosen as a means of communication and as a symbol for stirring rebellion [ep. 24]
  • Orus Blade and Romina Rountree both come to the Seven Stars asking for the group [ep. 24]
  • Orus Blade reports his findings from his own investigations into the theft of his spell glyphs to Azune and Murray, including news that the Crow Keepers are disbanding [ep. 24]
  • Azune and Murray arrange a private tour of the Hand and Wheel kiln facilities that evening and suggest they may be able to assist with the company's dire financial situation [ep. 24]
  • Romina Rountree reports to Halandil and Bolaire that Primus Tachonis is expected back in Dol-Makjar the same day as opening night of the play KoTher'ai, and that she believes a confrontation with him by Houses Einfasen and Halovar on suspicions of betrayal is coming [ep. 24]
  • During tour of Hand and Wheel kiln, group learns from Rohir Howl, the bookkeeper, that Thjazi commissioned the enchanted amphora and had them delivered to Knife and Palette Pigments in The Tanners [ep. 24]
  • Murray realizes that Thimble managed finances for Thjazi and that she could help with moving money around for their own plans [ep. 24]
  • Azune meets Varen Kadorn at Falcon's Rest, passes on the magpie symbol and code phrase, and accepts compromise to instead acquire names of trusted people already employed by Sundered Houses [ep. 24]
  • Murray uses found gems to pull funds from Penteveral [ep. 24]
  • Bolaire continues preparations for the gala, which will be a masquerade called the Convivium Haereticorum i.e. "Banquet of the Heretics" [ep. 24]
  • Meeting at Seven Stars aviary that sets up financial plans for discrete food bank for employed soldiers and staffing for gala [ep. 24]
  • Halandil meets with Elodie D'vyen and gets additional financial support for food bank [ep. 24]
  • Murray contacts Orus Blade about opening empty warehouse in The Fray for food bank [ep. 24]
  • Azune gives Varen Kadorn address for discrete food bank in The Fray and 50 gold to hire trusted soldiers for gala security [ep. 24]
  • Bolaire receives word that Photarch Yanessa Halovar will attend the gala [ep. 24]
  • Murray spends spare time at Penteveral to enchant four spell glyphs [ep. 24]
  • Halandil uses funds to buy provisions for food bank and enlists members of theater company to deliver to address [ep. 24]
  • Azune slips Occtis’s signet ring into evidence found at Archanade during his investigation into Lady Amariya Dacen Cormoray's disappearance [ep. 24]
  • Bolaire receives message that House Cormoray will attend gala and that they are interested in if House Tachonis will also attend [ep. 24]
  • Murray delivers finished enchanted spell glyphs to the group [ep. 24]
  • Group investigates Knife and Palette Pigments in The Tanners and meets Hollis Kinnywater who offers vague information about his employer ("mistress") and her work with Thjazi Fang [ep. 24]
  • Hollis Kinnywater suggests a trade of connections with the group, namely an introduction to his mistress in exchange for an audience for his mistress with Wicander [ep. 24]
  • Learn that Hollis Kinnywater's mistress is away for a Candle Feast pilgrimage and won't be back until Priest's Day, effectively halting the group's investigations [ep. 24]
  • Hollis Kinnywater offers a thread of curiosity to explore to Halandil: he saw the Bretheren Hall clearing away falcon nests from the cliffs the other day [ep. 24]
  • Go to Hallowed Round so Murray can investigate paints via tasting, and she discovers magical signature is inverse of Stone of Nightsong and holds potential of turning dream into reality [ep. 24]
  • Bolaire tests drawing with paints, and while nothing happens he does recall something about a river and a name, Gavzidra [ep. 24]
  • Halandil reaches breaking point with his brother's secrets [ep. 24]
  • Azune asks Halandil about the tree at the Hallowed Round and is told it is the Rungjani, it is the people, and it is the eternal, but cannot glean anything further himself [ep. 24]
  • Varen Kadorn gives Azune his promised lists of trusted soldiers to work the gala and of those that are currently employed by the Sundered Houses [ep. 24]
  • Group learns of more last-minute, high-profile attendees of the gala: members of the Argosian delegation, including Sir Dalbrick Orphaner and Lord-Minister Gorson Brightmane, as well as King Augustus Valian and his retinue [ep. 24]
  • Photarch Yanessa Halovar finally speaks with Halandil, who successfully convinces her that he has not seen Wicander or Teor [ep. 24]
  • Azune escorts Photarch Yanessa Halovar and King Augustus Valian to private room for heated conversation and Murray follows invisibly, while Halandil witnesses a group of Argosian guards slink away from gala and Bolaire catches the sound of a crossbow loading near meeting room [ep. 24]

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NOTE: Numbers represent damage as dealt, taking into account resistances and other effects, and may differ from the damage as rolled.

