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CRITICAL ROLE 4.14 A Bridge Too Far

[ID: A digital drawing of Murray Mag'nesson from Critical Role. She's looking up and to the right, laughing. End description.]

demons can’t be saved.

Big Titty Pikachu was actually Liam, Taliesin was falsely accused

Brennan's whole vibe is terror! You give him the tools to disassemble you and he does so! He is like, I love these characters, and the issues and traumas you baked into them, let's slowly dissect them

Inspo for Bolaire, started with Leo Atticus his Candela character, talking weapons generally, thinking about identity and layers of what makes you you, speaking with actors, watching DS9 and the dax creature, Alan Cummings in Plunkett and MacLeane, warlock skill set is "whataboutism"

Pre-campaign in a Matt game he played a character killing people behind everyone's backs - 'evil' acts in a non 'evil' campaign? Don't get in the way of the story or other player's decisions, evil means not evil ends.

Re inside Bolaire's mask - There's mechanisms to the theatre, and a question of what's outside the theatre, it's a liminal space

What happens if Bolaire reveals more of himself but Hal doesn't agree or rejects it? Bolaire sees himself as Companion to Hal's Dr Who, built to play second fiddle. Some people when they get a new emotional problem they fall back on fiction. Bolaire doesn't experience emotions the same way but they do ape them and a lot of what they ape comes from Hal. Taliesin doesn't know how they'd react, it might break them

Alignment? - Built to kill gods and uplift mortal experience, tool against violent rule or deep classism, not negotiable, scorpion on turtle's back

Bolaire and the Panto were always conscious, just no free will. It's an improv team of caricatures, the harlequinade. If he finds them he'll try to awaken them

Effect of certain spells - we'll find out as it comes, that's part of the fun. Hard to kill but easy to chuck in a box, being hard to kill is Taliesin's least favourite part

When Bolaire transfers there's risk of being rejected, risk of being outwitted by the host, the mask wasn't made to be used this way so it can go very wrong

Looking forward to flashbacks to some of the transfers

The flashback scene to the play was something Taliesin and Brennan spoke about for 3/5 mins and then 20 mins later Brennan was rolling out the whole thing. He's scary but he talks to everyone and knows what we want to mess with

Warlock subclass is customised, haunted object. Bolaire is his own patron.

Bolaire playlist started mostly classical then veered

One DnD version? 5 because of supplements

One book series? Nero Wolf, bombastic style, lots of them

Only one, Vampires or werewolves? Werewolves,

One character? Mechanically Ashton, daily vibe Caduceus

Backup? Got the character, building the subclass, tragic character on the upswing

Good on ya!