Campaign 3, E70: “Embattled in Bassuras”

Combat:

  1. (Across the break.) Twitch: 0:59:30 to 2:42:03 and 2:56:55 to 2:27:06, YouTube: 0:44:34 to 2:27:06 and 2:42:00 to 3:04:05

Recurring Themes:

  • Drugs: Characters interact with a cult like group that organizes itself around the use of drugs.

Pre-show:

Visual appearances:

  • Camera shake: First person camera without much footage stabilization causing the view to sway and shake.
    Twitch: 0:15:32 to 0:18:40, YouTube: 0:00:36 to 0:03:43
  • Food and Drink: Food and drinks are shown at the table, and near the end of announcements they show off a cook book and eat baked goods.
    Twitch: 0:15:15 to 0:23:25, YouTube: 0:00:18 to 0:08:28

Campaign 3 Intro 2:

Time: 1:47

Epilepsy and light sensitivity

  • Rapidly alternating colors: High contrast bright colors, often on bright white, that rapidly shift with frequent jump cuts.
  • Flashing motion effects: Low frame animation without blur frames. Motion blur at the beginning Jumping stills with bright white lines on a dark background appear to flash as they change.
  • Jumpy rotoscoped shots: Short cuts for rotoscoped animation with a lot of movement can appear jumpy and disorienting. May affect motion sensitivity.

Part 1:

Occurrences:

  • Explosion: Seeing and talking about a ship that has blown up.
  • Burns: The spell Heat Metal is cast on someone's armor while they're wearing it.
  • Self harm: Chetney transformation.

Visual appearances:

  • Food: Players eat at the table.
    Twitch: 0:28:23 to 0:41:27, YouTube: 0:13:26 to 0:26:31

Sound effects:

  • Laudna whispers
    Twitch: 0:43:04 to 0:43:20, YouTube: 0:28:07 to 0:28:23

Break

Immortals of Aveum

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Queen By Midnight

Time: 1:30

Mentions:

  • Death: Game premise starts with the death of a ruler. Characters in the game fight in a deadly competition.

Visual appearances:

  • Flashing lights: Flash editing transitions, spell effects, animated fire.
  • Fire: Screen transition, character art, and glowing effects.
  • Weird Science: A character is shown making potions in a lab.
  • Monstrous transformation: Brief flash of a character's alternate beast form.
  • Blood: Animated blood used as a screen wipe scene transition.

Sound effects:

  • Ticking clock: A clock ticks in the beginning.

 

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Critical Role 2023 Convention Appearances

Candela Obscura Chapter 2 Trailer 2

Time: 1:26

Mentions:

  • War: Aftermath and effects of a war.
  • Monsters: Monsters a country went to war with.
  • Class inequality: Existing divides made worse due to a war.

Candela Obscura Soundtrack

Midst Season 2 Trailer

Time: 2:00

Occurrences:

  • Spoilers: Rapid description of the plot and hanging questions from season 1.
  • Major disaster: Exploding moon.
  • Death: Mention of the deaths of various characters.
  • Desecrated corpse: Possibly eaten by dogs.

Visual appearances:

  • Flashing Lights: Flash edit transition, lightning flash.
  • Smoking: Brief visual of a character smoking.
  • Drinking: Brief visual of a character drinking.

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Welcome to Wildemount Soundtrack Ad

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Twitch Subscription Sam's ASMR Ad

Time: 2:38

Mentions:

  • Teeth: Teeth implied to be growing where they shouldn't.

Visual appearances:

  • Kaleidoscope/hypnotic patterns: Background images of swirling brightly colored kaleidoscope views.

Sound effects:

  • ASMR parody: A wide range of ASMR sounds that are not all soothing. Some sounds are jarring and loud.

Part 2:

Occurrences:

  • Impalement: As part of a HDYWTDT
  • Horror imagery: Screaming ghost child seen reaching through an object.
  • Drugs: visiting the All Mind's Burn
  • Decay: Mold and dead bodies collected in a pile in a room.
  • Horror: People fused into a hive mind and trapped in a prolonged state of half death.

Discussions:

  • Betrayal: A character runs into someone from their past who betrayed them and they talk angrily about what happened.

Mentions:

  • Broken bones: During combat.
  • Infection: Pus used as a description of a color, and the cast reacts in disgust at the mention.