ExU Calamity: Cerrit Agrupnin Keeps His Promises

[@golbez1583]

For context, the reason why the glowing ring is a big deal is because Cerrit’s ring glows whenever it detects lies, and at the moment he was thinking that this was the last time he was going to see his kids, so when he says that he’ll tell them all about this in a later date in order to calm his kids down, the ring detected the lie and started to glow.

[@patrykszczepanski773]

Kinda wish he threw it away with an "I'll show you"

[@TiaraBenvenutti]

Sam Riegel, father to a beautiful son and daughter, just *breaking* in that first scene makes my entire heart ache. Such amazing RP from Travis and Brennan.

[@Hey-Its-Dingo]

A love the fan theory that Marisha mentioned in the Cast Round Table: That the Agrupnin family, being detectives and scientists, along with Patia's Sphere of Knowledge, founded the Cobalt Soul.

[@jacobgalloway1392]

Also recall her character’s name. Patia Porco. CO as in CObalt Soul?

[@Hey-Its-Dingo]

@@jacobgalloway1392 I highly doubt that Patia's name has anything to do with the Cobalt Soul.

[@jacobgalloway1392]

@@Hey-Its-Dingo Well, Cerrit would know who sent both the library and the sphere to his daughter.

[@feitocomfruta]

Also, let’s applaud Brennan for keeping himself composed to tell the story. Even as the storyteller, he was rooting for Cerrit and the kids. I wouldn’t have blamed him for taking a few minutes to compose himself through tears.

[@trixus4768]

Damn... that scene, where bunch of people get sliced by teleport overload is brutal... yet authentic... in moments of panic, it's reckless actions, what takes the most life (usually)

[@Silverpelt3600]

I’ve never seen this campaign nor do I know these characters, but this made me tear up. SO much emotion in that room. Truly felt.

[@KennetG]

Watch it. You won't regret it! It's placed in the Age of Arcanum.

[@Lngbrdninjamasta]

It is testament to the master work that is this table💪

[@artemiswallace8716]

its only 4 videos with just over 20 hours of content. you could get through it in a day if you pushed lmao

[@makbrett5347]

Best thing CR has ever produced. The cast and the DM were top notch.

[@LordAaronus]

sadly this is their only game

[@victorym744]

Cerrit's chances, even with the boosts (even considering an average boost of +2 from the Talisman), were sliiiightly better than a coin flip. Brutal and wild.

[@thevoidlord1796]

Does that include that Rogue feature that means he can't roll lower than a 10?

[@victorym744]

@@thevoidlord1796 oh gosh... I forgot about that feature.... I'm only going on the feats mentioned at the time. I'm not even sure what level they are.

[@victorym744]

@@thevoidlord1796 that is a great question. I'll look into it

[@joshfrier2287]

He did have that feature because he talked about it on a 4 sided dive episode. So basically once he rolled the 8 on the inspiration die it was impossible for him to fail that roll but like most people I forgot about that until someone else mentioned it but it doesn’t really matter because narratively speaking it was such a beautiful way to end the campaign

[@noone-ld7pt]

​@@joshfrier2287 That is a very interesting point, and I 100% agree that the way it played out was absolutely perfect! I will also say that reliable talent didn't seem to occur to Travis in the moment so I believe that if he hadn't hit the 30 with the Insp+Talisman+Advantage I think he would have accepted the failiure. But the maths nerd in me really wants to puzzle it out, so I did: With reliable talent: 10 (RT) + 13 (Investigation) = 23 d10 (Insp): 1) autosucceeds: 50% (6 or higher, since the added d4 on a 29 gives at least +1 making it a success) 2) autofails: 20% (on a 2 or lower as the 25 would be out of range for the d4) 3) 5, 4, 3 on the d10 makes the d4 the critical roll (pun intended) d4 (talisman): 1) A 5 on the d10 would give a 75% chance of success with the d4 (adding 7.5% to the total chance of success) 2) A 4 on the d10 would give a 50% chance of success with the d4 (adding 5%) 3) A 3 on the d10 would give a 25% chance of success with the d4 (adding 2.5%) So the added chance of success even with the reliable talent seems to be 65% which is still a very failable roll!

[@davidparkes7741]

This was definitely a moment where Travis the father took over for Travis the DND player.

[@LordAaronus]

the teleporter would look crazy on film, like a huge throbbing pizza suddenly exploded with ketchup

[@theinternet6313]

Never seen the words "throbbing" and "pizza" in the same sentence before, but its accurate

[@jacobgalloway1392]

I just love the moment with the ring. Just watching everyone’s reactions to it. From Marisha and Abria wincing, to Lou just turning away, to Travis realizing that he has indeed told a lie to set off his own magical device. Just *chef’s kiss*. I LOVE it so much!

