The "C" Team refers to both the in-universe adventuring group named The "C" Team, and the live Twitch show of the same name which documents their adventures. Fans of the show are referred to as the Shadow Council.
Adventuring Group[]
The "C" Team is one of many franchises of the larger adventuring company Acquisitions Incorporated. The "C" Team currently consists of four co-franchisees, each holding a 25% interest in the franchise:
These four were brought together by Omin Dran to work in the Dessarin Valley for the purpose of finding the Wandering Crypt. It is unknown at this time exactly what the "C" stands for, though it does stand for something - other teams have had their letter initials revealed.
Guest Player Characters[]
- Driebus Beestinger, as played by Patrick Rothfuss
- Davine Ardor Qihiri, as played by Ella Umber
- Cher Beestinger, as played by Molly Lewis
- Kiwi Beestinger, as played by Mikey Neumann
- Kiupid Donaar Blit'zen, as played by Nika Harper
- Odolas as played by Matt Mercer
- Vi as played by Jeremy Crawford
- Gragnold Mooongang as played by Adam Davis
- Maddy Eval as played by AJ Lamarque
- Diath Woodrow as played by Jared Knabenbauer
- Paultin Seppa as played by Nathan Sharp
- Evelyn Marthain as played by Anna Prosser
- Snak as played by Graham Stark
- Strix Beestinger as played by Holly Conrad
Non-Player Characters[]
- Prophetess Dran
- Portentia Dran
- Auspicia Dran
- Certainty Dran
- Father Gordon
- Audra Courtier
- Onyx
- Coriander
- Waelvur
- Harovan Dardragon
- Pragma Cleft
- Trevor the Werewolf
- Conundrus the Ever Living
- Proust
- Bleth
- Splugoth the Returned
- Sombar Blood-Drinker
- Lord Vizgig Cartinwheel
- Frenel Sagor
- Halliax Shieth
- Elder Brian/Elder Brain One
- Numinous Primp
- Dawn Lariat
- Shadow King
- Dizz Iberon
- Wizard Abnus ("Abner", S1E18 Jimterlude)
- Melaphor
- Grela Porter (S1E21)
- Mincent
- The Noble Knife
- Cistern the "dog"
- Seizes-the-Tail
- Sundra Frill (S1E25)
- Mendez Vale
- Spice Caraway
- Prince Shimmerscale
- Princess Sorsha
- Chronaar
- Jessen
- Azoth
- Belgog
- Thrim the Learned
- Carver Gol
- Tasty the Skipping Goblin
- Holorarar
- Saibh yi Saelmer
- Snell
- Moril
- First Sword Vervain
- Grovekeeper Nilaen
- Warden Sythia
The "B" Team, Team Bellerophon[]
- Oak Truestrike (ranger)
- Phoenix Anvil (cleric of Waukeen)
- Brahma Lutier (bard)
- Pendragon Beestinger (wizard)
The "N" Team, Team Naiad[]
- Captain Corbyn Shale (decisionist ranger)
- Fenn (obviator air genasi fighter)
- Dol Droma (documancer dragonborn wizard)
The Collections Agency (spoilers for Season 4)[]
For both in-game reasons (the C Team characters needed rescuing) and real-life reasons (to try new characters before the show ends its last season), part-way through Season 4, the C Team is replaced by "the Collections Agency". Certainty Dran secretly hires four people to uncover what happened to the C Team members, with help from Evelyn Marthain... kinda. Later in the season, the show alternates between the two teams to show each other's perspective.
- Prism (mood-elf bard)
- Stil Bedroch (owl-folk aarakocra cleric)
- Yitzbin A'tendé (centaur sorcerer)
- First-from-the-Quiver (tabaxi ranger)
Twitch TV Show[]
Franchise Opportunities - S1 E1 - Acquisitions Inc- The "C" Team
Acquisitions Incorporated: The "C" Team is a spin-off of Penny Arcade's "Acquisitions Inc" comedy-tabletop franchise. Led by Dungeon Master Jerry Holkins, the show uses Dungeons & Dragons, improvisational group storytelling, and comedy to tell the story of adventurers in a fantasy world and their many misadventures. The show is streamed live on the Penny Arcade Twitch Channel every Wednesday at 4pm PDT.
Season 1:[]
'Franchise Opportunities' through the 'Dran Incorporated' arc. Official episodes here.
The first season of The "C" Team is chronologically set roughly between PAX East 2017 (when Omin drops K'thriss off at Red Larch) and PAX Unplugged 2017 (Rosie's first stint with the "A" team) live games. Its Myth Arc centered on the "C" Team's secret mission to rescue Omin's long-lost sister Auspicia from the Wandering Crypt.
- The intro trilogy ("Franchise Opportunities", "The Test Market", and "In Good Standing") sees the "C" Team, the newest chapter of Acquisitions Incorporated operating out of Red Larch in the Dessarin Valley, arrive at their designated HQ, the The Dran & Courtier inn, only to be trapped in the Test Market — a weird illusory world constructed by Jim Darkmagic on Omin's behest as half-aptitude test, half-hazing ritual.
- "Dungeons and Wagons" Having successfully navigated Jim's illusion maze, the "C" Team embarks on its first official excursion to stop a band of goblins marauding north of Westbridge. Along the way, they acquire a badass cart, get embroiled in an artistic feud, and liberate a dragonborn egg that Donaar grows very attached to.
- "Doomgate Inn" The "C" Team is tasked with providing security at a vampire party, but things take an unexpected and gruesome turn when Team Bellerophon of AcqInc gets involved. On their way back, they stumble into a subterranean monstrosity known as "the Wandering Crypt" and finally discover the true purpose of the "C" Team.