Total: 0

Character Damage dealt
Thimble 0
Halandil 0
Murray 0
Azune 0
Bolaire 0

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NOTE: Numbers represent damage as taken, taking into account resistances and other effects, and may differ from the damage as rolled.

Total: 0

Character Damage taken
Thimble 0
Halandil 0
Murray 0
Azune 0
Bolaire 0

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Total: 0

Character Healing performed
Thimble 0
Halandil 0
Murray 0
Azune 0
Bolaire 0

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Totals
Spells Leveled Spells Only Spell Levels
17 15 27
Character Spell Base level Cast at Notes
Halandil Animal Messenger 2 2
Murray Skywrite 2 2
Bolaire Detect Thoughts 2 2
Murray See Invisibility 2 2
Murray Magic Mouth 2 2
Azune Alter Self 2 2
Murray Shield 1 1
Murray Shield 1 1
Murray Shield 1 1
Murray See Invisibility 2 2
Azune Guidance Cantrip Cantrip on self
Halandil Aid 2 2 on Murray, Azune, and Bolaire
Bolaire Detect Thoughts 2 2
Halandil Enhance Ability 2 2 Intelligence
Murray Message Cantrip Cantrip to Halandil
Murray Invisibility 2 2
Halandil Aid 2 2 on self, Azune, and Bolaire

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Total: 13

Character Ability/Feature/Trait Type From Notes
Azune Innate Sorcery Class Feature Sorcerer
Murray Portent: Rolled Subclass Feature Divination 7, 14
Azune Resourceful Species Feature Human Heroic Inspiration given to bolaire
Bolaire Heroic Inspiration: Used - -
Azune Resourceful Species Feature Human Heroic Inspiration given to murray
Murray Portent: Rolled Subclass Feature Divination 18, 18
Azune Lucky Ability Feat
Murray Heroic Inspiration: Used - -
Murray Portent: Used Subclass Feature Divination 18 on Int Check
Azune Lucky Ability Feat
Murray Lucky Ability Feat
Azune Heroic Inspiration: Used - -
Murray Portent: Rolled Subclass Feature Divination 6, 7; mentioned in CR Cooldown at 11:06

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PC natural 20s

Total: 2

Timestamp Character Description
04:48:49 Halandil Deception Check with advantage to convince Photarch Yanessa that he hasn’t seen Wicander or Teor
05:02:53 Bolaire Perception Check to hear the click of a crossbow string

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Total Long: 3

Total Short: 0

Timestamp Long or Short Characters
02:08:55 Long Azune, Bolaire, Halandil, Murray
02:54:07 Long Azune, Bolaire, Halandil, Murray
04:30:21 Long Azune, Bolaire, Halandil, Murray

