Critical Role

Here as the dust and rubble settle, two of your compatriots vanishing beneath the fallen and crumbled stone, clutching two unconscious figures (one still dying, by the way...)
In absolute darkness, Braius and Imogen, in the moment of accepting the possible end of your life, the sound of crumbling destruction consumes all around you and then stops. You reach around and the stone is all around you. It's just stopped. Like a little cavity has kept you there. All of the stones of the entire crumbled temple begin to shift and begin to pull back. They lift and curl like the receding wave on a beach. The rubble begins to rescind and you watch as (in a matter of moments) the temple begins to reconstruct itself.
The towers standing in place, the cracks still present, but just set back. Where all the vines and leaves were, they have been left crushed on the ground, and now stands the beautiful, polished (if cracked) temple of the Arch Heart, gorgeous in it's imperfection.
All of you stand agape watching this happen. As it rises up and the dust settles, you see standing in that front hallway, Imogen and Braius hunched over where they thought everything would come to an end. All of you also feel a presence. The very air itself seems to fill with force, like you're all on the cusp of something important. The faintest bit of golden light glimmers from the temple chamber you just fled from and the air seems to grow warm.

• 03:19:41 Dorian lays on the charm to avoid releasing the emissary and then starts wrapping rope around the unconscious body.
  "Yes, yes, he needs this. It's a medical thing. "
• 03:21:23 Fan Art Moment Meerkat Orym
• 03:25:26 Sam:"If I fail the medicine check he will die forever."
  Laura:"Okay."
  Travis:"Hey, let the dice decide."
• 03:27:17 Ashton loots Zathuda's sword
• 03:27:30 Travis:(kidding)"I take the funnel out of the Bag of Holding and I just lay against her dad..."
  Chetney:"Oh! Is that not what we're doing? We're not doing that? Okay."
• 03:28:26 As you all jog into the temple past all the walls, you can see the thousands of spiderweb cracks throughout, but it all maintains its previous shape. You feel the cracks and (as beautiful temple as the temple was) it's a different kind of beauty now. It's fallen and reforged. Ashton, you find a very familiar and comforting pattern to that. As you all begin to step through the secondary hallway (in towards the center of core temple), the shattered fountain itself is reformed on the opposite side. Everything in this room, the pillars themselves, have now restructured themselves. Even that which was turned to mud has now been reformed back into the stone it once was and stands unscathed if not for the intricate broken lines that weave through everything, and it's beautiful. As you all begin to step into the chamber, all the bits of shale and rock that was first dashed against the far wall gathers into the statue of the Arch Heart (where it once was at the opposite end of the interior) and it just stands there, resolute, smiling.
  It's head shakes and looks down at the rest of you.
• 03:30:46 Abubakar Salim Takes the DM Chair The statue looks and regards each and every one of you, taking you all in. Stops at Braius. They walk out of the podium. It's about eight foot tall. Looks at you.
  "Did you really have to do that?"
• 03:32:39 This sound. You've all heard it before. But from where?
  Surely, and for a short moment, your minds are catapulted back to the days of your birth, the moments you were literally ripped from the womb of your bearer. As the sky begins opening, these portals begin shooting out and these arms start snatching you and pulling you out from where you are. You find youselves in a field. Imagine if you will this vast expanse of delicate crystalline reeds, swaying rhythmically in time with one another. Above you are stars, but each star looking unique and individual. They stand there proud and close. It's almost as if you could reach them.
  This cool air hits you, it's fragrant and sweet and subtle. The smell of roses. A smell that makes you think of grace, perfection, beauty. Now you see a figure standing 30 feet away from you. They're form is outlined by this soft glow of starlight. They look naked, but their skin is not as the flesh as you'd normally see. They're a living canvas of a starry sky. A tapestry of constellations. He beckons you, Braius.