- Stream of Annihilation Crossover was played in the middle of the "Homecoming" arc, but chronologically fits before it. While exploring a traveling fair that made a stop near Red Larch, Donaar is separated from the party, who then find themselves teleported to a strange tomb buried under Chult.
- "Homecoming" The party receives a request to deal with a rat infestation in the town of Nemezir, which just happens to have been built upon Walnut's destroyed ancestral grove. Before long, the heroes are caught in a crossfire between the cult of the evil goddess Maelith and an illithid Elder Brain trapped in the sewers and must take sides, with dire consequences for the city.
- "The House Wins" The "C" Team takes on two competing job offers simultaneously, one asking to provide security for the river-going Dragon's Hoard casino operated by lizardfolk and one to break into its vault, and complete both after a brief foray into the Plane of Shadow. Along the way, K'thriss receives a tempting offer from Dran Enterprises, Rosie catches up with her favorite daughter, while Walnut and Donaar each get laid.
- The "Jimterlude" occurred in the middle of "The House Wins" arc, with Mike DM'ing for a session and the party magically summoned by Jim Darkmagic's apprentice to win the Wizard Kart for him and thus to help Jim undo a curse he accidentally put onto himself.
- "Last Stone's Day" The party is tasked with seeing the Dran & Courtier through the upcoming Last Stone's Day celebrations while its owner is off attending her wife's latest performance.
- "Anchors Aweigh" The party travels to Neverwinter to free a young lady imprisoned in a tower, only to discover that nothing is what it seems. Along the way, they help the local AcqInc chapter,Team Naiad, deal with a merfolk problem, while Walnut and K'thriss get way over their head into some divine affairs, with the latter losing both of his eyes in the process.
- "Paterfamilias" Dragonborn princess Sorsha, the mother of the egg that Donaar rescued back in "Dungeons and Wagons" (now hatched and named Chronaar), orders the "C" Team to her notoriously xenophobic city of Skolla on the eve of a violent coup by the acolytes of the evil dragon goddess Tiamat. Although they manage to slay the cultists' leader, the party, Sorsha, and Chronaar must flee the city.
- "Return to Doomgate Inn" was a standalone Halloween Special, played live at TwitchCon 2017, with the party temporarily assuming the roles of the monstrous, erm, human-adjacent patrons of the reportedly haunted Doomgate Inn, whose new proprietor tasks them with retrieving a barrel of rare wine from its perfectly safe and normal cellar.
- "Dran Incorporated" The party finally finds some time to devote to pursuing their overarching goal and manages to locate the Wandering Crypt at its winter quarters northwest of Red Larch. To gain entrance into the Crypt, Walnut unleashes the Nemezir seed onto it, allowing the party to enter its bowels, fighting off its strange inhabitants, and ultimately to rescue the long-missing real Auspicia Dran.
- "Night of a Thousand Hours" was a Christmas Special played live at PAX Unplugged 2017. Two weeks after Auspicia's rescue, Dran & Quartier is assaulted by changelings pursuing a "royal changeling" baby, whom the "C" Team then has to deliver to safety of the Wayrest Chapel deep in the woods west of Red Larch.
Season 2:[]
Plans within Plans, Promise, Waffles Inc, and Matriarch arcs. Official episodes here.
The second season premiered with a live game at PAX South 2018 and continued as weekly live-streams every Wednesday after that.
- "The Handfasting of Walnut & Brahma" starts off with a Flash Forward to the end of the season, namely, to Walnut and Brahma Lutier's wedding, before jumping back, in a classic case of How We Got Here, to the day Rosie returned from Chult. In the present, Brahma has gone missing while fighting the Tiamat cult in Skolla, and Oak Truestrike of Team Bellerophon hires the "C" Team to help him find her, unaware that Omin has just revoked his Wildcard License and put a bounty on his head. The party catches up with Brahma in the catacombs under a Westbridge temple, only to discover that she has, apparently, been corrupted and granted powers of necromancy by Tiamat.
- "Plans Within Plans" When Oak escapes into the Test Market, the party gives chase and, after some dimension-hopping, finds him trapped by K'thriss' patron, the God of Mouths. Seeking escape from its gullet, the "C" Team is instead teleported into Upper Underdark, where they fulfill an ancient dwarven prophecy, make deals with an illithid, and explore K'thriss' now-abandoned ancestral home. The arc finally culminates in them freeing That-Which-Endures from the God of Mouths.
- "Promise" Upon returning from the Underdark, the team is hired to drive bandits from a small miner town named Promise, where Princess Sorsha and Chronaar have taken refuge after Skolla.
Season 3:[]
Arcana, The Velvet Cloak, and Crucible arcs. Official episodes here.
Season 4:[]
Preface, The Collections Agency, and Retirement arcs. Official episodes here.
Theme Song[]
The "C" Team theme song was written and performed by Kris Straub.
Lyrics:
Time is the enemy
the past, it threatens
the fastest weapon
you wouldn’t make it past a second
and that’s the question
play it brash and reckless
or choose a cautious solution
you thought was prudent
In any sepulcher
pulchritude’ll become the putrid
It’s that wealth that I’m pursuing
No mountain too steep
or dungeon too deep
to send expendable marks
up to the top of the peak or beneath
They see you bleed, they come like sharks to it
while I swim in that money bin
like Carl Barks drew it
so send your national parks druid
I’ll send them home in a natural box
with a closed top
and most of the parts included
Save your breath for a cleric confessor
Death is a lesson and
life is a tenured professor
But if you’re seeking my official advice
sign on the dotted line, initial it twice.
External Links[]
Collection of Fanarts and #cteam on twitter