#critical role transcript

In light ep C2 Ep069, this seems like a good scene to bring back. There's a lot of set-up here to what happened.

Scenes runs:

1. A Dream from the Stormlord 3:27:02 to 3:32:26

2. Yasha, Nott, Jester, and Caduceus talk it out 3:32:26 to 3:41:09

3. Yasha Confronts the Stormlord 3:41:09 to 3:54:13

  1. A Dream from the Stormlord

3:27:02 Matt: "Yasha."

Ashley, touching different parts of her face: "Huuu! Immediately red." She hides in her hood.

Matt: "In your exhaustion, the darkness comes comfortably as a night's rest, and an evening's respite. And though you don't awaken, you can feel the thunder. You can feel it roll and vibrate through your body. With each impact, there's a flash of light behind your eyes, like a heartbeat of a dull blue glow."

3:27:43 Matt makes three low rumbling thunder sounds and then a louder, sharper one. "A deafening blast of thunder shakes your eyes awake, and you are soaked, standing on the precipice of a mountain. You can see the heavy clouds before you with slight little breaches between where moonlight and stars are briefly visible before they are consumed once more by the storm." Matt makes two more thunder noises mimicking lightening striking. "Arcs of lightening shoot across the Xhorhas sky. You're cold, shivering, your hair matted over your face, you're eyes barely peeking through.

3:28:34 Matt mimics another lightning strike and thunder. "Through another arc you think you see an arm through the clouds. And it's gone." Mimicked thunder. "Another flash of light, and you see what looks like a humanoid form reaching from the storm towards you. Your instinct is to turn and run, but you watch as the head kind of turns. Another flash of light and it's gone. You sense a presence behind you. What do you do?"

3:29:27 Ashley: "I turn around and walk towards it."

This (last few) Month(s) in Translation, July 2018

Boy, it has been a while, sorry about that. Let’s get all caught up, shall we?

Translation Status

French and Spanish translators have started working on C2E6: Howling mines, so come and join them.

If you speak German or Portuguese though, there are still slots available for C2E4: Disparate Pieces, while Italian and Polish speaker can already work on C2E3: The Midnight Chase.

The Chinese team is having some trouble keeping up and are still on C2E2: A Show of Scrutiny, so come and give them a hand 

If none of these suit you, there are still spots available for C2E2: A Show of Scrutiny in Russian and Korean, or on C2E1: Curious Beginnings in the Other Languages.

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Uploads and Releases

While I was failing to upload these the rest of the team didn’t wait for me and we had a pretty active couple of months despite finals season.

The French team took the crown by releasing captions for C2E3, C2E4, while subs for C2E5 are in the pipes (you can get the .srt already right here). As well as keeping up with the backlog with captions for C1E8 out on YouTube very soon.

But the other team didn’t slack either with Spanish captions for C2E4, German ones for C2E2, and Italian and Polish subtitles for C2E1 while the ones for Russian should be up very soon.

And to finish up these busy few months of captioning a courageous Swedish translator offered us captions forThe Story of Vox Machina.

You can find all of those as closed-captions of YouTube or as .srt files here.

Tackle the Backlog

We’re focusing on keeping up with the new campaign, but if you’ve got even more time to give, come and help translate the Vox Machina campaign!

Everything you need is in the Master Link-List.

Transcribing

Tired of trying to figure out what a beholder should be called in [insert language here]? You can help @crtranscript figure out what Matt was saying as that blue creature on the last episode.

Because I am a Neanderthal and haven’t worked out how to clip from Alpha, and yet still desperately want to pick apart every single word of the meeting between Jester and the Traveller, here it is in script form. Please join me to dissect.

Jester: (gasps) Hi!

The Traveller: I’m so sorry… she’s not… aware… that you’re here now… but… you’re with friends…

Jester: (nods) Um… Okay… um… d-d-do do you think you could help me though?

The Traveller: Child, I think I help you quite a bit already…!

Jester: (with a nervous laugh) I know… You do…

The Traveller: (interrupting) What do you need?

Jester: I… I don’t know how to let her know… I don’t know how… what to do…

The Traveller: (reaches out and uses a hand to raise Jester’s chin) I think… the more deeds you do… the more lives you change… the more… confident brats you break… she’ll find you.

Jester: (whispers) … Okay. (Pulls out the pamphlet) Look what I made for you!

The Traveller: Hm. That’s adorable.

Jester: People are going to worship you like crazy!

The Traveller: You know what to do then…

Jester: Yes… okay. I missed you.

The Traveller: I’m never far.

