Liam Laudna-Hands | 4-Sided Dive | Episode 6: Discussing Up To C3E32 

When Liam asks who is everyone's favorite Decepticon, Sam Riegel had the AUDACITY to say the Starscream. For those who don't know, this is the Decepticon he voiced in the animated series....

I feel like Fearne mug slogans could include: “This mug isn’t mine. Yet.” “Oh this is your mug? Are you sure?” And “Just Borrowing.”

Sam! When FCG uses spells to "talk to gods" he's actually tapping into the Age of Arcanum version of the internet that only aeormatons still have the means to access

Fearne's mug just says "Property of Ashton Greymoore."

The fact that Sam got messaged by Flat Earth Society is so fitting I love it

Full cast mug ideas: Chetney - Respect The Alpha Fearne - Five Finger Discounts Orym - Sun's Out Guns Out Laudna - World's Best Dead! Imogen - Rides Like Lightning Dorian - Storm's a Brewin Ashton - Coffee or Fight. Choose Wisely FCG - CONTAINS OIL, NOT COFFEE. DO NOT DRINK FROM THIS MUG!! (that is on the tape that has been added. The mug itself has "Smiley Day!" on it, with a little snoozing moon that turns into a happy sun as the mug heats up) Yu - It's not Yu, it's me. Mollymauk - Chill Con Carnie Beau - DOPE MONK SHIT! (mug has a molded fist inside that looks like it's punching up from inside the coffee mug as the mug gets close to empty) Caleb - Coffee is Life; Gone Too Soon (the latter half is replaced with "Hot & Dark" with mug heating) Veth/Nott - Hungry? Eat a Shortstack (it has pancakes on the other side, but Yeza knows what she means) Cadeusus - Fresh from the Grave Ford - Swig in the Brig Jester - I

Out of all the revelations and theories this episode, I did not expect to receive Samuel Brent Oscar Riegal's full name.

Liam punching the tower: best boss mode of the season.

“The shadow assassins from the moon” Is not what I expected from C3, but completely welcome.

"Smiley day to ya!" is definitely a coffee cup slogan

I like the idea of Fearne having a mug that says "STEAL THIS MUG", with the idea being that she stole it because of course she did. "Well, it told me to. What was I supposed to do?"

It's very strange coming back to this after episode 33, what an ironic cast to be on this episode

I think FCG's cup would be a color change kind that just has an angry face while the beverage is hot, and as it cools down it reverts to "Smiley day!"

It feels nice to hear Marisha say Laudna is meant to have arrested development. Since the beginning, I've been connecting with Laudna's specific type of naivete and whimsy because it reminds me of parts of myself. Outside factors forced me to grow up quickly and that didn't really mesh with the maturity lag that came with autism. For both Laudna and myself, there's a lot of lost youth that we never received closure for and, in seeking that closure, we continue to latch onto the salient parts of our youth. Laudna is impressionable and treats her dolls like real people. I'm emotionally fragile and still think my teddy bear protects me from the dark. It goes deeper than those things but they're brief examples.

Everyone else: Liam NO! Liam: Liam YES!

underrated quote from this ep of amazing quotes: "I am far from the only matt."

Headcanon: The gods imprisoned on Ruidis, like the other gods, can project their influence, but can't grant spells because nobody knows their names, so they send out pulses of energy that grant power to children born that day, allowing them to gain power and influence in the hopes they'll pursue the mystery and rediscover these lost gods' identities, and maybe even free them. The shades seen on the moon are Ruidisborn souls claimed through the "mark" these gods have left on them, and the shadow assassins are a sort of golem, remotely animated by the moon gods and infused with Ruidisborn souls, tasked with preventing non-Ruidisborn folks from discovering the purpose for which people like Imogen are granted powers.

