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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video)

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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video)	comment	Campaign One of Critical Role began airing on March 12th, 2015. It follows the adventures of Vox Machina, a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits band of mercenaries that work their way into becoming saviors of their city, continent, and finally the world. This campaign concluded on October 12, 2017.On March 4, 2019, they launched a Kickstarter to fund an animated special. This in turn raised over 11 million dollars from a 750 000 dollar goal. Prime Video became the distributor for what now had become an animated series, with the first season depicting the Briarwood arc, and was later renewed for season 2 and 3 in order to depict the Chroma Conclave arc.The cast for Campaign One:
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_10add6ee	comment	Kill the God: With Vecna's revival in episode 101, the story transitions to this for the final arc. There is also a deal in place to kill Orcus when the time comes, though it seemed to have been forgotten since.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity: Scanlan Shorthalt, on many occasions, refers to himself as "Burt Reynolds".
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: All of the original eight members of Vox Machina have died at least once during the campaign, though all but one (Tiberius) have been brought back.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_130436b9	comment	Percy excitedly telling Vax, "Vax? I have a sister!" in Episode 32 gets echoed in the next episode, after the party finds and rescues Cassandra, and she proves to be an Annoying Younger Sibling:
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_14a8974a	comment	Love Potion: Vax'ildan slips a Love Potion into Scanlan's Drink in Episode 109. Unfortunately, Percy is the target of his affections. Fun was had by most.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_15adb9a8	comment	The end of Episode 17. As if having to say goodbye to Pike in the last episode wasn't enough, things get worse. When Vox Machina agrees to undergo a test to gain membership into the Slayer's Take to avoid being persecuted for the illegal slaying of a Hydra (which was already claimed by one of the guild's hunting parties), Huntmaster Vanessa Cyndrial decides to split the team into two separate groups to test how they fare with working with different people. This comes as a shock to the whole party, most notably Vax and Vex who had never been apart longer than a day since their birth. They try to ask the Huntmaster to reconsider, but she refuses. While Vex was able to mostly deal with the separation (or at least act like it), it's Vax who was the more broken of the two, as evidenced in Episode 20.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Episode 7. When the first attack roll Vax'ildan makes is a natural 20, Marisha makes mention it was going to be a good day. Then, many more Natural 20s get rolled, much to Matt's frustration. :Turns out he was true to his word, because by the end of the episode... it turns out less than good. In the same episode, Pike decides to slit an unconscious duergar's throat with her mace. When she tries to justify what she did and ask if Sarenrae would get mad at her, Matt simply says, "We'll see." And then in the next episode, her holy symbol gets a crack in it, signifying that her deity is indeed mad at her. The first Q&A has Marisha wonder if they're ever going to face a Beholder. It was planned before that, but six episodes later one was revealed as the Big Bad of that arc. During Percy's shooting rampage in episode 18, Taliesin commented that so many bad things are going to happen to him after the battle (which causes a nod to the camera from Matt). :Rimefang comes very close to killing Percy in the next episode... and then his backstory comes into play in Episode 24, which indirectly leads to many bad things, including Vox Machina being thrown off the Tal'Dorei council and Percy beginning to lose his grip on stability. It's like he's still paying for it. In episode 19, Vex is frustrated that the other group was handed the flying carpet to use. Her fears are justified in episode 21, when the carpet loses its enchantment following a dip into an acid pit. Matt reminds Vox Machina that they've got a dungeon in their keep in Episode 24, should they ever need to take anyone prisoner... which they do in the very next episode. Just like K'Varn, planned beforehand (for about 2 years!), but a strange coincidence that a few large dragon minis were sent to Matt the week before Emon is attacked by a bunch of them. Even made more ironic when Vax rants to Vex about him not having a purpose in life... only to find one after the Conclave's attack through becoming the Champion of the Raven Queen. In Episode 44, almost 10 episodes after the Whitestone arc ends, Percy mentions that he's finally starting to imagine and work towards a better version of himself. A few hours later, he accidentally kills Vex by touching an artifact without checking for traps first. He's... got a bit of an uphill battle ahead. Similarly, Kashaw makes a wisecrack the group frequently makes when they find themselves messing with unknown objects: "...and you die instantly [upon touching the thing]". He definitely didn't suspect that to be exactly what happened. In episode 97, Keyleth says "It's fine. We're gods!" and then jumps off a cliff and instantly dies. Episode 88: The cast starts singing "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story", led by Liam, as Percy successfully leaps through the door out of the Water Plane. Exactly one minute later, Vax goes unconscious, gets swallowed by the Kraken, and dies.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_16e17035	type	Patrick Stewart Speech
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_16e17035	comment	Patrick Stewart Speech: Percy, fittingly, delivers a moving one to Keyleth in Episode 56, as he justifies rebuilding Westruun rather than simply relocating the survivors.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1777836c	comment	True Love's Kiss: Invoked by Vex'ahlia kissing Percy after confessing her love as part of the ritual to bring him back to life. She rolls a Natural 20 to boot. Likewise invoked pre-stream by Scanlan during the ritual to revive Pike, albeit it is still unrequited in terms of Pike towards Scanlan...at least until the epilogue.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Since the first campaign had been running for two years prior to streaming, everything from small details to major plot elements are explained somewhere outside the recorded shows, as are backstory elements of the characters themselves. Some questions have been answered either on Twitter or in the Q&A episodes, and the group also did an online summary.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1b8f9f2b	type	Mutually Exclusive Party Members
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1b8f9f2b	comment	Mutually Exclusive Party Members: Matt gave the party a choice between taking Gilmore or Allura to the Thordak fight. After trying (and failing) to pawn the decision off onto them (and hence Matt himself) or other NPCs, they eventually decide on Gilmore.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1c1d0016	type	Disappointing Heritage Reveal
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1c1d0016	comment	Disappointing Heritage Reveal: While Vax and Vex always knew they were half-elven (the pointed ears made it rather obvious), getting sent to live with their elven father in Syngorn after their human mother's death earned them a rather cold reception from the other elves, leading them to hate Syngorn and run away the first chance they got.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1c445e86	comment	The episode after that, Keyleth calls out everybody due to said Poor Communication Kills leading to an in-party scuffle.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1cddf32e	comment	Hungry Weapon: Craven Edge, Sylas Briarwood's sentient greatsword, perpetually hungers for the blood of its victims. In the final arc, the group recovers the Sword of Kas, which is sentient and always seeking to be bathed in blood as well as hungering for the death of Vecna specifically.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: Travis Willingham dons a great pair while Grog is catatonic in the third episode.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1e2af48	type	Trapped in Villainy
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1e2af48	comment	Trapped in Villainy: The River Maw tribe were conquered by Kevdak and forcibly assimilated into the Herd of Storms. Shortly after Kevdak's death at Grog's hands, the River Maw's spokesman tells Zanror that they're leaving, and Zanror lets them because he can't afford causalities before fighting Umbrasyl.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Matt grants the HDYWTDT to the entire group when they kill Anna Ripley, in vengeance for Percy's death. Keyleth strings her up with vines, Vax cuts off her arm, Scanlan carves a symbol into her forehead, Vex shoots her through the heart and in the mouth, and Grog slices her in half.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: A couple of examples: Percy shoots the fingers clean off the Briarwood's carriage driver's hand in Episode 25. Keyleth gets her hand crushed by a roc in Episode 26.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1fc8335e	comment	The end of Episode 69. After Percy having been resurrected and Vex'ahlia having confessed her love for him in front of everyone earlier in the episode, it ends with Raishan revealing herself to have been masquerading as Seeker Asum ever since they returned from the Feywild. And now she seeks an alliance with the party to slay the Cinder King.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Everybody assumes that Vax will turn into a vampire after getting bitten by one. Vox Machina drags him off to be blessed by a priest, who explains that vampires only turn their victims if they kill them with a bite. What makes it hilarious is that Vax plays up the effects of injury the entire time, so that when the priest explains that he's fine, he comes across as a bit of a hypochondriac. It also happens often at times with the rest of the party.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_20b2adb6	type	For Great Justice
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_20b2adb6	comment	The Platinum Dragon/Bahamut is more about sending out his paladins to smite evil For Great Justice. His Platinum Sanctuary is nigh-unanimously recognized as the safest place to seal away dangerous artifacts like the Horn of Orcus.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_21579c25	type	Ancient Artifact
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_21579c25	comment	Ancient Artifacts: The Vestiges of Divergence, powerful weapons and armour pieces from a previous epoch. After the Chroma Conclave attack, Vox Machina learn that these devices may hold the key to defeating the dragons. Initially only knowing where two of them are, they head out to find out where the rest may be found. As of Episode 76, all of their Vestiges have been retrieved: the Deathwalker's Ward for Vax, Mythcarver for Scanlan, the Titanstone Knuckles for Grog, Fenthras, Wrath of the Feywarden for Vex, Cabal's Ruin for Percy, Whisper for Vax, the Spire of Conflux for Keyleth, and the Plate of the Dawnmartyr for Pike. In fact, they can be awakened or exalted for even more power.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: With a Rogue and Ranger in the party constantly scouting ahead and checking traps, you wouldn't think this would happen at all... Vex suddenly dies from a trap from the Raven Queen protecting its legendary armor in episode 44 when Percy interrupts her while she's checking for traps.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_21fd09a7	type	How Do I Shot Web?
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_21fd09a7	comment	How Do I Shot Web?: Since it's a D&D game, this is usually averted since all the abilities and effects are written down. On rare occasion is it played straight, like when Keyleth cast Wind Walk, a 6th-level traversal spell, in the middle of a fight. Or when Vex'Ahlia tried to figure out the enchantment on the flying broom, which she nicked from a temporary party member played by Chris Hardwick.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: After coming across The Sun Tree in episode 28, where the Briarwoods hung seven people (and a bear) who look like the team from the tree, using a child to represent Scanlan, Sam's question? "Was he handsome?" (He didn't realize he was talking about a kid until Matt pointed it out, after which Sam's reaction says it all.)
