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Tale Gate | Episode 3 | Discussing Up To C4E25

26 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main focus of this episode of Tale Gate?

0.25 - 23.473 Sam Riegel

Why, hello there, Distinguished Campaign 4 listeners. I'm Sam Riegel, and welcome to our new talkback show, Tailgate. In this series, we'll sit down with the cast after each table arc and spill the tea together on all things Campaign 4. Plus, if you're a Beacon member, the soiree will continue with The Nightcap, a Beacon-exclusive segment where we answer all your questions from the Discord chat.

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23.453 - 40.348 Sam Riegel

Each Tailgate episode is streamed live on Beacon.tv, YouTube, and Twitch, and will arrive here on the Critical Role Podcast Network one week later. So if you ever want to join in on the live fun, check us out on one of those platforms. All right, without further ado, let's get this Tailgate started.

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43.113 - 70.338 Whitney Moore

Good evening, everyone, and welcome back to Tailgate. I'm your host, Whitney Moore, and tonight we are unraveling the web of intrigue spun by our favorite little fingering foursome, the schemer table. I've got thoughts about that phrase. This arc had everything. It had mold monsters, it had fraud, and of course it had titties. Whose titties? King Gus's. That's right, and no one else's.

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Chapter 2: How do the cast members reflect on their characters' development?

70.818 - 73.982 Whitney Moore

Those are the only titties that matter now in C4. Let's open the gate!

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74.784 - 77.612 Luis Carazo

Royal titties. Bring forth.

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79.978 - 81.442 Unknown

Woo! Woo!

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82.043 - 82.665 Luis Carazo

Is that it?

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82.685 - 85.452 Whitney Moore

That's it, we did it. That's it, we're done. All right, guys.

85.472 - 85.974 Unknown

Slam dunk.

86.836 - 89.002 Whitney Moore

What happens now?

89.142 - 89.202

Oh!

90.869 - 91.41 Unknown

Oh, wow.

Chapter 3: What insights do the cast share about their experiences in Campaign 4?

93.313 - 93.553

We're in it.

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93.573 - 94.655 Unknown

Let's talk about them titties.

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94.675 - 101.185 Whitney Moore

I don't know why I was expecting countdown. Well, welcome, everyone. Welcome, everybody in the chat. Welcome to my schemers. How are y'all doing today?

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102.146 - 107.575 Unknown

Oh, my goodness. So schemey. So dreamy. Yeah. Steamy. So steamy.

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107.595 - 108.456 Taliesin Jaffe

Steamy and schemey.

108.436 - 112.681 Unknown

It's been a big nine to five day, just like the schemers for us.

Chapter 4: How does the discussion highlight fan interactions and creations?

113.822 - 115.304 Taliesin Jaffe

We're tie-tied.

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115.484 - 116.885 Unknown

I can't believe you drove home and back.

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116.905 - 126.876 Whitney Moore

Well, listen, I'm not going to make you guys think too hard, certainly not as hard as Marisha has been connecting all of the dots in what the fuck is happening in Dolmachiar.

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127.157 - 131.001 Taliesin Jaffe

I wish I could make my nose bleed on cue.

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131.021 - 144.041 Whitney Moore

Post? What is this? What is this, a live show? I'm gonna open it up with a question for all of y'all, which is, how is everybody handling living a double life?

146.244 - 150.05 Taliesin Jaffe

Well, once again, just like our real double lives, it's fucking exhausting.

150.07 - 150.45 Luis Carazo

Fake one.

150.47 - 159.182 Taliesin Jaffe

The employed table, we've got a lot of shit to do all the time. Yeah.

159.668 - 161.312 Liam O'Brien

Just a double life or a triple life?

Chapter 5: What challenges do the characters face in their current arc?

166.925 - 167.948 Whitney Moore

That's my question.

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167.968 - 174.548 Liam O'Brien

Yeah, Azune. Yeah, Luis. I... Don't know, to be honest.

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174.568 - 179.415 Taliesin Jaffe

I am so afraid you're going to trip over one of your lies. Oh, me too.

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179.636 - 188.93 Whitney Moore

Oh, what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive. I made that up.

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188.95 - 192.375 Unknown

I'm trying to always tell the truth, especially when I lie.

192.355 - 195.039 Whitney Moore

Oh, ditto. That's such an actor thing to say.