4SD Timestamps 0:00 - The Jaunt 1:00 - Time to Roll 1:13 - Nat 20 Ashley 1:35 - Ashley is Host 3:33 - Showtime 3:58 - *What the Fuck is Up With That* 4:30 - Mini Divine Gate 4:50 - Marisha’s Theory 6:03 - God Numbers 7:00 - Why those 2 Gods 7:50 - Moon City 8:18 - High Tech on Moon 8:54 - Inhabitants? 10:00 - Lore Check 11:20 - We don’t know.. 12:00 - Made by Gods? 12:58 - Moon Prison 14:10 - Marisha’s Hot take 15:08 - Keeping the Moon a Secret? 15:50 - Shadowfell? 17:00 - Ira’s Plan 17:26 - Two Gods Evil? 18:00 - Forbidden God Romance 18:48 - Born on Ruidus? 19:53 - Why Ira? 20:35 - Texting Matt 21:29 - Murder Bot 22:20 - Sam knows how it Works Mechanically 23:44 - DeathWish Run 24:48 - Dancer true maker? 26:02 - WTF is up with Fearne? 27:27 - Parent Ideas 28:52 - Question for Aabria 29:48 - Morrigan 30:36 - Into the Woods 31:30 - Who is your favorite bad robot in Pop Culture? 33:14 - *Tower of Inquiry* 33:42 - Ashley Pulls a block 34:44 - What Slogan would be on your character’s morning coffee mug? 37:52 - *The Deep Dive* 38:42 - Orym has taken a shine to Imogen and has encouraged her to step up as a leader. What does he see in his new friend to spark such direct encouragement? 40:47 - Otohan 41:40 - Otohan from the Moon? 42:45 - Is therapy something FCG truly enjoys, or does it feel compulsory since it is his designation? 43:30 - Assassin FCG 44:47 - Does FCG have a soul? 46:37 - Life needs things to live, but we’re not actually living 47:10 - Matt’s Response to the Ira Question 48:05 - Marisha’s Reassurance 48:50 - Laudna seems to truly believe that her dolls are alive. Where does this belief come from, rather than assuming their movements are the pranks of other Bells Hells Members? 50:55 - Impressionable Warlocks 51:37 - Was it your choice to make Fearne’s sweet nana Morrigan the Hag? If so, what inspired the name Morrigan? 53:29 - Fairytales 54:30 - Lore in Fearne’s Playlist 56:09 - FCG reunited with Dancer, but it was not a particularly joyful reunion. How are they doing after that interaction? Does FCG hope to one day return to Dancer’s side? 57:37 - How is Laudna dealing with the doubts that Delilah sows in her mind? This is one of the first times we’ve seen her really listen to Delilah and be deeply influenced by her words. 58:11 - Matt Juice 59:09 - Ashley, was Fearne tempted by Yu’s offer to take them back to the Feywild straightaway? 1:00:09 - Liam, Orym had Imogen reach out to Keyleth to update her on his situation. What was that interaction like for both Orym and you as a player? 1:01:48 - Orym and Keyleth 1:02:42 - Samuel Brent Oscar Riegal pulls a Block 1:04:37 - What is your favorite magic item in D&D? 1:06:16 - Fake Poop 1:07:00 - Marisha pulls from the Tower 1:08:32 - What are some of the thought processes that go through your mind when Fearne opens her mouth? I know that I get both anxious and delighted to see what chaos ensues when she starts talking, but I can only imagine what it is like to sit next to the incarnation of chaos. 1:09:39 - Ashley’s actually here! 1:09:58 - Liams’s turn to pull 1:10:03 - Tower Punch! 