Once upon a time, a group of curious storytellers breathe life into epic tales set in the wide fantasy world of Alexandria.

This is Liam O'Brien here to welcome you to Critical Role.

We'll dive into the story in just a moment, but first a few notes.

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With all that said, let's get into the story.

Hello everyone, and welcome to tonight's episode of Critical Role, where a bunch of us, New Year's Voice Hector, sit around and play Dungeons & Dragons.

Woohoo!

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Found another upper, upper echelon of the notes there.

Before we jump into tonight's session, we do have some quick announcements to get through beginning with our sponsor for the evening, Deck of Many.

Sam.

Our sponsors are Deck of Many tonight, so tonight we've put together a Deck of Many characters.

These cards are like all the ingredients you need to get a classic Sam Regal advertisement.

It's stuff like offensive accent or parody song that we can't have the rights to or dad joke or offensive or offensive.

So I'm going to pick three things randomly in this deck and we're going to make a character for tonight.

Okay, number one, Santa Claus.

Number two, France.

Number three, Doctor, alright, let's go to the props.

Let's see what we got here.

Oh, good, I'm going to leave right here.

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