Liam's Quest: Full Circle

is the sixteenth special episode of Critical Role and the sequel to.

Laura, Taliesin, Sam, Travis, Ashley, Marisha, and Matt find themselves lost in time after the battle against Conan O'Brien. As they continue to loop through apocalyptic versions of Los Angeles they must ask themselves what they're willing to sacrifice in order to return everything to normal.

Part I
After the events of their previous adventure, Sam, Laura, Travis, Ashley, and Taliesin wake up in a mysterious jungle, surprised to find that they have been reverted to the age of children. Amid strange vibrations of energy in their heads, they explore their surroundings, finding a crushed child and the skeletal remains of the dog Bixby, and fighting off a strange, skinless wildcat. They make their way across a marsh and spot an old man trying to crack open a giant gourd. They approach him and he flees, and they discover Matt and Marisha (now teenagers) sleeping inside the gourd. As they are trying to remember how they got to the jungle and deciding what to do, six more skinless cats attack them. Through Taliesin's warlock powers, Marisha's martial arts prowess, and Ashley's intimidation and using one of the cats' corpses as a weapon, they defeat the cats and decide to keep moving before more come. Sam looks around the jungle and finds the path the old man went, and they begin following it. The path takes them to an ancient, sunken parking lot, where they see the foundation of the tower where they fought Lich Conan O'Brien. Realizing they're in LA, they continue following Sam as he tracks the old man, gathering what feeble natural weapons they can for self-defense along the way. After catching a glimpse of the old man in the trees, the group sprint to catch up with him. Just as they're nearly close enough to speak with him, they hear the blast of a war horn as a wave of the vibrating energy peaks in intensity, and the jungle vanishes. The group finds themselves in the frigid waters of a beach where the remnants of a highway lead from the distance into the sea. As they look toward the shoreline, they see before them a massive legion of nightmarish creatures, led by the 50-foot-tall demon prince Demogorgon. Sam, Taliesin, Matt, and Ashley immediately submit to the devils and swear fealty to them. However, despite their attempts to bargain, fight back, and grovel for mercy, Demogorgon devours Travis, crushes Marisha, then eviscerates the others one by one. As Laura lies in the water, frozen from Demogorgon's gaze, her vision blurs, then all she sees is white as everything goes silent.

New

 * Neil Druckmann

Returning

 * Laura Bailey
 * Taliesin Jaffe
 * Ashley Johnson
 * Matthew Mercer
 * Liam O'Brien
 * Marisha Ray
 * Sam Riegel
 * Travis Willingham

Mentioned

 * Bixby
 * Conan O'Brien

Trivia

 * This is the third episode where Liam O'Brien is the Dungeon Master.
 * The other two episodes are and.
 * This is the first episode where Matthew Mercer is a player instead of being the Dungeon Master.
 * The "chestnuts" that were on the ground where Sam woke up were actually dormant versions of the skinless "cats". They grew on the trees.