Encroaching Waters

 is the thirty-fourth episode of the second campaign of Critical Role. The Mighty Nein investigate the watery underbelly of Nicodranas, and find more danger than they bargained for...

Announcements

 * First, we have two fantastic sponsors returning from the beginning of the campaign:
 * First, our friends at D&D Beyond: "Sam" (The Wackiest Guy in D&D) loves D&D Beyond. Laura asks him to do Nott's voice, which "Sam" does: "Pip-pip, cheerio!  Mystery solved!  Buttons!"  "Waterdeep: Dragon Heist" is an adventure for characters levels 1-5, and "Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage" will allow characters 5-20 to explore the legendary Undermountain.  Suddenly, the real Sam interrupts and tells Producer Max to get him out of his seat.  Travis had asked Max to do pre-approved D&D Beyond ad, and had lied to Sam that the show was actually beginning at 7:15 pm.  After last week's rough ad spot, Sam can't be trusted anymore.  Sam is offended that they thought nobody could tell the difference between Sam and Max.  Travis says that Sam can do the ad he had written on his phone...as long as it doesn't involve fart sounds, offensive stereotypes, cursing, violence, or inappropriate "giggles", "pickles" and/or "cucumbers".  Thus, Sam reluctantly does Travis's ad with "inappropriate jokes".  After a series of lame jokes, Sam reads, "Go Dallas!", and says "F*** you" to Travis and throws it over to Matt.  Liam misses "Long-Haired Sam".
 * Matt talks about our second sponsor: The Rook & The Raven.

The Mighty Nein

 * Beauregard
 * Caduceus Clay
 * Fjord
 * Frumpkin
 * Jester
 * Nott
 * Caleb Widogast
 * Yasha

New

 * Xundi


 * Merpal

Returning

 * Nugget
 * Sprinkle
 * Algar Dyomin
 * Orly Skiffback
 * Captain Adella

Mentioned

 * Marion Lavorre
 * Professor Thaddeus
 * Sabian
 * Cadmus Leeland

Quotations

 * Beau: "Sisterhood of the Traveling Dodecahedron!" (after Nott suggested that it was the Beacon that kept bringing Yasha back to the Mighty Nein)
 * Jester: "I'm worried you're going to eat my weasel!"
 * Nott: "Water is trying to kill us!" (a common theme in this episode, due to various battles with water elementals and a marid)

Trivia

 * This episode marks the first time a character from Campaign 1 has physically appeared in Campaign 2.