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Midst

MIDST | S1 E19: Moonfall

Midst

Critical Role

Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction, Performing Arts

4.8826 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We told you this was going to happen.   Midst is an audio drama in which three mischievous narrators spin a surreal, reality-bending, sci-fantasy space western about a crotchety outlaw, a struggling cultist, and a diabolical bastard making awful decisions in a world on the edge of disaster.   To unlock more episodes, have an ad-free experience, and access rich lore-expanding bonus content, join the fold over on Midst.co as a paid subscriber!    Some themes and situations that occur in-show may be difficult for some to handle. If certain episodes or scenes become uncomfortable, we strongly suggest taking a break or skipping that particular episode. Your health and well-being is important to us and Psycom has a great list of international mental health resources, in case it’s useful: http://bit.ly/PsycomResources   Midst is created by Third Person  Original Music and Episode Icon Art by Third Person   Follow us! Website: https://www.midst.co Twitter: https://twitter.com/midstpodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/midstpodcast   Find our merch at midst.co    Midst is a Metapigeon production in partnership with and distributed by Critical Role Productions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

We told you this was going to happen.

0:07.0

For a moment, the crowds in the streets fall perfectly still as everyone looks on in horror.

0:15.0

The residents of Mids stop what they're doing in the streets and look up with curiosity at the moon blowing apart in the sky.

0:25.2

And that for just a moment is an interesting spectacle.

0:29.5

That's not something you see every day.

0:31.6

Huge fissures rip across the surface of the moon.

0:37.3

The huge mica shard that is of the moon.

0:46.4

The huge Micah shard that is midst's moon is shattering, flashing and sparking, splintering apart in the air high above the black ocean of fold, and is breaking apart, luminous, not in the way

0:53.4

that Micah usually is, it is exploding quite, luminous, not in the way that Micah usually is.

0:55.0

It is exploding quite literally in a fiery burst.

0:58.9

The diffuse light, normally given by the moon,

1:04.1

flickers as titanic explosions rip across it.

1:10.5

And the entire moon begins to fall out of the sky.

1:13.6

There's something almost stately about it.

1:21.6

Almost like watching fragments of a glacier slough off into the ocean.

1:27.9

Beautiful for a moment, but then its sonic shockwave hits the islet.

1:34.2

Windows break.

1:35.6

Everyone loses their balance.

1:37.3

The ground quakes, formations of rocks split, roofs collapse.

1:42.1

As the first fragments of the shattered moon hit the median,

1:46.9

the surface of the black ocean of fold. There is an immediate reaction, and that was just the

1:53.0

first few fragments. They keep coming, they keep raining down from the remnants of the moon,

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