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Midst

UNEND | S1 E08: Relay

Midst

Critical Role

Science Fiction, Fiction, Performing Arts, Arts

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Back to baseline. Several 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. If 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. New Episodes air weekly on Wednesdays Learn more at https://critrole.com/unend/ 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 Created and Produced by Third Person Music by Xen UNEND 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

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0:04.0

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0:08.0

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0:13.0

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0:22.8

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0:31.3

A vast jet black ocean of cosmic darkness spans before you.

0:40.3

Ink-dark waves of liquid fog stretch in every direction, horizon to horizon,

0:53.3

rolling with a language sheen, kind of like

0:56.0

that drifting film that forms between oil and water where they meet. This oceanic membrane,

1:02.8

this place where the un meets the fold, is called the median. And here upon it, there floats

1:10.7

a remote transmission repeater platform.

1:14.1

An unmanned, teleetheric-to-underfold communication rig.

1:17.6

One of five in the cosmos.

1:19.8

About the size of a small oil rig.

1:22.2

We wouldn't fall to you for directly picturing an oil rig,

1:25.5

but it has this spidery, tenuous nature. It bobs on the dark,

1:30.9

liquid fog surface of the fold, floating on ten large outrigger pylons that fan out like the

1:39.3

legs of a giant water strider. The platform is held aloft on the median surface by some careful combination of engineering

1:47.4

and fold weirdness, bobbing alone in the middle of a vast, still ocean of darkness.

1:54.0

Alone, until...

1:57.0

The huge black arrowhead of the ship descends out of a cloud bank high above an iridescent obsidian blade piercing down out of the sky.

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