A Glorious Return | Exandria Unlimited | Episode 3 

HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing 1:15 Pigtail Matt and Omar make announcements 3:30 Intro cinematic 5:05 Episode Starts 7:05 Recap Ends 7:50 Episode 3 and we’re already changing the character designs 10:30 Hope you’re okay if it doesn’t look great 11:40 Halfling Sugar Ray 13:30 LeBron’s Hidden Hairline 16:35 Surprise distraction 19:25 Mister is ready with the stink 24:55 Dariax’s distraction 30:50 Opal is anti-stealth 32:30 Fearne can play the flute? 33:55 Orym as Nancy 36:55 Losing themselves in the music, the moment 38:50 Ormyn 41:05 Fearne is a cutthroat manager 43:15 We absolutely must go 45:50 Next hot band 47:10 Nancy is being naughty 57:05 Nancy ruined the stealth 57:55 Dirty Dwarf gambit 1:00:50 Actors kinda suck 1:02:30 Gilmore’s Glorious Goods 1:08:00 Sherri 1:12:50 Sean Gilmore 1:13:30 Sherri is canonically into bards (C1E24 1:05:30) 1:17:00 Gilmore so hot 1:22:00 A lot has happened 1:25:40 Telling the story 1:28:15 Darius 1:29:30 Dariax has had black eyes this whole time 1:31:00 Spiders everywhere (Gilmore has many mirrors) 1:34:20 Opal gets wet 1:41:30 I can’t carry it for you mister Dariax, but I can carry you 1:42:15 Gilmore carries Opal 1:43:25 Dorian is unphased by Gilmore 1:44:45 Which way does Gilmore’s box go again? 1:47:10 Don’t try to fool Gilmore 1:48:15 Food (Bac…..k) 1:51:35 The next quest 1:53:30 Matt gives reflects his players’ behavior 1:55:30 Naked and afraid 1:58:30 Level 20 Gilmore 2:00:50 The teaset 2:02:15 Break Starts (Real life Laura!) 2:10:30 Art Montage 2:17:20 Break Ends, shopping commences 2:20:40 Orym shops 2:27:10 Dorian shops 2:29:50 Dorian calls for a manager 2:33:25 Dariax shops 2:36:30 Fearne shops 2:37:45 Stonkey ring 2:40:45 Opal shops 2:43:15 Cool whip 2:44:15 Dariax knows he’s the hot one 2:47:20 Aabria is done with shopping 2:50:25 Don’t leave the deck out where people can use it 2:52:55 Where I’m from, they’re just called flutes 2:56:25 Matt feels lucky 3:04:50 Hype man Dariax 3:07:50 Assassins have come after Gilmore in his sleep before (C1E58 1:48:55) 3:09:10 Fearne makes a move 3:17:20 Episode Ends I think 30 minutes after this episode gets posted, on DnD's official Twitch channel there will be a level 20 one-shot DMed by B Dave Walters and featuring an all-star cast including Aabria. Looks like it'll be wild, go over there and check it out. Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?

“My mother is a long way from here. She’s alive and well!” Wow, that’s a first for Liam’s characters.

Opal: "Nancy!" (points at Orym) Orym, thousand-yard-stare: "...mother." i CANNOT overstate how much this bROKE me

Liam's face when he said "mother" WITHOUT SKIPPING A BEAT

Everyone: "Shopping episode!" Travis at home reading a newspaper: "I sense a disturbance..."

Opal: *dramatically* NANCY! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?? Orym: *deadpan* Mother...

Somehow Liam made the smartest character twice in a row and this time it's just by process of elimination

Aabria: “Feels like some weird faun stereotype.” Fearne: Proceeds to kill it on the flute without having ever played it before

1:30:30 DM - "So you were touching it?" Dariax - "well yeah, it's how you move things". Absolutely here for Matt roleplaying Dariax's low-int.

I'm a dumbass. I just realized now that Comfy Matt's increasingly ridiculous hairstyle is due to the episodes being pre-taped. Aabria doesn't see the announcements, so she can compliment him on whatever and future Matt WILL have to oblige for continuity.

5000 gold store credit?! You could get a fire resistance ring with that much!

I have to give it to Abria for just absolutely respecting the Nancy natural 20.

I love that, somehow, this chaotic family works as follows Dorian: dad Orrym: mom Darriax: idiot son Ferne: cluesless daughter Opal: crazy aunt, no one knows which side of the family she is from

This is story of Liam O'Brien's deep, dark, dense, gritty DnD characters... and the party who broke him

I deeply appreciate the fact that Aabria wore purple eyeshadow and gold glitter knowing Gilmore was coming up.

'Deception... disadvantage because that's a grown man' and Matt's nod of approval. It's so outlandish that there's no reasonable way anyone would EVER try to actually pull something like this off. But then you just roll two nat 20s like a boss.

that heavy sigh from liam when glimore said he's married is just his inner vax coming through xD

Sneaking = Forming a impromptu busking trio and yelling for a lost child.

