Campaign 3, E35: “Pyrrhic Return”
Combat:
None
Recurring Themes:
- Grief and Mourning
- Discussions of Death
- Confrontation with Trauma
- Mistreatment of a Prisoner
Pre-show:
- None
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:
- Mind Magic: Imogen casts Detect Thoughts and chooses to ‘dive deeper’ and read beyond surface thoughts.
- Torture (threat): Torture is threatened during an interrogation. This includes threats of falling and dismemberment.
- Moldy Food: A character is locked in a room where moldy food is kept. The character says they will have breathing problems because of it.
- Hallucination/Vision: A character sees changes in their body that then immediately disappear.
- Claustrophobia/Sandstorm: visuals and feeling of a sandstorm described.
- Falling/Heights: Multiple characters fall from a high place.
- Sinkholes: Characters attempt to climb out of large sinkholes in shifting sand. The sinkholes contain huge insects.
Detailed descriptions:
- Giant Insects: A huge insect like monstrous creature threatens the party inside sinkholes.
Mentions:
- Self-sacrifice: FCG talks about trading himself away. He is quickly told off.
Sound effects:
- Buzzsaw: Made by a player.
Break
Shopify Nona Luccia ad
Time: 0:59
Occurrences:
- Food: The ad centers around cooking and serving food.
Critical Role Shop Showcase
Welcome to Tal'Dorei Soundtrack Ad
Critical Recap Ad
Fanart and Cosplay Submission Ad
Duplicate Jester Twitch Ad
Time: 2:29
Visual appearances:
- Dick doodles: Many dick doodles are drawn but described as other things. may be NSFW.
Part 2:
Occurrences:
- Paranoia/Hyper-vigilance: Brief descriptions of Eshteross filling his house with more traps and precautions.
- Blood: Nose bleed from implied physical damage from mind magic.
- Self Harm (multiple instances): One use of blood hunter ability, and an attempt to break through a mental block much later.
- Trauma Memories: A character recounts a traumatic experience as a lead in to studying the gaps in their memory from the event. Further traumatic memories are freshly remembered through the scene.
- Traumatic Flashbacks: A character re-experiences traumatic events through looping flashbacks.
- Mind Magic: Imogen and FCG push harder on read thoughts than usual.
- Trapped in a dream: Characters feel trapped in a dream they can't wake up from and a feeling of sleep paralysis.
- Ageism: Ageist remarks about Chetney's abilities are periodically made as a consentual running joke.
Detailed descriptions:
- Medical Procedure/Surgery: A character remembers waking up in the middle of surgery.
- Pain: Extensive and specific descriptions of the active pain of injury and of ongoing chronic pain.
Mentions:
- Eating: Brief but detailed description of a person eating meat.