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C4E027 Complicated Questions

C4E026 Council of Heroes
C4E028 Chasing Shadows

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Thumbnail for Critical Role IV episode 27, with a gold emblem around the episode number. A split image having the effect of cracked plaster, with photos of Ashley, Luis, and Travis from left to right. The photos have had their backgrounds cut out, and behind them from left to right is artwork of a green-tinted stone bearded face, the red-tinted skyline of Dol-Makjar, and a blue-tinted misty city from a distance. Ashley looks to her left, stern worry on her face. Luis looks forward, his eyes welling with tears. Travis smiles goofily, trying to restrain his grin.

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Runtime

4h 47m 45s

Cold Open End 0:13:57

Episode Start 0:20:52

Break Start 1:44:39

Break End 1:55:13

New Level 5s

Running Bird Count

159

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The Old Laws

Questions with Tsul’rekshi

  1. “Young Lord Wicander. Halovar, priestly house of Tansul, Shaper of the Sun. In the absence of a Shaper, how did your family retain their sorcerous abilities?”—Tsul’rekshi
  2. “What’s up with the paint?”—Tyranny
  3. Extra non-question in exchange for previous question having an ellipsis: testing Wick’s blood—Tsul’rekshi
  4. “The paint that currently coats the theater, the one that was given to me, in theory, and brought there, what is its intended purpose and what is its composure? What is it? And what is it made manifest for?”—Bolaire
  5. “From where if you are indeed aasimar and the blood of angels flows in your veins, then yes, your sorcerous ability is obvious. There are some many thousands upon thousands of luxes of the Candescent Creed. I’ve seen them cast spells. Even an angel doesn’t have that much blood. Where are they getting their power from? Where do the luxes of the Candescent Creed draw their strength from? How are they gifted?”—Tsul’rekshi
  6. “How was your client so capable in obtaining a artifact such as this? Also to know that you had the ability to rend it as you did.”—Bolaire
  7. “...what’s, you know, the birds that hide their eggs in other birds’ nests?”—Tsul’rekshi
  8. “What did you detect in my blood? What sort of ancestor, what type of blood?... Is there a type of.... Be this aasimar blood, celestial, demonic, fiendish?”—Wicander
  9. “Where is this angel you are bleeding dry?”—Tsul’rekshi
  10. “Wait, what, for real? He’s here in Dol-Makjar?”—Tsul’rekshi
  11. “What would occur should the river of Gavzidra come in contact with the fabric of the Old Path?”—Julien
  12. “I said: Sister of the Pit, my lot is to protect the angel that is next to me. Do you have anything for me, as I walk a very dangerous road that is going to be caught between my nature and my lot in life.”—Tyranny

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HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing:

