Livewatch thread for #CriticalRole #LiamsQuest: Full Circle, the best and most terrifying CR one-shot. come join us for a fun and terrifying story about depression and friendship! https://twitter.com/otdderamin/status/1247704323112316931

This is so old they were still at separate tables. #LiamsQuest

Yes! This is where the Weed & Sundry joke was.
Taliesin: "Catch me outside." #LiamsQuest

First Fireside Chat announcement! #LiamsQuest

For what it's worth, I would TOTALLY buy Critical Role weed. #LiamsQuest

The first announcement of the @AxeNshield risers! I still need to buy a set. So glad #CriticalRole helped launch that ship a bit. #LiamsQuest

Sam: "First of all, I appreciate you making this all about me. As it should be." #LiamsQuest

Liam killing the dog 17 minutes in. #LiamsQuest

Laura, to Kid!Sam: "Your face is smaller, but your teeth are the same size!" #LiamsQuest

Liam paints such a good picture of an alien landscape that feels wrong. #LiamsQuest

Laura: "Be careful of the bulging sausages! [...] The wet, budging sausages!" #LiamsQuest

Travis: "I haven't seen an R-rated movie at this point!" #LiamsQuest

I like Travis' honesty that when faced with horrible monsters, especially as a child, he will just fucking book it. And Taliesin is joining him. #LiamsQuest

Ashley tying the dead naked cat monster to her belt. She's such a terrifying badass. #LiamsQuest

Taliesin: "I feel like we needed an adult here." #LiamsQuest

Taliesin: "You're a teenager."
Marisha, tearfully: "Oh no, not again!" #LiamsQuest

Liam to Matt: "Apparently 3 Monster energy drinks were not enough to keep you awake at your computer working on the campaign book."
The more things change, the more they stay the same! #LiamsQuest

I love Ashley bringing up about the coolest thing about this is they all have friends at this age, which is different. #LiamsQuest

Marisha: "Matt actually said I wasn't allowed to have a motorcycle."
Matt like, yeah, because I don't want her to die! "She has to live a long time." #LiamsQuest

Matt: "What if everyone we've ever known was turned into a tree and we're pulling their fingers off?" #LiamsQuest

Matt manages to persuade Travis to conquer his fear and stay with him instead of running. Also Matt is a Bard confirmed. #LiamsQuest

Matt using Viscous Mockery to shit talk skinless monster cats is adorable. And then failing.
Matt: "Mocking cats is a bad idea! Save me!"
He cowers behind Marisha. #LiamsQuest

Taliesin is a haunted kid confirmed! #LiamsQuest

Badass motherfucker Ashley Johnson intimidates skinless cats into holding back with her teenage rage. #LiamsQuest

Travis make himself a piano wire to fight with, but it's his underwear. #LiamsQuest

We always knew Matt could heal people with his words of encouragement. #LiamsQuest

All of them trying to navigate their adult romantic relationships as children without it being weird or creepy is adorable. #LiamsQuest

We don't get Matt and Marisha table cuddles very often. #LiamsQuest

They catch up to the old man, and he looks at them sadly before bolting. And they get pushed forward into a new dream. #LiamsQuest

Liam: describes a cadre of demons.
Marisha: Casting Directors!
Liam Describes them as more undead-like.
Sam: Commercial casting directors. #LiamsQuest

SO MANY DEMON MINIS! #LiamsQuest

Taliesin: This has basically happened to me, so I'll do what I did then, and this is true.
"Mr. Satan dude, we are totally ready to serve you!" #LiamsQuest

Ashley taking a bite out of the dead skinless cat to try and intimidate the Demogorgon. #LiamsQuest

Liam just one-hit annihilates Marisha and the table goes wild with shock and grief. Matt, just staring blankly. #LiamsQuest

Sam tries to kill it by hugging it. #LiamsQuest

Ashley picks up Marisha's broken chest cavity and body and wears it like a puppet. The table is horrified, except for Marisha who is very into it. "This is what I want to happen when I die." #LiamsQuest

