Dark Bargains

is the eighty-third episode of the second campaign of Critical Role.

Pre-Show
It's the Halloween episode! And that means costumes, all of characters the cast have voiced:
 * Taliesin: Barry Allen (Injustice 2)
 * Laura: Kait Diaz (Gears 5)
 * Liam: Gaara (Naruto)
 * Marisha: Soldier B
 * Travis: Two-Face (Batman: The Telltale Series)
 * Matt: McCree (Overwatch)
 * Sam: The Invisible Man-- Oops, no, Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney

Announcements

 * Eldritch Foundry customizable minis are offering 15% off with the code "critrole" at checkout.
 * The Return of D&D Beyond! But Sam's not there yet, so Liam steps in, fortified by a "glass" of wine (properly aerated).
 * Daylight Saving Time ends in the U.S. this weekend, so double check when Critical Role will air where you are.
 * Matt painted Orly Skiffback on the latest Pub Draw.
 * The first episode of Mini Primetime is up on YouTube. Check out Sam being out-Sammed. Next week is Liam painting dirt on Caleb.
 * UnDeadwood Part III airs Friday, November 1 at 7 pm PDT on the Twitch channel.

Previously on Critical Role
''Last we left off, the Mighty Nein have been in search of Yussa, the archmage ally of theirs that they had gone to after it seemed that all was nearly lost when it came to their struggle against Obann, as he races toward some sort of endeavor in the name of the Angel of Irons. After discovering that Yussa had vanished into the Heirloom Sphere that you had given him months before, you made contact with an ally of his named Allura Vysoren, and then proceeded to go into this sphere, known as the Folding Halls of Halas, where a series of inter-dimensional rooms are connected by a singular twisting tower, only some of which have been explored. Following the footsteps of Yussa, you made your way through multiple chambers, fought golems, made golems, managed to hunt down the Permaheart, which was a specific artifact that maintained the undying nature of the Laughing Hand.''

''After destroying that, in discovering through some notes that Halas had been experimenting with cloned bodies and seemed to have some sort of ritual chamber somewhere in the Dreadnought, which you had found on the map, you went to investigate this Dreadnought, and discovered it was an astral dreadnought that had been chained down, its eye covered, and held adrift in the center of the Astral Sea, as via the door you had followed. You pulled one of these levers, which then opened the jaws of the astral dreadnought, and then you all proceeded to step inside of its mouth. So after stepping into this astral dreadnought, you found yourselves standing in this cold, almost natural-seeming cavern, larger in diameter to where you cannot see the walls around you or the ceiling above you, but a few burning bits of light in the distance, some that look to be a small arrangement of furniture. And that’s where we left off. So, Mighty Nein, as you now walk into wherever the interior of the dreadnought sent you, what would you like to do?''

Break

 * D&D Beyond animation.
 * Clips from.
 * Mini Primetime with Will Friedle is releasing Wednesdays on YouTube.
 * Travis Willingham's Yee-Haw Game Ranch: Outlast, starring the ghost of T.N. Tina.
 * Pub Draw Season 2 is on Wednesdays at 5:00 pm Pacific on Twitch. This week's guest is Erika Ishii.
 * UnDeadwood is on Fridays through November 8, 2019 on Twitch. and YouTube.
 * "UnDeadwood" deck of playing cards in both the U.S. and U.K. stores.
 * Vox Machina Origins trade paperback now at local and online retail shops; hardcover available in the U.S. and U.K. critrole.com stores.
 * Dani drinks away her sorrows. Taliesin presents the solution: a Twitch subscription.
 * Critters' Art Montage.

The Mighty Nein

 * Beauregard Lionett
 * Caduceus Clay
 * Caleb Widogast
 * Fjord
 * Frumpkin
 * Jester Lavorre
 * Nott
 * Yasha Nydoorin (seen through Allura's ritual)

New

 * Halas
 * The Angel of Irons

Returning

 * Willi
 * Yussa Errenis
 * Allura Vysoren
 * Wensforth

Quotations
Fjord: Well, Jester, you’re also very willful. Jester: No, I’m not. I’m very docile. Beau: Dying? Halas: Undying.
 * Jester: (about Halas} He kept asking for somebody willful.
 * Halas: Morality is relative, and I do not know by your standards what is considered nice or useful. So I will say, given the lack of information we have about each other, I myself can also prove useful.
 * Halas: Death is an inconvenience one of my experience and power is not willing to kowtow to. So I would seek other means of prolonging one’s life without having to give in to such base, easy transitions such as lichdom or means of undeath. The whole deal is messy and difficult to control–

Trivia

 * This episode marks the first time that Nott has died on-stream.
 * This is the third on-stream death of a player character, Molly and Caduceus being the first and second.