195.219 - 202.029 Luis Carazo

That's the way to get through it. Yeah, I've been making a very, very conscious attempt to never technically lie.

202.65 - 203.311 Taliesin Jaffe

That's harder.

Chapter 6: How do the cast members interpret their characters' motivations?

203.551 - 205.694 Taliesin Jaffe

You're a lying by omission kind of a person.

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205.714 - 214.667 Luis Carazo

Oh, yeah. Anytime it's roll for persuasion or deception, it's the same number, so it literally is like, it doesn't matter. They're both correct.

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214.985 - 219.133 Whitney Moore

My omission is the goaded way to lie, low key.

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219.313 - 235.643 Luis Carazo

Or not necessarily even by omission, but often through a misunderstood... Choice of words. Yeah, or even I know that they think one thing or I'll say a thing and they just don't have enough data to really put it all together. It's not my omission, it's theirs.

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235.623 - 251.808 Whitney Moore

Yeah, yeah. Well, on that towel, actually, my next question is for you. How has Bolaire been handling biting his tongue about Thiazi and the other schemers? What tongue? Especially Hal. You've been sitting on some juice.

252.509 - 253.531 Taliesin Jaffe

Sitting on a secret.

Chapter 7: What are the implications of the assassination plot discussed?

253.551 - 253.871 Whitney Moore

Yeah.

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259.147 - 268.988 Luis Carazo

You know, there's this thing where like in a friends group where there's just one terrible person and everyone else has just decided that it's fine and

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269.035 - 269.696 Whitney Moore

Oh, we've been there.

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269.896 - 275.441 Luis Carazo

Yeah, I know you have. And you're just like, well, I suppose this is my life now.

276.361 - 281.166 Taliesin Jaffe

Wait, is this going into your everyone has a worse person they're willing to know?

281.606 - 283.568 Luis Carazo

I mean, I can go into that. I'm a big believer.

283.588 - 284.048 Taliesin Jaffe

A view as a person?

284.148 - 303.56 Luis Carazo

Yeah, that's how I keep thinning my friends group is I pick the worst person I'm willing to know, and if you're below that, then you're not willing to. Well, then I just don't have time. Or if I meet someone, you're just a little bit worse than this person, and then every year you kind of up it. Tell us about your real-life inspirations behind that. No, it's, yeah, Thiazi, man.

Chapter 8: What can listeners expect in the upcoming episodes of Campaign 4?

304.482 - 308.61 Luis Carazo

I have so many feelings on Thiazi. And no one, everyone else is so bloody.

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309.412 - 325.783 Taliesin Jaffe

That's not true. You keep saying that, but there's plenty of people who are like, you are correct. Yes, thank you. Far more people are like, oh, Thiazi was amazing. But there are plenty of us that are like. There are plenty of, I am somewhere in the middle.

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325.903 - 344.672 Luis Carazo

You are somewhere in the middle because you're a sane person and it's several tables worth of schmuckas, but you know, it is. Yeah, it is that thing where, and I wish I had said this during the game, is like, I absolutely believe that he was working towards a happy ending and a better world. Just, why does everyone think it was for them?

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345.698 - 351.424 Luis Carazo

Like, everyone seems to think that they're involved in this and not being, like, specifically being thrown on the pyre, including you.

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352.485 - 360.294 Unknown

Sometimes people are different people to the different people in their lives, so it makes sense that Thiazi was one thing to Azuni and another thing to this.

360.534 - 371.906 Luis Carazo

Yeah, and I'm also, like, again, with the sort of games he was playing, I'm perfectly, I perfectly believe that he was willing to, like, let half of us die and honestly planned on half of us dying in this.

371.926 - 377.875 Whitney Moore

Well... Liam, how is Hal feeling about all this new information about his brother?

378.075 - 395.319 Unknown

Well, Hal's in the middle too, but family goes a long way to making up for wrinkles and problems. You have to tolerate the problems in your family because they're your family, for the most part, in most cases, in many cases, in some cases. Love that walk. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

395.419 - 413.643 Unknown

I mean, I look forward in the duration of this story, as long as it turns out to be, to finding out by the end of it more of who Thiazi really was, because Brennan is, by design, only showing us parts of the elephant. We're all, like, feeling the tail and going, it's a snake, it's a snake, but we can't see the whole animal yet.

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