Liam tears Travis in two. #LiamsQuest

Matt, overcome with grief and shock seeing Marisha die just rushes forward screaming to hurt the Demogorgon as much as possible with Thunderwave and doesn't care about hurting Sam in the process. #LiamsQuest

Laura just tries to swim away, but is scooped out by a serpent with claws. #LiamsQuest

Taliesin flips off the Demogorgon and tries to crush a small demon with Chill Touch just as a fuck you. Hurts, but doesn't kill them. The demons laugh. Liam rips Taliesin apart. #LiamsQuest

Sam: "I'm partially naked. I'm hugging a Demogorgon."
That's a wild night. #LiamsQuest

Marisha helps Ashley actually wear her body while she sasses an army of demons and throws rocks. The Demogorgon rips off both their heads. #LiamsQuest

Matt to the Demogorgon: "I know everything about you. I've seen your pictures, I've read every single aspect of your existence. And here's the fun part: when it all comes down to it, you're just a figment of some fat guy's imagination! Vicious Mockery." #LiamsQuest

Sam tries to negotiate his life for servitude to the Demogorgon. It rips him apart. #LiamsQuest

Demogorgon steps on Matt to kill him. Then rips apart Laura. Fade to a gentle, warm white as Liam has no more friends to brutally murder. #LiamsQuest

Hey, we're taking a short break. They're totally restarting the story when we come back after Liam murdered them all, so you can still join us for part 2. All you need to know is they're playing themselves as kids in a nightmare. #LiamsQuest #CriticalRole https://twitter.com/otdderamin/status/1247704323112316931

Also that this is the half with the content warning for suicidal depression. #LiamsQuest

So sad Laura had to miss this half of the game because she got really sick. =( But she was here in spirit. #LiamsQuest

Ashley waking up in a p-cap suit with Neil Druckmann calling cut at the Naughty Dog studios. "What are you feeling?"
Ashley: "I'm feeling... confused..." #LiamsQuest

This is every actor's worst nightmare. Come to supposed to be performing but you have no idea what's happening or what your lines are. #LiamsQuest

Travis: "Before you go, Liam, what do we look like to you?"
Liam: "Assholes." #LiamsQuest

No context needed. #LiamsQuest

It's interesting to see what they do with a script on first read (and some hamming it up, from Sam). #LiamsQuest

Even less context needed. #LiamsQuest

Liam; "A techno-organic orgy, spilling with malice."
One of the coolest descriptions ever. Absolutely love Liam's DMing. #LiamsQuest

And Liam murders the first of his coworkers. (He got permission for this one.) #LiamsQuest

Ashley: "Liam, are you okay!?"
Liam: High-pitched scream
Ashley: "I'll take that as a yes because it means you're alive."
#LiamsQuest

Screen: "Sam" #LiamsQuest

Sam: "Liam's Dead."
Taliesin: "He would have wanted it this way." #LiamsQuest

Ashley: "Talk to me. What do you want?"
Screen: "Forgive m-" #LiamsQuest

Matt hits it.
Screen: "Forgive me." #LiamsQuest

Matt suggests they try to disable it, not kill it. Marisha tries to use all her production knowledge to creatively disable it. #LiamsQuest

Sam looks at a screen.
Screen: "Husband."
Sam: "It's Liam!" #LiamsQuest

In the face of a techo-organic monstrosity, Travis trying to use the LED-lit mocap camera to reenact Sam holding Shelob at bay. He sees a screen.
Screen: "Travis, No." #LiamsQuest

Travis suggesting they all run to crafty for health potions. #LiamsQuest

Ashley runs up to the big one.
Screen: "Ash-o-ley."
Ashley, setting the prop night in front of it: "I think you've created or done something that's gotten out of hand, and I forgive you." #LiamsQuest

