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C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang

Marisha comforting a sad Sam in a dressing room. Sam wears a fuzzy sheer purple gown, purple curlers in his hair, and a swatch of shiny makeup on his left cheek. Marisha holds out her hand, trying to calm Sam down. Behind Sam is a table covered in a number of colorful flowers and Sam-related paraphernalia. A framed photo of a young beardless Sam sits behind a thick hardcover book with an image of Sam holding a large red d20 and wearing a red d20 costume. The title is partially unreadable, but includes “Dodeca-HEAL YOURSELF”. A skull mask, a photo of Sam in a suit and fedora, and a photo of Sam in regal attire with a union jack shirt are attached to the mirror behind the table. A bowl of sprinkle donuts with white frosting are next to the book.

C4E002 Broken Wing

Taliesin, Matt, Ashley, and Sam at the Announcement Playhouse table. Matt is face down on the table, apparently dead. Taliesin and Ashley look at Matt with surprise and worry. Sam, dressed as Sherlock Holmes in a deerstalker hat and Inverness cape, looks directly into the camera, his mouth open in astonishment. On the table in front of Matt is a box with a caped individual on the front labeled “THE FABLEMAKERS”. A deck of cards sits next to the box.

C4E003 The Snipping of Shears

The Critical Role Announcement Playhouse table. Sam wears a neon pink and green 80’s-style exercise suit and stands with his left leg up on the table, crotch pointing towards the rest of the cast. Marisha looks confused, Liam is holding back a smirk, Laura and Travis look at each other laughing, Matt grimaces and covers one eye, and Ashley purses her lips in mock discomfort. Sam wears a pink headband and sunglasses. The Announcement Playhouse sign bears a hand-drawn image of a laughing cat drama mask.

C4E004 Stone-Faced

The Critical Role Announcement Playhouse table. Matt, dressed as a carrot, performs the Heimlich maneuver on Sam, who gasps violently, appearing to expell a large rolled up piece of poster paper. Ashley, dressed as a carton of milk, watches, looking disturbed.

C4E005 Branching Paths

The Critical Role Announcement Playhouse table. Ashley, dressed as Gale, speaks into a sky blue rotary phone. Liam sits to her right, head cocked and face skewed into a mischievous smile. Ashley wears visor sunglasses and a blue baseball cap with an image of a large green fish drinking a stein of beer. She has on a sweater in blacks and primary colors. On the table in front of the phone is a name plate reading “GALE: FORMER PRESIDENT, NATIONAL HERO, CHILD STAR”. Sam looks on, smiling gleefully from the right edge of the image. The Critical Role Announcement Playhouse table. Ashley, dressed as Gale, speaks emphatically into a sky blue rotary phone while Matt, Liam, and Sam erupt in uncontrolled laughter. Ashley wears visor sunglasses and a blue baseball cap with an image of a large green fish drinking a stein of beer. She has on a sweater in blacks and primary colors. On the table in front of the phone is a name plate reading “GALE: FORMER PRESIDENT, NATIONAL HERO, CHILD STAR”.

C4E006 Knives and Thorns

The Critical Role Announcement Playhouse table. Sam holds a small white cassette player with the play button pressed down. His face and body display discomfort as he listens. Ashley sits next to him looking confused, her hands clasped on the table in front of her. Ashley wears a blue baseball cap with an image of a large green fish drinking a stein of beer and a sweater in blacks and primary colors. Sam wears a gray hoodie with the text “YOU CAN CERTAINLY TRY” in white over the left breast. A large potted plant is visible in the background and a plastic disposable water bottle sits in front of Sam.

C4E007 On the Scent

The Critical Role Announcement Playhouse table. Taliesin is dressed in a bright rave outfit and candy necklaces, while Marisha and Laura on either side of him eat from those necklaces. Taliesin wears a metallic rainbow tanktop and a pink, white, and brown wig, and clasps his hands in front of him in good-natured discomfort. Marisha grabs one end of a necklace in both hands and chomps down on it, while Laura holds the other end of the necklace, looking off screen, smiling and chewing. Taliesin dancing uncomfortably, green-screened onto an empty rave dancefloor. He wears a metallic rainbow tanktop, short metallic shorts, and a number of candy necklaces, and carries a green glow stick in each hand. The green-screened background has a disco ball, a scattering of colorful lights across the walls and floor, a blue sphere sitting on the ground, and tiled bench-like platforms lining the edges of the room.