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: Vex makes the joke in Episode 30 that "only one person" would know how to say Percy's Overly Long Name in full - Percy himself. Percy asks if anyone else in Vox Machina can do it, and they all get it wrong, including Vex. In Episode 35, Vex does remember his full name, and says it to stop him from being possessed by Orthax.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In episode 2, Travis mentions a stash of platinum in the Bag of Holding he forgot about. 12 episodes later, he puts it to proper use at Gilmore's. In episode 22, Grog ends up trading a lot of dragon pieces for a potion of Stone Giant Strength (he actually trades more than what the peddler asked for, much to the chagrin and frustration of Vex'ahlia). In the next episode, it proves to be the right choice in hindsight since it gives Grog a boost in strength so that he could take on "The Hammer" in a rematch and win! Bonus points; the team actually gains (after bets were placed) 1,570 gold from the whole convoluted exchange. Remember the reward that was promised in Episode 2 in Kraghammer if Vox Machina had solved their little monster problem? They finally go back to get it in episode 24. Clarota's metal skullcap is first mentioned in Episode 3. It comes back in Episode 27, when Vax gets it magically identified at Gilmore's. Turns out it protects the wearer from mental influence which is useful, considering that Vox Machina's next opponents end up being vampires. Similarly, Sherrie identifies a potion that Scanlan picked up "like a year ago" as a potion of fire breath in Episode 24. In Episode 31, Scanlan is charged with burning down a house in Whitestone as a distraction. He has no fire spells, but at the last minute, he remembers the potion of fire breath and uses it to torch the house (and a couple of guards). In Episode 3, the party takes a Wand of Magic Missiles off a defeated duergar, which goes into Scanlan's inventory and is apparently forgotten until it is finally put to use for the first time in Episode 30. Vex takes a Potion of Flying from Doctor Anna Ripley once they arrive at her room in Castle Whitestone. Said potion gets used in Episode 34 which helped in surviving the acid trap beneath the castle and against the Briarwoods in conjuction with her Skirmisher Stealth skill. It lasts long enough to finish the battle — until the failed ritual in the Ziggurat resulted in an anti-magic black hole that instantly nullifies the effect of the potion, resulting in her falling. Pike retrieves a necklace from her room in her house in Westruun in Episode 53 and later gives it to Percy in Episode 58. Said necklace's function is triggered in Episode 68 when Percy is shot dead and is revived, causing the necklace to shatter. It doesn't save him the second time, though. In Episode 96, Taryon gives Vex a coin with Revivify cast into it. It's not needed in the next battle, but comes in very, very handy in the next episode, when Keyleth tries to swan dive dramatically off a cliff and dies instantly, and Vex is the only one who sees this happen and the only one with any chance of getting to her body before the tides wash it away.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_22fbf816	type	Flat Joy
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_22fbf816	comment	Flat Joy: Percy, Vex and Scanlan's reaction to first meeting Lyra.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_2310dacb	type	Dead Man Writing
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_2310dacb	comment	Dead Man Writing: In Episode 50, Scanlan gives Pike a note, saying to only open and read it if he should die. Pike reads it the moment Scanlan is out of sight. It's not revealed what it says until the 'campaign wrap up' episode of Talks Machina, but judging from Ashley Johnson's reaction, it was emotionally powerful. Having predicted his demise at the hands of Anna Ripley, Percy has a note on his person for the rest of the party. Vax's note to Vex, hidden in his armor: "Take these wings and fly." Also, his letter to Scanlan in Episode 81, which basically said, "You were right".
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: In episode 24 at the feast with the Briarwoods, the trope is used interestingly - a disguised Percy, after getting some key information, proposes a toast to "gracious hosts". It was as their hosts threw a feast in their honor that the Briarwoods began the brutal massacre of Percy's household and family, and the information he obtained was the story of how they made their "inheritance" of the castle and lands look legitimate. The carriage driver, during his interrogation in Episode 26, claims that "an enemy of an enemy doesn't necessarily make a friend." Keyleth's response is "no, but it can make them allies." It's not word for word, but Keyleth is actually echoing Clarota, of all people. And we all know what a great ally he turned out to be. Vax gives one to Percy in Episode 29, parroting his "Your soul is now forfeit!" killing blow from Episode 25: Percy excitedly telling Vax, "Vax? I have a sister!" in Episode 32 gets echoed in the next episode, after the party finds and rescues Cassandra, and she proves to be an Annoying Younger Sibling: Cassandra de Rolo betrays the party in Episode 34, saying that because she was left for dead by Percy, she's a Briarwood now. However, in the next episode, a dying Delilah Briarwood stares up at Cassandra and says "You could've been my daughter." She retorts coldly, "No. Cassandra is a de Rolo. And you took them away from me. And now I'm taking everything away from you!" and stabs her dead. Percy's infamous line to Ripley in Episode 33 "You are the luckiest woman in Whitestone, do you know why? Because you're at the bottom of my List." receives a pseudo-echo from Ripley herself, who says "another name off the List" when she kills Percy in Episode 68. This same line gets echoed again by Keyleth in reference to Raishan, with Percy turning it around for her: Tiberius coins the phrase "I encourage violence" in Episode 6, and it becomes something of a Running Gag. All the way in to Episode 72, it comes back as the complete opposite when Scanlan uses "I encourage peace" as the epitaph on Tiberius's memorial. Episode 39, when Scanlan, Percy, and Keyleth are talking about how she should travel to Whitestone to talk to Allura about the skull, she complains that she'd be wasting a sixth-level spell just to be a glorified messenger and Scanlan retorts that she wasted one for no reason, referring to the Wind Walk fiasco. In Episode 78, Scanlan ends up doing the exact same thing, complaining that he wasted a fifth-level spell for no reason when he has to drop his Seeming spell to demonstrate the party's prowess to potential allies. In Campaign 1, Percy (played by Taliesin) makes an iconic and inspiring speech around the line "Life needs things to live" arguing for the party to help a city under siege by assisting with their supplies and logistics. The slightly goofy line gets echoed and called back several times. In Campaign 2, Caduceus (played by Taliesin) makes an iconic and inspiring speech around the line "Life doesn't need things to live", arguing that the party should help the people of a community in danger of extermination evacuate even if it means having to leave all their possessions behind.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_2534ee67	comment	Campaign 1 was a continuation of a private home game, so it begins with the party as Level 8 veterans of multiple adventures and already familiar with eachother. While it starts at the beginning of a new Story Arc, the players and characters still reference pre-stream events, and a recap video was later made to avoid Continuity Lockout. (And even later, the pre-stream adventures were adapted into comic books) Later campaigns would have the audience following the characters from the very beginning.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_25b5600	comment	In "Adventures of the Darrington Brigade", Taliesin, who previously played the first gun-user in Exandria (Percy), is now the Owlbear, a Captain Ersatz of the best known anti-gun superhero of all.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_25c7b33a	type	Cruel to Be Kind
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_25c7b33a	comment	Tiberius and Vex call Vax out on his Cruel to Be Kind attitude towards their fanboy Kynan in episode 23. They turn out to be completely right, given that this led to Kynan being manipulated by Ripley.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Episode 9 has a Call-Back on the blackboard that refers to Scanlan pooping on the bed from a few episodes before. In episode 10, the blackboard says Hunter's Mark to remind Laura/Vex'ahlia to use her ability of the same name. As Scanlan talks about his fondness for hats in Episode 60, the rest of the group mimes putting on their various hats behind him.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_29f44d3a	type	Adam Smith Hates Your Guts
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_29f44d3a	comment	Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: Occurs at the start of Episode 43 when the party is unable to wrangle more than a few healing potions from the Slayer's Take even when the literal fate of the world is at stake.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_2b1b2877	type	Death as Game Mechanic
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_2b1b2877	comment	Death as Game Mechanic: Matthew Mercer introduces his own homebrewed game mechanics about death into Dungeons & Dragons. When player characters die, sometimes gods and otherworldly entities will appear to them and offer to bring them back to life as part of a deal. Namely, one hero gains Resurrective Immortality from a god (Vax from the Raven Queen), which he exploits to take suicidal risks and bargain with fairies who get off on choking people.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_2c1f1138	comment	Played with by Percy in Episode 30. Keyleth asks if his quest in Whitestone motivated by revenge, altruism or friendship, and Percy says that any answer that was not revenge would be a lie. Still, he later implies that Vox Machina's friendship is the only thing stopping him from becoming as bad as the Briarwoods.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_2c3a7a97	type	Cast as a Mask
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_2c3a7a97	comment	Cast as a Mask: Used in Episode 99, where Matthew Mercer plays the crimelord "Aes Adan" like he would any other NPC, until he's revealed as a disguised Scanlan, upon which his actual player takes over.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Keyleth is so shocked by Percy's displays of Ax-Crazy in Episode 25 that she breaks her concentration spell and skips a turn.note This was not imposed by Matt; Marisha simply decided to give up her turn for role-playing effect, probably because the group was already obviously winning.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_2e8441c9	comment	Episode 80 is just one massive downward spiral. Raishan completely overwhelms an exhausted Vox Machina and friends, Vex and Scanlan are killed and resurrected during the battle, Vax and Keyleth both nearly die with no chance of revival, and worst of all, the Diseased Deceiver manages to escape with Thordak's corpse and a couple of dragon eggs in tow. They only survive due to Devo'ssa making their appearance, forcing Raishan to flee.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_31a2a33c	comment	The cannonball contest in Episode 56, which sees every member of Vox Machina breaking out absolutely ridiculous tactics to win. The victor is Percy, who wins by diving into the water with a kettle full of raw sodium.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_31f7c194	type	Super Window Jump
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_31f7c194	comment	Super Window Jump: To escape the Briarwoods, Vax jumps out of a second-story window. Due to a successful Acrobatics check, Matt says he uses Le Parkour to avoid damage from the glass or the wall. Then Sylas Briarwood jumps after him and scores a "perfect Three-Point Landing". His wife is not so graceful.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3255968b	type	Implied Death Threat
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3255968b	comment	Implied Death Threat: Percy (in disguise) tells the Briarwoods about how Vox Machina killed a previous ally, an Illithid, for betraying and attacking them. He's obviously alluding to the fact that the Briarwoods betrayed and slaughtered his family, and that they'll one day meet the same fate as Clarota.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_32768814	type	Kick the Son of a Bitch
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_32768814	comment	Kick The Son Of A Bitch: After killing Sir Stonefell in Episode 29, the group decides to let his lackey Vook live — but not before Percy brands him with a red-hot gun barrel and Grog rips out his tongue. Vook was, by his own admission, part of the coup against the de Rolos, and Vox Machina first encounters him oppressing the peasantry on the Briarwoods' behalf, so it's really hard to feel sorry for him.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_32a1f455	type	Alliterative Family
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_32a1f455	comment	Alliterative Family: Vax'ildan and Vex'ahlia Vessar, as well as their adorable younger half-sister Velora.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: Vox Machina form this against the Briarwoods during the Whitestone arc. The good people of Whitestone eventually help them fight the Briarwoods' undead minions during a final uprising.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_34f7b8ee	type	Pooping Where You Shouldn't
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_34f7b8ee	comment	Pooping Where You Shouldn't: Scanlan is fond of pooping in random places (like hideouts of his enemies) as part of his crude humor. It actually becomes usefull after he buys a potion from Gilmore that allows him to scry through his feces.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Sylas and Delilah Briarwood, a murderous and married vampire and necromancer respectively who madly love each other. Vax'ildan and Keyleth as of Episode 65. It took them 2 months in-game consisting of 30 episodes (from Episode 35: Denouement to Episode 65: The Streets of Ank'Harel) but it finally happened with Keyleth confessing to Vax. As of Episode 72, it seems that Percy and Vex may follow suit, as she's confessed to being in love with him and he's given her The Big Damn Kiss. Episode 78 flat-out confirms it when they spend what may be their last night together. Although they were a couple before the campaign ever began and they had separated for reasons, Lady Kima of Vord and Arcanist Allura Vysoren rekindled their love for each other off-screen after they were reunited. They even get married during the one-year time skip. Despite Kashaw technically being married to his own god, he still falls in love with Zahra.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: Liam indulges in this occasionally as Vax. Every so often, he says he'll play "tiefling's advocate" or, when trying to choose something, recites the rhyme "Eenie menie mynie moe, catch a druid by the toe."
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_39f27cae	type	Bedmate Reveal
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_39f27cae	comment	Bedmate Reveal: An infamous one involving a bathtub instead, which is somehow so huge and sudsy that Vax'ilidan can climb in with Percy and never realise that Vex'alia is already in there.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Many, considering the campaign had been going on for two years before the show began. For example, we still don't know the context in which Scanlan summoned a pony so Grog could decapitate it. Other incidents — like Keyleth killing a child or the reasons for Percy's imprisonment — have been de-noodled as the show goes on.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3c689563	type	Interesting Situation Duel
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3c689563	comment	Interesting Situation Duel: During Scanlan's solo mission to cause a distraction during the group's assault on the new nobles of Whitestone he has a brief but impressive confrontation with Duke Vedmire: A gnome fighting a goliath on the roof of a burning building during a thunderstorm!
