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C4E032 Road of Dreams

C4E031 Trick of the Light
C4E033 Off-Balance

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Thumbnail for Critical Role IV episode 32, with a gold emblem around the episode number and compass arrows in the bottom corners. A split image having the effect of cracked plaster, with photos of Laura, Taliesin, and Matt from left to right. Laura smiles hopefully, leaning forward. Taliesin looks perturbed, looking down over his glasses in thought. Matt is thinking calmly, his chin resting on his hand.

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Runtime

3h 52m 13s

Cold Open End 0:02:20

Episode Start 0:10:46

Break Start 2:14:34

Break End 2:24:37

Still a Longer Combat than Sir Gully Breeches

Matriarch Kyra

5m 55s

Bolaire Body Events per Episode

“I’m groggily feeling around in my pants for Bolaire.”

EpisodeNumber of Events
C4E032 Road of Dreams9
C4E031 Trick of the Light5
C4E029 Opening Night3
C4E004 Stone-Faced2
C4E022 The Point of No Return2
C4E030 Here in the Dark2
C4E028 Chasing Shadows1

Running Bird Count

202

* See our note on how we count this

Wis Kids

All permanent wisdom bumps.

Julien

8 → 10

Kattigan

15 → 17

Vaelus

17 → 19

Thimble

17 → 19

Occtis

10 → 12

Bolaire

14 → 16

Spring Charm Mechanics

“While wearing this amulet, you can take a magic action to regain 2d4 plus two hit points. Once used, this property can’t be used again until the next dawn. In addition, you have advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the poisoned condition while you wear this amulet.” [0:41:21]

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HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing:

Created by Flando Maltrizian, Master of Time(stamps)
Timestamp Description
0:02:20 Critical Role Announcement Playhouse
0:02:40 Frat Sam and Travis
0:04:35 Blood fountain (Travis lifts Sam so easily)
0:09:25 Intro cinematic
0:10:45 EPISODE STARTS (Kattigan’s cottage)
0:14:00 Kattigan and his family
0:18:10 Good morning, Primus
0:19:50 Wolves nearby
0:26:05 Julien hates his shadow
0:28:25 Whimsical fairy sound effect
0:29:35 Thimble’s dream
0:40:05 Vaelus is eepy
0:41:40 Vaelus’s dream
0:43:10 Accidentally closed DnD Beyond, all is lost
0:44:10 The Scarecrow
0:47:55 Vaelus’s magic is gone
0:50:45 Maybe people aren’t like their souls
0:52:30 Vaelus’s sister
0:54:00 This game sucks
0:54:50 Julien’s dream
1:02:30 Julien sees everyone else’s dreams
1:03:50 Bolaire’s Theater/Dream
1:08:00 Julien enters Kattigan’s dream
1:13:30 Primus’
1:15:30 The really need some help with wisdom
1:16:35 Dame Seremai is mad
1:21:30 Calling for Occtis
1:23:20 Occtis’s dream
1:24:30 Occtis and Gaya
1:32:25 If you’re here, you’re fairy
1:36:00 Occtis’s soul is destroyed
1:37:15 Everyone back together
1:39:25 Thimble’s Dad
1:47:20 Vaelus’s boss calls her
1:52:40 Vaelus is rejected by her order
1:55:50 The Mother Superior know how to do torture
1:57:45 Jumping the Mother Superior
2:02:00 Grabbing the ring and getting wise (into the theater)
2:03:25 The Theater
2:07:15 No strings on me
2:12:15 Offering Bolaire a way out
2:14:35 BREAK STARTS
2:24:35 BREAK ENDS
2:28:10 Check your pants for Bolaire
2:29:10 Who knows about Bolaire again?
2:32:50 Bolaire doesn’t need a god to not kill people
2:37:00 Thimble enters the Miller’s Road
2:39:00 A weird road
2:52:00 An ambush for the Tachonis (what is my sister’s name?)
2:55:25 Bolaire the fox
2:58:25 Getting an excuse to visit Ulbid
3:00:45 Ulbid’s alarm (The Black Rabbits)
3:04:00 Rabbit vs. Pin
3:06:20 Weird people to introduce (Justin Julien)
3:11:10 Justin’s got jokes
3:13:35 Stay a while
3:17:55 Scanning the road
3:26:15 Argosia lore
3:36:00 Telling Ulbid about his daughters
3:37:55 Trying to persuade Ulbid to not come along
3:40:50 Bolairing Ulbid
3:43:55 Bolaire and Ulbid
3:51:40 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
3h 52m 13s 3h 32m 45s 2h 6m 8s 1h 26m 37s 10m 3s 0:00:00 0:02:20 0:10:46 2:14:34 2:24:37 3:51:14

