The Aurora Grows | Critical Role | Campaign 3, Episode 49

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1. HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing

   0:15 Sam makes social media comedy
   4:25 Intro cinematic
   6:15 EPISODE STARTS
   8:50 Recap Ends (near the edge)
   15:35 Things happen that haven’t happened before
   16:40 It has begin
   23:10 Checking if Robbie is free
   24:55 FCG pitches a Fast and Furious movie
   28:20 Chetney Claus is coming
   41:05 Messaging Ira
   43:10 Chetney is sunning his moon
   46:40 Orym is doubling down on flat Exandria
   53:10 Residuum? Never heard of it
   56:10 The gas cam
   58:25 Messaging Joe
   59:35 Chetney is suddenly a poet
   1:00:45 Marisha barks (scry ball)
   1:04:15 Messaging Milo
   1:07:15 Orgreo the mobster
   1:09:00 Messaging Ebenold Kai
   1:10:15 Chet is done sunbathing
   1:16:35 Top Gun
   1:20:55 Travel day 1
   1:21:50 Orym eats the speaking stone (messaging Dorian)
   1:24:10 There is not enough room for two full parties
   1:26:30 FC Tea
   1:28:45 Dad Orym (everyone has kids)
   1:31:05 The dream
   1:38:10 Orym is here to remind everyone who the bad guys are
   1:41:45 Is the Changebringer good?
   1:43:05 Ashton solves the moral dilemma
   1:46:50 Laudna and Ashton
   1:52:15 The Helmet
   1:58:30 Fearne and Orym plan to kill Imogen
   2:02:15 BREAK STARTS
   2:11:10 Art Montage
   2:13:10 BREAK ENDS (justifying the Changebringer)
   2:14:15 Travel day 2
   2:15:30 Pike is so strong and cool (Is she… you know… a cleric?)
   2:17:10 Messaging Pike
   2:19:05 Painting the ship
   2:22:00 Messaging Hexum
   2:24:05 Bomcane
   2:25:20 Travel day 3
   2:27:35 Learning to drive
   2:30:10 Messaging Mori
   2:33:05 FCG messages Dancer
   2:34:35 Messaging D
   2:36:00 Hot robot (salty cookies)
   2:37:45 Travel Day 3 (Darude Sandstorm)
   2:44:25 Ashton and Laudna
   2:47:40 Orym talks to the cookie again
   2:50:20 Travel day 4
   2:57:35 They forgot Fearne’s dad’s voice
   3:00:45 Vengeful Ira
   3:05:50 Long Ira
   3:11:15 Mercerian detail
   3:17:30 Mori says hi
   3:21:20 Ira is irreplaceable
   3:24:15 Predath-Os: The Apex Predator of this balanced breakfast
   3:25:45 Love riding these things
   3:27:40 Grab a burger at Taste of Tal’dorei
   3:30:55 Yunis’s shop
   3:37:05 Chet is starting to slump
   3:53:05 Ira meets Xandis
   3:57:15 Laudna takes necklace damage
   4:00:10 One more message to Dorian (Matt is really foreshadowing another EXU)
   4:01:25 Travel day 5 (magic storm)
   4:07:55 Spiderman face
   4:15:15 Travel day 6 (yet another storm)
   4:16:30 Okay it’s actually a bird
   4:23:15 Saved by the goldfish
   4:26:55 Orym grows a seed
   4:31:30 Keyleth’s message
   4:38:00 Orym’s sister
   4:40:10 Travel day 6
   4:44:05 Imogen and Orym
   4:47:50 Imogen and Laudna: the greatest roommates of all time
   4:57:25 The Butcher’s Bib starts leaking
   5:01:30 Episode Ends

   The in-game start date for the episode was the 10th of Fessuran in the year 843. Sam’s gas can says “Sam’s Gas Cam” and it has a camera strapped to it.

   Any of y'all who know video editing, can you recommend any programs and how to videos for someone who wanted to do some relatively simple vlog style videos? You know… hypothetically.

   Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?

2. Made it to from episode 42 to episode 49 in less than a week, just in time for the 50th!

3. Marisha has been killing it this campaign. Laudna is easily my favorite character of hers.

4. Imogen is going to turn. A repeat of Lucien but with FUCKING Laura Bailey in charge. That is scary…

5. I feel like I spent the last ~hour of the episode wondering what roll would summon Gelidon

6. So I have been rewatching campaign 2 and I HAVE FOUND SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT. So we know that the Malleus Keys are being used to release Predathos from Ruidus by potentially being the key to opening the divine gate that keeps it in. They are very high tech, very similar to Aeoran tech, and this is where it gets interesting. The city of Aeor was working on a project known as the “Factorum Malleus” or in common the God Hammer. It was a weapon to KILL THE GODS and it was the reason why they we’re literally smitted out of the fucking sky. There are not many ways to kill a god and I guarantee that having two of them being connected under naming conventions like that, being that Malleus was apparently a word from the lost Aeoran language has got to be close to none. This only leads me to believe that Aeor was harnessing the power of Predathos with their God Hammer, or that this is using something from their old weapon with Predathos now. Whatever it is, it is definitely connected

7. If Laudna breaks bad it's gonna be interesting to watch parts of the fanbase try and justify it.

8. Ladies and gents, we have finally arrived at a goldfish that does fly! It's been a journey up to this point, and it could not be any more perfect than this xD

9. I wanna get into dnd so bad it looks so much fun, My friend is starting a campaign soon so I hope it’s fun. It’ll be my first official campaign rather than crappy one shots and role playing in games from time to time…can’t wait but I hope we actually do it rather than just saying well do it. I wanna get into dnd but I just have no clue where to start, other than my friends ofc, however they can be quite fickle with actually committing to things 😢

10. I like to imagine Caleb and Essek excitedly wizarding about the auroras but considering those random rolls, Caleb’s probably busy trying not to die xD

11. Color out of Space vibes

12. In my head I was arguing that stopping the release of a god-eater is a perfectly valid reason for a deus ex machina teleportation of the crown keepers to the site of the malleus key to help the Bell's Hells, considering the Spider Queen would have a vested interest in stopping the release of Predathos…but it seems like Matt's hinting that the apagee solstice and/or the Ruidus stuff might be affecting Opal in a different way, and if so, I am VERY excited to see what and how

13. And thats it! I started C2 this summer and now I am FINALLY all caught up!
    It was such a great jounrey, and I'm wishing all future catch-up crew members luck on yours!

14. I was 4 episodes behind but I'm glad to say I am now all caught up for the next episode tonight

15. Odd question: Liam's sweaters always look really comfortable; is there a specific name for that kind of sweater?

16. So umm, Anyone else worried that Campaign 3 might do something Crazy like end at Episode 50

17. 3:20

18. Love Marisha's hair

19. "We have a silversun down, we have a silversun down"

20. Arise ye pris’ners of starvation
    
    Arise ye wretched of the earth
    
    For justice thunders condemnation
    
    A better world’s in birth!
    
    No more tradition’s chains shall bind us
    
    Arise, ye slaves, no more in thrall;
    
    The earth shall rise on new foundations
    
    We have been naught we shall be all.

    Refrain:
    
    ’Tis the final conflict
    
    Let each stand in his place
    
    The International Union
    
    Shall be the human race.

    We want no condescending saviors
    
    To rule us from their judgement hall
    
    We workers ask not for their favors
    
    Let us consult for all.
    
    To make the theif disgorge his booty
    
    To free the spirit from its cell
    
    We must ourselves decide our duty
    
    We must decide and do it well.

    The law oppresses us and tricks us,
    
    The wage slave system drains our blood;
    
    The rich are free from obligation,
    
    The laws the poor delude.
    
