COMEDY - Ep. 66. The Stolen Century - Chapter Seven

[@alexbaker7243]

When I started listening to a DnD podcast with 3 goofy brothers and their equally as goofy father I had no idea I would be crying so much.

[@duelviper9871]

agreed i went into thinking ohh thisll be like every other dndesque podcast and will be boring bogged down by rolls and combat, but nope this was more like a well written audiobook authored by 4 people

[@washingmachine569]

I heard of it from my sister, and she made it sound like a really fun and goofy podcast AND NOW IM CRYING LIKE BRO

[@afineegg1040]

"Who?" That was the most emotionally powerful Yes And of all time

[@IHaveNoMoney-fu8xt]

1:14:27

[@mikehenderson7907]

"I can't remember her face." While he's looking at her identical twin. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!

[@tankaliciousthomas325]

Holy hell. I cant man. That shit with Davenport actually killed me. The fear that Griffin portrayed in his voice was pure and unadulterated. Good job my dude, this is the first episode that made me really, really cry.

[@ameloafocker3822]

"That was the last conversation you ever had with your sister." No matter how many times I hear that line, it's always a punch to the gut

[@Vikashar]

I have just taken a shit

[@donstaunch7895]

What an amazing story this has been

[@IHaveNoMoney-fu8xt]

1:06:16

[@notMrKeeber]

I see why she had such a problem with the boys using her name early on. Those friends she loved, staring at her without any knowledge of who she was.

[@notinspectorgadget]

They knew, deep down they knew. Merle during the spa day. Taco with his Macaroons. Magnus with the backrubs. They knew. Maybe not consciously, but deep down no matter how forgotten it was they knew that *she was their friend*

[@faroshscale]

@@notinspectorgadget it was like instinct. Like they felt pulled toward her but couldn't remember why

[@johnblatt8032]

Can y'all please stop making me tear up

[@transsnack]

​@@faroshscaleshe couldn't erase everything.

[@krisandthebluesurgeons]

"I'm Davenport.. I'm Davenport.. I'm Davenport..!" I'm crying Edit: "You realize you don't know where you are." " Kill me. Kill me I can remember if I'm a litch- I can- I can-" Edit 2: "I love you Magnus, I love all of you and I'm sorry, just sit down I don't want you to hurt yourself-"

[@AnUnfortunatePotato]

kris andthebluesurgeons oh god the effing feeeeels....

[@ekaterinao1709]

I’m going to explode

[@krisandthebluesurgeons]

oh my god all of these memories were wiped from my brain how the hell did i forget about this podcast??? Thanks for replying, now im gonna relisten :,)

[@ekaterinao1709]

kris andthebluesurgeons glad to help

[@leadstomach9397]

Yuh spelled lich wrong

[@PinkApocalypse]

Justin's little "fuck u" as griffin reveals the umbrella

[@krisandthebluesurgeons]

21:16 can't stop replaying it

[@TimeturnerJ]

Ikr? It just wrecked me. That breathless moment of realisation as the umbrella and all its implications are revealed? That little "fuck you" has so much power geez :c

[@ekaterinao1709]

The title: COMEDY The content: Hey there all your memories are gone and the only one who remembers is absolutely crushed inside

[@sleepyselkiesiren]

"To the pain!!" "No... to the tickles." (It's 100% pain this episode)

[@notinspectorgadget]

110%

[@Sellswordking]

21:15 is such an underrated moment when Justin is suddenly hit with what Griffin just introduced. Right there he put it together that Taako has Lup’s weapon and it was her skeleton in the cave. That “Fuck you” was from the heart, man 😂❤ it hurts so good

[@logicaloverdrive8197]

Barry: What if she's gone? Taako: Who? I love how justin goes ahead and starts the forgeting section.

[@Nanamowa]

I'm pretty sure that part was scripted. I think some of the scenes are just to drive the story a bit.

[@masonjones7777]

@@Nanamowa Justin also has pretty good improvisation, I wouldn't be surprised if it was off the cuff.

[@iguessmynamesriya7658]

Based on how griffin went "then taako you feel it" after that made me think it wasn't scripted and that was the line he had prepared had taako not forgot earlier

[@IHaveNoMoney-fu8xt]

1:14:27

[@infinikki]

I'm a different person now.

[@Cookingwithfire99]

Comment of the century right here

[@manpotion]

1xp for creating items that literally bend the laws of nature and reality.

[@mikehenderson7907]

To be fair, have you read the list of magical items in the DM's Guide? There's some pretty powerful shit in there.

[@Nanamowa]

@@mikehenderson7907 Yeah, but these are like, Infinity stone level objects. I think Loop and Lucretia's are the least powerful, but the rest are incredibly powerful.

