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Midst

MIDST | S2 E2: Ascendancy

Midst

Critical Role

Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction, Performing Arts

4.8826 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Who's in charge here, anyway?    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!    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.   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

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0:00.0

The Consector's flagship is headed toward the light.

0:05.8

The highest light, in fact, the capital city of the An.

0:10.4

You've been there before.

0:11.8

They have left the poor, doomed islet of midst far behind, no longer visible somewhere beneath them below layers of cloud and glittering fields of mica.

0:22.9

The ship swooshes onward, its oars fanning through the air as it races at a goodly speed

0:29.8

back towards the city, still far distant, but they're well on their way.

0:35.5

They are making haste. There's a whole economy they have to save.

0:40.1

And people, too.

0:41.2

Speaking of people, below decks, the entire company...

0:45.1

Well, the entire company minus some guy.

0:47.5

They left some guy amidst.

0:48.9

Oh, that's right.

0:49.6

Yeah.

0:49.9

Well, besides the company, they've managed to transport virtually all of the individuals who had set up trust accounts.

0:59.0

All the new trustees from Midsd, or most of them anyway, a good number of them, safely aboard the flagship.

1:05.9

Being born away to safety.

1:08.1

They're all pretty upset, of course, in spite of being rescued. It's been a really,

1:12.5

really bad day. Many of them are missing family members or friends. They don't know if they

1:18.9

managed to escape or what ship they went on or if they're ever going to see them again. And of course,

1:24.0

plenty of them are pretty attached to the physical location of Midsd as well.

1:27.7

And who knows what's going to happen to that?

1:29.8

They can't see it anymore.

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