Jester: (high pitched) Alright I’m going to work, if you want to follow me I’m just gonna go over here then…

It’s been awhile since our last transcript update; we’ve been a little busy with handling the stats for Vox Machina fighting a god. However, Critters, since our last update, an amazing thing happened: you got the entire backlog of Critical Role transcribed. It’s incredible the good this fandom can, and does, do.

Now, you can focus all your efforts toward the most recent episodes, and there is plenty of transcribing to be done there! Here are your options:

CR Extra: Shadow of War Part 1: 10 sections unclaimed Due October 15th

CR Extra: Shadow of War Part 2: 17 sections unclaimed Due October 22nd

114 Vecna, the Ascended: 39 sections unclaimed Due October 22nd

MARISHA: Can you Polymorph animals into people?

MATT: Technically, you could, yeah.

MARISHA: I can?

MATT: Technically. I don't see why not.

MARISHA: Sure. Yeah, I'm going to make him real beefy. He's got pecs that can lift semi-trucks. All right? Fur, just fur. Like that guy in the beginning of Barbarella.

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I just gave my first few hours to @criticalroletranscriptions, and I had such a great time!!

I signed into one slot just to try it out, did the middle of Liam’s quest in The Last of Us Warner Brothers Studios, and I accidently did two slots I was having such a great time!

Honestly, if you have any time, give a little to this awesome project! A 5 min slot takes an hour, and is flexible! Its really easy to get the hang of. And if you don't have an hour, you could edit a chunk or help people out with [Jenga] - where they could understand what was said (I had that with Taliesin’s car name, couldn't figure it out!).

And if you speak/are learning another language, head over to @crtranslate and give them a look! I’m going to attempt to put my French to good use but they really need proof-readers!

(From 51.33 on the Alpha stream.)

Vax’ildan, as your eyes dart back and forth, glancing upward at the sky above, snow hitting and stinging your paralysed eyes, you see the terrible lich above you. A flash of green, then darkness. Floating, without weight, without temperature, you glance around in the surrounding shadow and you cannot see anything, your hands before you, nothing, it is just void, darkness. You will yourself to see something, anything, and in an instant, you begin to glow. Your form becomes visible around you, you can now see your body, nude and held aloft in this dark space just emanating this soft, vibrant, orangish white light. As the light begins to emanate, and cast away the nearby darkness, you also see what appears to be a tangling of some sort of web, strands of silk, that also begin to glow a similar light as to your form, that holds you tightly in your position. You struggle, but you’re held firm. You think you yell out, but as you glance upwards to shout for help, you see the shadows now curl back to reveal the familiar sight of a massive, white, porcelain, woman’s face, eyeless yet staring straight at, if not through you. Her presence, imposing as it may be, soothes you, as her giant hand, larger than a house, at palace it seems almost, emerges from below and gives you a ground to step on, your feet finding purchase in the centre of her dark palm. As your feet touch her palm, the silk web seems to loosen, you cast off the threads and fall to your hands and knees. You take a moment, and you hear that soft voice once more.

“My champion, you return to me, and tear a swath through the tapestry. Please, be calm. My sight can pierce many veils, but you’ve been hidden from my sight in recent days and I am worried what foulness has turned its intent upon us. Now here you come, to me, your very thread frayed, and soul transitioning, an unexpected destiny for my beautiful fate touched.” And one of her fingers kinda curls through your hair at the back of your head. “Tell me what you have seen.”

“Your enemy.”

“I have many enemies.”

“Vecna.”

“What does this Vecna intend?”

“He has come… he’s come back to our world… my home… and my family is in danger, the world… is in danger.”

“How so? How could one man be as dangerous… what does he intend? What have you learned?”

“I-I-I… I don’t know.”

(There is a pause as she considers him.)

“I wonder why he would guard my sight… well…hmm.” And she goes into quiet contemplation for a moment, you see the strands of hair that emanate from the sides of the mask just kind of slowly shifting like waves on an ocean. “This Vecna comes to your world... to be a king?”

“…That… or grind us all into dust.”

“This is historical. Mortals continuously intend to find others to grind into dust. If this being has the power to block my sight, he has power beyond a mortal realm. Did you see anything else?”

“We travelled to the Shadowfell… there was, a tower, and he had servants, he had… powerful servants, a woman, that we have fought before, and another, a-a-a man, a-a… creature – I don’t know – with a blade, a dark blade, and he… was too powerful for us, he crushed us…”

“And in your short spark with him you learned nothing more of his plan? No hint of what he’s plotting?”

“He threw me to the ground the first second he laid his eye on me, he murdered my sister, I thought we had come to an arrangement…”

“We have?”

“Where is my sister?”

“She lives still, she is beyond my influences”

(he lets out a sobbing breath of relief)

“However, your body is ash, and your soul is steeped in the divine energies that uphold the paths between life and death. Hmm. You’ve yearned* your eternal rest.” And her mass begins to recede into the darkness.