1:10:25 - Liam’s dance 1:10:49 - If Bells Hells we’re in a slasher movie, who would be the first blood, and who would be the final girl/boy? 1:12:27 - Consequence Box 1:12:50 - Laudna’s Hands 1:13:38 - Fast Forward 1:14:02 - What does Laudna think of the conversation she and Ashton had in the dust storm? The two of them seem to be similar in a lot of unexpected ways. 1:14:40 - The Consequence Claws 1:15:29 - BREAK STARTS 1:20:18 - BREAK ENDS 1:21:14 - CPU 1:22:40 - Crawler Tutorial 1:23:09 - Spirit Halls 1:23:25 - CPU won by doing nothing 1:24:00 - Orym has dealt with several callbacks to Vox Machina’s time, like Laudna and Bertrand Bell. What is it like for him to be interacting with threads of his boss’ adventures and what is it like for you to explore the past from this perspective? 1:24:43 - Marisha, for being partially undead, Laudna has an undeniable sense of optimism and enthusiasm for life. Was that planned? Or something you discovered at the table? 1:25:54 - Sam, are there any other conspiracy theories about Exandria that FCG has? If not, please invent one now. 1:26:48 - Liam, Orym seems especially rattled by the Ruidus revelation. Is there a reason that it’s affecting him so deeply or is he just seeing the bigger picture? 1:27:50 - Marisha, the idea of Laudna’s friends betraying her would be especially frightening, give how long she was alone before Imogen. How is she doing after the aggression between FCG and herself? Does she truly doubt if she was ever alive? 1:28:10 - Liam scares Sam 1:29:49 - Sam, you had a list of quotes from your fellow cast members for FCG to use when he switched to violence. Why those quotes in particular and how do you choose them? 1:31:06 - Sam, what was it like for FCG to be opened up and inspected by Imahara Joe? 1:32:23 - Marisha, your dice have not been kind to you. Are there any plans to overhaul your tray or are you determined to see these dice through? 1:33:36 - Ashley, what does Fearne think about seemingly being at the center of her father’s vision about Ruidus? 1:34:40 - Birds aren’t real? 1:35:36 - The Flat Earth Society reached out to Sam 1:36:42 - Liam, what does Orym think Artana Voe is doing in Bassuras? 1:38:11 - Liam loses a question 1:38:32 - Ashley, what was behind Fearne’s choice to sneakily give Gnarlrock shards to Laudna and Imogen? 1:39:29 - FCG is a cleric with seemingly no divine influence, but Joe gave him a token of the Changebringer. What does that mean to FCG? Could they have a connection to the divine that they just don’t know about yet? 1:41:37 - No and 1:42:50 - Marisha is the winner! 1:43:35 - Cauldrons 1: 44:24- Marisha chooses first 1:44:32 - Ashley, can you explain any inspiration behind Fearne’s iconic “Jazz is Chaos” eulogy? 1:45:09 - Liam chooses 1:45:59 - Ashley picks 1:46:12 - Sam picks 1:46:19 - Dani picks 1:46:39 - Sam, hypothetically you’ve been given HBO money for one sponsorship ad read. What do you do and why? 1:47:09 - Sam doesn’t know how much it costs to Skydive 1:47:47 - Halloween Costumes! 1:48:35 - Alanis pronunciation 1:49:31 - Ashley does spooky laugh 1:50:05- Poor Broom lost an eye 1:50:13 - Outro Music 1:51:08 - Dust Storm *Let me know if I missed any moments.*

