Behind the Curtain | Critical Role | Campaign 3, Episode 7 

HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing 0:15 Smiley day everyone 1:00 Disco jingle 1:55 Country jingle 2:45 Dark pop jingle 3:50 Plaque to you 5:10 Laura and Liam’s merch corner 8:00 Intro to the new Intro 8:50 Intro cinematic 10:35 Episode Starts 12:10 Recap Ends 13:45 The Flying Lauders 18:25 Fearne is eating her Werthers 19:10 FCG clapping 25:25 Everyone attempts deception 28:10 Laudna literally yells fire in a crowded theater 34:30 Has every cast member had a fractured tailbone? 39:10 Liam is always at advantage (hoods are cool) 40:40 Imogen’s messages are all set to Hamster Dance 45:25 Subliminal messaging in Laudna’s messages 47:50 There are lots of things Fearne can’t remember 48:50 Promotional posters 50:20 Mission briefing 58:35 Starting a band 1:01:10 How do you get into acting? 1:04:05 Seven weird individuals 1:04:50 Ashton tries to get a part 1:06:50 Dysfunctional relationship 1:10:45 Liam gets his revenge for Campaign 2 1:12:00 Ocampo 1:18:50 Laudna jump scares Dorian 1:19:40 The Dwendalian Play 1:23:30 Exits, pursued by bear 1:24:10 Orym cosplays Robbie (checking the tables) 1:25:30 Ashley’s Closet 1:27:25 Cats (2019) has invaded the multiverse 1:31:55 An emotional rollercoaster 1:33:45 Tefta 1:37:00 Banjos in Orym’s head 1:38:45 Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss 1:41:10 Quest for the bone zone 1:46:05 The rooms where it happens 1:48:40 The perks of membership 1:53:00 Laudna ponders the poop (Laura dropped a knife she had just bought in a Ren faire Porta-potty) 1:55:25 A tiny assassin 1:59:10 Fearne gets into character 2:05:40 The city worldbuilding in C3 is awesome 2:10:30 Fearn can really inhabit a character 2:15:40 Break Starts 2:20:15 Art Montage 2:25:40 Break Ends, map out 2:27:35 Battle begins 2:31:05 Wow 2:39:40 Whorym 2:42:55 Kind of into this wall 2:48:25 Metaphorical walls 2:49:15 Orym poops 2:53:35 Stonky bells 2:54:50 Mumble spells 2:56:30 Mister’s first attack of campaign 3 3:05:55 Hit pints 3:08:35 Travis trolls 3:13:15 I’m a healer 3:18:50 HDYWTDT 3:25:30 Breaking the fourth wall 3:27:05 Ashton messes with cops 3:30:25 Treshi influencer house 3:32:05 Segway 3:34:35 Private meetings with Tefta 3:36:40 Taking teeth 3:38:30 Hard to get good contractors these days 3:40:05 Shivering quif 3:41:35 Travis introduces a new character 3:45:25 Chetney (Travis played a character named Chutney in the one-shot “The Night Before Critmas”) 3:46:25 Reverse insight check 3:49:20 Episode Ends The in-game start date for the episode was in the year 836. Sam’s oil can has a list of rejected group names “TrouBells; Dorian's Tax Write Offs; A CaBella; 5 Living Beings, 1 Robot, 1 ???; The Bell Ends Bells, Bells, Bells; WTF Is Up With Them” I’m running a couple superhero games in a homebrew world, and I was wondering if any of y’all might have suggestions for fun hero or villain names, powersets, and concepts. I tend to gravitate towards pun/wordplay names (Draginspector, who is a dragon, a ghost, a detective, and a drag enthusiast) or powerful single word names (Phalanx, Athlete, or Menace). Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?

Guard: Hey, this is a crime scene! Fearne: And I made it. Gosh, I love Fearne and Ashley so much

“Dark hair, beautiful, gorgeous, has a rat” the way every woman wants to be described

"I'm so bad at scripts" says award winning voice actress Laura Bailey

Taliesin in Ep 6: "Ive got so many Hit Points" Taliesin in Ep 7: "I'm on single digits"

I love that every NPC that has a conversation with FCG is instantly stun-locked by him.

The bartender asked the party why they always tickled the furniture. "Mimics," they laughed. The bartender laughed. The table laughed. They killed the table.

Love how Travis is fully committed to making sure this campaign has at least one geriatric member on the main cast.

This is why I love DnD, the necromanticaly reanimated corpse of a twenty year old farmers daughter correctly worked out the age of renovations to a theatre's bathroom based on the quality of the sealant around the toilet.

I love how even Matt is like “Why are we being sponsored by a toothbrush company?”

can't stop fucking laughing at 1:02:20 laura: a wonderful friend, her name is laudna, she's... taliesin: a walking cadaver. sam: partially dead, yeah. ashley: dark hair. beautiful. laura: gorgeous. taliesin: rotting. ashley: has a rat.

I adore that Talisman has decided to make the irrational paranoia of household furniture a defining character trait of Ashton. Absolutely exceptional.