Sam: "Everything's wet in Liam's world."
Liam: "Yes, husband." #LiamsQuest

Matt tries to damage it by screaming a Thunderwave into the PA system to try to use feedback. #LiamsQuest

They're so cute. #LiamsQuest

Sam: "Liam! If you can hear me in there, hey buddy. Let's knock this off and just record our podcast, okay? We haven't done an episode in like three months. We should just do one of those instead! We got recording equipment right here, huh? What do you say, pal?" #LiamsQuest

Screen: "Find me." #LiamsQuest

Liam kills Neil heroically. #LiamsQuest

Taliesin, wistfully: "Ah, I was so marketable." #LiamsQuest

Liam: "You've been abandoned by whatever dark force you wooed into bed, Taliesin. You are not turning it on right now."
Taliesin: " It's because Matt's sitting in my chair." #LiamsQuest

Matt: "Hey! Computer! Stop all the downloading! You've been vague and not helpful to any of us. That makes you a bad computer. That's my Vicious Mockery." #LiamsQuest

Exit sign changes to: "Come." #LiamsQuest

Liam: "What good deed did you do? What preppy outfit did you wear to make the eldritch gods abandon you?"
Taliesin: "I don't have my hair. You've done this to me. The hair is where the power comes from. -- #LiamsQuest

Taliesin [cont]: "-- It's really tough to get an eldritch god to listen to you when you have this haircut. There's a reason it's gone." #LiamsQuest

Matt: "'Hey, by the way! The rest of your equipment was shitty. I guess that means you are, too!' Vicious Mockery. " #LiamsQuest

Sam: "I'm going to leave my picture and resume on Niel's body. Just in case." #LiamsQuest

Here we go, kids, into the ritual of The End. #LiamsQuest

Marisha: "In the future is a campaign guide. And it's good."
Matt: "I know, I was working on it when I ended up here. To be fair, it's making me feel a lot better about spending time doing that."
Marisha: "Towards the campaign guide."
Matt: "Okay. " #LiamsQuest

And one day Matt will look back on that Campaign guide from a better one with WotC and think about how much better he's gotten. Only 3 years ago. #LiamsQuest

Liam: "The back half of this chamber is filled with masses of the very same slick technological-biological vomit you saw down below. It runs up the walls, all the way up to the ceiling. -- #LiamsQuest

Liam: "-- And you see a tangle of Akira-level anxiety decorating this place like a dysfunctional Christmas tree." #LiamsQuest

Liam, in a speak-and-spell voice: "My friends. Oh, how I have missed you." #LiamsQuest

Liam: "The reason why I am here and the grasp of physics that it entails are difficult for even me to understand, let alone impart. I feel them on an instinctual level, but I have been so lonely without you. I have been on my own for exactly 8,642 years." #LiamsQuest

Matt: "My hand still on the glass column, I say, 'Liam, how do you spell farmhouse?' With a single tear rolling down my cheek." #LiamsQuest

Liam was taken by The Lonely and tore time and space a new asshole to get his friends back to end it. #LiamsQuest

Liam: "I really missed you. They took me to a lab shortly before 2020. They said I was different, and they were right. I was delighted by the things they taught me about myself, but it was hollow. After they took me away, I lost you, and all of humanity soon after. -- #LiamsQuest

Liam [cont]: "In my loneliness, I grew angry. My anger had tangible effects on reality. I wanted to bring you back to me, so basically, I tore time and space a new asshole." #LiamsQuest

Liam totally called 2020. No one let him get taken to a lab.

Sam: "I think we all have to hit the glass together, and I think that this is something that is not at all metaphorical for something Liam is going through in real life. I think this is just in the D&D game."