I love that Dani has to chime in during the floating city, calamity, divergence, betrayer gods being banished whole kinda deal - chat was definitely going a lot back and forth there too during the episodes where it came up, and I'm so glad to see the cast picking each others' brains about it too. ^^

Orym's mug: "Visit Zephrah" touristy gift shop mug FCG's mug: "Smiley Day!" Full of copper coins Laudna's mug: Nightmare before christmas mug, but instead of Jack Skellington its Ira Wendigoth Fearne's mug: literally someone else's mug, with an entirely unrelated slogan

"Does Matt know any Ira's?" Well, he voiced a Kingdom Hearts character named Ira

Liam made those hands *everybody else's* consequence and we love him for it

I love how they all laugh at Sam making the dumb joke about the Chroma Conclave being and inside job, forgetting that two dragons infiltrated three governmental powers to help do this. Note: Yes Brimsyth was already in before but he was 100% doing stuff to help prep for the attack and keep attention off Thordak's release.

genuinely very impressed with sam's contributions to the lore conversation in this episode.... he went from "i don't even know what spoiler we're not talking about" to "dani's nodding, I'm right"

Liam just punching the tower when he went to pull from it was SUCH a power move. I love it so much.

"wait there's a commercial break on this show?" cut to black got me

I have a fun little theory not lore related, with the moon stuff it's Matt's way of introducing spelljammer stuff so he can scare Travis with the space clowns 😃

Only Liam can choose to take the tower's consequences and turn it against Sam.

The fact that no one thought of "Smiley day to ya!" as FCG's mug slogan is crazy

Ashley Johnson needs to he protected at all cost. She is a national treasure

I love the cast LARPing as 80's bullies picking on the nerd (Matt)

Watching this after ep 33 and seeing Ashley say about Imogen "God, I can't wait to see what happens when she is front of Otohan" and my body just can't!

I just love Sam's producer confusion this whole episode "What do we do? What happens next? There's a commercial break? Am I on a show???"

Watching this episode after C3E33 was a ride: "I can't wait to see what happens when Imogen comes face to face with Otohan" 😳

Liam having a BLAST with the "consequences" gives me life

Here's a theory: During the calamity, some floaty city people thought they would be "safer" on the moon. They somehow got themselves there and now they are fudged beyond measure.

Watching this after episode 33 dropped and Liam saying "Orym is a final girl" during the horror movie question. Oh no. OH NO. He jinxed himself by knocking that tower and answering the question like this.

Ashley saying she couldn't wait until Imogen and Otohan met aged really well

I love how *spoilers* C1: Percy invents guns, and that carries over into future stories with certain factions using them more. C2: The CA crack open Dunamancy and develop artificial ways to exploit it. As well as the Aeormatons being woken up en mass. C3: "Oh yea. It's all coming together" with the latest shenanigans in Hellcatch.

50:00 You know, Laudna is an undead person. It isn't indeed the strangest thing for her to have the believe that her dead rat might actually be undead too. 50:20 "she saw those marrionettes come to life" I mean, she was a person hanging from a tree with a rope disguised in the costume of a vox machina member. It is a poetic parallel for her to resemble a marrionette in that way like i totally agree with marisha's point of impressionability, gullability and hopefulness, but it is so very perfect for these traits to apply to how she understands her dead animal dolls.

Ashley: "I can't wait to see what happens when she gets in front of Otohan!" Sam: "Might happen pretty soon!" *nervous laughter*

Why can't the cities on the moon be the followers of the banished gods who were banished at the same time as the gods because those that banished them wanted to eliminate potential knowledge sharing of said banished gods?

I love Liam's just FEELING IT while he was wearing the Laudna hands. Same feeling of having long pretty fingernails, boy, is it inconvenient but you feel divine lol

The section around 50:00 about Laudna makes me think of her as an older woman but she has a young soul that didn’t have a childhood so she’s just full of untamed wonder and awe about the world and to me that’s very cute and endearing for a horror character lol

I like that during the game the cast is relentless in teasing Matt. Yet when he gets upset off set they got his back and drown him in endearments. 47:46 for reference.

the meta of sam riegle, someone who lived NEXT TO THE TWIN TOWERS ON 9/11 making a 9/11 was an inside job conspiracy theory joke is peak comedy

And oh boy, thank you Ashley for sprinkling some Scandinavian folklore/mythology into Fearne's backstory - there are indeed some very dark, tragic and plain weird tales there, and I'm excited to see where this all leads and what you've added if we ever get to come across it! (Fingers crossed.)

Liam is the peoples champion for finally bringing down the tower after fucking forever

FCG: "Smiley Day to You" Laudna: "I'm (un)dead without my morning coffee" Orym: "Rise and Grind" Fearne: "This mug was probably stolen"

" Theoretically it would make sense for Laudna to be first blood " That really hits different now

You know, a lot of shows will offer a peak 'behind the curtain' and it's nice when they do, but one of the things I love most about Critical Role content is that there just isn't any curtain...Everyone just make's dick jokes or pranks each other as the new set is assembled in front of the audience and then bam, right back into character and the show goes on. Brilliant.