[@Duck-mn8xp]

@@Nanamowa how is lucretia’s the one of the least powerful?? It literally saved the whole of existence

[@taylordiclemente5163]

Zohar. That game's story broke my heart too.

[@CeaselessWatcher01]

Taako saying “who” breaks my HEART

[@beekind7937]

22:20 implies Lup has done this more than once so now I headcanon that Lup just from time to time dresses up as a clown and/or does clown makeup and Taako is ridiculously against it

[@cheepoi-066]

real tears are streaming down my face right now, I'm sobbing. Griffin has outdone himself with this podcast and I never thought this series would make me so emotional and attached to every single one of these characters. I love this story with all my heart

[@calcifer6142]

It's kinda funny that the turned the goof they made about Davenport being a pokemon into actually part of the story

[@Nanamowa]

I'm pretty sure he planned it out that way far in advance.

[@ljubomirjuraj9658]

@@Nanamowa and how are you "pretty" sure? Cause it's way easier to write things like that into the main story witch is how most writers usually do it.

[@joseypussycat9424]

@@ljubomirjuraj9658 Yeah I'm fairly sure Griffin just wrote in alot of their goofs into the story as actual cannon. Like in the lab where they basically see our reality and lucas is like "I feel like maybe you guys spent some time in that reality since you make a lot of references (which was more of a joke jab at them making references like taco saying "you know Takko? From TV?" that don't make sense in this reality and now *boom* reality hopping.

[@ljubomirjuraj9658]

@@joseypussycat9424 Griffin said so in a post game interview. I really dislike this mindless fanboying, yeah the M- bros are great and funny we dont need to suck em off left and right.

[@Duck-mn8xp]

Griffin (and the boys sometimes) are really good at making goofs into emotional plot things. Barry Blue Jeans was a joke character, Taako’s taco quest that eventually saved Krav was a joke, Davenport was a joke, and spoilers for TAZ amnesty ep 28 Ned’s insane middle names were a joke, so the emotional weight of him telling Aubrey the actual one in his letter was intense

[@instantnoob]

1:12:31 there were a lot of lines that hit hard in this episode. "That was the last time you saw your sister" for instance. But this line here. The brokenness as Davenport's mind is erased, left only to repeat his name as the static overtakes... Griffin got me there.

[@joshua_gerstel]

HELL yes, this is how a story is told, planned, and produced. AWESOME!

[@GraceT]

For some reason, the flashbacks are what got to me. Also magnus forgetting fisher

[@randomwolfboi7866]

This episode really shows the "the need of the many out way the need of the few". It's everyone dies or some die

[@kierraspence6510]

At 1:14:29 you can hear Clint let out a small pained/disbelieving laugh in the background after Taako says "Who?". It sounds like that moment got him as good as it got me. This was an amazing episode all around.

[@halfchiangel88]

Those moments before everything dissolves into static had to be the most heartbreaking of them all, and knowing what comes next after hurts so much. This podcast is too good!

[@abby-zg4rq]

Everybody’s talking about Lup and Davenport but god the Lucretia/Magnus scene ripped my heart out

[@gabwood1514]

It took me waaaaayyyyyy too long to figure out the scene at the very beginning was Lucretia's first test

[@jessicacreed7773]

I'm so sorry Lucretia for ever thinking you were going to be a villain D':

[@calcifer6142]

Wouldn't that be horrible? To have memory of this life that you've had, and then to realize that "life" that you had isn't really real, and that you haven't really been you for years. To realize how much you've missed, that would be a terrible realization.

[@vaertni2257]

It has been a very *very* long time since I have cried this hard. I cried so *so* hard. This was a hard episode to listen to. I loved it so much. I hope it never ceases to hit really hard.

[@Lordyankovich]

Merle’s always brought that whole slice of life commentary into the game the brothers been having and to have the first scene of the erasing be who they are and what they were gone while reminiscing hits us all pretty hard. I am in tears.

[@lospereye]

I never imagined I’d find myself SOBBING over a DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS podcast but here I am

[@jweselby]

Listening to this during the coronavirus pandemic: "Imagine the apocalypse. Imagine it happens tomorrow, and everyone you ever knew, every place you've ever been.... is gone." It's giving me chills. Edit: WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US

[@zankaa8031]

Lmao I will say that moments when Griffin just expects the players to just know what he wants them to do are so jarring, like when Lup was like "hey can you do the honors of shooing them away" and then Justin was like uh..... and she had to be like "you gotta blink idiot"

[@dancingcat1796]

timestamps 3:33 static 7:53 artificer island 19:55 umbra staff 22:54 strategy meeting 39:11 break begins 45:52 break ends 55:25 bittersweet party 1:03:20 the last conversation 1:06:13 when someone leaves your life 1:08:38 Merle forgets 1:12:46 Taako forgets 1:16:00 Magnus forgets

[@computerface4095]

Thank nick

[@Graycata]

You have helped me get through this

[@Vikashar]

I farted

[@niftythrifty2927]

I wouldn't say The Adventure Zone is a good story. No, I would call it a revelation. The time, the emotion, the love that this podcast holds has made this story alive to me. It's deep, it's personal. It's hopeful, it's comforting. Thank you, Griffin, for bringing these things to us.

