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C4E002 Broken Wing

C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang
C4E003 The Snipping of Shears

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Thumbnail for Critical Role IV episode 2. A split image having the effect of cracked plaster, with Laura and Liam on the left and character art of Thimble on the right. Laura sits at the table, smiling worriedly, her hand pressed against her temple. Liam is slightly out of focus in the background next to her, his hand placed to his mouth in thought. Thimble is a white-skinned pixie with brown hair in a pixie cut and four large, iridescent, dragonfly-like wings sprouting from her back. She wears a knit green sleeveless crop top and wields needles as swords. Brown leather bracers cover her forearms and a metal rod pierces her right ear. She strikes an action pose, mid-flight.

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Runtime

4h 33m 18s

Gameplay Start 00:00:00

Break Start 02:19:03

Break End 02:34:04

Ad Skit

Taliesin, Matt, Ashley, and Sam at the Announcement Playhouse table. Matt is face down on the table, apparently dead. Taliesin and Ashley look at Matt with surprise and worry. Sam, dressed as Sherlock Holmes in a deerstalker hat and Inverness cape, looks directly into the camera, his mouth open in astonishment. On the table in front of Matt is a box with a caped individual on the front labeled “THE FABLEMAKERS”. A deck of cards sits next to the box.

Bad Dads

And Other Family

Campaign Firsts

Damage Dealt

Thimble, 15

Combat

War flashback, 11m 47s

Current Bird Tally

SpeciesCount
Total25
Magpie6
Crow4
Falcon4
Nightingale4
Unknown3
Rock dove2
Dove1
Owl1

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HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing:

Created by Flando Maltrizian, Master of Time(stamps)
Timestamp Description
00:09:40 Azune backstory (it’s not going to happen here)
00:11:45 Critical Role Announcement Playhouse
00:13:20 First deaths of the campaign
00:16:40 Laura plays through the injury
00:19:30 Opening Cinematic (starting off with the subwoofer)
00:22:00 A lesson about touching stuff
00:24:05 The other thing that disappears is your consciousness (Stay)
00:26:35 Ever valorous, Sir Julien
00:29:00 Afterlife lore (halfling coffin)
00:33:35 Taliesin knows that you don’t touch stuff in ancient coffins
00:36:35 Shadia is mad (she’s 25? I was reading her as like 14)
00:37:55 She’s a champion and a legend
00:38:50 Bolaire touched something as well
00:41:20 No unnecessary murder
00:45:30 The end of the funeral
00:48:40 Take These Broken Wings
00:55:15 Thimble mourns Thjazi
00:58:30 Liam can’t read dice
01:00:55 Wedding flashback
01:02:25 Thimble meets Thjazi
01:08:55 The fake rune
01:12:35 The wolf was here the whole time
01:13:50 Speak with animals
01:16:00 Cyd and Casimir
01:18:00 Thimble did all the planning and knows nothing
01:21:00 Politics lore
01:23:15 How crow-centric are the Crow Keepers?
01:25:45 Oh yeah, Vaelus is still here
01:31:10 Vaelus and Thimble (and a fox)
01:36:15 Loza is retiring (the Circle of Ancients)
01:38:15 Occtis isn’t helping clean at all (Razzing Loza)
01:40:40 The Banner
01:43:05 Sugar is bad for elves
01:45:50 In the House of Halovar
01:48:45 Cruelty is a mean girl (but Agony is fun)
01:51:40 The demons have ulterior motives, who would’ve thought
01:55:50 Wick’s room
01:57:30 POO
01:59:20 Into the lion’s den
02:00:50 Teor has the best job interview of all time
02:04:15 Sorry for being injured
02:05:15 Hand like veal
02:07:55 Teor and Wick
02:10:50 Teor and the Photarch
02:14:55 Wick and the Photarch
02:19:00 BREAK STARTS
02:34:00 BREAK ENDS (Old Path lore)
02:36:15 The Lloy Wing (and a Pariah Blade)
02:38:30 Investigating the coffin
02:42:35 Bolaire “drifts into the black box”
02:44:40 The Coffin of Obelad
02:47:40 Feral celestials
02:50:30 Waiting 30 seconds
02:54:35 Murray has a job (Bolaire has paint)
02:57:50 General Raimond Davinos
02:59:20 Julien had a busy night
03:01:55 Don’t salute him (How’s it feel to be wrong again?)
03:03:50 Julien and his Dad
03:09:50 A plot to rescue Thjazi Fang
03:13:05 You are my eldest son
03:14:05 Kattigan in the wilds
03:19:20 Azune and the Brethren Hall
03:23:35 The police get privatized
03:31:10 Oh cool, it’s also education
03:32:20 The Penteveral campus
03:35:30 Ellipedes Tallbarrel
03:38:40 The Sundered Houses are taking Umbridge with the Penteveral (Kaplow)
03:44:55 Primus Tachonis
03:46:25 Back at Hal’s house
03:47:25 Hal and Thaisha still bang it out now and then
03:48:40 Shadia is a little into Occtis (Occtis is a virgin, canon)
03:49:45 Thaisha and Hal
03:56:45 Thimble preps Thjazi (a promise from a fairy is no small thing)
03:58:25 Kattigan is a bad house guest
04:01:25 Wulfric and Thimble are not friends
04:03:50 Kattigan pays respects
04:08:20 Hal and Thimble
04:10:30 Occtis does some voice acting
04:12:10 Late morning tavern
04:14:00 Solomon
04:15:00 Initiative
04:16:40 Back at the House of Halovar
04:18:30 I bet the Filament doesn’t come from a bad place at all
04:22:25 The Prismatic Retort
04:29:10 So not a cleric then
04:32:45 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 33m 18s 4h 9m 22s 2h 10m 49s 1h 58m 33s 15m 1s 00:00:00 00:11:47 00:20:01 02:19:03 02:34:04 04:32:37

