Campaign 3, E76: “A Gathering of Heroes”

October 19, 2023

Combat:

  1. None

Recurring Themes:

  • Religion: Extended conversations about the nature of gods and their place in Exandria.
  • Apocalypse: Extended conversations about the looming threat of Ludinus and his followers.

Pre-show:

Mentions:

  • Horror imagery: In the ad Sam describes going through a haunted house.

Campaign 3 Intro 3:

Time: 1:44

Visual appearances:

  • Flashing lights: Magical effects, lightning, and fire throughout.
  • Falling: A character tumbles from the sky. Another falls out a window and is badly injured. The party falls off an airship.
  • Flash frame: A scene briefly flashes to a different image in contrasting colors for a frightening effect.
  • Dead Animal: Pâté de Rolo is puppeted.
  • Dead bodies: A cave of dead bodies with a red tint.
  • Werewolf: Chetney transforms into a werewolf and fights.
  • Blood: From a wound during a fight.
  • Fire: Magical fire used in an attack. The Critical Role Logo lights on fire at the end.
  • Body horror: Laudna uses Form of Dread to turn into a frightening tree creature.

Part 1:

Occurrences:

  • Eavesdropping: A character listens in on private conversations.

Discussions:

  • Confronting trauma: Two characters talk about a shared traumatic event and set communication boundaries. The mood is tense but not angry.

Break

The 7th Guest VR

Time: 1:31

Occurrences:

  • Murder mystery: The game is a murder mystery set in a haunted house.

Visual appearances:

  • Flashing lights: Lightning.
  • Undead: Ghosts playing out past events. Skeletal hands used by the player.
  • Horror imagery: A haunted house.
  • Alcohol: A bottle of wine is offered by the player and drank.
  • Living liquid: A person's form comes out of a pot of water.
  • Guillotine: A doll's head is cut off with a guillotine.
  • Blood: Blood drips from a ghost.
  • Spider webs: Large cobwebs throughout the house. Some are shown up close.

WizKids Mighty Nein Box Set Ad

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.

 

Critical Role Shop Showcase

Time: 0:52

Visual appearances:

  • Lightening: A lightning flash transition.

Mighty Nein Reunion, London Live Show

Time: 0:30

Visual appearances:

  • Fire: The Critical Role logo on fire.

Candela Obscura Chapter 2 Episode 2 case notes

Time: 0:59

Mentions:

  • Death/loss: The narrator mentions the loss of organization members.

Visual appearances:

  • Fire: The whole screen is briefly covered in fire.

Candela Obscura Soundtrack

Midst Season 2 Episode 1 Clip

Time: 1:07

Discussions:

  • Large scale disaster: Narrators discuss several threatening events at the end of season 1.
  • Doom: Feelings of doom and unease.

Visual appearances:

  • Horror imagery: Black void with reaching hands.

Welcome to Tal'Dorei Soundtrack Ad

Welcome to Wildemount Soundtrack Ad

Critical Recap Ad

Fanart and Cosplay Submission Ad

Twitch Subscription Ad With President Gale

Time: 2:37

Occurrences:

  • Insects: Bees are mentioned multiple times before they attack a person. We hear sounds of swarm buzzing and comical distress, and see a swarm, but no attack is directly shown.

Part 2:

Occurrences:

 

  • Self harm: Laudna cuts with her skin to show off her undead nature.
  • Scared child: A character accidentally scares a child.
  • Graveyard: Characters walk through the graveyard attached to a temple to the Raven Queen.
  • Bullying: Characters react to past bullying by being bullies.

Discussions:

  • Self-sacrifice: Characters discuss being an expendable group to gather information for other people.

Visual appearances:

  • Smoking: Sam briefly has a prop cigarette.
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