Episode 2: The Effervescent Snail

 Discussing Critical Role Campaign 2: Vox Machina - Episode 2: Into The Greyspine Mines, and many, many vaguely related topics because there's just not a lot going on. 

 

00:00:00 - Intro Music by Curran Son
00:00:17 - Intro
00:04:11 - Content Warnings: Loss of Autonomy, Violence, Gore
00:05:11 - Spoiler Warnings: Campaign 1, minor Campaign 2 spoilers
00:06:40 - Out of Game Tidbits
00:08:55 - A Rocky Horror Tangent
00:10:40 - Shirt Choices, Content Warning: Incest jokes?
00:12:03 - The Author is Ideologically Blocked on Twitter
00:12:58 - More Shirts and other Early Game Nostalgia
00:15:08 - Where We Left Off Last Episode
00:16:15 - The Actual Episode Recap Starts - Greyspine Negotiation Shenanigans
00:19:15 - The Foreman
00:28:40 - Attack on House Thunderbrand 2: Swedish Dwarf Boogaloo
00:42:40 - Son of Syngorn Goes Shopping
00:44:10 - Suspiciously Timely Concerns about Kith & Kin (and assassin school which is for assassins)
00:46:10 - The Inevitable Perc'ahlia Tangent: ARROWS!!!
00:50:00 - Back to the Episode, Into the Mines
00:54:05 - What Even Is Darkvision
00:56:36 - There Is Combat (With Mind Control Elements)
01:01:20 - Bal's Gun Show
01:03:30 - Back to the Combat and more Vision Shenanigans
01:13:03 - No Rest Allowed
01:18:14 - The Purvan Scale
01:27:30 - Effervescent
01:29:13 - Outro
01:31:58 - Jana From The Future 

 

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Episode 1: Not the Best Place to Start?

 Discussing Critical Role Campaign 1: Vox Machina - Episode 1: Arrival at Kraghammer and why it might not be the best episode to start your Critical Role journey with - but also certainly not the worst.  

00:00:00 - Jana from the future has something to say
00:01:30 – Intro
00:02:40 – Gushing about Artwork
00:03:53 – Content Warnings: Sexual Content, Sex Work, Mention of Attempted Rape, Death of Civillians, Fantasy Racism
00:05:12 – Spoiler Warnings: CR2, Beauregard’s Backstory, Reani
00:06:08 – Out of Game Tidbits
00:08:40 – How do we feel about the intro movies?
00:16:22 – What Happened So Far/Why the Comics Are Not Canon (to us)
00:19:21 – Episode Recap starts
00:26:32 – The Party Splits (CN: Sexual Content, Sex Work)
00:29:42 – Tiberius casts spells at a house for 5 minutes
00:30:40 – Back to the Bear Bar
00:34:15 – On to the mines
00:35:00 – The Fight Scene (CN: Civilian Casualties)
00:37:43 – How Do You Want To Do This? The Cultural Impact Thereof
00:40:08 – 5E and What Even Are Rules
00:42:50 – Combat Review
00:44:13 - Highly Ironic Philosophizing About Audio Quality
00:46:22 – The Inevitable Perc’ahlia Tangent
00:47:47 – General Characterization and Worldbuilding Tangent
00:51:30 – A Gay Bar full of Bears
00:52:25 – Pillars of Eternity On The Brain
00:53:57 – Matt playing female NPCs
00:56:26 – Are any of Matt’s female NPCs straight?
00:58:28 – Bal’s Gun Show
01:03:01 – Sex Work on Critical Role (CN: Sexual Content, Sex Work)
01:06:56 - What a Shawm Is (And Isn’t)
01:09:09 – Grab Bag of Whatever Else to Talk About (CN: Sexism)
01:12:14 – Hints of a Very Different Game (CN: Sex Work, Mention of Attempted Rape)
01:16:26 – Not the Best Place to Start?
01:22:15 – The Purvan Scale
01:33:28 – Be Nice to People Doing Something New
01:34:35 – Outro 

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Session 0

It's Session 0 of Critical Role-Back! 

Here we go over our general plans for and approach to this podcast, how we're going to handle trigger and spoiler warnings, and just who we are and why we're doing this. 

 

00:00:00 – Lovely Intro Music by Curran Son
00:01:07 – What exactly is this?
00:02:43 – Content Warning Policy
00:03:15 – Spoiler Policy
00:04:21 – Podcast structure explained
00:07:11 – The Purvan Scale
00:18:15 – This is a Labor of Love, not of unconditional positivity
00:19:48 – Trigger Warnings (what we’re going to warn about and what you should just expect every episode)
00:30:17 – Our discussion of warning about blood goes a little out of hand with the examples, so tw/cn: Discussion of blood in many, many forms
00:35:09 – The cast tries not to be assholes, and we try not to be assholes
00:38:00 – Orion Acaba
00:43:35 – Who are we, anyway?
00:55:55 – Messages from the future
00:58:00 – Additional content warnings
01:00:23 – First episode announcement 

 

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