This really got me live because we were all thinking it. #LiamsQuest

Liam: Taliesin, my friend. At a time when I knew many fascinating people, you were easily the most fascinating of all. Somehow a heart knocked around by the industry that birthed you came out a tender one. I was richer for having known you. Thank you, friend." #LiamsQuest

Liam: "Ash-o-lee, my friend. I never met a person quite like you. There is an openness and an honesty to your soul. The very real sense of humanity you brought to every encounter, it was inspiring to me. -- #LiamsQuest

Liam: "-- Always learning, always humble, you always struck me as intricately layered, yet you offered friendship with ease and simplicity. I was richer for having known you, friend." #LiamsQuest

Liam: "Travis, my friend. You were always a solid constant in my life. Of all the people in our little family, you were always the one who most had his shit together, in ways that I never seemed to. -- #LiamsQuest

Liam: " -- You were a reassuring presence to me, for which I was grateful, and for your loyalty, as well. I was richer for having known you, friend." #LiamsQuest

Liam: "Marisha, my friend. Last to meet, but true as any other. You were my ally at a time when I had fallen by the side of the road. You saw and helped me back on my feet. I will never forget that kindness. -- #LiamsQuest

Liam: "-- The good you did was immeasurable. I was richer for having known you, friend." #LiamsQuest

Liam: "Laura, my friend. Bless that game for revealing to me my sister. What started as a running gag led to one of the most rewarding friendships in my short little life. I trusted you, leaned on you often. -- #LiamsQuest

Liam: "-- My buddy. My twin. There are not enough words. I was richer for having known you, friend." #LiamsQuest

Liam: "Sam, my friend. What is there to say? I knew we were meant to walk the same path together the very first moment I met you. A companion, a brother, a great light in my life. -- #LiamsQuest

Liam: "-- All of the laughter you gave me-- again, the words are insufficient. I was richer for having known you, friend." #LiamsQuest

Liam: "Matthew, my friend. You gave so much of yourself. The current of creativity that poured forth from your mind was always an inspiration to us all, but more than that, your empathy, Matthew. Your empathy. #LiamsQuest

Liam: "-- No heart is bigger or more tireless. You are a good man. I was richer for having known you, friend." #LiamsQuest

Matt: "Trust us. If you're better to have known us, send us back where we can know you again and fix this before it happens." #LiamsQuest

Sam: "Thank you for guiding us here and through this all. You've been a trusted friend, and if we are all one person together, you have been our heart, and it will certainly break to say goodbye to you, but thank you for letting us go the way that you have." #LiamsQuest

Taliesin: "Please, just try. I think there are so many more adventures to have, and I think there's a better future to be written. For all of us." #LiamsQuest

Taliesin: "I always knew I'd die young."
Sam: "Are we just going to let this happen?"
Marisha: "Only the good die young."
Ashley: "You know what? We're dying on a Thursday doing what we love."
Marisha: "That's true."
Ashley: "I'm okay with that."
Sam: "All right. " #LiamsQuest

Denise: "All right, guys, going to you in five, four--"
Matt: "Liam, let no one tell you you're talented or special."
Marisha: "Pussy pockets!"
[Wall of swearing] #LiamsQuest

Liam: "Man, I need to go see my therapist after that game."
Sam: "That was your therapy."
Liam: "Yes, it was." #LiamsQuest

Matt: "And let this be a point of inspiration for any of you burgeoning DMs out there. That's exactly the point. You are always frightened to death to do it, but you have to pull the trigger and jump in anyway because magic happens." #LiamsQuest

God I love this one-shot. Every Critter who can handle the subject matter should see it. Because at the end of the day, this is who they are as people, and these are the stakes they're really playing for. To save each other through friendship. #LiamsQuest

Want to know what the hell this thread was about? We'll be watching it again Saturday https://twitter.com/otdderamin/status/1247777671972450304

I can't believe that Liam's pitch for the year he was taken to a lab and isolated, adrift in a timeless void that seemed to have no end would be the Year of Our Clusterfuck 2020. It's so ridiculously perfect. #CriticalRole even fucking foreshadowed this mess in their game.