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3ce9c9fa	type	Fortune Teller
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3ce9c9fa	comment	Fortune Teller: Percy, Vex and Keyleth visit one in Ank'Harel. He's a card reader, and he makes four predictions for them, all of them laden with juicy Foreshadowing: Percy asks after Cabal's Ruin first. The fortune-teller says the garment in question is "moving". This is because Anna Ripley has taken it from its previous owner, and she's sailing North for Glintshore. Percy then says they are searching for the man who has Cabal's Ruin. The fortune-teller claims it is not a man they seek. They're looking for a woman. At first, it appears to be Mistress Asharu, but eventually it's revealed to be Dr. Ripley. Then, Percy asks more generally about the "inevitable conflict" they run towards. This one hasn't really occurred yet, but the fortune teller claims "the path will change" and shows them pictures of the earth cracking and a skull. The final arc sees Vox Machina doing their best to save the world from Vecna, a lich whose emblem is a skull with a single glowing eye. Finally, Vex asks if she "made the right choice" in refusing Saundor. The fortune-teller says she created an opportunity for "unity and a new dawn," and turns over a card depicting a sun rising over a mountain range. It's possible this refers to her relationship with Percy. In Episode 72, she explains that Percy's decision to forgive Ripley led Vex to try and forgive herself for her shortcomings, and others for their betrayals, which had been bothering her since speaking with Saundor (making this a "new dawn" for her as a character). In the same scene, Percy kisses her, ending many, many episodes of romantic tension with a new kind of "unity". In addition, the symbols of the sun and the mountains are recurring motifs of Whitestone and the de Rolo family. In this case, unlike the others, it seems that Matt merely predicted where their subplot could lead, instead of giving hints towards answers he already had.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Four in favor of the party: Episode 18, the group blows through an ambush of orcs with minimal effort. This is also the battle where Percy rolls three crits in two turns. The dice were very much in their favour that day. Episode 25, they slaughter The Broker and his cronies after taking barely any damage. Episode 29, the group ambushes Sir Stonefell in his home - which means Vox Machina gets a full round of attacks before their enemies can do anything, and they wreak havoc. Episode 41, Vox Machina fights off a group of mundane looters raiding using sentient weapons to suck their blood, sicking a bear on them, and calling down lightning strike son top of them. Poor bastards never stood a chance. Episode 102, has Vox Machina on the receiving end of one of these. Vecna utterly trounces the party when they confront him in the Shadowfell. He first casts Hold Person to paralyze nearly half of the party, uses Power Word Kill and Disintegrate to instantly kill Vex (later revivified) and turn Vax to ash respectively, nearly kills Pike when he tries to use Disintegrate on her (and she would have died were it not for her armor) and all the while barely taking any damage, and able to dispel several of their powerful spells with barely any effort. Vox Machina quickly realized that they stood no chance against him, and plane shift to the Feywild the moment the opportunity presents itself. The only reason they succeed is because Scanlan was able to counter Vecna's Counterspell, and even then they left with Vax still a pile of dust.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: Several episode titles: Episode 72 is called The Elephant in the Room, which refers to both a metaphorical elephant in the room (whether or not Vex will address her Love Confession during Percy's ritual) and the fact that Keyleth literally turns into an elephant in Percy's workshop. Episode 81 is called What Lies Beneath the Surface, referring to not only Thordak's lair beneath Emon, but also Vex hiding beneath the surface of the water in a bathtub that was also being used by Percy.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Percy's gun is something he designed and made on his own, which also means that he has to fashion his own ammo and mix his own gunpowder. In episode 23, Matt notes that most smiths know nothing of the latter or consider it a useless byproduct. As it turns out, the leaders of Emon are pissed when Vox Machina attacks two nobles — the Briarwoods — during a formal event in their name, causing civilian casualties and property damage. The team as a whole is stripped of their position on the Council of Tal'dorei as a consequence. They're later reinstated after Uriel realizes he had been put under the effects of a charm spell. Similarly, as it turns out, Scanlan has at least one illegitimate child because of his frequent casual sex in a medieval-based, contraceptive-less setting. As Vax and Keyleth learn pretty harshly in episode 80, trying to take on an Ancient Green Dragon right after everyone has burned most of their more powerful resources taking on a red dragon means that Raishan is easily able to hold them off long enough to escape, even with the aid of several allies. Goldfish are not magnetically attracted to water; it's advisable to turn into a flying creature when swan diving off a cliff. Keyleth learns this in episode 97.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3f0494d	type	Player Headquarters
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3f0494d	comment	Player Headquarters: Greyskull Keep serves as this for Vox Machina, gifted to them by Sovereign Uriel after they saved Emon from a demon invasion in the pre-stream. After the Chroma Conclave destroys the city, they are forced to abandon the keep and Whitestone becomes their new go-to base.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3f267047	type	Voiceover Letter
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_3f267047	comment	Voiceover Letter: In Episode 69, courtesy of Patrick Rothfuss.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: The party is faced with this in episode 27 — stay in Emon as ordered to find evidence but likely end up guilty, or attack the source of the problem in Whitestone with an equal chance of them becoming outlaws. They ultimately choose to do the latter. It happens again in Episode 81. They either go in to fight and kill Raishan while both sides are wounded and spent where there is a higher risk of people in the party dying, or wait until they are fully rested and then go in the evening and hopefully catch her unawares before she herself fully recovers. Keyleth ends up being the one who has to make the choice for the group. She chooses the latter.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_40a533db	type	Guest-Star Party Member
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_40a533db	comment	Guest-Star Party Member: In the first ten episodes, the party temporarily gains the aid of a morally ambiguous Mind Flayer named Clarota and a paladin named Kima. They take part in most of the battles the party has in this arc and even use actions and class features normally only available to player characters. Played more literally after the team is divided up, as the guild members who joined them for their bounty hunts were played by other actors — Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and Felicia Day for Vex's team, Wil Wheaton and Will Friedle for Vax's. Episode 25 has Kit Buss, one of the official artists, guest starring as her artist avatar Lillith. Jason Charles Miller appears in episode 41 as a Half-orc member of The Clasp thieves guild. Mary and Will return in episode 43, to much rejoicing. Later in the episode Kima also rejoins the party, just as badass as ever. Episode 46 has Chris Hardwick join the group as a candle making necromancer who travels around with his undead thralls (Carol, Coral, Fatty Arbuckle, and Stimpy). Episode 55 has Chris Perkins playing Shale. A tougher-than-nails Goliath crone who was once part of Grog's herd. Patrick Rothfuss joins the fun in Episode 56 as Kerrek. A blacksmith/community leader with the patience of a sage, that Vox Machina comes across outside the gates of Westruun. He returns about 30 episodes later in time to join the heroes in venturing through the dungeon of an exiled necromancer named Opash. Nate Stevenson in episode 93 as Tova, a Dwarven Blood Hunter separated from her team. Jon Heder in episodes 99 and 100 as Lionel/Chod, a Half-Orc ducklingual Bard-barian that unintentionally arouses resentment and envy in Grog just by being another dumb Barbarian. After a brief cameo at the end of episode 21, Darin De Paul makes a proper guest appearance in episode 105 as Sprigg Brokenbranch, a Gnomish Arcane Trickster who is the key to Ioun's domain. Episode 113 sees Joe Manganiello join the party as the Red Dragonborn Paladin/Barbarian Arkhan. Him, combined with Travis/Grog...
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Far more sweet than bitter, but at the end of the campaign, Vox Machina defeats Vecna after a long and hard battle, saving the world. However because the group couldn't find a way around Vax's deal with the Raven Queen, Vax dies for real, and Arkhan had attached Vecna's hand to his body and gotten away, with Matt already confirming that the story will have a follow-up down the road. On the bright side, most of members of Vox Machina get a happy ending to some degree, including Pike and Scanlan finally getting together, and Vex and Percy having children. It's bittersweet for fans as well, who've watched 115 episodes and now have to say goodbye to Vox Machina.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_424c9a9b	comment	The duergar torturer who had been subjecting Lady Kima to the Cold-Blooded Torture noted above gets this when Grog rushes him onto a rack of his own tools, impaling him. Unfortunately for the dwarf, that's only the beginning of what Grog has in store for him... and then the victim he was torturing escapes and grabs a weapon...
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: During the Trial of the Take arc, Kashaw gives one to Vax.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_44880a8c	type	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_44880a8c	comment	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Every spy sent to Whitestone has either resigned or vanished, presumably because the Briarwoods don't want any information about their activities leaving the town. Kicked up a notch in Episode 27, where they send a pair of invisible stalkers to kill their carriage driver, who is in Vox Machina's custody. Luckily, Vox Machina foils the attempt.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_44f6517d	type	Beach Episode
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_44f6517d	comment	Episode 95 begins with a one-year time skip after completing the Aramente and ending Hotis for good. The entire second hour is spent detailing Beach Episode shenanigans, notably Vax's Shakespearean "exit pursued by a bear", then Pike's family visits and starts making their own messes.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_4557702e	type	The Conscience
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_4557702e	comment	Foreshadowed in the title of Episode 26, "Consequences and Cows". Begins with Keyleth playing The Conscience and lecturing them about Tiberius killing an unconsciouss old woman and Percy torturing a prisoner, goes on to them being summoned before Sovereign Uriel, being read the riot act, divested of their council seats and effectively being put on probation then peaks with their prisoner, the coach driver for the Briarwoods, giving a heartrending tale of what life in Whitestone is like under the Briarwoods and their henchfolk. Then Tiberius gets hilariously drunk followed by...Vox Moochina.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_46d7e20a	type	Sustained Misunderstanding
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_46d7e20a	comment	Sustained Misunderstanding: When the group travels to Ank'Harel, their Marquesian guard Jarrett, who misses his homeland, asks them to bring back some fusaka spice. Due to the slightly evasive way in which he asks, the party misinterprets it as a request for illegal drugs, which leads to Scanlan spending hundreds of gold pieces and nearly getting arrested... but it really is just an exotic flavoring. When introducing himself to Grog, Taryon Darrington says, "Friends call me Tary, Jumbo." Grog, of course, starts calling him Tary Jumbo.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_471a505f	type	Four Is Death
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_471a505f	comment	Four Is Death: Episode 44 sees the party entering the sunken tomb to a Champion of the Raven Queen, a goddess of death. Matching the twin 4s in the episode number, the twins get into trouble: Vex died and Vax made a bargain of said death goddess to bring her back.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_49c68dd3	type	Magic Carpet
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_49c68dd3	comment	Magic Carpet: The group acquired one before the show started. Unfortunately it can carry neither Grog nor Trinket. It is lost in episode 21 due to passing through a pair of anti-magic sigils and then taking a dunk in an acid pit. They were able to make it into a carpet again, but the enchantment is gone. Re-enchanting the carpet is now something of a sidequest for the party. After defeating Thordak and narrowly surviving their battle with Raishan, the party began to loot Thordak's underground lair. Among the vast amounts of loot was a new flying carpet, even better than the one they lost previously.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Vax trying to find his lost snake belt in Episode 26, because "it's on all the fan art, so it really makes sense to have it."