Created by Flando Maltrizian, Master of Time(stamps)
Timestamp Description
0:02:30 The Photarch is still taking meetings
0:05:25 Why would you wash wigs?
0:06:35 Nobody cares about the death of an improv troupe
0:10:20 No fairy doors (House Halovar hates religious symbols)
0:13:05 Thaisha is back
0:13:55 Critical Role Announcement Playhouse
0:14:45 Audio description
0:19:30 Intro cinematic
0:20:50 EPISODE STARTS (packed table)
0:21:50 No recap
0:25:45 Thimble sees dead Occtis
0:27:00 Occtis didn’t write his paper (Wick and Tyranny’s fashion montage)
0:31:45 I am Teor (This is the start of a very chaotic catch-up)
0:43:50 Wick is a nonce and a ninny
0:47:15 Song of Nightstone
0:49:05 Sam’s goblet (Mara)
0:50:55 Vaelus meets Tyranny and Wick
0:52:20 Sharing letters (Song of Songsong)
1:00:15 Occtis gives Azune whatever, no questions asked
1:02:35 What do we do now?
1:05:40 How good was Thjazi?
1:11:05 Kattigan needs enrichment in his enclosure
1:17:55 Brennan guides them away from suspecting Thjazi
1:22:15 Kibbidinkedaz (and nat 20 on the gems)
1:25:00 WTF, Murray is level 5
1:26:10 Gems are stones
1:30:10 Tyranny stands up for Wick
1:35:00 Splitting into groups
1:38:55 Julien passes on the message to Thimble
1:39:55 Dr. Halter Top
1:40:55 Just guys being bros
1:42:40 Vaelus has what she came for (we’re recording this)
1:44:40 BREAK STARTS
1:55:10 BREAK ENDS
1:57:10 Wick has had a hard time
1:59:30 Occtis and Teor
2:02:35 Murray levels up
2:04:35 Azune and the legal team
2:07:35 Clench your balls (Azune crashes out)
2:13:55 Azune scores ice cream
2:16:40 Nobody knows Azune
2:25:10 The Photarch Team
2:30:00 Thaisha dunks on Cruelty yet again
2:33:20 Pet friendly church
2:36:25 There’s a snake in my pants
2:40:50 The Photarch cold reads Kattigan
2:43:25 Framing Teor
2:47:35 Kattigan blows it immediately
2:50:40 Thaisha rats out Enmity (please… be cool)
2:53:10 The Photarch gives notes on the play
2:56:30 Well now they can’t delay the play
3:02:30 Kattigan is hunted
3:04:35 Thaisha’s familiar goes for the basement (Hal has artistic integrity)
3:06:05 Fiend team
3:10:20 There are so many fiends here
3:12:30 Hollis was here the whole time
3:15:50 Your whole operation needs to be tightened up
3:17:15 The Knife and Pigment
3:20:40 Tsul’rekshi
3:25:10 A token of favor
3:28:30 OMG Tsul, you can’t just ask people if they were conscious in the pit (bods that rock)
3:30:00 Tyranny has a fan
3:32:50 Teor serves the light
3:34:55 A legitimate business
3:41:20 Tsul really didn’t know how the Halovars worked
3:45:50 Wick is an aasimar
3:46:50 New rules with the dot-dot-dot
3:48:00 The truth of the paint
3:54:00 Where do the Luxes get their spells
3:56:50 The Cloak
3:59:35 Wick outplayed the demon
4:05:15 Tyranny’s question
4:08:20 Tyranny is level 5
4:10:55 The beam comes inside
4:12:00 King team
4:15:40 Thimble hits it off with Gus
4:16:40 Occtis gets called out immediately (but then gets retconned)
4:22:00 Do you believe in destiny
4:23:50 Thimble laughs at ‘seed’
4:25:50 He’s so hot
4:28:10 Turns out, they make you a king when you win a revolution
4:34:35 Splitting the letter
4:35:50 A seed
4:42:00 Murray drops a big portent
4:47:15 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
4h 47m 45s 4h 29m 25s 1h 37m 44s 2h 51m 41s 10m 34s 0:00:00 0:13:57 0:20:52 1:44:39 1:55:13 4:46:54

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Main cast attendance

Aabria Iyengar, Alexander Ward, Ashley Johnson, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Laura Bailey, Liam O’Brien, Luis Carazo, Marisha Ray, Matthew Mercer, Robbie Daymond, Sam Riegel, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham, and Whitney Moore.

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Week 2

Episodes in week: C4E027.

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
33rd Trozemere
12
Trader’s Day / Marchandiere
34th Trozemere
World
Soldiers
  • Wicander and Tyranny borrow costumes from the Hallowed Round for disguises [ep. 27]
  • Convene with other groups at Halandil’s home and compare notes [ep. 27]
  • Determine how to divide and conquer with the other groups between three major action items for the day: speaking with Hollis Kinnywater's "Mistress", King Augustus Valian, and Photarch Yanessa Halovar [ep. 27]
  • Kattigan earns the suspicions of Photarch Yanessa Halovar while speaking of Wicander’s disappearance [ep. 27]
  • Tsul'rekshi, mistress of Hollis Kinnywater, reveals to Wicander that he is an aasimar descended from Aetheon [ep. 27]
  • Tsul'rekshi identifies Jasavi's Knife for Tyranny and says its purpose is to punish those who have harmed those who love them [ep. 27]
  • Upon hearing of House Royce's fall, King Augustus Valian grants a seed for a cherry tree that connects to the Miller's Road to Thimble in exchange for half the letter from Petra and Ryah Tachonis speaking of his planned assassination [ep. 27]
Seekers
  • Convene with other groups at Halandil’s home and compare notes [ep. 27]
  • Determine how to divide and conquer with the other groups between three major action items for the day: speaking with Hollis Kinnywater's "Mistress", King Augustus Valian, and Photarch Yanessa Halovar [ep. 27]
  • Thaisha leaves Hala in snake form within the Villa Aurora for reconnaissance [ep. 27]
Schemers
  • Murray and Bolaire pick up the coffin of Olbalad from the Hallowed Round and learn the non-broken Pariah Blades are being used for advertising KoTher'ai [ep. 27]
  • Convene with other groups at Halandil’s home and compare notes [ep. 27]
  • Determine how to divide and conquer with the other groups between three major action items for the day: speaking with Hollis Kinnywater's "Mistress", King Augustus Valian, and Photarch Yanessa Halovar [ep. 27]
  • Azune breaks down over the upcoming meeting with House Einfasen and convinces Murray to allow Demodus Blix to attend on the condition that she is also present [ep. 27]
  • Photarch Yanessa Halovar confides in Halandil that she believes Wicander was kidnapped by Teor [ep. 27]
  • Halandil is instructed by Photarch Yanessa Halovar to make changes to KoTher'ai to make it more "illuminating" [ep. 27]
  • Bolaire receives a token of favor from Tsul'rekshi, mistress of Hollis Kinnywater, for bringing Wicander to her workshop [ep. 27]
  • Tsul'rekshi tells Bolaire the origins of the theater paints: they were transmuted from an ever-flowing font (chalice) of the blood of the River Gavzidra, the blood of Azgra [ep. 27]
  • Tsul'rekshi tells Bolaire of an order called the Cloak, a shadow organization that closesly watches Sundered Houses activity, and that two of its members, Thjazi Fang and Mara the Wing, were the ones who acquired and delivered the chalice [ep. 27]
  • Azune shares with King Augustus Valian information about the assassins' guild Lana Strossa and information from the letter from Petra and Ryah Tachonis speaking of his planned assassination [ep. 27]
  • Murray sways reality to help Azune convince King Augustus Valian to grant them aid and sanctuary during and after the anticipated conflict with the Sundered Houses [ep. 27]

