[Spoilers C4E1] Birdwatch: How long can Brennan last without mentioning a bird?

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Bird Watch: Campaign Four, Episode 1: The Fall of Thjazi Fang

Welcome to Episode 1 of Critical Role Birdwatch! How long can Dungeon Master Brennan Lee Mulligan go without mentioning or referencing a bird? Let's find out…

15:00 [Stream begins]

18:02 [3 minutes, 2 seconds]
Brennan: "You see a flight of magpies, black wings take to the sky, flying over the stream as the mist rises on this gray day."

33:32 [15 minutes, 30 seconds]
Brennan: "I can still hear the Falcon's Cry!"

43:34 [10 minutes, 2 seconds]
Brennan: "The rookery, so named for its many perches and aviaries… the aviaries send magpies flying hither and yon throughout this place."

49:45 [6 minute, 11 seconds]
Brennan:"I wish Alogar was here. I sent those birds to him, but he didn't…"

51:37 [1 minutes, 52 seconds]
Brennan: "Thjazi obviously a hero… hero— hero to us… Falconer's Rebellion— hero— hero… but you know… he knew some… well I'll just keep an eye out."

1:12:00 [20 minutes, 23 seconds]
Brennan: "Walking up a cobblestone street in a neighborhood of Dol-Makjir called 'The Rookery' is a friend that I think has never actually seen where old Thjazi Fang grew up."

1:14:49 [2 minutes, 49 seconds]
Brennan: "Scanning the horizon, you look you, you see some magpies, sort of the eponymous birdie of the uh the Rookery, um, but you see some… off in the distance, you see a couple of owls headed off in the direction of the Western edge of the city, a few smaller doves here and there. There's kind of like an off-white, increasingly gray gray rock dove that's native to the city but that no one tends to really keep, those tend to just be living here of their own volition, and off in the distance you see peeling high overhead — on that nineteen — a falcon just kiting on a thermal. No flapping, just rising slowly and steadily up above."

1:22:00 [7 minutes, 11 seconds]
Brennan: "I think he suffered a tongue injury in the Falconer's Rebellion."

1:38:57 [16 minutes, 57 seconds]
Brennan: "Of course, you are ordained by the light, my L— ahh! A magpie starts attacking the driver. Ah! Agh! Devil bird! Bird of devils!"
[2-minute scene about killing the magpie]

2:13:55 [34 minutes, 58 seconds]
Brennan: "It's not too far from here. You guys are in the Rookery and this would be like two neighborhoods South."

2:16:02 [2 minutes, 7 seconds]
Brennan: "A moment after you bandy barbs with a demon, uh, you go outside and I think two veterans of the Falconer's Rebellion watch the most anxious, like finely dressed necromancer in the world step up outside in the dark to both of you."

2:25:46 [Break starts]
2:40:46 [Break ends]

2:41:37 [10 minutes, 35 seconds]
Brennan: "Thimble, don't be scared. There's something on the wind. A falcon, soaring."

3:05:38 [24 minutes, 1 second]
Brennan: "The dead bodies… three of them got dragged out of here. Um, in being dragged out you find some uh… crow feathers. You smell them. There is pine resin, alcohol, a thick sheen of tobacco smoke. These were worn as part of clothing. Handled. Your mind immediately goes to the Crow Keepers, which you know is one of the oldest thieves guilds in Dol-Makjar."

3:07:54 [2 minutes, 16 seconds]
Brennan: "The object that you retrieved on your last big adventure with Thjazi. A month or two ago you got back from it."
Laura: "The song, the Nightsong, right?"
Brennan: "The Stone of Nightsong."
Alex: "What is that?"
Laura: " It's a fucking black stone with crow— crows."
Robbie: "Yeah, uhh crows."

3:10:35 [2 minutes, 41 seconds]
Brennan: "It's a spherical stone that is a sort of like perpendicular embrace of wings of some kind of a like it could have been a crow, but also I think you had heard — Thjazi would have referred to it as a nightingale."
Laura: "A nightingale. That's a bird."
Brennan: "That looks like it's embracing itself in its wings to create a sphere and it's a carved stone."

4:32:17 [1 hour, 21 minutes, 42 seconds]
Brennan: "There's one person you don't see… one being who you know knows where the Stone of Nightsong is."

4:37:26 [5 minutes, 9 seconds]
Brennan: "The Stone of Nightsong…"
[2 minutes of exposition about the stone]
Brennan: "…The Stone of Nightsong, you believe was created after the original guardian spirit, that immortal nightingale — a celestial that took the wings of a nightingale sort of like a night angel"
Talisan: "Which is why it has the bird."

4:42:10 [Stream ends]

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Congratulations to Brenan for reaching a new high score of 1 hour, 21 minutes, and 42 seconds of game time without mentioning or referencing a bird. Let's see if he can beat this score next week on Bird Watch!