Once upon a time, a group of curious storytellers breathed 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 need to ask for a sit-around and play Dungeons & Dragons.

Five years!

Five years, our five-year anniversary, which is insane. It's insane.

Indeed, no, no, no.

Yeah, a lot of things are insane now.

Right now, today in particular, things are really insane.

So, we're going to take a moment to everyone, like, things are crazy right now. We're all doing the best we can with it.

Do your research, stay healthy, take care of yourselves, we're doing the same here.

Let's make tonight a celebration that is also a distraction from today's chaos and a moment of respite amongst the rest of our focus.

I'm trying to remember what's important.

Exactly. And tonight, we've been streaming this crazy little D&D group for five years, which is...

I can't even fathom considering what this could have been.

So, thank you for joining us and being a part of this celebration.

And let's go ahead and get into some of our announcements for tonight before we can jump into our session.

Beginning with our first sponsor of the night, our friends at Griffin Saddleback.

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