Just realised the Ashton & F.C.G. duo is respectively rock & roll

Travis is like “this season, I will make sure to play a character altogether impossible for Laura’s character to romance”

They should make another theme song called “It’s Monday afternoon!” for all the critters who can’t watch live.

Robbie was so adorable when he finally figured out that he could double his damage from a natural 20 lol and his reaction to the damage was amazing

I think every dm felt with Matt when he was just like I can’t sit here for hours as they search the entire building, fuck it you find scratched writing that says outside 😂

Matt: "...I've lost control" You see, your mistake was thinking you ever had *any* control over these lovable idiots, Matt

Campaign 1: Doors are dangerous Campaign 2: Never trust a chair Campaign 3: The walls attack

obsessed with matt saying specific names with unspecific spellings and everyone writing them down just guessing how to spell it

I'm so happy to see Ashley playing an outgoing agent of chaos after two more reserved chatacters

"yes, a crime scene i made" has "i'm a maker of fine graves" energy

Broke: Travis must be playing the Anger! Woke: Travis is playing the workshop elf from the Christmas one-shot who very nearly murdered Santa in cold blood

Dying Oryn is just so common now, and I just think it's hilarious. He's one of the strongest, and he's always just so exhausted on the brink of death after every battle. poor guy.

Sam says: "How do you get into acting?" This table: This is about to get meta, this is about to get personal.

> Travis: 'Ok, This time, I make a character that Laura absolutely wont try to Romance. < Ashely: 'Hold my beer'.

The pain in Liams face when he recognizes Travis' character is beautiful

The moment that Travis starts talking in Chetney's voice, you can tell that Taliesin began to fear for the future of the game. And shortly after everyone else as well XD

I always forget that these guys are voice actors AND theatre kids until they start singing and I'm just like :O

Talisen keeps trying to be the mouth of the group with a charisma of 6 is hilarious and I love it.

The Wardens: "I know you." Ashton: "Yea, you do." Smiling like a shit.

obsessed with the difference in the way the girls talk about laudna and the way everybody else does

It's been said countless times but Marisha's physicality really adds to the character. She plays creepy, spindly dead woman very well

"I'm leaving" is now my response to any questioning of my actions. Fern is so damn funny.

I think hearing Robbie saying out loud, with all seriousness to solve a case, the phrase "We have to find the bone zone" literally almost killed me. I am choking and food is everywhere.

Marisha's "IMOGEEEEEEN~" gets me every time.

I have a personal headcanon that whenever Laudna's brain gives a jacked up thought (like Sam randomly saying 'kill a puppy') that's just people briefly hearing Delilah Briarwood

3:37:30 “Hey hey hey! This is a crime scene!” Fearne: “exactly, a crime scene that I made.” Any other context would get you immediately thrown in jail and I love how blunt fearne is.

Alright I'm NOT getting attached to Travis' New Old Man, I'm not getting burned again.

Okay let's be real, the ability of the Flying Lauders to be able to do gymnastics WHILE singing, for THIRTY minutes, is insane. Some cirque du solei shit

100% would watch a Travis sh*tstream during that battle. Travis playing dead ghost Bell commentating the battle

I absolutely love that every person they talk to they ask "what's the one word you'd use to describe us?" And each time, they're talking to the same Matt as they did the first time. But, he somehow tricks both the cast and the audience into thinking he's now a completely different person.

I've come to the conclusion that Fearne is all audacity with absolutely zero knowing any better.

Laura: "Do I already want to roll an insight check [on Travis' character]?... Because I don't really--" Travis: "Well, you're in my head! Shit, I should roll an insight check on you! INSIGHT CHECK!!" 🤣🤣🤣 So glad to have him back

1:46:28 "i cast black light." "Do not do that!" Wow, its worse than dugger's place.

"I might be on my tippy-toes. I gotta put out a different vibe for these strangers." The wait for Travis was worth it.

I'm seeing a pattern - *Vox Machina's archnemesis: Doors* *The Mighty Nein's greatest enemy: Chairs* *The TrouBells' most obstinate foe: Walls*

I don't know how to put this but I just love the way Liam frames his sentences despite this being improv, like he's always reading off a very well-written script. He's a true creative and you can tell. He's probably very adept at dialogue writing.

Stuvon: "What do your friends look like?" FCG: "Well you see there's this little guy, and this woman, who was... um... how would you describe her?" Imogen: "Eh, scary beyond all reason?" FCG: "Yeah, that's it!"

You can visibly see the flashbacks on Liam's face when Travis is describing his character

Seeing matts face when sam pulls out the fourth wall joke is the closest ive ever seen this man to commiting murder.

I love how after 6 years of consistently rolling low, Ashley finally made a character where every single low roll is totally endearing!

Travis making the most unfuckable character he possibly can is absolutely golden

"Ma'am this is a crime scene" Fearne, gathering teeth: "What is this a murder weapon? Get off my dick!"