Matt performed a dark ritual prior to this game to contact Tallesin's spirit guide but accidentally got through to Wil Wheaton's.

Liam's mannerism during the whole Gilmore encounter says "I'm seeing my ex again for the first time in years and I might not be 100% over them and feel just a tiny little bit awkward. I don't know what to do with my hands. Geez I'm so happy they're doing well because they deserve the world."

Matt: Finally I can play one character with one voice. Also Matt: I am going to turn into everyone I can.

Matt as a DM: God Rolls 90% of the time. Matt as a player: This is good guys, I rolled a zero.

"Nancy, where have you been?" "Mother?" 😂😂😂

Lmfao "What is this Deck of Many Things?" And immediately, Matt and Aabria's faces are just like, "Nope, nope, no no no, not happening" 😂

The party using pretty idiot energy to hustle cheaper deals out of the magic shop is SUCH a perfect reintroduction to Gilmore's shop. Poor Inanna, she's adorable.

"Deception. Disadvantage. Because that is a grown man."

Can I just say that, throughout Critical Role's entire repertoire, nothing had made me laugh as hard as "Mother."

"I give Dorian the look a spouse gives to another spouse" I love how Liam and his characters are always at least a little bit gay for the other players/PCs

Liam's smirk at 1:59:55 when Gilmore says "I could never resist a pretty face and I won't start today" lmaooo

If I had a nickel for every time one of Ashley’s characters offered to cut of their hair for someone else to use, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

Finding out that Mr has the same INT score as the highest of the party.... explains everything

I don’t think I’ll ever recover from Liam O’brian saying “mother”

I'm living for this soft voiced gorgeous cottage-aesthetic fawn being terrifying as shit like a "real" old sidhe.

I really hope they get to meet Gilmore's husband sometime, just so that we can have Dariax, Dorian and Darius in the same scene.

Matt doing Marisha's Tracy is fabulous!

Opal is like Mulan’s grandma to Gilmore “WOULD YOU LIKE TO STAY FOREVER?”

"... an immovable rod." Meanwhile Mercer with the "ah, I see you're a man of culture as well" face appears.

Liam popping in as Caleb with "Ja, amber is good" made my whole heart flutter. I miss my wizard boy so much

Petition to have Matthew Mercer play Tharla Starr as his PC in a future campaign.

Ah, yes, the words of my house: "Through Violence and a Frankly Upsetting Amount of Sexual Charisma."

I love the contrast between Liam constantly making everyone aware of how short and comparably small he is physically, and Aabria making a point during the Nancy scene to describe Oryms very much mature bone structure and muscular physique, to the point that if Opal hadn't gotten two Nat 20's no one would have believed that he was a child.

I now desperately need someone to write a comic or cartoon of Opal and her daughter Nancy who clearly is a 30 year old grumpy man but for some reason nobody sees it. The dryness and "oh fuck" in Liam's face when he said mother just did it for me.

I have never…… never…… seen an attempted stealth operation that turned out that glorious. Just wow

One thing I appreciate with Aabria as DM, specifically for Critical Role, is that her style, to me at least, seems so different than Matt's that it's almost impossible to compare the two. I think this is an amazing choice to first hand show everyone what Matt himself means with "find your style of DMing". Awesome stuff, awesome DMing, can it please be a Monday .)

Matthew Mercer playing a character that has 8 INT with a straight face is something that I never knew I needed until now. I love it.

Orym’s quote: “It was a great idea, I think that it just suffered from too many additional layers. I think the core idea was strong.” Any review of a TV show that falls apart after season one.

I feel like I can speak for everyone when I say the town distraction had me rolling. From burlesque, belly dancing valley-girl Matt; to Nancy and Opal; and Ashley and Robbey being back up floutists. It was just pure chaos.

I LOVE Liam, Ash, and Matt, from YEARS of watching them create the most unique content I’ve ever seen..... but ga’dammed if I can’t tear my eyes off of Aabria for all the looks and 4th wall breaking she does. She is a 1-man marching band. I can’t look away. She’s a gem.

I love how much inspiration Aabria is giving out. She is genuinely loving the stupidity and absurdity, like all of us Critters.

Liam's "Mother!" comment took me OOUUUUTTTT

Poska: **threatens to assassinate Gilmore** Matt: **whimpers**

I know the fandom is mostly super loyal to Matt to the point of being hyper critical of Aabria in his favor, but I really need to express how much I love her style as GM. She's brilliant, and compassionate, and SO funny. And I love the rapport she builds with everyone. You can tell they felt safe and comfortable in her care

I feel like Ashley is inherently determined to have disadvantage on stealth forever lol XD

The joy and smiling that comes over Matt when Aabria is describing Gilmore's is so precious.