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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
Teor 0
Thimble 0
Kattigan 0
Tyranny 0
Wicander 0
Julien 0
Thaisha 0
Occtis 0
Vaelus 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
Teor 0
Thimble 0
Kattigan 0
Tyranny 0
Wicander 0
Julien 0
Thaisha 0
Occtis 0
Vaelus 0
Halandil 0
Murray 0
Azune 0
Bolaire 0

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Total: 0

Character Healing performed
Teor 0
Thimble 0
Kattigan 0
Tyranny 0
Wicander 0
Julien 0
Thaisha 0
Occtis 0
Vaelus 0
Halandil 0
Murray 0
Azune 0
Bolaire 0

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Totals
Spells Leveled Spells Only Spell Levels
8 3 5
Character Spell Base level Cast at Notes
Thaisha Guidance Cantrip Cantrip on Murray
Wicander Aid 2 2 on Halandil, Thaisha, and Kattigan
Thaisha Guidance Cantrip Cantrip on Wicander
Thaisha Find Familiar 1 - via Wild Companion
Halandil Enhance Ability 2 2 on self, Charisma
Halandil Minor Illusion Cantrip Cantrip
Vaelus Guidance Cantrip Cantrip on Murray
Azune Guidance Cantrip Cantrip on self

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Total: 4

Character Ability/Feature/Trait Type From Notes
Thaisha Wild Shape Class Feature Druid Wild Companion
Teor Channel Divinity: Divine Sense Class Feature Paladin
Murray Portent: Used Subclass Feature Divination Changed Azune’s persuasion to 19
Azune Lucky Ability Feat

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PC natural 20s

Total: 4

Timestamp Character Description
0:03:23 Wicander Stealth Check to hide his identity from Olgud
0:31:28 Julien Perception Check to notice Callowyn Royce’s bracers on Teor
1:23:30 Murray Arcana Check with advantage on the gems used at the Palazzo Davinos
3:02:34 Kattigan Insight Check on Photarch Yanessa’s intentions for him

PC natural 1s

Total: 1

Timestamp Character Description
2:48:07 Kattigan Deception Check on Photarch Yanessa regarding Wicander’s betrayal

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Total: 26

Timestamp Item Payer Recipient How obtained Notes
0:06:13 sopping wet blonde wig Olgud Wicander gave
0:06:53 Obalad's coffin The Hallowed Round party retrieved
0:07:07 sundry costume items The Hallowed Round Tyranny took
0:07:57 damaged Pariah blades The Hallowed Round Bolaire retrieved
0:30:02 Obalad's coffin party - set down
0:35:22 thimbleful of Yahrgraz Halandil Thimble gave
1:00:17 Tachonis correspondence Occtis Azune gave
1:08:29 Tachonis correspondence Azune Occtis took
1:22:18 Kibbenimkedaz Occtis Murray gave
1:22:52 gemstones Occtis - laid out
1:22:52 books, papers Occtis - laid out
1:22:52 Tachonis journal Occtis - laid out
1:22:52 schematics of Tannesar Occtis - laid out
1:22:52 Seremai correspondence Occtis - laid out
1:22:52 Tachonis journal Occtis - laid out
2:00:14 petrification antivenom potion x 2 Occtis Teor gave
2:00:55 Seremai sword Teor Occtis gave
2:20:40 Tachonis correspondence Occtis Azune gave
2:21:41 blank glyph Murray Azune gave
2:21:41 metamagic gems, unknown type and number Murray Azune gave
2:40:02 Candle Feast cookie Halovar servants Thaisha gave
2:56:08 edited script Yanessa Halovar Halandil gave
3:25:18 token of Tsul’rekshi's favor Tsul’rekshi Bolaire gifted
4:34:59 half of Tachonis correspondence Azune King Augustus Valian gave
4:36:17 cherry seed from the Miller's Road King Augutus Valian Thimble gifted
4:36:22 cherry seed from the Miller's Road Thimble Occtis gave