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Encounter Total length Start time End time Rounds In game time Notes
War flashback 11m 47s 00:00:00 00:11:47 1 6s Time started before call for initiative given the in media res nature of the flashback

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

Total: 15

Character Damage dealt
Azune 0
Bolaire 0
Halandil 0
Julien 0
Kattigan 0
Murray 0
Occtis 0
Teor 0
Thaisha 0
Thimble 15
Tyranny 0
Vaelus 0
Wicander 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: 1

Character Damage taken
Azune 0
Bolaire 0
Halandil 0
Julien 0
Kattigan 0
Murray 0
Occtis 0
Teor 0
Thaisha 1
Thimble 0
Tyranny 0
Vaelus 0
Wicander 0

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Total: 1

Character Healing performed
Azune 0
Bolaire 0
Halandil 1
Julien 0
Kattigan 0
Murray 0
Occtis 0
Teor 0
Thaisha 0
Thimble 0
Tyranny 0
Vaelus 0
Wicander 0

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KOs

Total: 3

Timestamp Character Circumstance Resolution Notes
00:00:20 Azune Unconscious in flashback from pre-episode attack Stabilized by successful death saves
00:00:20 Kattigan Unconscious in flashback from pre-episode attack Stabilized by medicine check from Teor
00:24:05 Thaisha Unconscious without reaching 0 HP due to touching mysterious artifact Brought back up by Healing Word from Halandil

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Totals
Spells Leveled Spells Only Spell Levels
12 6 6
Character Spell Base level Cast at Notes
Halandil Healing Word 1 1 Thaisha healed for 1 point
Murray Mage Hand Cantrip Cantrip
Thaisha Guidance Cantrip Cantrip on Halandil
Halandil Thaumaturgy Cantrip Cantrip
Azune Guidance Cantrip Cantrip on self
Thaisha Speak with Animals 1 1
Murray Mage Hand Cantrip Cantrip
Murray Identify 1 1
Azune Detect Magic 1 - Ritual cast
Kattigan Spare the Dying Cantrip Cantrip on Thjazi; the magic does not take hold as Thjazi is already dead
Occtis Disguise Self 1 1
Occtis Disguise Self 1 1

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PC natural 20s

Total: 3

Timestamp Character Description
01:14:03 Thaisha Religion or Nature check when trying to speak to Wulfric
02:01:23 Teor Athletics Check to lift a crate off a Halovar worker
03:29:05 Azune Insight Check on Sir Harondus Einfasen

PC natural 1s

Total: 1

Timestamp Character Description
00:22:12 Thaisha Constitution Save against the silver coffin