Oh how I wish they’d call themselves Bells Angels and wear matching leather jackets

I really love the camaraderie between Liam and Taliesin, partners in laughing their asses off

I love that FCG never wants to accept the money that the group is offered. He really just wants the experience of the people around him and helping them lmao

Dorian: "What were they called? The Flying Lotters?" Imogen: "The Flying Otters, I think." F.C.G: "... They just throw them around on stage?" Fearne: "Let's Hope!"

Why did it take until now for me to realize that they could easily travel in disguise as a small circus or sideshow? Laudna is perfect creepshow material, F.C.G. is a spectacle all his own, and Dorian and Fearne love performing. Then you've got Imogen as the bookkeeper/manager, leaving Orym and Ashton as bouncers. It's perfect.

How the heck did they manage to come to a theater, watch a show, have a conversation with so many npcs, explore around, have a hard fight in a 3 hours session. My group would've taken 3 sessions to do everything they did in just this one.

Every time they use the excuse, "It's a matinee" it's always 100% accurate xD Matinee goers are a different breed of patrons.

"Yeah, you wouldn't want someone to decide you smell like shit or something" lmao Liam xD

Robbie being in the title sequence made me so happy.

"We broke the fourth wall", this comment set off Matt's villain origin story.

Who edits the closed captions? Because you - YOU - are the hero here. Always excellent. A bunch of times, every time, I think about how great it is.

Campaign one: Doors Campaign two: Chairs Campaign three: Walls

Guards "Hey this is a crime scene!" Fern: "Yes, a crime scene I made" That shit is way to funny lol, im gonna have to save that line for later.

And now we know why Artagan told them to never go to the theatre

orym on the verge of a panic attack when being flirted with is very relatable

48:54 "To Kill a God: The Scanlan Shorthalt One-man Show." Loved Sam's reaction! Matt is The Best!!

Somewhere Artagan is screaming at someone "I told you NO THEATER!!!"

At first their enemy was the doors. Then they met the chair and thought that it was the mastermind behind everything. When they thought they where said and done with the chair, a rag tag group of furniture lashed out for revenge! Never did they notice the wall that was closing in around them

The adventurers experience *Beaten half to death* "I just need..... An hour"

Stuvan: "There's a small, child-like one named--" Me: "NANCY!"

And starring Travis Willingham as a series of increasingly older guys! I lost it when they started taking the toothbrush apart and it just kept vibrating out of control.

That fight sequence just makes me laugh so much thinking back to last episode when Taliesin was telling Matt about his "ridiculously high HP" and Matt just saying "I'll find a way" LOL

Imogen - “why do I already want to roll an insight check on you” Chetney - “What are doing in my head?! Shit, I should roll an inside check on you! Inside check!!..... yeah... why don’t you take a peak, see what you like?” Pahahaha, I’m crying, so funny! Love Travis’ old man acting.

Im dead after Travis new character. I would be so happy if thats his theme the whole campaign is to die, and comeback as old dudes.

As soon as Ashley starts to say anything as Fearne, everyone on the table starts grinning 😄

I love Matt making sure to describe Dorian as still having the diamond after casting the spell.

Spoilers: Just realized travis was talking so much trash in their group chat because in game he was also just watching the entire fight and reacting like that 😂

Can't believe Liam is going to resist the urge to be princess carried by a hot boi

So is it Travis' plan to bring back all of his one-shot chaos characters and have them killed off after a few episodes? If so I am here for it.

Having Ashley back full time is just great. She is so over the top with her character that everyone gets spooked anytime she starts to talk.

So good to see Laura and Liam next to each other again. Brother and sister reunite

7:45 “I’m so bad at scripts!” - Laura Bailey, professional voice actor

The real reason Artagan didn't wanna go to the theatre: Matt knew what these nerds would do. And they didn't disappoint.

the hysterical joy of top table and the absolute despair of the bottom table when Travis starts speaking 3:42:10

This is the second time an elderly man meets the lucky troubled Bellends after fighting an inanimate object

random thought: if laudna ever does a message on a live show, the crowd should join in ominous whispers

The looks on each of their faces when they recognize Travis' accent is priceless. I love how they all didn't realize it simultaneously. As the realization dawned for each of them, it was amazing!

I can not believe that it took me 7 episodes to realise that Sams character is literally a healbot xD

Travis's characters keep shrinking I love this LOL

I am... SO GLAD Sam sticks to putting menacing whispers in Laudna's messaging :') I was hoping that would happen!

Robbie made a fantastic point. When a party is after information, they typically seek specific information that maybe one or two people might have access to. If they ask more broad questions or for opinions, it won't directly answer their questions but it might lead them to whoever can.

I appreciate Taliesin being validated in looking for mimics

I like how this campaign, Laura finally found a workaround to the 25 word messaging limit and just made a character that could keep talking in other's heads.

This time: Laudna just yells fire and uses a little bit of magic for simulation. Next time: Laudna commits arson to make it convincing!

"When fighting a wall, stay in melee range" -Sun Tzu, Art of War

Matt: "A strong, flowery perfume" My Brain : flowers to mask death, flowers to mask death, flowers to mask death.