C3 Ep. 30: Old Man on the Edge of Town (Legends of Irondeep)

Jake's intro sounds like the crystal ball from the Jumanji game board running low on fresh clues

I can only imagine Murph taking his glasses off and rubbing the bridge of his nose or his temples like 900 times during this ep lol

Doing a relisten and this ep won’t play for some reason! It’s fine for all the other episodes just this one is having issues. It could be on my end but idk!

I SQUEALEDDDDDD

I am doing a lil re listen and admiring Emily’s beautiful music and was curious which one is playing @ 28:23? If anyone knows? 😌

Someone’s got to @ Jessica Simpson a link to this episode…lmfao.

the moment of silence after hardwon says “… do i look well” 😭😭 they even paused the music incredible editing choice

i couldn’t stop smiling, it’s like seeing an old friend

OH MY GOD, EMILY’S MUSIC!!! Winter’s Mantle playing during Callie’s winter eladrin transformation!!! I was genuinely moved. Muse of epic poetry indeed! What a genius, what a beautiful piece and what a beautiful moment ♥️

Hard disagree with they ruined it lmao this is exactly as its supposed to be. So beautiful

MISS SIMPSON fjsuxvbwdiidhev c shv

Gtyhh44efgghgdggcff I AM FUCKING DOING GOBLET LUNCGES ITS 6AM I KSUXVWJS I WAS LIKE NO WAY HIS SON OR WHAT IS THIS?! HDUSHRVEV I ALMOST DROPPED FUDUHCVEHDUXH EVRRYTHING AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MURPH YOU SAID YOU SAID YOU WERENT GONNA BUT YOU DIIIIIID I LOOBVE YOOOOU IM PAUSING JUST TO REVEL IN THIS REVEAL

I cried. It was like seeing an old friend

I was the 666th like for this episode. I don’t wanna spoil anything but loved it.

This is some College Humor energy

Yeah, Murph you're right they ruined the show.

The first time I listened to this episode I felt a deep sadness and couldn't pick it up again for three days. Luckily it's a bit easier this time.

As a binge listener catching up with no live show exp and the c1 finale version of Hardwon fresh in my mind, jarring to see him reintroduced as if it's a goof. No reverie for one of the titans of bahumia?? The giant war was 250 yrs ago and still treated as common knowledge, the age of monsters was a couple thousand years before that and books about it are common. So our heroes saved the world just 200 yrs ago but all they get is a passing mention in sal's history class and a puppet show about paw paw. That said, Hardwon is totally like Luke Skywalker when he meets Rey as a sad old man who saw so many dead kids that it understandably destroyed his faith. Looking forward to the backstory and return to power of this new old Hardwon

"JESSICA!! MS. SIMPSON!!!" I've been thinking about this delivery NON-STOP ever since this episode came out omg

Is Caldwell still caught up with the One Piece manga?

Finally getting close to catching up and I'm SO happy this one wasn't spoiled for me, what a moment.

SCREAMING, CRYING, THROWING UP. MY HEART.

Second listen through, I KNEW it was coming, and I STILL cry 😭😭😭😭😭

had to eat a can of beans in celebration of this one :,)

ok i know i just commented but "you guys are lucky i was here" and callie's "at your house?" ... insane. insane moment. insane energy.

(beware of spoilers in this entire thread btw!!!) ofc i am sooo glad to hear my boy hardwon again but i also want to shout out that stunning moment that callie had when transforming from spring eladrin to winter eladrin. it was so satisfying and moving to see her recognise that she is progressing in ways she didn't expect!!! emily played it so perfectly and i loved saul's immediate acceptance of her overnight change.

I had fully accepted the death of the boobs only to be surprised by the reappearance of Hardwon, so glad our sad boy is back

As they were describing the air ship i was so confused because I couldn't think of anyone it could be other than Hardwon, and surely it couldn't be him. I thought maybe he could have a son or something. I'm so glad its him

So happy to have finally understood a live show reference in the COE. Thank you Helen of Bris for reminding me of Mark Mark

Omg. This is a perfect Hardwon reappearance. I know Murph was so mad, but like...this was flawless.