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_4e4f42be	type	Love Confession
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_4e4f42be	comment	Episode 72 is called The Elephant in the Room, which refers to both a metaphorical elephant in the room (whether or not Vex will address her Love Confession during Percy's ritual) and the fact that Keyleth literally turns into an elephant in Percy's workshop.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: There tends to be moments within episodes that just cause everything to change with just one sentence or a few. In Episode 2, the party damage sponge is casually tanking some minor damage, but the whole party gasps as the DM reveals it's Intelligence damage. Suddenly, the party's strongest line of defense is comatose in a split second. In Episode 10, Keyleth deduces that the true identity of K'Varn, the villain of this first arc, and reveals to the audience that he's one of the most iconic Dungeons and Dragons monsters, letting the audience know that he's a force to be reckoned with. In Episode 11, a minute or two after Vex seemingly deals a killing blow to a boss monster, Matt says that the monster's turn is up next, proving that the boss's "death" was just a Hope Spot and that the three-hour battle still isn't finished yet. In Episode 24, after racketing tension and some subtle suggestions, Lord Briarwood confirms his true nature by calling Vax "delicious," causing all the players to throw up their hands and scream that he's a vampire. In Episode 39, the strongest member of the party takes a swing at an enemy that swooped out of the sky and rolls very well, getting a hit that would easily hit any Beholder, dragon, or vampire that the group has fought before. When the DM says the muscle man's attack misses, he gasps and says they have to leave, even though he's in the middle of an battle-rage. That reservation alone is enough to tell the rest of the group they have no chance in a direct confrontation with this new enemy, changing the focus of the show from charging bad guys to desperately trying to gain enough power to survive against impossible odds. Episode 99: A half-orc approaches Vox Machina to ask them for their help, telling them that he came with their long-lost companion, The Meat Man, AKA Scanlan, whom he is working for.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_4ef92d0b	comment	In Episode 44, almost 10 episodes after the Whitestone arc ends, Percy mentions that he's finally starting to imagine and work towards a better version of himself. A few hours later, he accidentally kills Vex by touching an artifact without checking for traps first. He's... got a bit of an uphill battle ahead.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_4f37c96a	type	Duel Boss
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_4f37c96a	comment	Duel Boss: Grog gets several of these. His two fights against Kern the Hammer, and his second fight against Earthbreaker Groon. He also attempted to fight Kevdak this way, before calling for Vox Machina to help when he realized he was outmatched.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Matt made a point in the first episode to say that short rests would be only 10 minutes instead of the usual hour. This was dropped within 20 episodes. Pike doesnâ€™t appear until Episode 4. Episode 12, being a side episode where Matthew Mercer gives tips to aspiring Dungeon Masters and then runs a one-shot adventure for three new players. Content like this would later be relegated to side shows, rather than being a numbered episode of a campaign. Campaign 1 was a continuation of a private home game, so it begins with the party as Level 8 veterans of multiple adventures and already familiar with eachother. While it starts at the beginning of a new Story Arc, the players and characters still reference pre-stream events, and a recap video was later made to avoid Continuity Lockout. (And even later, the pre-stream adventures were adapted into comic books) Later campaigns would have the audience following the characters from the very beginning. Campaign 1's home game was originally run in Pathfinder, resulting in a few items, mechanics and gods being ported-over to 5e D&D. While Pike's deity Serenrae slotted into the setting easily, several party members still have "Keen" weapons (a Pathfinder mechanic that allows a crit on rolls lower than 20). Early in the show, the city of Port Damali in Wildemount was spoken about as though it was part of the Dwendalian Empire, which itself was referred to as the "Kingdom of Wynandir". In Campaign 2, Port Damali was shown to be part of the Clovis Concord, a nation that was unmentioned during the first campaign. In episode 38, Gilmore claimed that Vecna attempted to ascend to godhood "600 years ago". Later episodes would establish that the campaign is set between 810 and 812 PD (Post-Divergence), and that Vecna's attempted apotheosis happened in the Age of Arcanum, centuries before the Divergence. In general, a lot of the first campaign unfolded before CR truly exploded in popularity and became a multimedia empire, so the players didn't take it quite as seriously as they would come to and the production values weren't as impressive as they would come to be. Ashley is gone for a big chunk of the early campaign, and Travis once skipped a game so he could see an Avengers movie. Orion Acaba is a cast member through the first 27 episodes. He would leave the show at that point, leaving CR's core gang of seven behind.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_500ecfb7	comment	When introducing himself to Grog, Taryon Darrington says, "Friends call me Tary, Jumbo." Grog, of course, starts calling him Tary Jumbo.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_505a1021	type	The Farmer and the Viper
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_505a1021	comment	The Farmer and the Viper: In the Underdark, Vox Machina only rescue two untrustworthy figures, an exiled Humanoid Abomination named Clarota and a traumatized zealot named Kima. Each tells the party that the other will betray them, but in such a dangerous enviroment, the heroes ultimately decide to trust both and brace themselves for one or both betraying them. Ultimately, Clarota turns on the party as soon as he is welcomed back into Mind Flayer society. The Fire Ashari are on the receiving end of this with a young woman they took in as one of their own. She was actually Raishan, the ancient green dragon, using them to get close to the Fire Plane and free Thordak.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: A comedic example in episode 10. Tiberius' response to Vax giving him a silly nickname is to cast a silence spell on him.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Episode 16 is Keyleth's first mention of the Fire Ashari, and is the episode where Pike leaves the party. In Episode 22, Pike returns and Keyleth completes the Fire Ashari's trial. Episode 17 is when the party remains in Vasselheim and Grog has a match with the current champion of the Braving Grounds and loses. In Episode 23, Grog has a rematch with the champion and wins, and they finally leave Vasselheim and return to Emon. Before leaving Emon, in Episode 14, Percy tells the council to keep him notified if the Briarwoods should return to the city in order to "surprise" them. Upon returning to Emon in Episode 23, Percy's notified that the Briarwoods are indeed returning within a week, and thus he begins planning for his "surprise". In Episode 15, immediately after he learns about the Briarwoods, Percy mentions that he's thinking of making a tazing implement. He finally builds an electro-gauntlet named "Diplomacy" in Episode 24, which is the episode in which the Briarwoods arrive. The first time he uses Diplomacy in a fight is against Sylas Briarwood in Episode 34, which is also the Episode where both Briarwoods are defeated, although Delilah doesn't die until Episode 35. The next time he uses it in a fight is against Kynan Leore, during a fight with the last person on his List, Dr. Ripley. In Episode 35, in Whitestone, Vax decides to give Keyleth the time she needs so that she can determine her answer as to whether or not she can allow herself to love due to her fear. In Episode 65, in Whitestone, Keyleth finally gives her answer and admits that she loves Vax, that her fears were ultimately unfounded due to being based on a future not set in stone yet. In Episode 42, Vox Machina ultimately abandons Emon to search for allies and the Vestiges of the Divergence so they can defeat the Chroma Conclave. In Episode 78, they return to Emon much more powerful than before to finish their war against the Chroma Conclave. The episode immediately preceding the Chroma Conclave arc is called "A Musician's Nostalgia" and has Scanlan deal with the discovery he has a daughter. The episode immediately following the Chroma Conclave arc is titled "A Bard's Lament" and is another Scanlan focus episode, where he dramatically leaves Vox Machina to spend time with his daughter. Vox Machina's first adventure ended with them fighting a (fetal) undead deity, and their final adventure put them up against a much more powerful undead deity. The first streamed episode of Critical Role has the party arriving in the bustling Dwarven City of Kraghammer. The Very Definitely Final Dungeon of the first campaign is a ruin of a once-great dwarven civilization. Critical Role as a show (and the first campaign) began as a home game designed by Matt as a gift for Liam, and Liam's character of Vax was created for that game. Campaign 1 closes upon the permanent death of Vax.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Once it was discovered she was a Tiefling, Sovereign Uriel didn't really speak of Lillith kindly. It's probable it was partly because she had been disguised as one of the castle servants in her attempt to evade her sisters though. Grog experiences this first-hand from the refugees in Episode 48. Somewhat understandable, since their city had been ransacked and occupied by a horde of Goliaths very recently. The tailless Ravenite Dragonborns were enslaved under the tailed Draconians until the fall of their country.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5860c090	type	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5860c090	comment	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Doors. Scanlan in particular mentions that "me and doors don't get along really well."
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_587a084f	type	Spoofy-Doo
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_587a084f	comment	Spoofy-Doo: Critical Role released an April Fools' Day video in the middle of their Kickstarter, titled an "Animatic Sneak Peek!", that depicted the Vox Machina characters in the Scooby-Doo style solving a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax. Trinket the bear, who can normally only be heard by Vex using a spell, becomes a talking animal for the occasion.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5924454b	type	Cerebus Call-Back
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5924454b	comment	Cerebus Call-Back: Inverted with "What's my mother's name?" After first being said in a very dramatic and tragic context (Scanlan's mental breakdown and exit from the group), it gets frequently used in more comedic contexts thereafter.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5abc8612	type	Unholy Matrimony
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5abc8612	comment	Sylas and Delilah Briarwood, a murderous and married vampire and necromancer respectively who madly love each other.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5b565147	comment	Doubling with Meaningful Background Event: As soon as he hears that Sovereign Uriel is communicating with Lord and Lady Briarwood, Taliesin/Percy starts blinking rapidly and sits back in silence with a Thousand-Yard Stare. As we find out in later episodes, the Briarwoods took over his home and killed his family.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Family. Both the one you're born with and the one you make of your friends and loved ones matter, and only misery and solitude await those who shun both. Vengeance as a concept is a deeply flawed one that only serves to make monsters of people who seek it. The true path to redemption lies in turning away before you become what you hate.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5eecd64c	type	Oh, No... Not Again!
