♪Episode Song References♪
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- 00:32:38 Walter Marks ft Sammy Davis Jr - I've Gotta Be Me
- 02:56:00 Anjali sings a little action tune for initiative rolls (song unidentified)
- 03:10:57 ♪Halfling on fire♪ Alicia Keys - Girl On Fire
- 03:12:03 ♪Stagger back into the darkness.♪
- 03:12:20 ♪Things I didn't consider before.♪
- 03:16:07 "Risky Business" Bob Seger - Old Time Rock and Roll
- 03:30:28 Taking the Hobbits to Isengard
- 03:55:11 The Coasters - Yakkity Yak
- 04:16:49 Crossfire commercial
Highlights
- 00:01:34 Hi, I'm Aimee Carerro. I play Opal, Hexblade warlock, and tonight she might succeed in vomiting up her twin.
Anjali:"Always makes me think of My Big Fat Greek Wedding... 'It was...her twin'"
Aimee:"They found teeth and a spinal cord, it was my twin." - 00:23:00 When you learn about ancient civilizations across the long span of Tal'Dorei's history, there was a civilization that was old when the Calamity hit, that was lost forever ago called Niirdal-Poc.
- 00:29:55 Aimee rolls a natural 20, in a highlight for Aabria, that saves her hairstyle during their entrance into the ancient ruins.
Aabria:"This is power gaming for me. You didn't want your hair to get wet and it didn't! Yeah!" - 00:38:17 As you pass through the gate, you go inside and you walk through what feels like 40 feet of tunneling, before you're able to break into the city proper.
And you are inside the ancient stronghold of Niirdal-Poc and the fog is inside this place too, but it's sort of-- It's lighter and wispier and permutates everything and there're lanterns all over and they all glow with the same greenish-goldish-grayish light that doesn't quite burn.
Doesn't make sense.
And you pass through on this very well cobbled, well-maintained city path and you pass these massive buildings of that same gray-green. It's not cobblestone. It's covered over with a concrete in this strange color that your eye slips by naturally.
And all these buildings are multistory with little carved terraces and you see tiny gardens and people tending them and the people inside it, you see lots of humans and half-elves, yes, but also gnomes and halflings and even more interesting races. You see hobgoblins, and goblins, and people with the faces of cats and elephants and birds. This place is wild and different, and everyone walks through the mists silently, but very serenely.
And they give you a little look and a little nod as to acknowledge, yes, you are new and we know everyone here, but the city is massive.
15,000 people moving about their daily life.
It is ancient. However, the architecture is extraordinarily different. Most of Tal'Dorei is very medieval, Western European-coded, and this has a lot of curves to it and arches. And it's that strangeness of the lack of cobblestone and visible stone-age, that everything is covered over and smoothed over with this gray-green concrete.
So there is something distinctly old about it, because you see there's something in its simplicity that feels ancient, but it's very distinct and unique from Tal'Dorei or at large, farther north. - 00:44:38 Elam Genar, an Earth genasi (and eventually her dog Googal) is introduced.
- 00:50:34 Googal that massive dog nearly encounters a Vestige of Divergence in pursuit of the smell of pies from Dariax's pack.
- 00:52:50 Aimee:"I think it's like cow penis."
Anjali:"Yes, it is."
Aabria:"What?!"
Liam:"Correct, correct." - 00:53:02 Aabria:"Alright, make an animal handling check for me. As you're holding it up, you see him do something like, "Huh?" as he's looking at a little plant, which he's already learned is not food for him, but it smells like liver-y bull dick."
- 01:03:24 Elam:"They haven't said anything officially, out loud, but Ruidus is out and a dark moon is a dark omen."
- 01:18:08 Dorian's other name revealed (Bronte)
- 01:28:42 Opal's other name revealed (Georgina and her sister Theodora)
- 01:31:32 Lore Drop Elam:"So, long ago when we were more than just Niirdal-Poc, this was the capital city, but not the only city here. The Qoniira Tetrarchy was five cities. One to the north, one to the south, one to the east, to the west and we were at the center...we were a powerful widespread civilization that is only here now.
But the Qoniira, we have four leaders, tetrarchs. One at each of the cities on the peripheral and they would come here whenever they needed to make group decisions. Everything else was held by one of them. But they're all here now because we're all that's left." - 01:35:00 As you guys get back out onto the streets it's that last couple of minutes of twilight before it goes fully dark and the fog has gotten much thicker and the air is pushed through with this hazy, gray, golden glow and you lead them toward it in its direction, until you finally reach the main plaza of Niirdal-Poc.
Standing at the center of it is this massive, 40-foot high statue of a feline humanoid with a really serene face looking into her own clutched hand, holding that gray gold light that seems to be diffused out and everywhere. And there's this shattered halo of light around it. And from her back springs four large feathery wings.
You recognize this as a statue of The Observer...
(To Matt) You feel suddenly-- not sickened, but dizzy and overwhelmed and both of you close your eyes in unison trying to calm your mind. Dariax as you lean over, eyes turn to you and you see that, that pendant that you wear, that compass is glowing with the same gray gold light.