Can we just appreciate that Matt as a player got to talk TO Gilmore?

Dorian and Orym just trying to herd their children through and keep them alive

somehow they've managed to be more chaotic than Mighty Nein

"we took a moral high ground..." "...with murder."

Ashley is so perfectly playing a feywild being... amazing

That 1/400 chance of a 20 on disadvantage comes out for the most stupid shit and I love it

Aimee: "you should become an actor!" Matt: "I don't know, I've hung out with a lot of actors, they're all kinda terrible people." Ashley: "I've heard that too, the few that I've met, I just hate 'em" the fact that this line happened in a group of actors/voice actors is absolutely hilarious

Aabria: absolutely not! The dice gods: absolutely YES!

Ashley is so great at just being chaotic like *SPOILERS* Out of NOWHERE starts negotiating a music contract??? LOL!!!!

Matt getting visibly concerned by Gilmore being threatened was amazing

Imagine if grog and dariax started a business together

I love how Fearne is a casual kleptomanic with her innocent doe eyes but also truthfulness to whenever she is swiping things.

“What is a...Deck of Many Things?” MY SIDES!

33:55 Aimee: "NANCY!? WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" Liam: "mother!" I've rewatched that one part so many times lmfao

1:52:38 "The people of the quinceanera"and "Don't you lie to me you beautiful boy" But seriously the way Aabria does Gilmore is just spot on and beautiful. Also Matt is a troll and I love him as Dariax

It's weird to think that canonically as this is happening, the eldest of the de Rolo kids are starting to enter their 30s.

I just gotta say that the move Ashley made with the charm person at the end was fucking amazing and a great play. That and what Matt did at the end was very smart as well. Essentially showing Paska that they fucking lied to her and that they actually still do have the crown was a fucking amazing way to get the heat off of Gilmore. I hope now that she knows they lied and didn't actually sell anything to him that she will ignore Gilmore all together and just run after them.

I love Abria, as Gilmore, trying to manage the chaos of the group... "Okay.. That's a new thing, we'll put it in the queue.."

I also noticed that they never told Matt he had black eyes so I’m so glad he kept that up 😂

I love Matt taking notes, you just know he's either taking notes for what Darian knows, but also for what Aabria is adding to the world xD

During this episode of Exandria Unlimited I learned that D&D is attaining a moral high ground through murder.

Mister might be my favorite character solely because Aabria just plays him so god-damned well, she puts so much character into that monkey I love it

"What is the Deck of Many Things ? " - Ashley knowing 100% what she is asking lmao

All of Omar is just “FATHER FREE ME” Edit: And Matt just making him stand like a human to restrain him

I'd like to think Ashley really enjoyed that town performance since she was interested in multi classing into bard with Yasha

Everyone seems to be talking about Orym calling Opal mother, but my favourite moment was Dariax discovering his inner Drag Queen. Matt as a dm is great, but Matt as a player is infinitely better. I hope we get to see him play more in the future.

Oh my god I've wanted to hear a DM say "Do you need an adult" for YEARS and I never realised until now!

Paska: Everybody sleeps Vax, somewhere in the court of the Raven Queen: *draws his daggers*

Two natural 20’ties the dice gods really wanted this to succeed even though it really shouldn’t

"Oh there she is!" Liam's head tilt response killed me. XD 32:13

1:19:25 SPOILERS! To think that he would give out his real name this early by accidently stuttering it just because of Gilmore's presence

i don't know if I'll ever unhear Matt's Valley Girl accent.

Liam's "Mother" at 34:03 fucking *sends me* every time I listen to it.

Things working out for Dorian in roleplay because he’s pretty versus things going so very wrong for him in combat is the perfect juxtaposition 💀

"lost in the memory of something long ago" *flashing back* She-e-E-ERry bABy, Sherry baby

Ah yes, Nancy and Opal, my favorite Exandria Unlimited characters.

2:49:13 I love it when Liam says ''Yeah, Amber is good'' in Calebs voice

Liam/Orym's 23 on the history check concerning Gilmore could have been Keyleth telling stories about him

"I'd like everyone [NOT YOU] to give me a stealth check" - dyyyyyying

After seeing THAT distraction I realise this is the party that rolls extremely well on absolute *nonsense*

I've seen a few memes about that throwaway NPC which the players latch on to like glue, and I've never really felt like it applied to me. Then Aabria portrayed Inanna, and I wanna pat her on the head and tell her it's all right.

As DMs, Matt takes the players for a ride, while Aarbria is on the ride with the players.

Liam is shining in this. “Mother” and “I write Gilmore a note and shove it in the box.” Muah! 👌

I really hope this trend of Aabria "commenting on Comfy Matt's outfit" continues

Aabria forcing Comfy Matt to wear braids is an underappreciated flex that needs more love D:

As soon as I heard Sheri, I could immediately hear Scanlan singing in the back of my head. Good memories... 😊