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5eecd64c	comment	Oh, No... Not Again!: Most of Vox Machina (not Grog; he bursts out laughing) has this reaction in Episode 16 when, in the Temple of Bahamut, guards escort Keyleth in shackles to the rest of the party. It's strongest with Tiberius, though:
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: The Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting sourcebook spoils a number of major plot points from the campaign, canonically starting sometime during or after the one year Time Skip, mentioning events such as Scanlan being the one to kill King Murghol, the Chroma Conclave's attack on Emon and Sovereign Uriel's death, Vox Machina's Enemy Mine with Raishan, the eventual defeat of Thordak and the Chroma Conclave, Vex becoming a noble of Whitestone and its rebuilding after the Briarwoods defeat, and Keyleth completing her Aramente.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: It happens. Usually in the name of keeping the game moving. An entire year passes between Episodes 94 and 95.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: All the players to an extent, but Orion/Tiberius actually streamed buying doughnuts from a Krispy Kreme nearby the studio.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5fd84723	type	Graceful Landing, Clumsy Landing
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_5fd84723	comment	Graceful Landing, Clumsy Landing: In episode 25, three characters jump out of a window in quick succession. Vax, the lithe and dexterous rogue, lands with a tumble and quickly gets up and running. Lord Briarwood, the strong and muscular fighter, executes a perfect Three-Point Landing. Lady Briarwood, the graceful and refined Lady of Black Magic, botches her roll and lands flat on her ass.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_626b202b	type	The Necrocracy
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_626b202b	comment	The Necrocracy: Whitestone is run by the Briarwoods (one of whom is a vampire, and the other a powerful necromancer of some flavour) and policed by six stone giant zombies as well as a number of unidentified undead minions. Also, the entire town, down to the soil, has been polluted by some kind of undead corruption.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: At the end of the final battle with Vecna, Arkhan steals Vecna's severed hand and attaches it to his arm after severing his arm, and teleports out before anyone can stop him. Given Matt has already stated his intent to continue the story a generation later, the sequel already has a Big Bad lined up.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_650a309b	type	Forgot About His Powers
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_650a309b	comment	Forgot About His Powers: Travis had never used Grog's Goliath racial ability Stone's Endurance, allowing him to shrug off up to 16 points of damagenote 1d12 plus the character's Constitution modifier before episode 22. It costs him against both K'varn (though fortunately not permanently) and Kern the Hammer. Also occasionally happens with the rest of the party as well - Laura constantly forgets to use Hunter's Mark and Taliesin, once Percy learns it, keeps forgetting to use Hex. Sam has also been known to forget to direct Scanlan's bardic spells through his Handcone of Clarity, which would make them more effective.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_651a8540	type	Indy Escape
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_651a8540	comment	Indy Escape: The mini-dungeon under the Velvet Cabaret in episode 20 features the classic sloped tunnel and rolling boulder.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_653c5c73	comment	Ever since receiving her first custom arrow from Percy, Vex'ahlia has been feeling something for the gunslinger due to his numerous acts of kindness, affection that she had been lacking growing up in Syngorn, but never considers telling him how she truly feels.note Laura herself admitted on Talks Machina that if Percy hadn't died, she never would have said it. Percy, on the other hand, definitely has feelings for her which at times leads to said acts - creating said custom arrows, calling her his "favourite", addressing her as "dear", and even making her a noble just to help her with her confidence issues and spite her father - but he never acts on them and instead chooses to push those feelings deep down within himself because he sees himself as being unhealthy for her. Due to that, Vex and Percy flirtatiously dance around each other for over fifty episodes without making a move. In Episode 69, during Percy's resurrection ritual, Vex confirms she's in love with him despite Percy not hearing her confession, but thereafter suffers from a serious case of Cannot Spit It Out, and it's not until after he is resurrected that Percy starts truly considering reciprocation towards her. The slow burn of their relationship is resolved in Episode 72, as Percy gives Vex The Big Damn Kiss to end the episode.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Desmond, the Briarwoods' carriage driver, is captured by Vox Machina and not a day later is nearly assassinated by invisible air monsters working for his former employer. Thankfully, Vox Machina anticipated this and save him in time to get more information about the Briarwoods from him.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_65d658f	type	Putting the Band Back Together
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_65d658f	comment	Putting the Band Back Together: After four episodes, in Episode 22, Vox Machina is finally back together. And there was much rejoicing.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_66755d29	comment	Episode 25 has Kit Buss, one of the official artists, guest starring as her artist avatar Lillith.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: For Episode 12, many of the regular players weren't able to attend, so the episode consisted of Matt giving beginner's advice to new D&D players as well as a demonstrative one-shot with Zac from Geek & Sundry and two of his friends with no connection to the main story. The Vox Machina storyline resumed the following episode. Episode 20: Trial of the Take, Part 3: It begins differently compared to the first team's hunt, as it turns into a murder mystery, complete with questioning of witnesses and going undercover.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_67b0bd0e	type	An Ice Person
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_67b0bd0e	comment	In episode 19, Grog goes into a Rage to counteract Rimefang the white dragon's fear-inducing roar, encouraged to kill a dragon like Pike did, referring to when the cleric killed a dragon of the same ilk some time prior to the start of the stream.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_67edaf78	type	Gargle Blaster
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_67edaf78	comment	Gargle Blaster: In Episode 65, Grog purchases two bottles of highly expensive alcohol from a merchant in Ank'harel, but lets Percy and Keyleth have the first sips. The effects are powerful, to say the least. Grog is later horrified to learn that it's made using excreted fluids from an ankheg (a giant, acid-spewing insect), and decides to hold off on drinking it himself.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_693cabaf	type	Gladiator Games
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_693cabaf	comment	Gladiator Games: The first half of Episode 17 was Grog challenging Kern in a pit fight. The first half of Episode 23 is the rematch.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_69681e01	comment	The Rakshasa in episode 21 threatens to kill the second group's loved ones (Vex'ahlia, Keyleth's father Korren, House Stormwind, and Thorbir's daughter) and then attempts to escape his demise... only to have his Plane Shift spell neutralized by Tiberius' weaker Counterspell. He then attempts to flee the room only to plummet down thanks to a dagger thrown by Vax and then gets his throat slit, preceded by Vax telling him "Talk about my sister again..." And then after its pieces are harvested, Thorbir stabs the demon's empty eye socket with a jeweled dagger, saying "You will NEVER... harm my daughter".
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_69c52d1a	type	Mentor in Queerness
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_69c52d1a	comment	Mentor in Queerness: The only character who ever really had an angsty coming-out storyline was Taryon, late in campaign 1. When he came out to the Vox Machina group (episode 94), the gang immediately took on a bit of a mentor role towards him, if only by convincing him that he's perfectly justified in hating his homophobic and emotionally abusive father and doesn't owe the man respect in return. (There isn't really anything like a separate queer subculture to introduce him to in Tal'Dorei, since this fantasy setting is largely free of homophobia as a social norm.)note (Which makes sense if you consider that the goddess of law/civilization and the goddess of nature are in a romantic relationship with each other. So calling same-gender attraction "unnatural" or creating laws to persecute queer people would be blasphemous in most countries. Taryon's father's issues with his son's homosexuality were probably the result of toxic masculinity expectations and a narcissistic desire to raise his son as a mini-me copy of himself.) Especially Vax'ildan (in-character, because he's the most obviously queer character in the Vox Machina group, while Liam hadn't really come out to the audience yet) and Percy (semi-in-character, because Percy was played as mostly straight, but Taliesin was already making his bisexuality quite obviousnote (mainly through his purple mohawk/undercut; he publically came out a couple of months after this episode) and he probably has the most contact with the LGBTQ+ community in real life, so he was the first to realize where Sam was going with this improv scene and started feeding him leading questions to help (Related out-of-character info about the queer character's player) (However, while Sam has never indicated that he identifies as anything other than straight despite his joke-flirting with and deep affection for his BFF Liam, he does have an older sister who has been out as a lesbian ever since he was a child, and a younger sister who played a queer teenager with a much-written-about coming-out storyline on a daytime soap, back when this was still very unusual in the mainstream media - so it's not like Sam didn't know what he was doing with his gay character's storyline.)), who both immediately offered their moral support and told Taryon not to base his identity on queer-erasing media. (In this case, biographies of famous adventurers he was trying to emulate, thinking that he needs to become a ladies' man because he had never read about a male hero who's attracted to older men.)
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_6af6887	type	Escape Sequence
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_6af6887	comment	Escape Sequence: After Vox Machina defeats K'varn and frees the illithids from his control, the illithids turn on them and try to have the party for lunch. Fortunately, the party had enough flying magic to escape the city and Tiberius had a spare teleportation circle to get the party back to Emon.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_6bcfbc7e	type	Fantasy Gun Control
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_6bcfbc7e	comment	Fantasy Gun Control: Percy is the only character seen with a gun, which he designed and built himself. Eventually, Dr. Ripley copies his invention, and sells his designs to a handful of other tinkerers.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: In Episode 40, Vax asks Vex to "not go far from him", even if she's out of earshot, out of fear of losing her. The echo hits in Episode 44, when he protests as she momentarily heads off from getting Vax out of a pit to inspect a sarcophagus that turns out to be trapped resulting in her death, and Vax is left wondering where she went.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Sam is no stranger to Quirky Bards, seeing as he once voiced one of the most famous ones of all. In "Adventures of the Darrington Brigade", Taliesin, who previously played the first gun-user in Exandria (Percy), is now the Owlbear, a Captain Ersatz of the best known anti-gun superhero of all.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_7040b6bc	comment	Understatement: At one point, when asked why he looked so uncomfortable upon hearing the name 'Briarwood', Percy says "I've had dealings with them before. I find them... untrustworthy."
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: In Episode 45, Grog asks a sleep-deprived Percy if he'd like a coffee or an enema, followed by Keyleth suggesting a "coffee-enema".
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Hotis and Rimefang (a Rakshasa and a White Dragon) serve as the two "final bosses" of the Vasselheim arc for when the group is split and share no other connection.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_72fb8772	type	Forgotten Birthday
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_72fb8772	comment	Forgotten Birthday: At the end of episode 15, on the part of the VA who had one coming up in a few days. Cue a completely blindsided Dungeon Master.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Pike had to leave after episode 16 as Ashley Johnson was cast in Blindspot on NBC in New York. Tiberius had to leave after episode 29 as Orion Acaba had to leave for personal reasons. He's given an official sendoff in episode 37...which turns into a Bus Crash when the Chroma Conclave destroy Draconia. In episode 85, Scanlan leaves Vox Machina after his resurrection to spend more time with his daughter. However, Sam Riegel stays on the show playing his new character Taryon.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_76a5eaf8	type	Spotlight-Stealing Squad
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_76a5eaf8	comment	Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Episode 24 was meant to give Percy his Day in the Limelight with the history of his character brought to the forefront; however, the rest of Vox Machina occupied most of the screen time with zany adventures during the pre-break.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_77948f9e	type	Global Airship
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_77948f9e	comment	Global Airship: Percy invokes this trope, wanting to steal a skyship so that the party can travel around Exandria while fighting the dragons of the Chroma Conclave. Besides Scanlan, none of the other members are on board with the idea, pointing out that the dragons could just knock the ship out of the sky.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_77aae115	type	Hated by All