I love, love, LOVE the opening bit of having the host read unknown things off the teleprompter. Please never get rid of this segment! :D

Random theory: What if F. C. G went against killing and genuinely wanted to help instead of hurt or kill. When he did so the mass producer or just producer of other bots like him didn't like F. C. G going against protocol or the mission so he Implanted something that would turn him to a hateful and vengeful state to complete it. And once it was completed he was just cast aside still with the bad implant in him and effecting him from times past.

25:30 As soon as Sam said “I think we all have a theory,” I got it. I legitimately had no idea who “D” was, but now I am certain.

Here I am thinking that Liam was gonna be the one to knock over the tower on accident and be all quaint and soft about it, then boom, he brings the whole place down with a swift punch in the most boss way possible, letting it fall with grace. And might I add, i think he's the best out of these four to have gotten those claws. The sheer sass (And dorkyness) he wields them with it just *chef's kiss*👌

Another hit episode of 4-Sided Dive where the gang makes Matt insecure, Ashley gets jazz gatekept by Sam, and Liam wears a Edward Scissorhands cosplay!

I’m so happy it was Liam that decided to bring the chaos

FCG, "ask your God for advice...." "Hey Siri?" Additional AI he gets that's an informational database dating back to Aeor

"I've seen this in my mind countless times." -Liam O'Brien 2022

If I had a nickel for every time I heard Liam talking about The Jaunt, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Seriously, I've read this story couple years ago because he mentioned it somewhere xD It's a good story 💀

My fave friends-hanging-out moment: "This game does not suck, you're the one who sucks!"

And why can't it be that the "shadow people in the red storm" Imogen sees in her dreams are just people in the cities on the moon that she can see in her dream because she's ruidus born? Fearne hasn't dreamt about them and is ruidus born, so that would also mean something else is going on with Imogen (which I think we knew anyway but that's circumstantial evidence).

Watching this AFTER watching E33 makes Liam's actions with The Tower of Inquiry hurt. He most certainly suffered dire consequences.

40:58 ashley: "god i cant wait to see what happens when she (imogen) gets in front of otahan" me having seen season 3 episode 33 😦

I can't wait for Bells Hells to finally get to the moon and find out it's just New Orleans 1895.

The story that Liam was referring to was "The Jaunt" by Stephen King (I think)

Theory: Hadar (as in the spell Hunger of Hadar) is a cinder red star-like 'elder evil' from the Far Realm. What if Hadar was attempting to break into this prime material plane, but the gods put up a divine gate to keep him from coming all the way through. Hadar is a dying star and feeds on living creatures to postpone its death, so maybe the gods were protecting Exandrians. Hadar even has agents called the Heralds of Hadar. The mysterious assassins maybe?

Liam bringing up transformers hands down my favorite part, I would like to nerd out with this man about decepticons and autobots.

OMG it's the other way around - she has a thing on her neck, it's a tether, as if THIS IS their astral plane, from their perspective. And the assassins who turn to slush are also astral projections. OR, to get out of their god jail, they use the Astral Projection spell, then find a doorway from there to Exandria. So they live behind the gate, and project in THEIR dreams to come to the material plane.

This might be the best 4-Sided Dive yet. So much revealed, so much casual and jovial energy, Ashley hosting for this episode, questions while playing Crawl, and best of all… LIAM PULLS A FEARNE MOVE!

Liam's "pull" from the tower is the best possible pull he could have done.

We may have lost Brian but we gained Ashley.

What if the Prime Deities have only one prison, so when they banished Vecna, it had to be the same prison. Now, the two older gods have a third ally, who has knowledge of Exandria all the way up to 30 years ago. If Vecna returns with backup... That's bad.