    Too long we’ve languished in subjection,
    
    Equality has other laws;
    
    "No rights", says she "without their duties,
    
    No claims on equals without cause."

    Behold them seated in their glory
    
    The kings of mine and rail and soil!
    
    What have you read in all their story,
    
    But how they plundered toil?
    
    Fruits of the workers’ toil are buried
    
    In strongholds of the idle few
    
    In working for their restitution
    
    The men will only claim their due.

    We toilers from all fields united
    
    Join hand in hand with all who work;
    
    The earth belongs to us, the workers,
    
    No room here for the shirk.
    
    How many on our flesh have fattened!
    
    But if the norsome birds of prey
    
    Shall vanish from the sky some morning
    
    The blessed sunlight then will stay.

21. i take it captain zandis cant see the sailboat

22. I really want a bowl off Predath-O's now.

23. Love yall, seen every ep till now. That being said your conjoined hatred for religion, Christianity in particular SCREAMS through your dismissal of FCGs religious pursuits and inquiries. For the first time I'm annoyed with your out of game opinions on the subject. Your need to dismiss religion is as oppressive as fighting their oppressive behavior in the real world. It's ironic, in the worst way. Btw, im not religious. Love yall, truly, but man is the irl opinions leaking in game has fucked it up lately.

24. Critical Profiteroles!

25. I'll gladly pay you tomorrow for a magic item today!

26. 55:43 made shit awkward…. I love Chetney

27. That was a really lovely dialogue between Laudna and Ashton.

28. After two and a half campaigns and I can't even remember how many years (five?), I have finally caught up. What can I say, that was a long time. I guess I'll go check out some missed one-shots in the meanwhile.

29. I left my wallet, in Salmagunda 🎤

30. Welp 2.5 years later I'm caught up.

31. So when do we get the Eshteross/ FCG cook book?

32. Less drama, more fun.

33. where's the new episode? It's been 8 days.

34. Me just screaming!!! Please call Opal!!!!

35. Does Sam know how many seconds tiktoks usually are?

36. wish the captions could be moved to the lower left. they cover ashley, laura, and liams faces on my samsung galaxy 22 with the screen maxed.

37. Did Sam just make new canon for the Changebringer

38. This is the critical role equivalent to spy kids 3 when they call EVERYONE

39. 1:41:51
    FCG: Are you good?
    Changebringer: Oh hi thanks for asking! No, absolutely not I'm like one step away from freaking the hells out – oh wait you mean as in morali – ?
    FCG: Are you neutral?
    CB: No because I will always be on your side as long as – well, whatever – you do you my sweet metal child –
    FCG: Are you bad?
    CB: 🌝🌚… Yes.

40. I was just about to comment on the last episode how they haven’t changed the character portraits in the end of the intro for a really long time. Well speak of the devil! 🙂

41. Sam at 23:11 becoming a guy I respect as a player and also for stopping the making my way meme. Thank you Sam for the entertainment and for being a team guy.

42. I want a mini campaign of what Dorian's been up to while this is going on.

43. 36:00 is the perfect descriptiopn of the comeup of a dissociative like 3-meo-pcp, ketamine, MXE, or FXE.

44. I want that shirt! -> "Why is this cookie so salty?"

45. Is it me or has the game devolvoed into Majoras Mask with the count down??

46. campaign 3 where nobody knows what to do 70% of the time

47. A goldfish can’t breathe in a sandstorm, and dies within a few minutes. That ahould not have worked for significantly longer than a banishment spell.

48. So, here's my two cents: Keyleth def knows the M9 since they found and freed her mom, right? I think she should send those fuckers BH's way bc the whole Ludinus still being alive thing is THEIR dropped ball/unfinished business 👀

    And before yall come for me, I know that's not practical or anything, I'm just poking fun

49. I….I caught up. OH MY GOD I GOD CAUGHT UP.

    NOOOOOOOooooooo 😭 now I have to wait for the next episode

50. I personally think Rueidus is the flying city from the Calamity.

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