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Total: 34

Timestamp Item Payer Recipient How obtained Notes
00:53:51 blank spell glyph Murray Orus Blade gave
01:02:15 1gp Murray Romina Rountree gave
01:02:42 1gp Romina Rountree Halandil gave
01:45:18 address of Knife and Palette Pigments Rohir Howl Murray gave
02:33:44 metamagic gem x5 Murray Penteveral sold
02:33:44 1500gp The Penteveral Murray paid
02:43:46 100gp Murray Halandil gave
02:44:01 50gp Murray Azune gave
02:52:41 bank note for 300 gold pieces Elodie D'vyen Halandil gave
02:52:41 300gp Elodie D'vyen Halandil gave in form of bank note, presumed to be converted
02:55:05 50gp Azune Varen Kadorn gave
03:04:34 Shield glyph - Murray created
03:04:34 Shield glyph - Murray created
03:04:34 Shield glyph - Murray created
03:04:34 See Invisibility glyph - Murray created
03:04:42 juror's gems x3 Murray - used timestamp from Brennan's confirmation of cost
03:04:45 viner's gems x 2 Murray - used timestamp from Brennan's confirmation of cost
03:06:52 100gp Halandil - paid paid for provisions; unclear if including the money from Elodie
03:06:58 Provisions - Halandil purchased
03:07:05 Provisions Halandil Olgud gave
03:07:43 Tachonis signet ring Azune - inserted inserted into Lady Cormoray investigation evidence
03:09:14 sandwiches Halandil players of The Hallowed Round purchased
03:11:57 See Invisibility glyph Murray Bolaire gave
03:11:59 Shield glyph Murray Azune gave
03:11:59 Shield glyph Murray Halandil gave
04:06:00 paint for halandil - Murray consumed
04:34:00 Silver fox mask of Omra the Hunter - Halandil
04:35:48 mask with red and gold Bolaire Azune gave no clear moment of Azune getting his mask; time stamp at description of masks given to security
04:38:29 half cape Halandil Azune gave
04:38:50 golden bird pin Halandil Azune gave
04:39:26 mask of Memnir, Father of the Winds Bolaire Murray gave
04:51:11 mask of Tansul Bolaire Photarch Yanessa Halovar gave
04:51:48 mask of Tansul Photarch Yanessa Halovar Bolaire returned
04:52:28 Candescent Creed mask Bolaire Photarch Yanessa Halovar gave

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Total: 12

Name First mention First appearance Race (if given) Identifier (if relevant) Description (if given)
Harving Bowsprit C4E021 King of Cards at 02:23:14 C4E024 Good Tidings at 04:40:58 Merchant hosting King Gus' retinue Merchant hosting King Gus' retinue. Knows Hal’s ex-partner Elodie. (He/him)
Toljana Skirshar C4E024 Good Tidings at 00:01:12 C4E024 Good Tidings at 00:01:41 Dwarf Former Falconer's Rebellion member, later executed Shock of red hair, big red tattoo. Executed along with others by the Revolutionary Council for sedition and treason, accepting bribes and breaking oaths, and conspiracy to kill a standing member of the Council. Collaborated with an assassins' guild notorious during the War of Axe and Vine (which vanished afterwards) called the Lana Strossa. (She/her)
Rohir Howl C4E024 Good Tidings at 01:31:01 C4E024 Good Tidings at 01:31:01 Orc Bookkeeper for Hand and Wheel Ceramics Extremely old, pot-bellied, with big tusks, white mutton chops, and white hair. Has worked at Hand and Wheel Ceramics for 58 years. (He/him)
Hollis Kinnywater C4E024 Good Tidings at 03:25:12 C4E024 Good Tidings at 03:25:47 Halfling Works for Knife and Palette Pigments Pale, anemic, sallow-looking. Last name possibly spelled "Kinneywater."
Tsul'rekshi C4E024 Good Tidings at 03:32:03 C4E027 Complicated Questions at 03:20:28 Fiend Runs Knife and Palette Pigments "Does not truck in gold, but perhaps in introductions." Wears a disguise of an old woman in fetid rags with a giant paintbrush as a cane. Is actually 12 feet tall, hunched, with spines coming from the middle of her back along her vertebrae. Her enormous head is a tiger's jaw and snout with a wasp's compound eyes and antena with ram's horns curling off the side. Her upper body has huge blood-soaked tiger's claws. She has enormous cloven hooves hoofed in iron, an enormous prehensile tail with tiger striping to it, and a pair of bat wings extending off her back. (She/her)
Gavzidra C4E024 Good Tidings at 04:18:27 A name that comes back to Bolaire as he thinks about the idea of crossing the veil. Feels like something he saw in the Selodyne Wing.
Omra the Hunter C4E024 Good Tidings at 04:33:55 God (Shaper) Awakener of Beastfolk Had multiple aspects, including one of a fox.
Memnir, Father of Winds C4E024 Good Tidings at 04:35:18 Primordial
Sir Dalbrick Orphaner C4E024 Good Tidings at 04:40:42 From Argosia. Visiting the Stahlkeep in Dol-Makjar.
Lord-Minister Gorson Brightmane C4E024 Good Tidings at 04:40:46 C4E025 Targeted at 00:43:43 Nama From Argosia. Visiting the Stahlkeep in Dol-Makjar. Wearing a sheep mask and Argosian minister's garb to the gala at the Lyceum. Has a red-gold mane.
Cyrus Anacervo C4E024 Good Tidings at 04:42:07 C4E024 Good Tidings at 04:42:07 Druid attendant of King Gus Druid of the Circle of the Stag and the Circle of Seven Tines. Mind-controlled during the gala in C4E025 Targeted to allow Gus to be poisoned. Mid-20s, has a shaved head with tattoos of a stag's antlers along the sides. (They/them)
Gatani Einfasen C4E024 Good Tidings at 04:53:42 C4E024 Good Tidings at 04:53:42 Wife of Lord Harondus Einfasen (She/her)

