Campaign 3, E70: “Embattled in Bassuras”
Combat:
- (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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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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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.