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Total: 24

Timestamp Payer Where obtained Recipient How obtained Item Notes
00:39:24 Thaisha Bolaire taken coffin of Olbalad
00:39:44 Bolaire Murray loaned museum's protective glove presumed returned
00:47:43 Thaisha Elodie given platter of cranberry rolls
00:48:30 - Halandil retrieved Hal’s lyre
01:09:11 Thjazi's body Azune discovered counterfeit glyph
01:12:42 - Kattigan eaten various meats shared with Wulfric
01:40:12 Loza Blade Teor gifted the Torn Banner
01:44:02 Halandil Vaelus gave platter of cranberry rolls
01:44:06 Vaelus - discarded platter of cranberry rolls
02:08:00 Teor - removed shield presumably retrieved
02:08:02 Teor - removed golden flail with an angled head presumably retrieved
02:49:28 - Bolaire retrieved unspecified tool
02:50:32 Bolaire - dropped unspecified tool
02:56:14 Thjazi Bolaire given paint for Hal
03:00:37 Madam Gurlistra Julien given goblet of wine
03:01:25 Julien prostitutes paid unclear number of coins (though at least 6) for services rendered
03:57:26 Thjazi's body Thimble looted small funerary treasures
04:00:01 Halandil Kattigan gave shepard's pie
04:00:01 Halandil Kattigan gave ale
04:00:42 Halandil - put out jar of honey
04:00:46 Kattigan - used jar of honey some was consumed but presumably not the full jar
04:01:05 Kattigan - ate shepherd's pie
04:03:05 Kattigan - left behind ale
04:07:25 Thimble Halandil gave Thjazi's letter

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Total: 27

Name First mention First appearance Race (if given) Identifier (if relevant) Description (if given)
Casimir C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang at 02:36:55 C4E002 Broken Wing at 00:10:41 An old member of the Torn Banner Young back in their mercenary days. The quiet type. Worked the mess, knew everybody. Is now a smuggler who has connections that can be used to get people out.
General Raimond Davinos C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang at 04:03:27 C4E002 Broken Wing at 02:58:38 Sir Julien’s father Gold breastplate with the symbol of House Davinos and the House of Royce, their liege lords. He has a silvering mustache and goatee, scars across his cheek, a golden helm taken down to a side, a broadsword, and a polearm astride the carriage top. Was friends with Thjazi. (He/him)
Milo C4E002 Broken Wing at 00:01:12 C4E002 Broken Wing at 00:01:12 Torn Banner soldier who died in a flashback at the top of C4E002 Broken Wing
Norma C4E002 Broken Wing at 00:04:07 C4E002 Broken Wing at 00:04:07 Dwarf Torn Banner medic Has a thick, braided beard and an empty upper lip. Heals using a dwarven poultice and her own flesh. (She/her)
Lucia C4E002 Broken Wing at 00:04:25 C4E002 Broken Wing at 00:04:25 Torn Banner soldier Badly wounded, open cavity in chest with ribs visible. (She/her)
Sorcerer C4E002 Broken Wing at 00:06:53 C4E002 Broken Wing at 00:06:53 House Cormoray Wears a beautiful white flickering tunic and summons a 15-foot dragon. Attacked by Thimble in the flashback.
Azune's father C4E002 Broken Wing at 00:09:46 Passed Azune off to mercenaries many years before the flashback, telling him he was getting a second chance.
Niveda C4E002 Broken Wing at 00:46:12 C4E002 Broken Wing at 00:46:12 Member of Hal’s theater troup Hair up in a gorgeous to-do, wearing all black with a lot of frills and puffed shoulders. (She/her)
Primus Tachonis C4E002 Broken Wing at 01:37:49 C4E002 Broken Wing at 03:45:10 First mention not by name - "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." Tall, grave figure with sallow skin.
Cruelty C4E002 Broken Wing at 01:48:43 C4E002 Broken Wing at 01:48:43 Demon Tyranny’s sister Ruby red lips, small pronged silvery horns, whipping tail. (She/her)
Agony C4E002 Broken Wing at 01:49:28 C4E002 Broken Wing at 01:49:28 Demon Tyranny’s sister Small, wears spectacles and monkish white robes that hide her figure, has bright blue skin (She/her)
Rauwyn, the Trickster C4E002 Broken Wing at 02:45:26 God
Olbalad, the Sister of Mists C4E002 Broken Wing at 02:45:57 Celestial Halfling Angel of Death The coffin investigated by Bolaire and Murray belonged to her. (She/her)
Julien's companions at The Tangled Sheet C4E002 Broken Wing at 02:59:41 C4E002 Broken Wing at 02:59:41 Work at The Tangled Sheet A voluptuous tan-skinned woman and a blonde-haired muscular young man
Madam Gurlistra C4E002 Broken Wing at 03:00:24 C4E002 Broken Wing at 03:00:24 Gnome Madam at The Tangled Sheet Older woman. (She/her)
Captain Edrian Fazir C4E002 Broken Wing at 03:23:06 C4E002 Broken Wing at 03:23:06 Human Captain of the Arcane Marshals Older man, big belly, rotund, with a strap of white around his chin. (He/him)
Sir Harondus Einfasen C4E002 Broken Wing at 03:23:17 C4E002 Broken Wing at 03:23:17 Of the Chamber of Lords-Advisory. Knighted lord of the house of EInfasen. Firmly believes that he should be in charge.
Gallant C4E002 Broken Wing at 03:34:10 C4E002 Broken Wing at 03:34:10 Gnome Grad student at the Penteveral Tells Murray that Tallbarrel got sacked (He/him)
Ellipides Tallbarrel C4E002 Broken Wing at 03:34:23 C4E002 Broken Wing at 03:35:52 Halfling Dean of the Penteveral (He/him)
Kora C4E002 Broken Wing at 03:37:57 The Revolutionary Council's preferred leader of the Penteveral.
Dwarven woman (possibly Kora) C4E002 Broken Wing at 03:44:43 C4E002 Broken Wing at 03:44:43 Dwarf Wearing dean's robes at the Penteveral (She/her)
Person with crow feather earring C4E002 Broken Wing at 04:13:01 C4E002 Broken Wing at 04:13:01 Crow Keeper Wiry-looking, crow feathers on a twine earring
Person with crow feather hood C4E002 Broken Wing at 04:13:01 C4E002 Broken Wing at 04:13:01 Human Crow Keeper Wiry-looking, crow feathers on the inside of a hood
Solomon C4E002 Broken Wing at 04:13:58 C4E002 Broken Wing at 04:13:58 Crow Keeper Wearing a brimmed, double-ridged black felt hat, long black coat, thin silver chain. Older.
Tansul, god of the sun C4E002 Broken Wing at 04:23:53 God
Filoneus Halovar C4E002 Broken Wing at 04:25:06 Wick’s uncle Has war dogs
Chained angel C4E002 Broken Wing at 04:31:35 C4E002 Broken Wing at 04:31:35 Celestial Wick’s grandfather(?) 30 feet tall, chained in an iron maiden with taps in its side gushing blood. Has featherless wings and screams while gnashing rows of unpointed teeth.

