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Midst

MIDST | S2 E5: Sugarcoat

Midst

Critical Role

Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction, Performing Arts

4.8 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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One short day in the crystalline city.   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 Additional Music by 5 Alarm   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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Mockweep is in a bathrobe. He's wearing very comfortable slippers. In one hand, he is holding a delicious cup of bizarre, unidentifiable tea.

0:44.1

It seems like tea.

0:45.8

It's pretty close to being like tea.

0:47.6

Very herbaceous.

0:48.9

And in his other hand, he is holding a newspaper unread.

0:53.0

He's not reading the newspaper right now because he's too busy staring out the grand

0:57.2

windows of his hotel penthouse solarium, looking past a menagerie of beautiful potted flowers

1:04.6

and vines, hanging from planters along the ceiling and walls, looking at a city unlike any he has ever seen

1:16.0

unlike ha ha ha hey that was unintentional but that's very cool speaking of unlike everything here is

1:23.0

unlike anything he's ever seen because everything here is unlike. All right, that's enough with that pun.

1:28.1

Let's move on. It's a good pun. The windows in front of him offer a grand view in spite of the fact that they are

1:35.2

quite thick and slightly pitted with the mica that has collided with them over the years, scratches that

1:42.3

build up. They're thick because they're armored windows, basically bulletproof glass.

1:46.5

And the whole city that he's looking at is similarly armored.

1:50.6

It is built and designed with basically one main goal in mind to protect the city and its

1:56.6

inhabitants from Sharp Mica, which is everywhere.

2:00.4

But in addition to being a highly secure city, which is everywhere. Help here.

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