S3 E01: UNEND | Midnight

Midst

Critical Role

Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction, Performing Arts

4.8 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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When tomorrow becomes today.Learn more at https://critrole.com/unend-season3/ SEASON 3 DESCRIPTION:Yet again, the Ship’s crew of cosmic explorers have discovered something they never set out to find. Their desperate attempt to get back on course has only pulled them deeper into the maze of reality, where new threats and revelations await them behind every door. Even if they somehow manage to make it back home… who will they be by the time they get there?UNEND SERIES DESCRIPTIONSeveral decades after the events of MIDST and Moonward, a supernatural ship and a remarkable crew set forth on an expedition to explore the highest heights, deepest depths, and furthest reaches of the known cosmos. But their journey is fraught with peril as they discover truths and realities far stranger than any of them could ever have imagined.JOIN THE FOLD or BECOME A BEACON MEMBERIf you want to receive UNEND episodes two weeks early and uninterrupted by ads AND gain access to lore expanding bonus content, join Beacon at https://beacon.tv or become a Fold Member at https://midst.co PRODUCTIONUNEND is created, written, produced and narrated by Third Person UNEND Theme Song by XenSenior Producer: Maxwell JamesLead Animator: Max SchapiroLore Keeper: Jared DeiroPost Production Coordinator: Bryn HubbardART CREDITS:UNEND Series Key Art by Julie Dillon || @juliedillonartUNEND Season 3 Art by Nate Gonzalez || @natemoonlife with Character Art by Lyadrielle || @LyadrielleUNEND Logo by Aaron MonroyUNEND is a Metapigeon production in partnership with and distributed by Critical Role Productions#UNEND #Season3 #MidstCosmos #CriticalRole Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.5	Hey there, since you're listening to Onend, we can only assume that you're a fan of stories featuring a cast of mismatched weirdos exploring the cosmos together
0:38.5	in a very unconventional vessel. Maybe you also like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who,
0:44.6	The Good Place, or everything everywhere all at once. If that sounds like you, let us do you a favor
0:50.9	and tell you about a little indie audio drama called Midnight Burger.
0:56.3	When Gloria took a waitressing job and a diner outside of Phoenix, she didn't realize she was now
1:00.7	an employee of Midnight Burger, a time-traveling dimension-spanning diner. Every day, Midnight Burger
1:06.0	appears somewhere new in the cosmos along with its staff, a galactic drifter, a rogue theoretical physicist, a
1:11.9	sentient old-timey radio, and some guy named Casper. No one knows who built Midnight Burger
1:17.0	or how it works, but when it appears there's always someone around who could really use a cup
1:21.0	of coffee. Midnight Burger is funny, touching, profound, wonderfully performed and produced, and just
1:27.3	really, really good.
1:28.6	And if you listen all the way up to Chapter 39, you might even hear three familiar voices.
1:33.8	You can find and listen to Midnight Burger wherever you get your podcasts, or learn more at
1:38.6	we open at 6.com.
1:41.1	Saskia's Cabaret is packed.
1:43.9	Music Saskia's cabaret is packed. It's the most popular nightlife spot in Stationery Hill on a normal night, and this is not a normal night.
2:03.8	It's New Year's Eve in Stationary Hill on Midst.
2:07.5	Wait, New Year's Eve? Really?
2:11.2	It's not something cool and unique to this setting, like Traversals reversal or something?
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