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5 min read"Six and a half years ago, I fought my father," Julian tells the group as they stand on the Miller's Road, a magical byway through the fairy realm that compresses days of travel into minutes. "It felt like fighting a god." This confession lands heavily among the party of adventurers now heading north from Dolmakiar, carrying a cursed mask that contains the consciousness of a centuries-old being named Belair, and racing toward an uncertain confrontation with Julian's family—the Taconis caravan—which seems to be transporting petrified paladins as undead soldiers for some dark purpose connected to the underworld.
The Miller's Road and Fairy Logic
After the chaotic events in Dolmakiar—the meeting of the Sundered Houses, the play's opening night, and the rescue of Mar of the Wing—the party awakens in a fairy cave beneath a cherry tree that Thimble recognizes as existing in multiple worlds simultaneously. Using a Druidcraft cantrip, Thimble reopens the Miller's Road, a magical pathway through fairy space that allows travelers to cross vast distances quickly by circling a tree three times counterclockwise. The road manifests as a deceptively ordinary pastoral lane, but the party quickly learns its governing principle: it hates people who don't stop to admire the view. The faster you try to travel, the slower you actually go. Thimble's twenty-three Survival check reveals that tre
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What you'll learn
- 1 Road of Dreams | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 32 Part 2
- 2 (01:56) **Morning After the Gala** - The party awakens in the fairy cave and emerges to find an enormous cherry tree grown overnight from the paternal archfey's kiss on Thimble.
- 3 (07:02) **The Mask Revealed** - Cadigan puts on the cursed mask and immediately finds himself back in the empty theater, while Belair becomes conscious and the mask's true nature is exposed.
- 4 (13:56) **Entering the Miller's Road** - Thimble uses the druidcraft cantrip to open the magical road, circling the cherry tree three times to reveal a path leading toward Timony.
- 5 (19:56) **Navigating the Fairy Road** - On a survival check, Thimble identifies a familiar tree from the base of Old Bid's mountain, realizing they've crossed two days of travel in just 40 minutes.
- 6 (24:43) **Planning the Ambush** - The group debates whether to go directly to Timony, stop at Albie's place, or intercept the caravans traveling north.
- 7 (35:14) **Remembering Albie's Telescope** - Thimble remembers that Albie the smuggler has a telescope for monitoring the highway, offering a chance to gather intelligence on the caravans.
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Show Notes
Part 2
The Seekers rest before they travel the fey Miller's Road, but strange visions plague each of them in turn...
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OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN 4 CAST
GAME MASTER Brennan Lee Mulligan
Laura Bailey as Thimble
Luis Carazo as Azune Nayar
Robbie Daymond as Kattigan Vale
Aabria Iyengar as Thaisha Lloy
Taliesin Jaffe as Bolaire Lathalia
Ashley Johnson as Vaelus
Matthew Mercer as Sir Julien Davinos
Whitney Moore as Tyranny
Liam O’Brien as Halandil "Hal" Fang
Marisha Ray as Murray Mag’Nesson
Sam Riegel as Wicander "Wick" Halovar
Alexander Ward as Occtis Tachonis
Travis Willingham as Teor Pridesire
CREDITS
Produced by Maxwell James, Steve Failows, & Kyle Shire
Set Designed by Shaun Ellis
Production Designer: Noxweiler Berf
Character Art by Loren Hontanilla
Edited by Taylor Burke and Emily "Stevie" Stevenson
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Opening Title Editor: Paul Foyder
Opening Title Colorist: Peter Koocheradis
Window Effects by Christian Brown
Graphic Design by Aaron Monroy & Jordyn Torrence
Dol-Makjar art by Daniel Jiménez Villalba
Miniatures Painted by Payton Keo Lacebal
Opening Title Theme by Neal Acree
Campaign 4 Key art by Hannah Friederichs
Additional Art & Design by Hannah Friederichs
Episode QC by Catherine Zimmerman & Paula Flores
Assistant Editor: Gianna Gencarella
Post Production Coordinators: M Swing & Bryn Hubbard
Closed Caption Editing by Margaret Dill, Nikki Kindelberger, Courtney Knewtson, Danielle Lackie, Eleanor Smith-Dufresne & Alice Tsoi
Post Production Supervisor: Tal Levitas
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