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_77aae115	comment	Hated by All: The Trickfoots as a family appear to have this; it's repeatedly emphasized that they run into trouble wherever they go and are generally looked upon as crooked and untrustworthy, and are very rarely able to safely stay in one place for long as a result.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: :In episode 88, Tary is struck down as the group is in the process of fleeing after a grueling battle with a giant monster. Grog, the only other one left in the fight, looks behind him and sees Tary fall...and runs away. Furious at him for leaving an ally (and a MacGuffin) behind, Percy casts Friends on Grog to make him go back and retrieve Tary. It nearly kills Grog, but both he and Tary make it out, and Tary is quickly given a healing potion to bring him back to consciousness.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: As of Episode 35, it looks like Percy's whole backstory and the entire Whitestone Arc happened for one reason: Sylas Briarwood died, and Delilah made a deal with Vecna to resurrect him. The price of that deal was conducting the ritual under Whitestone, so had that deal not been made, the Briarwoods would have had no reason to seek out the ziggurat, and the de Rolos would still be alive. Percy opening the tomb of Purvan Sul, without waiting for Vex to finish checking for traps, changed a lot for Vox Machina. Vex died instantly, and Vax made a deal with the Raven Queen to save her. Through this, Vax became the Raven Queen's champion, radically altering his and Keyleth's character arcs and eventually resulting in his Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence at the end of the series.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: Let's see... Gilmore is in love with Vax, who ends up turning him down because he (Vax) is in love with Keyleth. Keyleth herself has been in love with Vax for a long time, but never thinks to act on those feelings. In the days after the Chroma Conclave attack, Keyleth has been getting more acclimated to Vax's companionship and seriously considered loving him. But Vex's death and Vax's deal with the Raven Queen causes the bond between them to become a lot more difficult to handle, and Keyleth finds herself unable to allow herself to love due to her fears of watching Vax and the rest of the party die, as becoming the Headmaster of the Air Ashari will effectively make her The Ageless. It's not until Episode 65 where she finally makes her choice, allowing herself to confess to Vax her true feelings for him. Scanlan is in love with Pike, who grows complicated feelings for him but also nurses a crush on a not-Scanlan member of Vox Machina (whom Ashley admitted was Percy in the post-campaign wrap-up. Scanlan even proposes to her but rescinds the offer not long after, realizing that he was more in love with the idea of Pike than Pike as an actual person, and asks if they can be friends. It takes Scanlan's death and resurrection and leaving and coming back for Pike to really sort through her feelings for him. After everything is over Scanlan asks her out for a drink, Pike admits she was about to ask him the same thing, and later on she ends up asking him for his hand in marriage. Tiberius was in love with Allura, who Matt's playlist insinuated had some great life-altering not-Tiberius love in the past (who may or may not have been Kima of Vord) that didn't end well since she's now living in her Ivory Tower alone and all. Things got better for Kima and Allura as they end up getting married during the Time Skip. Ever since receiving her first custom arrow from Percy, Vex'ahlia has been feeling something for the gunslinger due to his numerous acts of kindness, affection that she had been lacking growing up in Syngorn, but never considers telling him how she truly feels.note Laura herself admitted on Talks Machina that if Percy hadn't died, she never would have said it. Percy, on the other hand, definitely has feelings for her which at times leads to said acts - creating said custom arrows, calling her his "favourite", addressing her as "dear", and even making her a noble just to help her with her confidence issues and spite her father - but he never acts on them and instead chooses to push those feelings deep down within himself because he sees himself as being unhealthy for her. Due to that, Vex and Percy flirtatiously dance around each other for over fifty episodes without making a move. In Episode 69, during Percy's resurrection ritual, Vex confirms she's in love with him despite Percy not hearing her confession, but thereafter suffers from a serious case of Cannot Spit It Out, and it's not until after he is resurrected that Percy starts truly considering reciprocation towards her. The slow burn of their relationship is resolved in Episode 72, as Percy gives Vex The Big Damn Kiss to end the episode.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: Compared to Campaign 2, the first Campaign leans heavily in this direction, something commented on by Matt on Talks Machina sessions. While Vox Machina is an Anti-Hero Team and each member has their issues, every arc of the first campaign has clear-cut heroes and villains and has more of a Heroic Fantasy tone.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_7d89315b	comment	Episode 85. Scanlan leaves Vox Machina after giving them a brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech, and at the end Sam introduces a new character, Taryon Darrington.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: The lighthearted D&D tutorial episode came between the battle with K'Varn and Clarota turning on Vox Machina, forcing them to escape Yug'Voril. After the latter came another breather episode, half of which was spent shopping. Episode 36 was a well deserved breather from the very dark Whitestone arc, and doubled as a Christmas episode. Episode 43 provides some much needed relief after the Chroma Conclave destroys Emon. The party has arrived in Vasselheim and encounters some old friends, and hilarity ensues. Episode 56 is right off the heels of the climactic fight with Umbrasyl and is noticeably less tense than the previous few episodes. Episode 65 picks up right after the events of the previous episode which detailed the aftermath of the destruction of Draconia and the discovery and burial of Tiberius Stormwind. Right out of the starting gate, we have a Love Confession and a Relationship Upgrade, some lighthearted infighting between Vax and Grog, and the party's long-awaited journey to Marquet in search of the next Vestige. Aside from plot moments, utter hilarity ensues throughout including a walk of shame, Scanlan seeking a "drug deal", and Keyleth and Percy getting instantly day-drunk due to sampling a local drink. Episode 72 is the first real break after Percy's death and the subsequent fight against Vorugal and involves a lot of looting of shiny objects, Vax getting drunk on Scanlan's wine, Keyleth turning into an elephant and wrecking part of Scanlan's magnificent mansion, and it all ends with a long-time-coming The Big Damn Kiss between Percy and Vex. Episode 81 serves as a welcome respite from the battles with Thordak and Raishan before Vox Machina moves on to finish things with the Diseased Deceiver. Cards are drawn, drugs are smoked, surprises happen in the bath, and a haircut is given. Episode 95 begins with a one-year time skip after completing the Aramente and ending Hotis for good. The entire second hour is spent detailing Beach Episode shenanigans, notably Vax's Shakespearean "exit pursued by a bear", then Pike's family visits and starts making their own messes.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_812ee32b	type	Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_812ee32b	comment	Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: Episode 18 and 19, Grog and Percy were the only two without access to spells. Averted somewhat, since Grog and Percy are still rather nasty with their damage dealing. This is no doubt in large part thanks to D&D's 5th edition combat Power Creep in various ways.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_815d5a99	type	The Three Faces of Eve
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_815d5a99	comment	The Three Faces of Eve: The main female characters loosely fall into this: Keyleth (Child): Idealistic and a little naive. Pike (Wife): Devoted, kind and wise. Vex (Seductress): Passionate, slightly flighty and the occasional butt of Fanservice jokes.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_851dda8f	comment	In the Underdark, Vox Machina only rescue two untrustworthy figures, an exiled Humanoid Abomination named Clarota and a traumatized zealot named Kima. Each tells the party that the other will betray them, but in such a dangerous enviroment, the heroes ultimately decide to trust both and brace themselves for one or both betraying them. Ultimately, Clarota turns on the party as soon as he is welcomed back into Mind Flayer society.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In Episode 89, Vox Machina made a deal with The Raven Queen, they would hunt down and kill Orcus for her. The Raven Queen accepted and said she would call for them when it was time. This never got picked up on. Matt elaborated on Talks Machina that the Raven Queen never really took this promise seriously, as Vex had no idea how strong Orcus was at the time.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Remarkably common. The most frequent users of them are Grog, Tiberius and Percy.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: It seems like Episode 24 is all set to be a confrontation with the Briarwoods. Instead, the entire first half is just Vox Machina screwing around in the week leading up to their arrival. Episode 25, however, makes the wait worth it. In Episode 43, Matt makes it sound like the party will be saddled with proving their worth to a champion of Bahamut that they've never met. Then Lady Kima knocks him out from behind, and insists that she'll go with them instead. Guest star Arkhan (played by Joe Manganiello) prepares to destroy the hand of Vecna after the final fight. No, wait- he cuts off his own hand and attaches Vecna's to it, then teleports away, setting up the possibility of a future villain for the next campaign to face.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_87ede6fc	comment	Cassandra de Rolo betrays the party in Episode 34, saying that because she was left for dead by Percy, she's a Briarwood now. However, in the next episode, a dying Delilah Briarwood stares up at Cassandra and says "You could've been my daughter." She retorts coldly, "No. Cassandra is a de Rolo. And you took them away from me. And now I'm taking everything away from you!" and stabs her dead.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8967e17f	comment	Episode 106. Vox Machina gains the knowledge and materials needed to seal away Vecna, but that's the only good thing that happens; Lady Briarwood has come Back from the Dead again and Vecna completes his ascension to godhood.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_89838bc2	type	Land, Sea, Sky
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_89838bc2	comment	Land, Sea, Sky: Not an obvious example, but Vex'ahlia represents Land, with her favored terrains, Pike represents Sea, having spent time after her pre-stream death on the Broken Howl to toughen herself up, and Keyleth representing Sky, as that she is an Air Ashari Princess. A case could be made for swapping Keyleth and Vex'ahlia too. Keyleth's connection to nature through her druidic magic (and her tendency to take the form of an Earth Elemental) makes her a perfect fit for Land, while Vex'ahlia's love for flying works well for Sky.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8a48681	type	Casino Episode
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8a48681	comment	Casino Episode: Episode 66 has Vox Machina visit the Luck's Run casino in Marquet. They play a few games, and Scanlan meets someone to buy two heaping bags of fusaka spice thinking that it's drugs.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Percy to The Broker in episode 25, to the tune of unloading every remaining bullet he had into the guy's chest and blowing a hole clean through, trying to continue firing even after the gun empties and jams, then reaching to pull out Bad News before reclaiming his composure. Zahra scores the killing blow on a boss monster in episode 44 with a Natural 20 5th level Witch Bolt (a spell with the largest damage die in the game) when it was only several HP away from dying anyway. Nearly every member of Vox Machina describes in horrific detail how they individually help to kill a single, incapacitated enemy in episode 68. The enemy has their arm severed by Vax, a sigil into their forehead by Scanlan, their navel bisected by Grog, their neck crushed by Keyleth's Grasping Vines, and for the final blow, an arrow shot her into their heart and throat by Vex. Matt doesn't even have them roll for damage.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: Victor the crazy old black powder merchant measures a hogshead of powder by filling a literal hog's head with it. note It may be an example of Matt simply not knowing what a hogshead, as a unit of measurement, actually is since the hog's head Victor offered was smaller than a barrel, while a real hogshead is significantly larger. It may also be an example of Victor's Mad Scientist personality trait.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: Averted with Vex's companion, Trinket. As long as you're on Vox Machina's side, of course.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8d9c8569	type	Deep-Immersion Gaming
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8d9c8569	comment	Deep-Immersion Gaming: Seen in the second opening sequence, when the gang acts out a battle scene dressed as their characters, until it's revealed to be an Imagine Spot while they're at the gaming table.