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Encounter Total length Start time End time Rounds In game time Notes
Sister Matriarch Kyra 5m 55s 1:56:55 2:02:50 1 6s Ends when the party falls throught he ring

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Main cast attendance

Alexander Ward, Ashley Johnson, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Laura Bailey, Matthew Mercer, Robbie Daymond, and Taliesin Jaffe.

Absent

Aabria Iyengar, Liam O’Brien, Luis Carazo, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, Travis Willingham, and Whitney Moore.

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Week 3

Episodes in week: C4E032.

13
Priest’s Day / Solaire
35th Trozemere
14
Weaver’s Day / Luniere
36th Trozemere
15
Hunter’s Day / Chassaire
37th Trozemere
16
Victor’s Day / Victoire
38th Trozemere
17
Smith’s Day / Forgiere
39th Trozemere
18
Farmer’s Day / Viére
40th Trozemere
19
Trader’s Day / Marchandiere
41st Trozemere
World
Soldiers
Seekers
  • Group has shared "dream" experience where: Kattigan is tormented by visions of his lost family and Primus Tachonis, Julien bears the weight of Thjazi Fang, Thimble and Occtis interact with Dame Gaya Seremai before Thimble meets the Miller's Road archfey, Vaelus defies Sister Matriarch Kyra about Sylandri, and Bolaire grapples with his story [ep. 32]
  • Bolaire acquires a new body, Kattigan [ep. 32]
  • Enter the Miller's Road and depart Dol-Makjar [ep. 32]
  • Reunite with Ulbid Morn and seek his assitance to locate the caravans of King Augustus Valian and House Tachonis on the King's Highway [ep. 32]
  • Ulbid Morn spots discarded heraldry of Argosia at the edge of Timmony and Bolaire connects them to the assassination attempt at the Convivium Haereticorum gala [ep. 32]
  • Thimble tells Ulbid Morn about his petrified daughters [ep. 32]
  • Bolaire acquires a new body, Ulbid Morn [ep. 32]
  • Group gains the aide of Ulbid Morn and the Black Rabbits for their new mission to sabotage the road ahead of the House Tachonis caravan and rescue the petrified Morn sisters [ep. 32]
Schemers

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Total: 9

Timestamp Event Body Notes
2:30:18 Put onto Kattigan
2:34:51 Removed from Kattigan Body condition: unharmed.
2:49:53 Put onto Kattigan
2:55:54 Removed from Kattigan Body condition: unharmed.
2:56:02 Put onto Pincushion Does not work.
2:56:12 Removed from Pincushion Body condition: unharmed.
2:56:13 Put onto Kattigan
3:40:55 Removed from Kattigan Body condition: unharmed.
3:40:56 Put onto Ulbid Morn

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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: 47

Character Damage dealt
Thimble 0
Kattigan 0
Julien 13
Occtis 8
Vaelus 26
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
Kattigan 0
Julien 0
Occtis 0
Vaelus 0
Bolaire 0

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Total: 0

Character Healing performed
Thimble 0
Kattigan 0
Julien 0
Occtis 0
Vaelus 0
Bolaire 0

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Totals
Spells Leveled Spells Only Spell Levels
5 2 3
Character Spell Base level Cast at Notes
Occtis Find Familiar 1 - Ritual cast
Vaelus Guidance Cantrip Cantrip Did not work
Occtis Shadow Blade 2 2
Thimble Druidcraft Cantrip Cantrip
Occtis Mending Cantrip Cantrip

