Campaign 3, E44: “Bawdy Basement Belligerence”

Combat:

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Recurring Themes:

  • FCG Flesh Parts: Sam's gas can has a picture of FCG with a giant tongue.
  • Nudity/Sex: Nudity and reference to sex acts takes up much of the episode, far beyond the usual level of lewd jokes for the franchise.

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:

  • Spider: Pate transforms into a spider.
  • Nausea/Vomit: A character vomits due to visual vertigo. A couple small sounds are made as part of the description.
  • Nudity/Sex: Characters plan to stage a fake orgy/fake pornography film to try and get out of a fight. They half commit to the plan and undress while in combat rounds. Brief mention of how a character's breasts look.
  • Laudna Form of Dread
  • Horror Imagery: Monstrous transformation description (brief). Unnatural jerky movement.
  • Sexual Mental Magic: A player initially says he will use mental magic to command enemies to masturbate. He then changes his mind and commands them to do something else non-sexual.
    Joint Injury: A person's shoulder is dislocated.

Mentions:

  • Discussions of Consent: During the fake orgy/porn shoot fight, a character says "No Touch" multiple times to dissuade their enemy from touching the "performers".

Break:

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Time: 1:57

Occurrences:

  • City Destruction: Various scenes of Dragons attacking.
  • Drinking: Characters shown getting drunk.
  • Drugs(hallucinations): A character hallucinates and is sick, presumably after eating something.
  • Animal Bite: A character is bit by a wolf in the groin.

Visual appearances:

  • Flashing Lights: Animated magical spell effects.
  • Blood: A character is covered in blood.

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Part 2:

Occurrences:

  • Mental Magic: A character casts a mental magic friendship spell on a prisoner.
  • Religious Trauma: Memory is described of being forced to pray, and being criticized for lack of faith.

Detailed descriptions:

  • Fingernail Torture: A character talks about potentially using it to interrogate a prisoner.

Mentions:

  • Brain Injury: Brief discussion about how the media trope of knocking someone out repeatedly would cause a traumatic brain injury in real life.