[@galaxymarshall1197]

1:06:20 will haunt me maybe forever

[@mixmastermind]

Oh cool my heart is dead now it's dead forever.

[@0GlassOfAcid0]

Thank you for all this, I'm glad that I got to listen to this on my weekend. It was a adventure and I felt like I was in the zone... I guess you can say, I was in The Adventure Zone.

[@sam_love_391]

Have you ever been too emotionally overwhelmed to cry? Yeah... me too

[@Sco6014]

This episode is the one that makes me cry. Davenport saying "im davenport" is like an eldrich horror level of distress as your mind is torn asunder. And "who's face" is so powerful and so sad because he didnt have her for so long afterwards and didnt even know that he had a twin. Fantastic storytelling i wish more people would take my recommendation for this work of art.

[@minerman1019]

Takko always breaks me. "Remember Bing Bong?"

[@PinkApocalypse]

"and yourrrrrr... midnight boi" huh it is midnight when im watching this

[@justsomeannoyingredpanda]

Barry put the romantic in necromantic.

[@eabhaishere4558]

How is it that even the little intro voice has me crying in the club?

[@nerdybird5764]

Dang man up until now I’ve been able to hold back the water works but this episode got me bawling like a baby.

[@fendrikdrake3320]

"That was the last conversation you had with your sister" I knew it was coming but it still hit like a fucking battering ram

[@littlepoet257]

Break ends 45:40

[@skiesquiggles7319]

Thanks doll, people like you are helping me keep time with the story.

[@AnUnfortunatePotato]

Thank you lily

[@ekaterinao1709]

Thank you so much

[@jessicacreed7773]

Desperately trying to skim the comments without reading any spoilers looking for this lmao

[@dtotheawesome8182]

It’s interesting how the story of the seven people in the crew of the Star blaster is in seven parts.

[@Happypheat]

this episode murders me in cold blood with a smile on its face

[@ekaterinao1709]

Lucretia is about to do the thing and I don’t think I’m ready I was not *sobs in I’m Davenport*

[@VampyrKnightDante]

I've listen to the fools story and song 9 times now and still..... Chills down my spine.

[@isabellea7913]

"Who?" My heart literally dropped into my stomach..

[@Just_Call_Me_Jackson]

This is the second time I've watched this campaign, this episode always crushes me.

[@tea_n_ink]

People start to forget at Merle and Davenport: 1:08:39 (memory starts) 1:11:27 (forgetting starts) Taako and Berry: 1:12:47 (memory starts) 1:14:26 (forgetting starts) Magnus and Lucretia: 1:16:01 (memory starts) 1:16:38 (forgetting starts)

[@shirtdraws789]

the narrator part at the begining litterally made me cry when i contemplated it

[@masterofthetear8138]

God Lucretia's song just wrecks me here

[@wyattmcmillan681]

Is there a version of it that has no voiceover?

[@PanEtRosa]

@@wyattmcmillan681 Griffin's page on Bandcamp

[@detox9865]

this is my second listen of balance and i know what's coming in this episode and i'm about to be crying at work 😭😭😭😭

[@ainsleyhogan6015]

1:14:26 "who?"

[@khakis69]

that fuckin wrecked me

[@Chris_Meade]

I'm fucking dead

[@toxicoffeevevo8611]

that genuinely killed me tbh

[@GirlPlus]

THAT FUCKING KILLED ME SO FUCKING MUCH OMG

[@BargusMcGee]

banana ma'am That single line, to me, is the most dramatic and powerful moment in the entire story. Incredible; simply incredible.

[@beholdingsarchivist]

Who gave Griffin the right to make me sob *this much*

[@edithcreevey5790]

What if we stood on the deck of the ship that has served as our home for 100 years while I was trying to find my missing wife and our memories of those 100 years disappeared and to stop me forgetting, I beg you to kill me and you shoot me off the side of the ship haha jk...... Unless???

[@sammie4166]

Ah heck dude

[@IHaveNoMoney-fu8xt]

* in unison * "Unless???"