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Total: 7

Character Ability/Feature/Trait Type From Notes
Julien Tactical Mind Class Feature Fighter
Occtis Ritual Adept Class Feature Wizard Marked at the start of the ritual
Vaelus Vow of Enmity Subclass Feature Oath of Vengeance Did not work
Bolaire Eldritch Invocation: Pact of the Blade Class Feature Warlock
Julien Resourceful Species Feature Human
Julien Heroic Inspiration: Used - -
Julien Tactical Mind Class Feature Fighter

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PC natural 20s

Total: 2

Timestamp Character Description
1:13:21 Kattigan Perception Check on Primus’ Tavern
3:26:18 Bolaire History Check on Argosia

PC natural 1s

Total: 1

Timestamp Character Description
0:34:40 Thimble Investigation Check to find Occtis in the dream

DM natural 20s

Total: 1

Timestamp Character Description
1:35:36 Nightingale Faerie Investigation Check on the whereabouts of Occtis’s soul

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Total Long: 1

Total Short: 0

Timestamp Long or Short Characters
2:25:12 Long Bolaire, Julien, Kattigan, Occtis, Thimble, Vaelus

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Total: 20

Timestamp Item Payer Recipient How obtained Notes
0:37:03 incense Occtis - used
0:55:19 dream tooth rapier - Julien recieved
0:58:50 dream tooth rapier Julien - threw
1:00:30 dream Thjazi corpse - Julien picked up
1:58:43 Shadow Blade - Occtis created Would not normally track this as it is a spell, but as Vaelus picks up and uses it later, making a one time exception
2:02:16 ring of the Arden tree Sister Matriarch Kyra Thimble stole unclear whether the ring stays with Thimble after expanding and becoming a portal
2:07:26 Shadow Blade Occtis - dropped
2:07:32 Shadow Blade - Vaelus retrieved
2:08:28 dream Thjazi corpse Julien - dropped
2:10:26 Shadow Blade Vaelus - dropped
2:12:52 Shadow Blade - - dissipates
2:29:40 Bolaire (inert) Kattigan - donned
2:34:53 Bolaire (inert) - Kattigan removed
2:49:52 Bolaire (inert) Kattigan - donned
2:55:54 Bolaire (inert) Kattigan Occtis removed
2:56:03 Bolaire (inert) Occtis Pincushion placed on
2:56:13 Bolaire (inert) Occtis Kattigan placed on
3:40:55 Bolaire (inert) Kattigan Ulbid Morn placed on
3:47:22 Rulius' clothing Kattigan Bolaire gave
3:47:22 Ruilius' magic ring Kattigan Bolaire gave

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Total: 10

Name First mention First appearance Race (if given) Identifier (if relevant) Description (if given)
Richard C4E032 Road of Dreams at 0:14:30 Kattigan’s former neighbor Kattigan’s neighbor in a flashback-dream. Unclear whether he was definitively a real person.
Eric C4E032 Road of Dreams at 0:17:18 Possibly Richard's new partner. Told Esmé about cities ("places where they have houses on top of each other").
Root fairies C4E032 Road of Dreams at 0:27:39 C4E032 Road of Dreams at 0:27:39 Fae A couple of them arrive at the fairy cavern at the same time as Temelow. Look like weird little fungal dandelions, naked with spindly root legs and twig bodies and big puffs of soot-colored beards. Wear little conical brown and orange and red caps, carry little pickaxes.
Dream Scarecrow (Hannan?) C4E032 Road of Dreams at 0:43:53 C4E032 Road of Dreams at 0:43:53 A scarecrow made of garbage and ratty old feathers, with the garbage (refuse from the bottom of Lake Nahami) in the middle of a massive wooden ribcage. Has Hannan's bloody helm in chest. May not be Hannan "yet." Appears to Vaelus.
Dream Hare C4E032 Road of Dreams at 0:57:17 C4E032 Road of Dreams at 0:57:17 Tall-eared, long-legged, has fairy-sized crossbow bolts in each eye bleeding down into its face. Appears to Julien.
Dream Cat Person C4E032 Road of Dreams at 1:07:29 C4E032 Road of Dreams at 1:07:29 Beastfolk Wears a black silk suit. A reference to the flip book Demodus made for Bolaire, first seen at C4E031 6:13:06.
Dream Beastfolk C4E032 Road of Dreams at 1:10:54 C4E032 Road of Dreams at 1:10:54 Beastfolk (sort of) Not true beastfolk. Have human hands and wolf heads. In a dream tavern, appearing to Kattigan and Julien.
Nightingale fairy C4E032 Road of Dreams at 1:33:51 C4E032 Road of Dreams at 1:33:51 Fae Fairy of death Birdlike, one of many such fairies flying around near the crystal in the fairy cavern. Talks to Occtis and Thimble in the dream.
The Miller C4E032 Road of Dreams at 1:39:04 C4E032 Road of Dreams at 1:39:22 Archfae An Archfae of Hearth. An enormous figure with a thick, red beard and two sprouts of red hair coming off each side of his head like horns, bald in the middle. Massive muscles, long elven ears, tattoos of knot work along his cheeks and arms. Has white flour around his hands. Wears a deep apron of rich green.
Sister Matriarch Kyra C4E032 Road of Dreams at 1:47:19 C4E032 Road of Dreams at 1:47:19 Elf Sister Matriarch of the Sisters of Sylandri Wears an elaborated form of Vaelus’s habit. Carries a fine chain that arrays into a hanging cluster of censers. Has unnaturally paper-white skin and luminously white eyelashes. Has slightly bloodshot eyes with intense, deep black sclera and pupils. Has long shimmering blonde hair. Is 3,000 years old.

