#ExU Divergence

[shorthaltsjester]

Critical Role: 10 Years of Storytelling

Campaign 1, Episode 115, "The Chapter Closes." // Taliesin Jaffe, in "As D&D booms, 'Critical Role' makes its own kind of nerd celebrity" by Sarah Parvini // Campaign 3, Episode 31, "Breaking Point" // On Loving by Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. Sholeh Wolpé // The Legend of Vox Machina at NYCC 2022 // 8-bit Stories // Campaign 1 Wrap-Up // “Without You Without Them” by boygenius // Campaign 2, Episode 141, "Fond Farewells." // Campaign 3: Behind the Set // Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka // Campaign 1, Episode 115, "The Chapter Closes." // Explanation of the final Vex’ahlia playlist by Laura Bailey // Liam's Quest: Full Circle // Backwards by Warsan Shire // Exandria Unlimited: Kymal, Part 2 // Explanation of Fearne’s second playlist by Ashley Johnson // Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson // San Diego Comic-Con 2023, Critical Role: Fireside Chat & Cast Q&A // Exandria Unlimited Cooldown: Divergence Episode 4 // Campaign 3, Episode 23, "To the Skies." // Explanation of the final Percy playlist by Taliesin Jaffe // "For Good" by Stephen Schwartz // Campaign 3, Episode 91, "True Heroism." // Exandria Unlimited: Calamity, Episode 4, "Fire and Ruin." // Campaign 3, Episode 121, "A New Age Begins."

[omen-archive]

ExU: Divergence

Hi Critters, it’s us! As promised, we’re excited to drop the first of our non-C3 data: ExU Divergence. 

As usual, our stats have been sorted by character, episode, and data type. We’ve got all the character cards for the Divergence crew, lists of spells cast and enemies killed, and a handful of great At A Glance highlights. 

Check out our homepage for look at the average survival checks as the party escaped Rybad Kol, the levels of exhaustion the group arrived with, and a list of the discovered Vestiges... 

...as well as Crokas's excellent luck with Nat 20s. He can only roll two numbers. 

There’s also more to come. We’ll have Wildemount Wildlings data up in the coming weeks, and plan to post data for the live shows (including Chicago’s chaos) as well. Right now, we’re planning to keep our focus to post-C3 Exandria, so we don't currently plan to track Age of Umbra—although who knows what’s over the flat horizon. 

Lastly, if you're missing Bell's Hells, don’t forget we have a big Campaign 3 At A Glance page available for your perusal! 

That’s all for now, but we’ll see you soon. Is it Thursday yet? 

[olessan]

"It took my whole, entire mortal life to remember who I was... and now it's time for you to do the same, my brother."

[vvitchllng]

Brennan really said here is an absolute nightmare of a prison industrial complex perpetuated by a guy who has coined himself the Strife Emperor, bent on using people who disagreed with him or his agenda (or simply people he and his underlings needed to make an example of) to the absolute limit of their “usefulness” to further his goals and supplement the war he was waging elsewhere. It is a devastatingly brutal place that allows for those given a modicum of privilege and power to turn around and enact vicious cruelty on the ones seen as beneath them, designed intentionally to destroy their ability to hope or dream of a better future and it has been this way for years and years.

It was brought down by creatures considered so small and weak as to be insignificant, who, by working together for as long as it took, found the cracks in the foundations and brought down a seemingly impenetrable stone fortress.

*looks directly at the camera* Which Could Mean Nothing.

[galacticjonah]

"For the first time in a lifetime, you feel the rays of the rising sun. Like the warm embrace of a long lost brother."

Was hard to pick what scene to illustrate for this episode, but I went for the one that made me cry the most...

[kingcael]

calamity | downfall | divergence

shop

[castielreal]

oh man i just can’t. liam wiping matt’s tears off his face, matt closing his eyes when hugging him- them pulling eachother closer. jesus man

[lyadrielle]

just a lil guy learning to swim!

[maestache]

"Exandria is in good hands, ever loved and cherished by all who will come from this day until the final days of creation. May they be far, far removed. Stories abound. Adventures unfold. The watchful gaze of the gods giving light to those who use their stories to find the way."

Happy 10 years Critical Role!

A humble imagining of the gate inspired by the FFXIV archway for the Twelve as the raid series similarly gave me many feelings and emotions.

[mareastrorum]

Brennan: As a forever DM, the idea of you getting a chance to play in your world and me letting you be like, "You know what, after years of being the Greek chorus, behind-the-screen NPC guy, I got a shot to be a PC. I think I'll be support." And I went,

"Over my dead body."

Brennan: Over my dead fucking body, my man. No, actually, oh, you wanna be a dwarf? Guess what! You're fucking The Dwarf, my man.

Matt: It's so fucked.

[acebender]

"In all of the vastness of realms divine, no gift was greater than one mortal life with you."

[frankensteins-mt-dew]

Calamity and Downfall: Super OP level 20 characters

Divergence

[dungeons-n-draw]

Crafter of worlds, forger of a new dawn

[olessan]

"My whole, entire mortal life..."

[vvitchllng]

EXU Calamity episode one where a mother tells her little boy about the promise of rain as if it’s an inconvenience they only have to be subjected to once every few years vs EXU Divergence episode one where an old prisoner tells a little boy about how the promise of rain is the one shred of hope he’s been clinging to for decades

[galacticjonah]

"The mountains and peaks shaped by the loving hands of the All-Hammer. What a world he made…"

Brennan said this story was meant to be a love letter to Matt and it truly feels like it. Here is my little ode to Exandria and its maker.

10 years of Critical Role, 10 years of this story, shaped by many loving hands. What a journey it all is -- and I'm so happy to be a small part of it to this day!

Also Divergence truly destroyed me. The hope, the struggle, the power of the many in the face of evil. The meaning in creation, creativity, and hard work... a a a aa