Fuck. I can't. You've ruined it. -Brian K. Murphy

The way I screamed at work 😭

Also book recs: The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin (plus there is a ttrpg made/in the works based on the universe)

An absolute gem of an episode all around, thank you guys. Genuinely cried happy tears when I heard Hardwon’s voice again, very happy he is back outside of the live show capacity. This trios energy is just off the walls already, I can’t wait to see what happens!

When I tell you I was screaming in my car with excitement— the dynamic between these three is so lovely, I love Hardwon dealing with these goobers. Feels like he’s entering his DILF era

Screaming crying throwing up

Oh poor Murph...I think you guys almost broke him lol

The way I screamed at work because DADDY IS BACK?!

YOU ABSOLUTE TWATS I GASPED SO LOUDLY ON A CRAMPED AND CROWDED TRAIN!!! IM SO EXCITED

Old hardwon has Gilear vibes and I’m living for it!! The spilled beans are the constant 😅

Callie having the serpent pretend to attack her is one of my favorite moments of all time.

Caldwell if you're still looking for a book rec, check out the First Law trilogy (first book is called The Blade Itself) by Joe Abercrombie. Incredible book series. I'm also overly confident that Murph has already read them.

The way I SCREAMED when I realized it was Hardwon! I scared my boyfriend and dog though

I'm not crying, you're crying seeing Hardwon again

OMG YES!!! As soon as I heard airship!!

Old Man Hardwon 😭😭😭

Book rec: Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe

Ahhhh, I hate that I waited until now to listen to this...audible gasp at work, love it!

Jake how dare you say that you stayed up deciding what class you would play!

When sol connects, does he feel moonshine?

Smiling so hard at the gym at old man Hardwon

book rec for Caldwell: The Thief from Megan Whalen Turner

Release Hardwons letter to moonshine!!! We all want it to come to life!

I don’t know which I love more the absolute gremlin energy of the reunion or Murph’s palpable and relatable discomfort

Amazing!!!!! It’s like reuniting with an old friend, I missed him so much!!! 😭

Was the book recommendation at the end for Caldwell to read from Em Deathlist or Deathless? does anyone know?

As soon as the described the airship I knew!!

As soon as they approached the downed airship, I got so insanely hyped up! Masterful writing Murph!

A TAXIDERMY CROW

If we're doing book recommendations, I'm halfway through the Stormlight Archives right now and I'm really enjoying them!

This made my heart happy ❤

Amazing! Absolutely Amazing! Not sure how they got Jessica but what a treat

This episode is one big hug

Brilliant! I was so unsure (in a good way!) about where y'all would go without calder, and this was the perfect way to make it exciting and to re-inject some hope/fun into everything

Give us the letter to Moonshine! Thanks for such a great episode y’all!

I totally thought he was gonna be Cobb 😂

This episode was so hard to listen to at work without laughing my ass off

I highly recommend Throne of Glass series. Also love having Hardwon!

felt like there was a guest on this one

What a reveal! The Jamboreen is back on!

The way I audibly gasped on the train and someone asked if I was okay

Seeing Hardwon again was like reuniting with an old friend.

Remember those motorcycles they stashed from the dwarves at Shiverblights cave? I don’t know why i do and thought they would use them

The unholy noise that came out of my mouth when I realised that it was Hardwon made my partner think something serious had happened 😭😭😭

HARDWON !!!!! I literally started crying when I realized 😭😭😭😭

Stories like old man hardwon always get me. The nobility of an old soldier

What a great episode. I didn't know what to expect after the last episode but this is was not it.

Aaaaaaaaaaaah!! I'm only a quarter of the way of the episode 🥰🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️ I'm so happy I cried on the train

Hardwon is just like me frfr. What happened to my boy!!!!

First of all, the scene with Oberon was so beautiful. Second of all, am I smelling Spore Druid multiclass?? Third of all-- AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!

RELEASE 👏 THE 👏 HARDWON 👏 LETTER 👏

More like Old Man on Edge. Oh my God. I'm dying 😂🤣 this is so fucking good

Straight up gasped at this reveal, and proceeded to cry with laughter at the complete disrespect given to the moment. The taxidermied Caw Caw made me sob. Completely in love with Hardwon’s reveal!

