I'm a big shiny rainbow motherfucker right now.

Taliesin Jaffe, C3E21

i’m makin’ my way through cr3 don’t know if somebody has already done that , but i think it’s preettyy funny in regards of 21ep

Various reactions to setting the opposite team on fire for a third time

That fight had me a bit scared for them

The Clay golem trying to play dodgeball with the halfling 😔 Sir put the halfling down gently he’s only a little guy

I never really write out my thoughts on characters’ actions, but man do I like reading analyses on them, and I am all over the Bells Hells ones. But the one that really has me is this last episode, the is triggering the trap three times an evil action, a justifiable action, or a player getting swept up by the enthusiasm of other players? Honestly, I saw it as a bit justified and a bit getting swept up by other players. Bells Hells just survived a hard battle that they weren’t sure they were gonna win. 

Those golems straight up destroyed them. I love Laudna, but my girl crumpled faster than toilet paper getting wet, not that it was hard when the golems get multiple attacks at 20+ damage. Imogen almost went down, except FCG took half her damage and kept her up. Ashton I’m pretty sure was getting low, and Chetney was close to his threshold where he would have had to roll to see if he attacks his own teammates. And judging from what they said later in the episode, I think they were also pretty much out of spells, which means for half the team they’re shit outta luck. 

Plus we’ve seen how creative they get trying to protect the ones who need it most especially in this ep. FCG isn’t very mobile with his one wheel? That’s okay, Chetney will just carry him. I think Fearne has carried him in the past too (or at least attempted to). Laudna low on health? Imogen uses telekinesis to pull just a little farther to help her cover more distance, or Fearne/Mister uses the fiery version of Misty Step to move Laudna of out melee range on the golems.

I think Imogen triggering the trap twice is pretty on point for her character wise. We’ve seen she can get a bit ruthless, especially when protecting those she really cares about. I think it’s mostly shown as her protecting Laudna, because of their 2 years of traveling together, but she’s accepting the Bells Hells into that circle. This is the only way she can protect them currently, triggering that trap. And they had no way of knowing what was on the other side of that door, combat wise. No indication of how many voices, or what they were capable of. That’s dangerous for them. The team on the other side could have been just as depleted as Bells Hells or they could have used almost none of their abilities. No way would they survive an encounter with a fresh team. This is necessary, they NEED to make sure that team on the other side of the door does not come in. 

I do think the third time triggering the trap was definitely more them getting overexcited but I could be wrong. Pretty much everyone laughing at the other team getting destroyed by the fire trap, even Orym (who is the most level headed, morally upright character of the bunch). I think this was more them as players being “holy shit, I can’t believe our plan worked” and “holy shit, this is working better than we thought”. You can see the clear hesitation on Laura’s part about triggering a third time. But the table is clearly excited that it worked and that it’s working more than once. She has to make the decision to do it again or to risk her team getting hurt further. That being said, these guys are like 5 steps ahead with their characters, and every choice is carefully made, so I won’t be surprised if that was intentionally chosen to lay a breadcrumb about some part of Imogen’s back story. 

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Taliesin Jaffe, C3E21

Whom’st??? Sir who are you?

✨Big Shiny Rainbow Motherfucker✨ -Taliesin Jaffe

My favourite part of critical role is the side quests to embarrass a respected female figure’s rival and the group taking it as the main objective

We thought that Evon was just an eccentric bitch(affectionate) but he’s eccentric bitch(derogatory) I would curb stomp this man

I agree with Ashton that the group needs to chill for a bit but the timer on the challenge is very scary

Ashton trying to rob Evon for trying to harm their “not friends” is golden love that for them :D

100% with how well prepared the other team is they would check the bodies for the earring

The mini’s are being broken while the party is at their breaking point ✨IT’S SYMBOLISM ✨

ITS THURSDAY NIGHT!!! So excited for this episode tonight, like y’all I’m so worried about our boy Chetney. Mans tried to attack Orym and possibly turn him. But with all the shenanigans of the Hellions they are doing very well. Like against well trained professional buglers they are doing really well. I was thinking that if any of the Hellions had dimension door they could grab the earring and just teleport up closer to Evon but after checking the wiki we don’t know if anyone has dimension door. I’m pumped for they to fight some little stone golems but with everyone’s spells and hit points I’m also incredibly worried.

Anyway here are the tags for the liveblog tonight :)

#critical role #cr c3 #cr spoilers 

#campaign three #bell’s hells #cr3 spoilers #cr3 e21