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Episode 7. The team, still aided by Kima and Clarota, storm Emberhold's throne room. They manage to kill the duergar king and most of his troops, but are forced to escape when the queen floods the room with magma. On top of this, one of the mind flayers and the queen teleport away - and worse, the queen took a mind-controlled Grog with her, who was carrying their bag of holding. Oh, and Tiberius and Kima are currently petrified thanks to the king's basilisks. Episode 10 gives us the big reveal about K'varn — he's a Beholder, and he's been experimenting on himself in much the same way he'd been creating the monstrosities our heroes had been facing up to this point. In Episode 16, the party successfully seals away the Horn of Orcus, then learns that a new holy path has been revealed... to a lost temple of Sarenrae, which Pike stays behind to help rebuild. The end of Episode 17. As if having to say goodbye to Pike in the last episode wasn't enough, things get worse. When Vox Machina agrees to undergo a test to gain membership into the Slayer's Take to avoid being persecuted for the illegal slaying of a Hydra (which was already claimed by one of the guild's hunting parties), Huntmaster Vanessa Cyndrial decides to split the team into two separate groups to test how they fare with working with different people. This comes as a shock to the whole party, most notably Vax and Vex who had never been apart longer than a day since their birth. They try to ask the Huntmaster to reconsider, but she refuses. While Vex was able to mostly deal with the separation (or at least act like it), it's Vax who was the more broken of the two, as evidenced in Episode 20. The end of episode 23. Percy is told that the Briarwoods are coming to Emon in a week's time. The end of episode 24. The Briarwoods arrive in Emon. Through a series of mishaps, they manage to trap Vax alone with them in their room - and Matt's last line implies that they are a pair of vampires. All of Episode 25. Vax is knocked unconscious by the Briarwoods, and his last thoughts are of Keyleth and his sister. Tiberius is hit with Feeblemind, which turns him into a primal lizard. Lady Briarwood possesses insanely powerful magic.note Feeblemind is an 8th-level spell, and she casts two 7th-level spells as well, which would make her a 20th-level spellcaster. The party is currently at level 12. Percy goes Ax-Crazy and shoots the hand off a servant of the Briarwoods. Kit's character Lillith appears, and she's awesome. And, of course, the Briarwoods have escaped. Episode 34 hurts. Cassandra betrays the party, the Briarwoods charm Vax over to their side, Cassandra's name appears on the List, Keyleth kills Lord Briarwood, Vex is nearly killed (as in, she avoids death by a single hit point) by the Finger of Death spell, and Lady Briarwood performs some kind of ritual that stops all magic from working around the Ziggurat. The end of Episode 39 single-handedly blows every single other episode of the series out of the water in the sheer scale of its wham. Sovereign Uriel abdicates and hands power over to the Tal'dorei Council... only for a quartet of ancient chromatic dragons to descend upon Emon and begin to lay waste to the city. Vox Machina is beset first by an ancient green dragon that grossly outclasses them, then an ancient black dragon, and finally the single largest ancient red dragon they've ever seen. Within seconds of encountering the dragons, Vox Machina realizes they have no option but to flee, and teleport back to their keep... just as the episode ends. Episode 40 continues where the last left off revealing Thordak, the Ancient Red Dragon leading the destruction of Emon, is the same dragon who killed Vax's and Vex's mother when they were children. He was also the dragon they encountered in the Elemental Plane of Fire. To make it even whammier, Thordak's escape from the Elemental Plane utterly destroyed the Fire Ashari village, leaving the fate of its people unknown. Oh, and the other three chromatic dragons have moved East and destroyed Westruun. Episode 43. While learning where they should head next, Vox Machina is informed that the dragons are moving east again and then get a live, as-it's-happening report of the Conclave's attack on Draconia. The attack leaves the country's armies utterly defeated and, to make matters worse, the floating islands upon which the country rests are pulled down by the Conclave, leaving the fate of Tiberius and his people unknown. Episode 44: A Beholder appears out of nowhere during a fairly standard dungeon crawl - and that's not the worst part. After the Beholder dies, Percy sets off a trap that instantly kills Vex. It doesn't knock her unconscious - she just immediately dies in front of him. Thankfully, the party does manage to resurrect her, but at the cost of Vax making a deal with the Raven Queen, changing his destiny forever. In post-campaign discussions, DM Matthew Mercer feels this marked the biggest turning point in the story, one that even he never saw coming. Episode 54 at the very end. Despite managing to pull off a successful trap against Umbrasyl, the black dragon still manages to break free, liquefy many members of the Herd of Storms, and flies away towards his lair within Gatshadow far out of reach of the party... with Vax and Scanlan inside him due to the rogue drinking a potion that shrunk him and Scanlan using Dimension Door to teleport into the dragon's body in order to attack him from the inside. Even worse, they are slowly getting crushed or digested. Oh, and Grog is dangling off the Bloodaxe embedded in Umbrasyl. Episode 64. At the very end, Matt reveals that Tiberius died fighting Vorugal. The end of Episode 66. Dr. Anna Ripley has returned, and she's killed Mistress Asharru and stolen Cabal's Ruin. Episode 68. Not only had Ripley formed a pact with a vengeance-fueled Orthax, she also recruited Kynan to her side. By the end of the battle, Percy is dead. The end of Episode 69. After Percy having been resurrected and Vex'ahlia having confessed her love for him in front of everyone earlier in the episode, it ends with Raishan revealing herself to have been masquerading as Seeker Asum ever since they returned from the Feywild. And now she seeks an alliance with the party to slay the Cinder King. The end of Episode 76. After a grueling battle with a pit fiend, the party manages to annul their enslavement at the hands of a fire giant, obtain Pike's Vestige, and are given the ashes of Senokir's wife so she can be buried in Vasselheim. Then they Plane Shift home... only to see Fort Daxio, the place where they were planning to gather allies, under attack and falling, and they're still weary from their battle in the City of Brass. Episode 80 is just one massive downward spiral. Raishan completely overwhelms an exhausted Vox Machina and friends, Vex and Scanlan are killed and resurrected during the battle, Vax and Keyleth both nearly die with no chance of revival, and worst of all, the Diseased Deceiver manages to escape with Thordak's corpse and a couple of dragon eggs in tow. They only survive due to Devo'ssa making their appearance, forcing Raishan to flee. Episode 85. Scanlan leaves Vox Machina after giving them a brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech, and at the end Sam introduces a new character, Taryon Darrington. The end of Episode 88. The party just barely survives and completes the Aramente trial for Keyleth. But in the process, Vax dies. Episode 102. Vecna is reborn and Vax is killed, possibly forever. Episode 106. Vox Machina gains the knowledge and materials needed to seal away Vecna, but that's the only good thing that happens; Lady Briarwood has come Back from the Dead again and Vecna completes his ascension to godhood.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8f72541f	type	Neutral Good
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8f72541f	comment	Scanlan: invoked Neutral Good
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: Greetings, I am Percival Frederickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III (but you can call him Percy).
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_90793c26	type	DÃ©nouement Episode
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_90793c26	comment	DÃ©nouement Episode: Episode 35, appropriately titled "Denouement", is this for the Briarwoods arc. There's still 80 episodes after that though.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Anna Ripley's. After she pursues vengeance against Percy and kills him, the rest of Vox Machina take their own vengeance immediately afterwards. Raishan's. For someone who compared Vox Machina and all of Exandria to ants, she clearly underestimated them all as she suffered a twofold death: the death of what defined her (her intellect, cunning, and pride) due to Keyleth's Feeblemind, and the death of her own physical body at the hands of Kerrek, who represented the very people she mocked. As icing on the cake, Keyleth strikes her corpse with the Spire of Conflux, accelerating and finalizing Raishan's disease, completely destroying what remains. Vax lands the killing blow on Thordak, avenging his mother, as he was the Vessar sibling most devoted to keeping her memory alive. Grog does this by killing his abusive uncle, yelling "For Strongjaw!" and slamming his axe through him in such a way that he's almost bisected.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The duergar torturer who had been subjecting Lady Kima to the Cold-Blooded Torture noted above gets this when Grog rushes him onto a rack of his own tools, impaling him. Unfortunately for the dwarf, that's only the beginning of what Grog has in store for him... and then the victim he was torturing escapes and grabs a weapon... King Murghol ends up subject to this whe he's decapitated by Scanlan, whom he'd previously felled. He didn't stand on his head, so Scanlan took it. For turning on the team and trying to eat Scanlan's brain as soon as K'varn was defeated for good, Clarota gets his own brain blasted out by Percy. The Rakshasa in episode 21 threatens to kill the second group's loved ones (Vex'ahlia, Keyleth's father Korren, House Stormwind, and Thorbir's daughter) and then attempts to escape his demise... only to have his Plane Shift spell neutralized by Tiberius' weaker Counterspell. He then attempts to flee the room only to plummet down thanks to a dagger thrown by Vax and then gets his throat slit, preceded by Vax telling him "Talk about my sister again..." And then after its pieces are harvested, Thorbir stabs the demon's empty eye socket with a jeweled dagger, saying "You will NEVER... harm my daughter".
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_926e0d7d	type	Hot Springs Episode
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_926e0d7d	comment	Hot Springs Episode: Episode 56 "Hope" starts as one of these, as Scanlan decides his version of Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion contains a working hot spring, in which the party relax after their lengthy battle the episode before, as well as having a Mundane Made Awesome cannonball competition.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9438e550	comment	As of Episode 72, it seems that Percy and Vex may follow suit, as she's confessed to being in love with him and he's given her The Big Damn Kiss. Episode 78 flat-out confirms it when they spend what may be their last night together.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: After being thrown off a dragon in mid-flight, Vax and Grog are plummeting through the sky. Scanlan, clinging to a hovering Bigby's Hand nearby, only has time to save one of them. In true Scanlan fashion, he figures out a way to save them both - by grabbing Grog, polymorphing him into a giant eagle, and diving peregrine-style after Vax.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_952d21ec	type	Bus Crash
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_952d21ec	comment	Tiberius had to leave after episode 29 as Orion Acaba had to leave for personal reasons. He's given an official sendoff in episode 37...which turns into a Bus Crash when the Chroma Conclave destroy Draconia.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_95d02207	comment	Cross-Dressing Voices: Shale (Chris Perkins) and Jayne (Liam O'Brien), along with about half of Matt's characters.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: The put-upon citizens of Whitestone help Vox Machina fight the Briarwoods' undead minions when the uprising finally begins.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Episode 22 is a good example of this, because it contains Keyleth's explanation of her vision of her death, which is a heavily dramatic moment, sandwiched between two pretty epic fights.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_968bd0f8	type	Meteor-Summoning Attack
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_968bd0f8	comment	Meteor-Summoning Attack: The greatest magic-users are all notable for their ability to open wormholes to summon arcane meteors to devastate their opponents. The genius dragon Raishan begins her first real fight with this maneuver just to show off her power. The final battle goes further beyond, as the boss uses this ability three times.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_970c790a	comment	The first Q&A has Marisha wonder if they're ever going to face a Beholder. It was planned before that, but six episodes later one was revealed as the Big Bad of that arc.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9716b4f7	type	Finish Dialogue in Unison
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9716b4f7	comment	Finish Dialogue in Unison: The infamous "Hello, I'm Tiberius Stormwind! I'm from Draconia." line was repeated so much that Sam and Marisha would finish it in conjunction with Orion.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Lord and Lady Briarwood, in the third arc. Technically they are also the Big Bad (Delilah) and The Dragon (Sylas) of a villainous group which includes Sir Kourian Stonefell, Professor Anders, and Dr. Ripley.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: In episode 11, Matt flat-out refuses to let Laura knock K'Varn's horn off as part of the flavor of an attack. It's rare for Mercer to deny a player's request so bluntly, but it makes much more sense after seeing what the horn does later in the episode and realizing that it's placement wasn't just a fashion-statement. Liam knew Vax was in love with Keyleth ever since the Underdark arc, but doesn't reveal this until Episode 33. Re-watch the second half of the Slayer's Take arc knowing this, and you'll see Vax is noticeably uncomfortable whenever Kashaw flirts with Keyleth. In Episode 64, you can see exactly when Taliesin learns about Tiberius's fate. Taliesin is visibly saddened, but keeps quiet for about twenty minutes. In Episode 65, the group informs Matt that some of his notes are showing at one point, being good sports and letting him hide them. Sam jokes "there's a Vestige on there!" and Matt replies "not anymore there isn't." With knowledge of the next few episodes, you'll notice Matt was giving a Sarcastic Confession: the Vestige they seek in Ank'Harel really was gone at the time they arrived.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_99390db0	type	Saintly Church
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_99390db0	comment	Saintly Church: As Sarenrae/The Everlight is the goddess of healing and redemption, her clerics are pleasant folk. Her temple in Emon, for instance, is always open to those in need. They charged 100 gold for a Greater Restoration on Tiberius but only to cover the cost of the spell component (diamond dust) and nothing at all for diagnosing/disinfecting Vex's vampire bite or the bit of glissfoil Keyleth requested. The Platinum Dragon/Bahamut is more about sending out his paladins to smite evil For Great Justice. His Platinum Sanctuary is nigh-unanimously recognized as the safest place to seal away dangerous artifacts like the Horn of Orcus.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_99dfd4fc	type	Nothing Is the Same Anymore
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_99dfd4fc	comment	Episode 44: A Beholder appears out of nowhere during a fairly standard dungeon crawl - and that's not the worst part. After the Beholder dies, Percy sets off a trap that instantly kills Vex. It doesn't knock her unconscious - she just immediately dies in front of him. Thankfully, the party does manage to resurrect her, but at the cost of Vax making a deal with the Raven Queen, changing his destiny forever. In post-campaign discussions, DM Matthew Mercer feels this marked the biggest turning point in the story, one that even he never saw coming.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Orcus, the god of undeath. His horn indirectly caused the entire catastrophe with K'varn in the Underdark, and a second horn still exists in the world somewhere. However, being a god, it's unlikely the party will confront him directly. Orthax, the entity with which Percy made his vengeance pact three years before the stream started. Comes to a head in Episode 35, but had been pushing Percy towards revenge and slowly corrupting him for years before he realised his dream wasn't just a dream.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9b73b497	type	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9b73b497	comment	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Played a little straighter with Vax and Percy, in Episode 24 - when Vax offers to help Percy get his revenge, he promises he'll let Percy deliver the final blow.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Not just the PC's - this also applies to NPCs as well as Kern multiclassed to Monk before his second fight with Grog. Tiberius lampshades this when he first assumes a dodging stance, yelling that "He Monked up!".