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Total: 1

Timestamp Whisper
04:09:19 Brennan to Marisha about Thjazi's paint

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Total: 1

Timestamp Kiss
04:44:51 Hal kisses Photarch Yanessa's hand

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The Critical Role Announcement Playhouse table. Silhouettes of Sam and Quyen have green and purple lightning surrounding them as they both hold on to an overloaded powerstrip. A white circle in Sam’s head shows a walnut where his brain should be, while in Quyen’s head it shows an actual brain. Travis looks on, aghast. On the table in front of them are four cardboard dice boxes labeled “VAX’ILDAN”, “CADUCEUS CLAY”, “JESTER LAVORRE”, and “CALEB WIDOGAST”. The Critical Role Announcement Playhouse table. Sam and Quyen have green and purple lightning surrounding them as they both hold on to an overloaded powerstrip. Their faces show a mix of pain and ecstacy. Travis looks on in confusion. On the table in front of them are four cardboard dice boxes labeled “VAX’ILDAN”, “CADUCEUS CLAY”, “JESTER LAVORRE”, and “CALEB WIDOGAST”.

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This category includes any mention of a bird by Brennan. Things named after birds (i.e. The Crow Keepers) are only counted in Bird Lore. Things associated with birds (i.e. feathers), metaphors, idioms, and catchphrases including birds (i.e. “I can still hear the falcon’s cry”), and actual birds are counted on all mentions.

Lore

Total: 1

Thing Timestamp of first mention Species (if given) Line Notes
The Magpies 00:35:13 Magpie Extended scene of the Schemers choosing a group name (confirmed as such at C4E024 Good Tidings). Uses a small symbol of a magpie to indicate membership.
Summary
Species Count
Total 10
Magpie 3
Carrier pigeon 2
Falcon 2
Unknown 2
Pigeon 1

Total: 10

Timestamp Species (if given) Line Notes
00:38:06 Magpie "As you cast Animal Messenger, this aviary filled with magpies amongst other birds, (squawking), "Tiding, tiding, tiding, tiding" all in Hal's voice surrounds you in this moment as the wind picks up."
00:38:06 - "As you cast Animal Messenger, this aviary filled with magpies amongst other birds, (squawking), "Tiding, tiding, tiding, tiding" all in Hal's voice surrounds you in this moment as the wind picks up."
00:38:29 - " And there are many more than that, birds throughout the city, ready to take wing and spread a message very quickly. Feathers flutter as you level up in this moment."
00:57:00 Carrier pigeon "'A pigeon came from Riesingürtle giving the news to Lord Harondus. I didn't want to put myself at risk, but I overheard.'"
01:39:45 Falcon "He had come in here with his animal companion [...] he had a falcon with him."
02:36:02 Magpie "On a 25, spending your day at The Hallowed Round, the magpies fluttering over the sky."
03:14:56 Magpie "You know that this effort, whatever you're calling this organization with its little magpie symbol, you are at the moment where a small handful of kindling a small handful of kindling has just started to spark and light."
03:50:37 Falcon "And he puts a thumb on his mouth and says, 'Saw the soldiers from the Brethren Hall out clearing the cliffs of falcons' nests the other day. Curiosity, that. I wonder why. Goodness knows there's enough pigeons in the city. Can't imagine the falcons were doing anyone any harm.' And he gestures towards the door."
03:50:52 Pigeon "And he puts a thumb on his mouth and says, 'Saw the soldiers from the Brethren Hall out clearing the cliffs of falcons' nests the other day. Curiosity, that. I wonder why. Goodness knows there's enough pigeons in the city. Can't imagine the falcons were doing anyone any harm.' And he gestures towards the door."
04:46:36 Carrier pigeon "'He's a very busy young lad and it's quite possible that he is off seeing to one of the many areas of his purview and simply has perhaps, I don't know, had a pigeon go awry.'"