[@icefang111]

5:14 (just putting this here cause damn that’s a good little speech)

[@KassParish]

I listen to this podcast sometimes when I'm trying to sleep because I need something to focus on to occupy my thoughts, but now I'm just crying at 4am with no hope of sleep...

[@Trollfeeder1234]

...i didnt know tears could flow that long without stopping Oof

[@zhyza]

Taako's "Who?" might be the single most powerful word I've heard in any podcast. Goosebumps, from just one word

[@ataruDev]

This killed me. I have- I guess had at this point, a friend who was so dearly important to me, who mentioned this podcast in passing every so often, and I don't know what happened but I can't reach her anymore, she just sort of fell out of my life, it's probably my fault. I just want to thank her honestly

[@derigel9783]

Have you found her yet? If not, keep on searchen. Even if its just for a moment, where you can be surten that she still exists. Talk about the old day. About Today and tomarow. Ask questions.

[@rhiannonsim8815]

y’all I’m only through the first half of this episode, but I’m reading through the comments and I’m so unprepared to cry.....

[@rhiannonsim8815]

Dammit.... three minutes to the end and no im balling..... i thought i made it 😭

[@cartoonking1789]

@@rhiannonsim8815 it was a gut punch.

[@mr.blackfang3733]

God damn it, Griffin! Why are you doing this to me QnQ This is the last thing I expected when I first started listening to this podcast... Sadness, utter sadness...

[@derigel9783]

This is peak storystelling and longgame planing. Like, holy shit, he had it all planed out since the first or second episode!

[@drinkerofpaint]

I swear the exits not made equal speech is like a trigger for me or something it has me bawling every time

[@iamsad9107]

This is the first time TAZ made me shed a few tears. Well done, McElroys.

[@FullMetalWhovian81]

"comedy podcast" my ass I lose it every time I listen to this

[@williamlazenby314]

STOP MAKING ME CRY I love this podcast so much.

[@rachelhall4709]

I'm feeling so many emotions :(

[@shundley5891]

Point of order, don't try to listen to this at work. 😢

[@woebegone_kenobi]

Listing to this right now and fuuuuck; how did Justin not realize the second Loop became a Litch that.. that he's got his sisters staff.. like damn that hurts to goddamn much

[@MrMatthias]

Bravo!!! Absolutely outstanding storytelling!! I am so excited to hear the Grand Finale!!

[@xatlern]

I'm literally cutting onions as I'm listening to this and it's a very odd sensation. Opening the window to help with the onion fumes, but I don't think that'll help with the other part

[@williammartineau9841]

Hee hee funny comedy dnd podcast

[@Alpacnologia]

i can't believe Lup went out to buy cigarettes

[@faroshscale]

DGSKSVSJSK

[@CeaselessWatcher01]

1:06:15 Thanks didn’t need my heart...

[@mikehenderson7907]

Ah, there's the soul crystal. I thought it was mentioned again.

[@glitchtendo2497]

I kept trying to listen to this video for almost a week now and it won't load.

[@ragingrudy7515]

at the end i so wanted griffin to say "your in the endgame now"

[@skullptures142]

I wonder how the real Davenport feels with all this

[@jonathansims967]

just saw monster factory, honestly knowing that griffin is literally a god of both ends of the spectrum of character creation, both oh my god what the FUCK is that and oh god oh GOD oh damn my FEELINGS, honestly what the fuck griffin

[@detox9865]

on my third listen of this arc and i'm still crying. a lot.

[@jehifferdavidguirigaimaldo6124]

jesus that intro didnt had to hit that hard...

[@cbaxter2885]

It’s been 30 MINUTES WHY AM I STILL CRYING!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[@mikehenderson7907]

Daaaaaamn that intro!

[@ryanmoser3495]

"I'm Davenport" God, that hit so hard.

[@BEARNakedGaming]

This changed me.

[@jonathantejada3880]

Why am I crying so hard right now

[@TimeturnerJ]

Yeah okay. Consider my heart shattered.

[@sammie4166]

Welp, imma just go back to crying loudly in the bathroom, yup

[@clourenskidmore9190]

Ohhhhh third option

[@Ingestedbanjo]

7:12 I thought the cycles were a lot longer than that, like a year or so.

[@maddyc2025]

THE AMOUNT OF FUCKING TISSUES I NEEDED DURING THIS EPISODE. THIS WAS A MASTERPIECE. A FU C K I NG MASTERPIECE AND IT'S ONLY THE BEGINING OF THE FINALE

[@gsuaveyt]

Honestly for some reason one of the big hard hitting lines was "your taako, from tv!"

[@qrovella7742]

Ads end 45:34

[@duckserenade]

Nah, she the coolest clown.

[@rivasnuria2158]

I'm crying so much right now, i swear to Pan-