Exactly what I needed from Hardwon

The fun thing about this reveal is, because I’ve been listening to the children’s adventure on Worlds beyond, I’m listening to this episode at 1.5 speed. The speed I listened to all of campaign one. It feels right to hear Jake at time and a half

Love ya murph but you kept mispronouncing perfected as ruined during this episode.

1,000 roses and 10 million beans go out to this ep

Caldwell you should read Battle Royale! It’s a great book and so well translated!!

So many roses for this one. This was everything I would have hoped in a Hardwon return. Truly amazing. Love how the story flowed so naturally.

My jaw dropped at that reveal

I love this so much. The pure joy that Filled my body when Jake said Hardwon is unquantifiable

I haven’t cried or laughed this hard since campaign 1. The speed in which my eyes filled with tears when Jake said, “Hardone Surefoot”. Roses. Roses everywhere. An entire bouquet for the Two Crew.

Thank God Patreon lets you delete comments. I tried to say, "Fuck, Old Cobb is dead, isn't he?" But I accidentally hit enter too soon, so it just said, "Fuck." That is not the review I want to leave on this amazing episode!

I swear to goodness I called who Jake’s character would be the second I saw “next character” instead of “new character” in the episode description. Like Emily and her M&M clairvoyance, I too have transcended.

I have to admit, when Jake was who he was I felt a little disappointed. It felt a little unsatisfactory. But the absolute disrespect shown to the moment had me smiling and laughing. And instead of being the expected and predictable big story moment it became the comic relief to some epic organic story moments. You all did a fantastic job. Love you all, thank you

I love the energy that Murph was asking "something else before sleep?" and everybody wanted to do something, so excited. Like a sleepover at best friend house as a teen.

Truly the best new character for Jake this arc. Amazing

Also, a book recommendation since Emily and Caldwell mentioned liking them at the end there: Gideon the Ninth! It's the first of a series of four books, three have been released and the last is on the way. The byline is "Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space! Decadent nobles vie to serve the deathless Emperor! Skeletons!" It's very funny and exciting, please give it a read 💖

Hardwon coming back made my day, so awesome!

I screamed and cried

I’ve never had a “hands over mouth” reaction before but this episode made me smile from ear to ear, hands over mouth, eyes welling up. Such a great uniting, or re-uniting?

AHHHHHHHHH

What a great dynamic!

Actually crying. Thank you guys, from the bottom of my heart.

OH MY GOD

Mordenkainen's magnificent mallard

Dying for the short rest! LOVED IT! Little too many beans for me but hearing Murph also dying made me feel less alone lol

I love Jake's character and Emily's character once again bonding over a magazine cover

I screamed the loudest I ever have in my car just a big fat YEEEEEEESSSS and immediately started bawling

Just out walking my dogs when the big reveal hit and the neighborhood got a great look at me beaming and crying

Chills and tears. CHILLS AND TEARS. … and then immediately laughter.

I literally screamed and had to do a few laps around my house

How many dinners do yall think Jake and Murph had

I am SOBBING

I have a lot of questions about the astral plane that I don’t want answered

AHHHHH!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!

I saw it coming but was still shook. Bless you father

DUCK YOU! I LOVE YOU! EAT A RAT EVERYONE THE REVEAL IS TOO GOOD THIS IS DEFINITELY A DOPE ROUTE FOR THE STORY

YES! YES! YES!

Murph was the epitome of my feelings for this whole episode

Daddy Murphy is a master at give and take. While I’m ecstatic what happened happened, I’m scared this means some sour fates may have befell the other boobs

The ep that released on my birthday has MY BABY BOY IN IT THANK YOU LORD MURPHY I AM THE HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY BOY NOW

Got me.

Character growth is Hardwon going from dwarven porn to posters of Jessica Simpson.

I'm not one to complain, but I really can't hold my tongue... The name Liamond's Tiny Duck doesn't make any sense. From the sounds of it, this spell creates a duck that is abnormally large by duck standards

JAKE HURWITZ HOW ABSOLUTELY DARE YOU

"Jessica, you've barely touched your beans"

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME I'M 32 MINUTES IN HOW DARE YOU

This makes me excited for the potential of our beloved heroes to be reunited! I'm waiting with my wimple tied on and a crick water in hand!