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Total: 3

Name First mention First appearance Race (if given) Identifier (if relevant) Description (if given)
Tsul'rekshi C4E024 Good Tidings at 3:32:03 C4E027 Complicated Questions at 3:20:28 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)
Araq C4E027 Complicated Questions at 3:18:28 C4E027 Complicated Questions at 3:18:28 Fiend Disguised as a humanoid with her arms caked with vibrant different rainbow colors. Her teeth are all pointed. Out of glamour, she's a withered skeletal hunched simian demon covered in over 1,000 indigo spines that come into a darker shade and then into a lighter purple around her face. She has nine tails that end in barbed spiny lashes. (She/her)
King Gus's deceased partner C4E027 Complicated Questions at 4:45:28 C4E027 Complicated Questions at 4:45:28 King Gus's deceased partner Was lost in the war for independence. Told Gus that "to realize this hope is your destiny." (He/him)

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Total: 1

Timestamp Whisper
1:34:45 Taliesin to Ashley about letting Bolaire examine the Stone of Nightsong

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Proverbs, Hymns, Quotables

Total: 2

Proverb, Hymn, or Other Phrase First Appearance First Said By
May the Light protect you and surround you. C4E027 at 1:56:48 Wicander
I wish you a blessed and luminous day. C4E027 at 2:32:47 Filoneus Halovar

Other Beliefs

Total: 3

Belief First Mention First Mentioned By
"The purpose of the Light is not to cast judgment upon those who stray or err. The miracle of our aspirants is proof that even those who are born from the Pit itself know the touch of the Light." C4E027 at 2:41:50 Photarch Yanessa Halovar
"This is a lie to which I will have to beg the Light for forgiveness, as we all can." C4E027 at 2:43:55 Photarch Yanessa Halovar
"Of course, if I had my way, Mr. Fang, there would be no punishment in death. There would be only reverence and acceptance in Light." C4E027 at 2:46:02 Photarch Yanessa Halovar

Other Vocabulary

Total: 1

Word or Phrase Quote First Appearance First Used By
Rescendancy "I believe it was your gala last night that received the miracle of rescendancy." C4E027 at 2:32:52 Filoneus Halovar

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Sam drinking from a large ornate silver chalice with the text “FART ANGEL” printed on white paper pasted to the bottom. The text is in a block font. The chalice has spokes emerging from the curve of its cup reminiscent of Candescent Creed sun ray designs. A turquoise gem is set in the side, matching the gem in Wicander’s circlet. Sam tips the chalice horizontally into his mouth. His eye peeks out from behind the cup, looking forward.

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Sam standing behind the table, wearing a gray T-shirt with an image of a young Whitney on the front. She has blond hair, no visible piercings, and is wearing a pink tank top. The picture appears to have been taken in front of a storefront. Sam smiles, flattening out the shirt for better visibility.

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Liam and Sam at the Critical Role Announcement Playhouse table. Liam holds Sam possessively, his right arm wrapping around near his waist and his left hand on his shoulder. He looks directly into the camera with a creepy expression on his face. Sam looks extremely uncomfortable but seems unwilling to move from his position.

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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.

Summary
Species Count
Total 9
Unknown 3
Falcon 2
Cuckoo 1
Magpie 1
Owl 1
Red-tailed hawk 1

Total: 9

Timestamp Species (if given) Line Notes
0:21:56 Magpie "Magpies take to the sky."
0:22:11 - "Approaching this place, birds take flight, gray clouds rumble ominously in the distance and Hal approaches along with Thaisha, Occtis, Vaelus, and Sir Julien Davinos."
0:46:40 Falcon "You saw Thjazi's favorite street food and a falcon's feather by a well of blood, and that was not celestial blood."
0:51:47 Falcon "'Falcon's Rest. The day you told me to light the fire, they had cleared all the falcon's nests off of Falcon's Rest.'"
1:42:33 Red-tailed hawk "You have a little sprig of holly by your side. You look out, see distantly over the Tintazi Wood, that red-tailed hawk in the distance that you know to be a Hannan circling, searching for something on the distance."
3:33:20 Owl "You see that her head turns, owl-like, and fully rotates and you don't hear any bones breaking at all."
3:45:00 - "And a pentagram turns into a beautiful tree of interconnected runes, feathered wings spreading from it."
3:58:13 Cuckoo "'And that they are something of a, what's, you know, the birds that hide their eggs in other birds' nests?'"
3:58:20 - "'Sorry, I'm on this bird thing recently.'"