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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 Mr. D.S. voice actors sit around and play Dungeons and Dragons.

Like that. So before we jump into tonight's game, we're going to go ahead and have some announcements beginning with our fantastic two sponsors tonight.

Up first, a new sponsor. You may have seen them talk about their upcoming game on social media, but it is big band entertainment and paranoia.

And do we have any?

Oh, is that you?

Yeah, it's me. But, shhh, quiet man, there could be recording devices in here. All right.

I've got super secret info, but the government might be watching. So I'm going to use protection.

Okay, keep this between us, but our sponsor tonight is a new video game from Big Ben Interactive called Paranoia Happiness is mandatory, inspired by classic CR-PG games.

And the original call to our PG. In the game, you create a lead team of four trouble shooters who take commands from an all-knowing paranoid AI called a friend computer in a retro futuristic world filled with deadly tech.

Now I've been awake for 44 straight hours playing it, studying and hunting for hidden messages and secret subtext.

Maybe it's a lack of sleep or the medically dangerous amounts of rock star energy drink I've consumed, but I was able to verify dozens of conspiracy theories in this interactive addictive game.

Here's a list of few.

Would you be surprised to learn that Marilyn Monroe is not only alive, but she's a vampire and she wrote Old Town Road as a mind control experiment for the CIA.

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I learned that truth from Paranoia the game. And did you know that the K-pop band BTS has made entirely out of wood that Finland is actually in New Mexico, that the large Hadron Collider is a sizzler for the Illuminati?

Oh, facts! But remember, you didn't hear him here. You didn't hear him in the game Paranoia happiness is mandatory. Will actually be put...

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