[@shinankoku2]

Ronin Willingham is a wonderfully blessed child to have Travis as his father. Travis gets it. This may be role play, but it’s clear that he get it.

[@russellmz]

"Why are you Iike this?" LOL

[@thecyanryan7140]

I can’t believe I started this series like “a fucking bird? Ok.” And by the end was saying “A fucking bird. OK 🫡”. He became my favorite more and more with every scene he showed up in.

[@jordanpeterson5140]

Gawd it's a terrible day for rain.

[@yiklongtay6029]

Wow that is an excellent obscure pull well done

[@bitter-bit]

Sam quietly crying is so harrowing

[@mcmann2243]

I think it’s funny how that inspiration is just the main role in the final part. With reliable talent and a +21 to the role, he couldn’t have failed that final check. He couldn’t have escaped without the others in the ring

[@kevman2093]

need an animated video of him running seems sick in my head with images of his family while hes diving and sliding

[@stephannoonen992]

Can't remember the tiktoker, but they actually are working on an animation of this exact scene

[@pbislead5986]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIu1nYaEmpWZp6c not sure if youre still interested but this artist's interpretation of cerrits run is definitely one of the best ive seen so far !!

[@davidparkes7741]

Did they make it?

[@FrostMunky]

There is an animatic of this moment: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIu1nYaEmpWZp6c

[@Finn-wc8nq]

Sander Goldman on KZbin has an animatic

[@Not_Harvard]

I don't think I'll ever not cry when that last part comes around. What a fucking story.

[@aidankeane8971]

I wonder if Sam had the invocation to allow him to teleport to the location of the person holding his talisman, moot point since he already chose to stay but still it popped into my mind

[@lucasm.3864]

Even if he did, Cerric was still flying through rubble as the city crashed into the ground. Either he’d immediately get crushed or he’d slow Cerric down enough for both of them to die.

[@aidankeane8971]

@@lucasm.3864 I know I just love the idea of him somehow surviving and randomly appearing next to Cerric in 2 days time saying "Thanks, can I have it back now?"

[@taylorforsyth4278]

This was the perfect bittersweet ending to this incredible story

[@twothirdsanexplosive]

I'm just scanning through this and rewatching a few bits and pieces and still I'm overcome by tears again. Such a beautifully told emotional story. A masterclass in improv oral storytelling.

[@Maessiah_____]

ExU Calamity is so bomb, the dynamics of these actors, i swear

[@azreon25]

It is so good, and heart breaking, I love cerrit, he is my favorite character from this campaign

[@jackdog06]

If that sending stone had been destroyed by the tree…

[@damonskyheart9097]

Thankfully that wasn't physically possible. Cerrit was far away from the tree when it exploded.

[@trevordupp8734]

Instant Tears

[@tycol322]

Random thought but I can't help but wonder how much of the names are drawn from main story critical role and how they factor in going forward. Raisha sounds like the dragon Rishan from vox machina. Kamora sounds like Kamorda, Beau's home area. Evandrin sounds like Vandrin, Fjords old captain. I guess I'm just curious if they used old lore as starting places to build this story or if this story retroactively named and created parts of the old campaign. Like will we find out later that places in Tal dorei, Wildmount, etc. were named after and by survivors of Avalir?

[@alexpenza4380]

I was thinking Kathmoira was Kamorda, but there’s a lot of similarities that I was thinking of too. Really cool work done

[@tycol322]

@@alexpenza4380 i might be mistaken but I was under the impression that Kathmoria was the name of with the mountain before the creation of avalir or the docking city. My memorys a bit fuzzy. Either way I'm pretty sure neither can be Kamorda since they were part of the continent of Dominus and it was obliterated. Again fuzzy memory

[@CrazyCasper1888]

You cut it off too soon, such a heart breaking scene in a good way

[@mrbibs350]

I guess you could call that empty nest syndrome.

[@RampageOfUnicorns]

does anyone know the piano music name?

[@monavc8962]

Still waiting for someone to figure it out 🥲

[@RampageOfUnicorns]

@@monavc8962 song recognition software failing I’ve tried Google voice. Siri. Shazam. Sound hound. All come up with nothing. I’m assuming it might be custom

[@monavc8962]

@@RampageOfUnicorns Aw man :( Thanks for trying though.

[@2tilmidnite]

Not sure if you found this, but if you mean the song around 6 minutes, it's called Fracture by Jacob Ahlbom

[@RampageOfUnicorns]

@2tilmidnite thank you 🙏 just listened. That’s definitely one of the scores BLM used. But there’s the piece at 12:05 that remains elusive. It’s a little more hopeful sounding than fracture.