(* I first wrote that down as ‘earned’ but I’ve checked multiple times and I’m pretty damn sure it’s ‘yearned’. It’s at 59.21 on the alpha video.)

“No… no, no, come back, no. I will not leave them behind. I want to help them. Still.”

The faint grey of the mask that had begin to fade into the shadow, stops, and comes back even brighter, vibrant almost. You sense the mystery of the Raven Queen, shift from this entity that dodges and weaves to instead, a pillar of power of life and death that is both awe striking, and awe fearing, and for a moment you realise how small you are in her presence. “You truly see to seek this? To bring it to its end?”

“Whatever it takes.”

“Your resolve is admirable, your love of your chosen family is vibrant. What I offer you is the power to see this conflict through till its end. You will be briefly beyond the very grasp of death and I will hold back any attempt for you to transition. You will be a bulwark of my power in cold flesh, walking between heartbeats, unstoppable. You will have the power to walk once more with Vox Machina, with your sister, with your Keyleth, and should you use this power wisely, perhaps save Exandria, save them, save her. But when it’s done, and this foul, undying king lies dead or sealed, you will return to me, my champion, evermore.”

The imposing image now shifts and changes in an instant, the giant being is now this simple woman, the mask you once saw removed now missing, and there, the somewhat… sad, beautiful, pale face of the Raven Queen as she steps forward, the silence is broken by the sounds of her footsteps across nothing… tkh, tkh, tkh, her hand comes up – warm, you weren’t expecting – as it races across your brow, and curves across to your chin, and pulls it up a bit; “Do you accept my gift?”

“You have such loneliness in your eyes.”

“Perhaps you will keep me company when you come back to me. Do. You. Accept?”

(There is a long pause.) “I do.”

“Then so be it. You, whose nature bucks destiny, my beautiful thing. Go, share what you have shared with me, with others like me. Take what you can learn, of this Vecna’s plans, for if he can block his intent from one, who knows what he plots against the other powers beyond the gate. Learn from them, ask them. You have my blessing, they have theirs to give as well. And they may be all that stands between the ruin of this world, and you. Let their blessings turn the tides, Vax’ildan, but choose your time wisely, for corruption like this waits for no-one. Now…” she pulls your head down and kisses you on the forehead, and brings your head close to hers, and you hear a voice whisper right into your ear, ever so faintly, “…wake up.”

(Ends 1.04.35 on the Alpha stream.)

This was such a beautiful Clay family lore drop. Husky firbolg ASMR story time. Transcript by @smidge-art, posted with permission.

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 Scene runs: 3:31:05 to 3:34:41

3:31:05 Caduceus: "The day after the Raven Queen ascended, three of her champions were given the task of dealing with one of the heroes of the war. And his body could not be maintained within a city for reasons that are lost. He had to be vanished. And these three heroes were named Clay, Stone, and Dust.

3:31:39 Caduceus: "They argued for many days what to do. And Stone said they should give him to the air so that the beasts of the realm may carry his memory. And Clay said that we should give him to the earth and what grows from them will be a monument to his glory. And Dust said that we should give him to the fire, from the ashes of that fire great works would arise.

3:32:08 Caduceus: "And they prayed to the Raven Queen for guidance in these early days, and the Raven Queen eventually answered. She said that she had already taken what belonged to her, and that we were to- these three heroes were to find the Wildmother and ask her guidance for what to do with what was left.

3:32:33 Caduceus: "And they traveled far into the woods and waited for their visions. And eventually she spoke to each of them in turn. And she told Stone that he should take the limbs of this hero and walk the plains until he found an oasis and a red and gold veined cave and the beasts would gather there. That he would feed the limbs of the hero to the beasts that would water there. And upon that site would be a menagerie whose creatures would be a gift to the Changebringer from the Wildmother, to remind her that nature is infinite.

3:33:13 Caduceus: "And then Clay entered into a forest until he found a spring. Water surrounded by a circle of crystal and stone. And there should he plant the head of the hero. And upon that site will be a garden, whose flora shall be my gift to the Archeart to remind her that nature is beautiful.

3:33:33 Caduceus: "And then Dust, took all that was left. And walked into the mountains to the north, and found a cave with a black onyx pool of fire and magma. And was told to burn what remained. That the ashes would be mixed into the brick and ink and steel and everything that is made there will hold that hero's mark. In this kiln will be the creations as a gift to the Allhammer to remind him that nature is the origin of material.

3:34:10 Caduceus: "And these three families have guarded and accepted the dead for all this time in these three temples. Each of us, on occasion, making a pilgrimage but very rarely. Somewhere there is a member of the Dust in the north, ready to help.

3:34:41

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