Campaign 3, E9: “Thicker Grows the Meal and Plot”

January 6, 2022

Combat:

  1. None

Recurring Themes:

  • Infiltration: The party commit 3 break-ins.

Pre-show:

Visual appearances:

  • Flashing Lights: Red blinking hat. Spinning light up fidget spinners. Matrix-style falling green code projection. Glowing green eyes. Green lightening.
    Twitch: 0:15:10 to 0:18:54, YouTube: 0:00:15 to 0:03:59

Sound effects:

  • Voice distortion: Voice effect to sound mechanical and layered with echoes.
    Twitch: 0:15:22 to 0:18:41, YouTube: 0:0:27 to 0:03:46

Campaign 3 Intro 1:

Time: 1:44

Visual appearances:

  • Colonialism: Costumes based on late 19th century to early 20th century British explorer stories.
    Flashing Lights: Lanterns carried in dark scenes throughout, camera flash at 1:11, and fire effects at the end.
  • Fire: Fire effect on ending logo.

Sound effects:

  • Repetition and whispers: Opening starts with ghostly whispers repeating the same words over and over before the lyrics start.

Part 1:

Occurrences:

  • Law Enforcement: Characters are questioned and have a verbal confrontation with city guards. They are physically restrained and express fear of violence before the situation is de-escalated.
  • Alcohol: Scene takes place in a tavern with drinking. Discussion of bartenders drinking on the job.
  • Food/food hygiene: Food is eaten and discussed in a tavern. The kitchen conditions are unsanitary.

Mentions:

  • Heights & Airborne Vehicles: Fearne shakes a gondola to mess with the party.

Break

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Time: 2:07

Mentions:

  • Vampires: Blood drinkers are mentioned.

Visual appearances:

  • Corpses: Large piles of bones. Undead skeletons.
  • Blood: On a face like tears.
  • Fire: Camp fire, and later an abstract burning town.
  • Flashing lights: A red light pulses in time with a heartbeat.

Intro for The Legend of Vox Machina

Time: 1:09

Visual appearances:

  • Flashing lights: Spell effects and fire animation (mainly white and yellow light).
  • Eyes: Starts with a closeup of a Raven's eyes. Later a closeup on a character's eyes. End's with magical eyes in the clouds.
  • Heights: a view of a city from above following a swooping bird.
  • Blood and gore: A monster is killed by bursting through its head. Other enemies are fought. Badly wounded characters are shown after a battle.
  • Fire: A Village is shown burning with two scared witnesses.
  • Imprisonment: A character is shown leaving a prison with hanging manacles.
  • Gun: A character is shown wielding a gun.

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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:

Mentions:

  • Electrocution: A character receives a short but powerful electric shot that is briefly described.
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