C4E008 Fanged Revenge

The Critical Role Announcement Playhouse table. Sam holds up a photograph of Matt with a platinum blond bowlcut. Matt in the image looks forward with a neutral expression. Sam smiles while holding the photograph. Liam sits next to him, holding in a laugh. Liam wears a shirt with an image of a grim reaper reading “KISS YOUR HOMIES ON THE MOUTH”. A mug with a gray dragonscale texture sits in front of Sam. A headshot of Matt with a platinum blond bowlcut. Matt has a neutral expression, his head tilted, looking forward. The hair is uniform length on top of his head and cut shorter above his ears. He wears a dark gray collared button-up shirt. The picture is set against a solid tan background. A headshot of Ashley with spiky hair dyed dandelion yellow and brown roots, in a punk style. The hair is short-cut. Ashley looks directly at the viewer placidly. She wears a V-neck black blouse with white polkadots. She has pink lipstick, two gold ring piercings towards the top of her left ear and one gold piercing on the lobe. The picture is set against a solid gray background. A headshot of Liam fully bald except for short brown hair on the sides of his head. He smiles widely and genially, head tilted, looking up and to the right. He wears a blue and white plaid collared button-up shirt with fastening snaps over a black undershirt. The picture is set against a solid white background. A headshot of Sam with long wavy brown hair and blond streaks, reaching down to his chest. He smiles gleefully. He wears a light gray sweater over a dark blue undershirt. He has a short brown beard with some patches of white on his chin. The picture is set against a solid black background.

C4E009 To the Hounds!

Taliesin and Sam sitting at the Critical Role Announcement Playhouse table. Taliesin holds a ventriloquist dummy with a plaid red and white shirt and messy ginger hair. One hand is behind the dummy’s back and the other rests on its neck. The dummy’s mouth is open as if talking. Taliesin and Sam both stare directly at the camera. Sam gestures forward, as if explaining something, while his face looks confused. Taliesin’s face is creepily passive.

C4E010 Blood for Blood

Sam and Taliesin sitting at the Critical Role Announcement Playhouse table. Sam holds a red translucent 20-sided die in his right hand and a claw-shaped wine stopper in his left hand. His mouth is in an O shape as if giving an exaggerated pitch. On the table in front of him is an open wine bottle with the text “DARK HORSE” and a gold image of a horse head on the label. Next to the bottle is a glass partially filled with red wine, a wine bottle tote reading “CRITS & SIPS” on the handle, and several large stacks of hundreds of index cards. Taliesin looks over at Sam, vaguely amused.

C4E011 Make Merry

Sam drinking from a can labeled “Power!” with a lightning bolt after it, the text hand-written on green construction paper and taped to the side of the can. The image is overlaid with Python code from three different files. One file appears to implement a card game, with functions like “__deal_hand” and “__battle”, and variables like “self.player1_hand”, “self.player2_hand”, and “player1_score”. Another file calls a “merge_sort” function and assigns the result to “sorted_left_side” and “sorted_right_side”. The final file loops while a variable “low” is less than or equal to a variable “high”, and assigns a variable “median” to “(low + high) // 2” on each iteration. The cursor is after “if arr”, and a dropdown menu shows autocompletion results like “bytearray” and “AssertionError”. Matt, Ashley, and Sam sitting at the Critical Role Announcement Playhouse table. Sam’s face is covered in bandaids and Ashley reaches over to rip one off his chin. Sam looks forward, in the middle of reading from a teleprompter, but leans towards Ashley to help her reach the bandaid. Matt looks on impassively. Sam wears a purple T-shirt reading “You spoony bard!” in pixelated font, with an image of a fireball streaking towards a pixel art Scanlan from the direction of another armored pixel art character.