Campaign 3, E2: “Trial by Firelight”

October 28, 2021

Combat:

  1. Twitch: 0:30:43 to 1:11:15, YouTube: 0:15:49 to 0:56:22

Recurring Themes:

  • Alcohol: Drinking in taverns and discussions of drinking.

Pre-show:

Mentions:

  • Harm to animals: Joke about killing a pigeon.

 

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Time: 0:16

Visual appearances:

  • Flashing lights and fire: The logo has a fire effect flaring up on a dark background.

Part 1:

Occurrences:

  • Joint injury: A character's foot is injured in battle. Later a character's knee is injured in battle. Later during a monstrous transformation, a joint is dislocated.
  • Snakes: Staff turns to snakes. Later a character pets them.
  • Taxidermy: A puppet made from a dead rat and bird skull is used.
  • Alcohol: Drinking in a tavern.

Detailed descriptions:

  • Monstrous Transformation: A character transforms their body to be deliberately creepy and unsettling. This is done two times. Both black ooze from the eyes. The second includes a joint dislocation.

Mentions:

  • Animal death: A story recounts a bird accidentally dying in a house. Later rats are killed as pests.
  • Violent coup: A character briefly says they experienced a coup in their home city.
  • Mental magic: A character shares a childhood memory of having magic used on them multiple times to force them to tell the truth.

Sound effects:

  • Repetition: Echoed speech for a horror effect.
    Twitch: 0:50:52 to 0:50:58 YouTube: 0:35:58 to 0:36:04

 

Break

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Time: 1:00

Visual appearances:

  • Flashing Lights: Digital fire and flashing scene transitions.
  • Fire: used as spells, monster attacks, and a lava environment.

Sound effects:

  • Monster roars
  • Battle: Fantasy-medieval combat.

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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:

  • Broken finger nail: A character breaks a nail while opening a box. The description is brief but a little graphic.
  • Alcohol: Discussion of drinking on the street an on roofs. A character pretends to pass out from drinking.
  • Being watched: A character in total darkness feels they're being watched.

Sound effects:

  • Laudna whispers: When using mental communication spells, Laudna's words are echoed by the cast collectively overlaying their voices to make ghostly whispers. This will happen with all of Laudna's communication spells from now on.
    Twitch: 4:17:15 to 4:17:49, YouTube: 4:02:21 to 4:02:55
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