• 03:35:27 AH:"Swear fealty to me and I'll let you live...So close, so close. I thought I had you..."
• 03:38:12 You don't know any different. The feeling you have is so powerful and potent, it's raw. It's almost as if you are within the presence of divinity itself.
• 03:41:54 Orym confesses that he's afraid of "breaking the balance" that allows both mortals and the deities to thrive.
• 03:43:02 Laudna recalls to the Arch Heart that they were "curious about oblivion" in the vision of the orb
• 03:44:34 Ashton:"I usually charge for that." LARPing as a pimp as a jealous reaction. Fantastically cringe.
• 03:46:52 AH:"I want to let go. I want my family to let go. Now, how we let go...well, Big Doors don't work. Death? No, no."
• 03:47:01 AH:"Do you know what it means to become a Vessel?"
• 03:48:02 Laudna:"I actually know quite a lot about what it's like to be a vessel with something else inside of you."
• 03:50:22 We don't get to know who the other diety is that wants to 'let go' with the Arch Heart. "Why ruin the fun?"
• 03:52:09 AH proposes the idea that they take control of Ludinus' plan and use the power of Predathos to chase off the gods.
• 03:54:36 AH:"If you're too slow, then we're going to repeat the Calamity all over again. Then we go back to building a gate and waiting for the next moment to happen."
• 03:55:42 Dorian:"How does it feel to have the shoe on the other foot?"
• 04:00:05 Chetney asks about the two gods that were absorbed/destroyed by Predathos in the vision.
• 04:03:03 Ashton:"Does your family know about this?"
  AH:"Oh no. I mean, I'm pretty sneaky."
• 04:03:51 AH:(to Ashton the Rock Punk)"Does it make you hard?"
• 04:05:03 Braius wants to know why there isn't an option to try sacrificing one god and seeing if Predathos stops.
• 04:06:39 AH:"He will not turn on humanity because you are nothing to Predathos. You are simply specks of dust to Predathos."
  Orym:"Well I step on ants every day because I don't know they're there. I'm a little worried about the same thing, Lord."
• 04:07:01 AH:"Containing it in this makeshift moon has obviously not worked."
• 04:07:45 Braius:"All your family?"
• 04:08:41 Abubakar channels Asmodeus!
• 04:11:10 Arch Heart imitating the Allfather being melodramatic about "my children"
• 04:12:50 AH:"You are this close to an event happening again. The only difference is that not all of us are aligned on acting. There is a divide within the family."
• 04:15:19 Arch Heart blushes by turning gold.
• 04:18:43 Dorian:"I will never care for the gods, ever."
• 04:20:25 AH:"The idea of stepping in or actively partaking opens the door for everyone to partake in."
• 04:21:09 Arch Heart pulls a star from the sky.
• 04:22:29 The star seems to whisper "knowledge is the weapon"
• 04:23:52 This is the hair that the Arch Heart dropped to Exandria at the end of the Aeor vision before the gods left to prepare and shut the Divine Gate.
• 04:24:32 A mask. Black feathers, and then a whisper,
  "Come find me."
• 04:25:49 Bell's Hells awaken on the cold floor of the temple.
• 04:26:33 Sam makes a stink about liking Abu's voice more than Matt's.
  Matt:"Braius doesn't wake up."
  As your senses come to you, one by one, the blurry experience of being back in your body begins to become more and more familiar as you sit up here in the cracked chamber of the reforged temple of the Arch Heart. The statue stands resolute and still. A golden band wrapped around your (Imogen) finger and the echoes of the choices to be made and the times to come.
  The Wing of Wemembwance

  Manifested from the Arch Heart, this ring forms an invisible web-like weave around the wearer.
  +2 to AC
  +2 to Spell Hit bonus
  +2 Spell Save DC
  Advantage on CON saving throws.
  When maintaining concentration, as an action, you can activate the latent arcane power within this band.
  Roll a d20. If you roll above your current hit points, you cast Meteor Swarm.
  If you roll less than or equal to your current HP, you take 20d6 fire damage and 20dg bludgeoning damage.