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Sam wearing a pale green button-up shirt with the top button undone. Wide stripes of pale and slightly darker green form a checked pattern. He sits with his hands clasped on the table in front of him, leaning forward intently.

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Taliesin, Matt, Ashley, and Sam at the Announcement Playhouse table. Matt is face down on the table, apparently dead. Taliesin and Ashley look at Matt with surprise and worry. Sam, dressed as Sherlock Holmes in a deerstalker hat and Inverness cape, looks directly into the camera, his mouth open in astonishment. On the table in front of Matt is a box with a caped individual on the front labeled “THE FABLEMAKERS”. A deck of cards sits next to the box.

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Summary
Species Count
Total 8
Crow 2
Nightingale 2
Falcon 1
Magpie 1
Rock dove 1
Unknown 1

Total: 8

Timestamp Species (if given) Line
00:32:52 Nightingale "...as you look at [Vaelus], you hear a distant bird song of a bird that you as a druid know is not native to this part of the world. You hear the call of a nightingale, distantly."
00:52:46 Crow "You reviewed the attack on Thjazi and Thimble's hiding place, found crow feathers worn as garment left, bodies removed..."
00:59:17 Nightingale "...in this moment, it occurs to you, Thaisha, as that song rose up, that nightingale song, you still hear, and you know it's only in your mind that you can hear it. As you speak in this moment to each other, I think the song has diminished, but its last echo as the lights come up."
01:00:07 Falcon "She gives you one moment of eye contact, corner of a smile, and slides this massive knuckled hand over your shoulders and brings you in under the crook of her arm, and at the end of the song, goes, 'I can still hear the falcons cry. (sniffles)'."
01:23:25 Crow "[The Crow Keepers] do a bunch of bird-themed performance art."
03:17:36 - "You see a flutter of wings and there is a balcony way up high [...] And you see a falcon descend towards that monument and rest there. Falcons are cliff hunters. They look for places of altitude to look for other birds."
03:18:16 Rock dove "There's rock doves and other birds that they would hunt and eat."
03:49:36 Magpie "And the sun is just barely coming up. And there are magpies warbling to each other from different rooftops up here."