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Total: 4

Timestamp Kiss
0:15:15 Kattigan kisses Dream-Marienna
0:15:17 Marienna gives Kattigan a kiss back
1:34:27 A little nightingale fairy kisses Occtis on the cheek
1:44:47 The Miller holds Thimble close and kisses her on the cheek

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Travis, Laura, and Sam at the Critical Role Announcement Playhouse table. Travis and Sam are dressed as frat bros with striped red, white, and blue polo shirts and wrap-around sunglasses. They are both loudly shouting, Travis gesturing forward and Sam making “rock on” shapes with his hands. Laura sits between them, looking bored and uncomfortable. She is wearing a T-shirt with art of a yellow shaggy dog on the front and the text “BURN IT ALL”. Travis holding Sam upside-down over a bubbling fountain of blood, in a position similar to a keg stand. They are both dressed as frat bros with striped red, white, and blue polo shirts and wrap-around sunglasses. Sam holds a gold chalice over the blood, while another sits on the rim of the stone fountain. Designs of a sun, a moon, and a hand in a benediction gesture are on the sides of the fountain. In the background are red stone walls and church windows with orange, apocalyptic light streaming in. Sam standing next to a bubbling fountain of blood in front of a green screen. He is dressed as a frat bro with a striped red, white, and blue polo shirt and wrap-around sunglasses. Two gold chalices sit on the rim of the stone fountain. Designs of a sun, a moon, and a hand in a benediction gesture are on the sides of the fountain. Sam smiles at the fountain and shrugs.

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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
Bird monster 3
Nightingale 2
Cardinal 1
Chickadee 1
Jay 1
Wren 1

Total: 9

Timestamp Species (if given) Line Notes
0:13:08 Wren "Noise of songbirds nearby, some wrens and chickadees." In addition to "songbirds," a bird feeder and bird song are both mentioned between 0:13:05 and 0:13:23. Since multiple species of songbirds are also listed, these have not been counted as independent mentions.
0:13:08 Chickadee "Noise of songbirds nearby, some wrens and chickadees."
0:13:11 Jay "Couple of jays."
0:13:11 Cardinal "You see there's a little red cardinal that alights on a pine cone..."
0:43:43 Nightingale "You hear some nightingales that are warbling and singing nearby as though there's some big predator near..."
0:45:49 Bird monster "You pull this head out that is a bloody skull that has chunks of a helm that you recognize as Hannan's bird helm." Has wings made of garbage.
1:33:34 Nightingale "...you can see all these little spirits that you see are these nightingale shapes..."
1:47:54 Bird monster "Kattigan, you look up ahead and can see this shattered bird helm right behind Vaelus up ahead, and you see the bird helm is just floating on the water behind her."
2:04:35 Bird monster "You see that now the full bird monster Hannan appears in this moment."