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MIDST | S1 E1: Unrise

Midst

Critical Role

Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction, Performing Arts

4.8826 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0

It doesn't occur to any of these people that the moon is about to fall out of the sky.

0:06.2

And let's be honest here. Why would it? They're distracted. There's a lot going on. And moons, obviously,

0:12.5

don't usually do anything so dramatic. The pandemonium we're seeing in the streets right now is

0:17.3

totally unrelated. Word of the big sale got out 30 minutes ago, and everyone in town

0:23.2

is jockeying to get inside of the post office and cash in. This riot is ready to strike it rich.

0:29.8

Except for the obelessant man, who already has. In all the mayhem, no one's even noticing the guy

0:35.7

in jagged, glassy armor dragging a body out of the

0:38.7

side street door, blood fresh and dripping from his spiked fist.

0:42.8

No one sees his panic or determination. No one notices, except the woman fighting her way

0:49.9

against the current of the mob, leading a girl with her. She sees it, stops, and immediately

0:57.0

makes an escape in the opposite direction, pulling the protesting girl with her.

1:01.0

The armored man looks up from the body at his feet. He almost sees her go.

1:05.0

He would have seen her if he, the woman, the opalescent man, and everyone else hadn't

1:10.0

just then looked straight up into the sky,

1:13.9

terrified by the sound a moon makes when it falls.

1:37.7

When it falls. There is nothing this far out in the desert.

1:41.1

Nothing except for one small cabin of sorts.

1:47.2

It's a sort of odd, handmade patchwork hovel, home to just one person.

1:52.8

The person who lives here doesn't really care about design or coziness. She cares about utility and function. Currently, she is trapped in her cabin by a horrible monster.

1:58.1

More on that in a moment. She's not alone in the cabin.

2:03.4

Her dog companion is here as well.

2:04.9

The dog's name isn't companion.

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