I dont know why people dont like the Crown Keepers' intermission adventure. I like it. Im stressed out. I want the conclusion.
I think i appreciate it more because i needed to catch up and only finished ep 91 yesterday. Immediately i jumped into 92, and i didnt take the time to process what happened. I think i needed it in real time the way Bell's Hells did narratively. So i'm so grateful for Aabria and the Crown Keepers' story. Also! LORE. Everything is connected. Nothing exists in a vacuum. I love it. I'm here for it. Bring me that good worldbuilding shit!
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this staging has me gnawing at my enclosure because being possessed and standing against your party in general sucks but BEING PHYSICALLY SEPARATED FROM THEM????? THE WEB IN THE BACKGROUND AND AIMEE IN THE CENTER???????
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Couldn't resist drawing Dorian in Robbie's bday pose
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Matt Mercer: the most selfish man alive
Matt Mercer: Dorian is back at the table.
Bells Hells: We get to play?
Matt Mercer: No. I play, no share.
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[ID: A digital drawing of Opal and Orym from Critical Role. Opal is carrying Orym on her back as he sleeps. Orym looks tired out and Opal is looking back at him with concern. Orym is drawn with a long tail with a fluffy end. End description.]
A kofi doodle request for @77words!!
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No but 'The Crown Keepers' if they FAIL to keep their crown (Opal) would no longer be...The Crown Keepers.
They might disband, retiring the name, because what use is a name if it isn't true anymore.
They might keep the name, as a reminder of what led to this point. They KEPT a crown, a vestige of divergence with them until the very last moment, balancing it between them and becoming weaker and weaker because they didn't trust anyone else with it, causing Opal to put it on and for this to happen, for them not only to lose Opal but lose Opal to the crown. If Opal becomes a champion of the Spider Queen she is one and the same as the crown. She is the last remining, taking the name literally, Crown Keeper. Forever.
More than that, imagine being branded by your decisions. Power is not good, it is not bad, it is dangerous but it is amoral. Power is who wields it.
The Crown Keepers may sound impressive as a name but it is their history, their glue. They are all keepers of the crown of the Spider Queen, that is what Lolith might not understand. (At least that's my interpretation by taking the name of an adventuring party too literally and applying too much meaning to it.)
Dariax, Dorian, Opal, -Them all, even Morrighan who was not with them before Opal put the crown on, are all keepers of the crown. They protect Opal, they love Opal and therefore they protect the crown, they love the person wearing the crown. Lolith wants a champion but she is blind to the fact she has a group brought together for her, with her. Crown Keepers, glued together for their love, their responsibility to each other and named for their trust in each other, a name swearing to keep the vestige and a promise to protect.
I may sound silly but in a world where words have power, the Crown Keeper's name must have some kind of power to.
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Making this the thumbnail is so unhinged. Orym in a sense as the force that is going to bring these two groups of people together. Orym reaching out to Dorian with such fervor and pain, begging him, begging the universe to bring him back because he needs Dorian’s comfort so badly that narratively we have no choice but to turn toward the crown keepers and watch their journey (hopefully) back to him.
I’m unwell
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the way critical role are taking so many different storytelling approaches in campaign three and making it SO unique from the other campaigns is just so awesome. the breakneck pace that bells hells are going at, the party split that brought in new allies, going to the freakin’ moon, and bringing in the crown keepers and aabria as GM for an interlude?? it keeps the game so fresh and exciting!!! as a viewer i really never know where they’re going next and it really solidifies the campaign as its own instead of just a sequel to the past ones. i love it !!!!!!!!
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