I'm going to send a message to...2! Campaign Three Edition
On this, the eve of the Apogee Solstice and the 8 year anniversary, I am here to share a few stats projects I've been working on over the course of the campaign! This is the first of them, but I shall be sharing a few more over the course of the day, so be sure to keep an eye out for them!
In this post, we're going to be looking at everyone's favourite spell, Sending. Who casts it more, who has been the recipient most frequently, what's the most times it's been cast in one episode? All of these and more will be answered under the cut.
But first, a quick note before we begin, all data shown here has been collected by myself, all tables made by myself, so there is plenty of room for human error. If you notice a mistake, feel free to reach out and tell me, or just ignore it because this is all just for fun!
In the first 50 episodes of Campaign Three, Sending has been cast 71 times, to 26 different targets! As Bells Hells have two casters capable of casting the spell, let's start by looking at them individually.
Ladies first!
Imogen has cast Sending 49 times over 18 episodes, to 17 different people.
As shown here, she has cast the most messages to the Voice of the Tempest herself, Keyleth of the Air Ashari. I also think it's worth noting that 2 of the 4 messages she Sent to Eshteross were sadly after his demise, so he did not receive them.
Here we can see that Imogen cast the spell once in 6 episodes, twice in 6 episodes, thrice in 2 episodes, four times in 1 episode, six times in 2 episodes, with a record of 7 times in one episode.
That record was set in episode 35: A Pyrrhic Return, where she sent one message to Delilah Briarwood, one to Ashton Greymoore, one to Ariks Eshteross, and a whopping 4 to Keyleth. Yes, that is half of all her total messages to Keyleth. And all to try and arrange transportation.
Moving on to Fresh Cut Grass!
FCG has cast Sending 22 times over 9 episodes, to 15 different people.
A comparatively much more even spread from FCG, with a lot of people only hearing from him once. It's worth noting here that a large part of the reason they've cast Sending so much less than Imogen is that, as a cleric, he has to prepare the spell each time he wants to cast it, and Imogen always has it available, meaning they will often choose not to prepare it. Additionally, as a sorcerer, Imogen can recover spell slots much faster than FCG, allowing her to cast it more times per long rest than him.
Remember what I said about an even spread? Yeah, not so much the case here. Almost half of all of FCG's Sending castings were in episode 49: The Aurora Grows. The reasons for this are many: They really needed to communicate with a lot of people, they had several days of time to do it, and they didn't really need the spell slots for anything else because they were on an airship. In fact, we'll come back to episode 49 in a bit and have a closer look at it.
But before we do that, let's pull up some comparisons!
A few interesting things to note here:
Imogen has Sent a message to FCG twice, whereas FCG has only Sent to her once.
Only 6 people have received a message from both of them. One of those is Ryn, which was the one time they attempted to Send two messages simultaneously. Sadly, Ryn was petrified, so we have no conclusive data on what that experience is like, or who would receive the reply.
There has never been an episode where FCG Sent a message and Imogen did not.
And of course, the most notable statistic here, 15 Sendings cast in one episode, episode 49: The Aurora Grows. Let's have a closer look at that, shall we?
In The Aurora Grows, they Sent 15 messages to 11 different people. This doesn't even account for all of their communications in tat episode, as they also received a message from Keyleth through Orym's Message Bloom, and Orym and Dorian communicated through his Sending Stone twice. But let's look at the 15 castings by Imogen and FCG.
Episode 49 marked the first time D, Pike, Milo, Joe, Ebelond Kai and Ira were contacted by Bells Hells, as well as the first time Birdie was contacted by FCG specifically.
That is almost all I have for you on this topic today, and I thank you all for reading this far. I hope you'll keep an eye out for my other projects which will go up later this evening, where I'll be looking at group stealth checks across all three campaigns.
I end this post by sharing with you a record. Imogen Sending four messages to Keyleth in one episode might be astounding, but it doesn't beat our previous record. No, the title of most Sendings to one person in one episode is still held by Jester Lavorre, Sending FIVE messages to Essek in ONE DAY in episode 2x77. This poor man.
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Again, the fandom is aggravating when a character makes a controversial choice.
What Ashton did was reckless, and he will get HELL for it from the group, but what I don’t like is people acting like they did some big betrayal towards Fearne.
- “Ashton took what was meant for Fearne and it was selfish! It was her moment!”
Bruh, Fearne was like John Snow with how many times she and Ashley have been like “I don’t want it” “it’s not for me” “if it’s up to me I think you should have it.” She LITERALLY said that in their talk. If she wasn’t comfortable, forcing her to do it would have been not cool.
- “Ashton used Fearne’s feelings for them to get what they wanted!”
Preeeeeetty sure they just explained their stance and requested her help, which she consented to. They didn’t “use” anything. And yes, she got nervous and was having second thoughts, which makes sense because Ashton coulda DIED. But he didn’t force her to do anything.
- “Man, Callowmoore is dead. She’ll never trust him again! She said it!”
She was worried and angry about how close that was. They do owe her and everyone an apology, but their relationship isn’t RUINED, good god.
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