This episode is x10000 more emotional after watching todays episode. Good thing I didn´t watch this before or I would´ve died.

Thank you, Critical Role and 4-Sided Dive, for imposing a Consequence upon Liam whereupon he becomes even hotter than usual. Your generosity has been noted. :)

I bought my wife a coffee cup that says "Hocus Pocus, Time to Focus" and she absolutely loves it

Liam shouting out Schenectady (and saying it right) gives me life

Liam: Now I am the chaos gremlin

This 4 sided dive is hitting different after this last episode😅

I've recently been rewatching campaign 1 and I've always been interested with Zarahs moon patron and Vesh, Kashs deity. Now seeing that campaign 3 is heavily diving into moon shit I'm really hoping for a return on Kash and Zarah.

Marisha: It would make sense that Laudna would be "first blood" in a slasher movie. (Watching a couple weeks later) Me: Whelp... now I'm sad, again.

Marisha doing the "it's just a theory" in that exact cadence made me complete out loud "A GAME THEORY"

Marisha: “(in a slasher film) I think Laudna would be first blood” I MEAN YOU’RE NOT FUCKING WRONG

I want a mug that says "This would damage me internally", and ALSO a "World's Best Dead" mug, and Also an fcg travel mug

Liam demolishing the tower genuinely made me grin for like twenty minutes

My hypothese: Ruidis-born is a recruitment magic for the trapped gods to get followers. The city could have been a floating city which flew up to Ruidis. Perhaps from the age of arcanum… avoided the calamity? The power-spike from the leyline nexus event is the end-goal for freeing the the divine entities from Ruidis. Ruidis shows some connection to Feywild, so maybe the trapped deities are of Fey origins? The Nightmare King said he didn’t want to bring on an apocalypse event, so maybe he just wants to make his own powergrab during the apogee solstice, since he definitely declared he’s got intentions different from the other factions maneuvering for the event.

Laudna's Coffee Mug: "Out of Sick Days - Called in DEAD"

Avandra, the changebringer's symbol is 3 "green strokes" that looks like 3 blades of Fresh Cut Grass. FCG has 3 strokes on him. Not sure if the chat got it yet, but if not... you read it here first xD

46:30 Sam Reagel! You sneaky... You! Oh you did it again slipping something important and NOBODY noticed!

SOMEHOW I DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE DOING THE 4SIDED DIVE TODAY. MY DAY JUST GOT 999 TIMES BETTER

"Are people upset at people share names, I'm far from the only Matt" oooh nuuuuu, Matt you're adorable and that DM struggle is so relatable

I think its interesting that none of the players have brought up how one of the missing gods was mentioned during EXU: Calamity. During a conversation between the lord of the hells and Zerxus, the lord of the hells mentions a brother/sibling he can no longer remember that was banished or 'disappeared' by the prime dieties

I’m telling y’all the moon has to do with the gem dragons, specifically Sardior who lives in the “ruby palace” which is often “mistook for a small red moon”. Red moon with buildings on it, psionic powers, it all fits

They showed the word "Nightmare" before the broadcast started, and everyone in chat was saying "Nightmare" just in case it a prize was associated with it (I think). Anyways, I think the proper response would have been either "King" or "Nightmare King" if that happened to be the case...

Imogen being a final girl makes sense to me because I could see the killer terrorizing her by killing her friends and then by the time he gets to her she's angry and electrifies him. Sweet baby Orym 100% survives though.

There is nothing better to me than watching friends truly enjoy themselves together. The content when you guys are together is always pure gold

One of my favorite magical items is the Coconuts of Haste! It's not official but it lets you travel as fast as a horse when you bang them together in the right way. Not to mention you can travel with a partner if they "hold the reigns" lmao Perfect reference and quite useful!

Laudna’s mug would be “I’m all out of sick days so now I’m calling in dead.”

"Maybe we're all dead." - Funny you should say that...

Where did they get/who made the Laudna hands?! I kinda want a pair!