SHUT THE FRONT DOOOOR!! i havent even finished the episode!! OMGAWD I STARTED CRYING!!! 😭😭😭😭

WHAT A REVEAL. the music was perfect when the gnomes rolled 💗

AHHHHH

RETURN OF THE KING!!!!

who-one WHAT-now

The triplets distracted me so much I FORGOT ABOUT CALDER

Like a lot of other folks here I wasn't expecting to tear up today but here I am 😭

I'm not crying! You're crying! Friggin Jake hitting us in the feels 😭😭😭

The reveal had me vibrating out of my chair with excitement!! Ahh!

We stepped away from the campaign for so long. I completely forgot we would be starting with iron deep and a new character!

Emily needs Jessica Simpson as a familiar.

Every time Murph bemoans the goof in this it game me life. Such a perfect scene

The over powering of tiny hut in the NADDPOD verse drives me nuts I know it shouldn’t it just does

This feels like such s breath of fresh Air after The dragon elf saga. It Got so dour and grave, and it feels sooooo good to finally put a button on The whole Glen deal and fuck around with Hardwon and make bits about Beans and Maxim

Goodness. Goodness. My heart. The scream I scrum.

Did anyone else cry when Jake said Hardwon Surefoot? And then again when Hardwon and Cooter had their moment? Not even through the whole episode yet but the tears are here. 😢 Thanks 2 Crew for these Friday feels ❤️

When Jake revealed his character I really was over here GIGGLING. Absolutely thrilled

The Maw Maw reunion had me tearing up

jessica and beans

We are blessed

Can't wait for the short rest, 90% of which will be Murph whining about Jessica and Beans lol.

I literally cried as soon as I figured out who they were going to introduce. Why did I cry????

AHHHH 💖💖💖💖

Jessica, you’ve barely touched your beans!

Sobbing in my office lol!!!!

[spoiler] The way Emily immediately fell back into tricking Hardwon into confidence

I haven't finished the sode yet, but between Emily's description of becoming a winter eladrin & getting to see Hardwon again... tears!!!

This is Liveshow Hardwon energy brought to the canon pod.

i havent finished the ep yet but i'm losing it at how jake went from playing one big sad guy to another big sad guy

Omggg the reveal

I’M CRYING

Jakes New character has me HOWLING, love me some Hurwitz sad sack energy

If this is Hardwon I’m going to throw up

THE REVEAL…..emotional

started this ep devastated and this reveal was just.. immediate joy. Justice for Jessica

Calder died and Sol and Callie got hotter

The second murph said “especially the Irondeep mountains” i knew hardwon was coming back.

Sad but curious

I fucking knew it!!! As soon as I saw the title of the ep, I knew it!!!

So happy to hear the return of a legend!!!

THE RETURN OF THE QUAD GOD!

Every tired Murph sigh adds 10 years to my lifespan

🪨☝️✅️🦶

Meemaw: You're so young! Hardwon: Not in my heart... Oh...So Hardwon is me now. That makes sense. 😅

"Winter is when the crops are fallow, so you have to learn to hunt" damn, what a line

Jakes new character feels familiar.

Oh my god I teared up at the reveal

HARDWON!!!!! As soon as they mentioned irondeep I knew it was ileither him or Cobb maybe

ITS HIM

I really wish I had "Wooded Wonder" on Spotify 🥹 it's so beautiful

HYYYYPE!!!

1 month later

Omg I am SO READY WCOME BACK TO BAHUMIA

And we back

You guys remember Caldur?

I was born in the 00's so unfortunately I am unable to remember Caldur

LETS GOOOOOO! SADNESS! WOOOO

Yesss finally

I have been waiting for so long. Thank you Daddy Murphy and Duck Squad

Hype!

Who's Calder? I don't remember him...

The return to the deep! Can't it's been so long

Murph you beautiful bastard 🫡 so excited to listen, but I agree with the other comments please get some rest !

Go To Bed- but also thank you so much we’re all so excited!!!

YESSS

Just in time for the morning commute

SO EXCITED THANK YOU DADDY MURPHY

I am so excited for this!!!

Omg it's here. I'm always awake when one of these comes out lol. Not a good sign.

Get some sleep daddy Murphy

Fuck you, I love you, eat a rat, go to bed