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: The duergar queen attempts this on the party when things start going south, by blowing open the ceiling and letting magma pour into the room. The party manages to escape without losing anyone, but Vax is wounded badly enough to require several episodes of magical healing. Tiberius tries to kill the Hydra in episode 17 by double-casting Fireballs... unfortunately, he also blasts some of his own by accident. Scanlan is able to pull it off after gaining a Wand of Fireballs, albeit it did kill two innocents during the battle with Kevdak. Keyleth also pulls it off in Episode 42 with her 7th-level Fire Storm spell, managing to kill a majority of enemies in one battle. She pulls it off again in Episode 77 with the Spire of Conflux, using two castings of Fireball to roast twelve lizardfolk. Attempted byDr. Anna Ripley when she tried to send a Fireball spell towards several clustered party members, but narrowly avoided thanks to Scanlan's Counterspell. Pike can use Flame Strike to summon a pillar of divine flame, which she uses the immolate the demon Hotis.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: A pre-series example in the form of General Krieg who the party eventually discovered to be the Blue Dragon, Brimscythe. A secret cavern connected to Krieg's home contained a room with four strange orbs which seemed to be some kind of communication devices. More than a year later, the players (and the audience) learn just who Krieg was speaking to: the Chroma Conclave, an alliance of ancient Chromatic Dragons. Episode 8 has Lady Kima drop the first syllable of Thordak's name before stopping herself and saying, "that scourge dragon", when talking about how long she has known Allura for. About twenty episodes later, Vox Machina nearly gets spotted by that scourge dragon while traveling through the Plane of Fire. Doubling with Meaningful Background Event: As soon as he hears that Sovereign Uriel is communicating with Lord and Lady Briarwood, Taliesin/Percy starts blinking rapidly and sits back in silence with a Thousand-Yard Stare. As we find out in later episodes, the Briarwoods took over his home and killed his family. While it may or may not have been planned, Vax'ildan has been shown to possess a strangely powerful connection to the Gods. This begins cropping up as early as the Whitestone arc where he utilizes a symbol of Sarenrae sewn into his glove to summon an avatar of Pike. Later, after the party acquires the Deathwalker's Ward, his Sarenrae symbol cracks and the Raven Queen begins to take particular interest in him. This leads to his eventual acceptance of his fate as the Queen's champion, coupled with a multi-classing into Paladin. Matt's unusually downcast demeanor when the group goes to Draconia, Keyleth being unable to scry on Tiberius in Episode 64, as well as the fact that Lockheed isn't with him, are all signs that he's dead. If you watch their faces, about half the party figures it out - most obviously Laura. Seeker Asum's story when he returns to the party in Whitestone has a few holes in it. Namely, he mentions the name of a minor character (Brom Goldhand) who is confirmed to be dead and speaks as if they are alive, and also claims to have taken a teleportation circle to Whitestone when there are no teleportation circles in the city. It's because Asum is actually a green dragon in disguise. As soon as Kashaw decides to resurrect Vex, cawing can be heard in the background, hinting at the appearance of the Raven Queen, rather than Vesh.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9d9a875f	comment	Character Alignment: invoked For each member of the group, according to the second Q&A session. Vax: invoked Chaotic Good Vex: invoked Neutral Good until Episode 46, at which point she shifts to Chaotic Neutral after selfishly stealing a flying broom from a friendly guest. In episode 75 she shifts again to Chaotic Good, with her display of sympathy towards a pair of aasimar slaves being the act that finally causes the change. Pike: invoked Chaotic Good Grog: invoked Chaotic Neutral Percy: invoked Chaotic Good Keyleth: invoked Neutral Good Tiberius: invoked Chaotic Neutral (changed from Chaotic Good after Episode 25, when he uses an improvised telekinetic buzzsaw to execute an enemy who had already been rendered unconscious by Scanlan's casting of eyebite while she was attempting to flee. An old woman at that.) Scanlan: invoked Neutral Good As for non-player characters, K'varn is, unsurprisingly, invoked Chaotic Evil according to his character sheet. Kevdak, Grog's uncle, is Neutral Evil, and according to a brief glimpse of Matt's notes in a DM Tips video, Saundor is Lawful Evil.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9f80e1da	comment	The carriage driver, during his interrogation in Episode 26, claims that "an enemy of an enemy doesn't necessarily make a friend." Keyleth's response is "no, but it can make them allies." It's not word for word, but Keyleth is actually echoing Clarota, of all people. And we all know what a great ally he turned out to be.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a0c55654	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a0c55654	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Debated in the first part of Episode 30, in Whitestone. Scanlan and Grog think violence and intimidation are called for; Vex and Percy agree to a point, but think the violence has gotten out of hand; and Vax and Keyleth really don't want to go down that road.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Not that Vox Machina lacked reasons to hate the Chroma Conclave, but when they discover their murder of Tiberius it's obvious the group is struck to the core, and the quest becomes a vendetta. Also applies individually to Percy towards the Briarwoods, Keyleth towards Raishan the green dragon, and to the twins towards the dragon who killed their mother and razed their hometown.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: The events surrounding Delilah Briarwood's second death: First, she is killed by being shot in the eye by Percy. Then, Vox Machina take the body with them and remove the other -Vecna's- eye, which itself is described graphically. Then, this eye magically compels Scanlan to gourge his own eye out. (Thankfully, Pike stops him before he can finish.)
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Three of the party are all the half-elven flavor of this trope.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Episode 24, twice. It starts with Percy's tearful recounting of his backstory, then jumps almost immediately to three hours of Vox Machina comedy shenanigans...and then ends with a tense dinner scene with the Briarwoods. Foreshadowed in the title of Episode 26, "Consequences and Cows". Begins with Keyleth playing The Conscience and lecturing them about Tiberius killing an unconsciouss old woman and Percy torturing a prisoner, goes on to them being summoned before Sovereign Uriel, being read the riot act, divested of their council seats and effectively being put on probation then peaks with their prisoner, the coach driver for the Briarwoods, giving a heartrending tale of what life in Whitestone is like under the Briarwoods and their henchfolk. Then Tiberius gets hilariously drunk followed by...Vox Moochina. In Episode 34, Keyleth disintegrates Sylas Briarwood with a Sunbeam, and Vox Machina starts celebrating. Vex calls out "How's that feel, Lady Briarwood?" Then Matt describes her screaming for her husband and bursting into tears, and the whole table falls quiet. Most of episode 44 is mostly silly and lighthearted character interaction...and then we find out what a tribe of Kuo-Tuas have been worshipping. Things get worse when Vex suddenly dies after the battle, and Kashaw pulls an apparently risky Revivify to bring her back. The second event is especially abrupt. One moment, everyone is goofing around and teasing Vax because he's stuck in a hole. Less than a minute later, Vex is dead on the ground, and Vax is the last to find out because everyone is too shocked to help pull him up. In episode 45, after Keyleth tearfully recounts to Vex the events that led to her revivification, we smash cut to Scanlan and Grog, cheerfully goofing around before Grog decides to have a shit and talk to his sword. Episode 64: The beginning has a humorous aftermath that comes from coming back from the Feywild. The end has the discovery of Tiberius's death. Episode 66: For most of the episode, other than the battle with a cobalt golem, the party is enjoying themselves in Ank'Harel. And then at the end of the episode, they discover that Mistress Asharru is dead, Cabal's Ruin has been stolen, and the perpetrator... is Dr. Anna Ripley herself. Episode 69: It begins with Percy being taken back to Whitestone, Vex confessing her love to him (even though he may not have heard her), and the resurrection ritual managing to bring him back to life. Then, celebration occurs with the party gets shit-faced in a tavern where heartwarming talks and letter reading are done. Then the episode ends with the reveal that Raishan has been among the people of Whitestone all this time under the guise of Seeker Asum, and now she seeks an alliance with Vox Machina to slay Thordak. In the middle of grieving for Vax in the final episode, Grog decides to pull a card from the Deck of Many Things. He draws one of the worst possible cards he could get (The Void), which results in the five remaining members having an offscreen trip to Pandemonium to get his soul back.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Vox Machina gives Tiberius a burial in the ruins of Draconia in Episode 64 after finding his frozen and impaled corpse outside of Vorugal's lair.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: A minor example, Pike summoning an Angelic Deva to fix Greyskull Keep, restoring it to a polished luster, after Vorugal's attack.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Implied to be the fate of the victims of Orthax. When Percy is killed by Ripley in Episode 68, he spends twenty-four hours trapped by Orthax as the shadow demon feasts upon his soul. After he's freed and revived, he reveals it was not a pleasant experience, and he has no sense of how much time has passed.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_aa4be36a	type	The Three Faces of Adam
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_aa4be36a	comment	The Three Faces of Adam: Grog, Vax'ildan, and Percy loosely fall into this: Grog (Adventure): Cares little for authority, or much anything else if it isn't the two great loves of his life: Combat, women, and Ale. Vax'ildan (Authority): Usually takes point when faced with combat situations (sometimes to the chagrin of everyone else), and usually takes a leadership role with Vox Machina. Percy (Wisdom): Book-learned, quieter and more thoughtful than his male counterparts, very utilitarian in his combat style. Scanlan actually has shades of all three faces, more balanced in him than the other three.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_abd29ad8	comment	Travis had never used Grog's Goliath racial ability Stone's Endurance, allowing him to shrug off up to 16 points of damagenote 1d12 plus the character's Constitution modifier before episode 22. It costs him against both K'varn (though fortunately not permanently) and Kern the Hammer.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_abe4d7b	type	Blue Blood
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_abe4d7b	comment	Percy (Knight): Insightful, well-read, Blue Blood.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Just before the party heads off to Whitestone to take on the Briarwoods, Vex asks Seeker Asum to teach her a new skill. He does so and teaches her how to use Skirmisher Stealth. She puts said skill into practice against the Briarwoods in Episode 34 in conjunction with a Potion of Flying.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b0a91b69	type	Convection, Schmonvection
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b0a91b69	comment	Convection, Schmonvection: It zigzags in the Kraghammer arc. Vox Machina hangs out next to rivers of lava and they take heat damage if they get too close In fact, Vax falls unconscious during their escape from the Emberhold and almost dies. The straight version comes in when Vax's foot is submerged in lava for several seconds and he only gets disadvantage on stealth and such until he gets serious rest.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b0e81c37	type	A Simple Plan
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b0e81c37	comment	A Simple Plan: Scanlan is tasked with creating a distraction for the rest of the party. Highlights of the ensuing events, thereafter dubbed "Scanbo", include a spree of triceratops-based vandalism, the demise of numerous guards, a fight with a Goliath on the roof of a burning mansion, and a dramatic leap from a rooftop.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b1191cb2	type	I Ate WHAT?!
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b1191cb2	comment	I Ate WHAT?!: Taryon and Keyleth don't respond particularly well to realizing that the intoxicating powerstones they've inhaled energy from for a quick buzz actually contained fragments of damned souls!
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Gilmore is in love with Vax, who ends up turning him down because he (Vax) is in love with Keyleth. Keyleth herself has been in love with Vax for a long time, but never thinks to act on those feelings. In the days after the Chroma Conclave attack, Keyleth has been getting more acclimated to Vax's companionship and seriously considered loving him. But Vex's death and Vax's deal with the Raven Queen causes the bond between them to become a lot more difficult to handle, and Keyleth finds herself unable to allow herself to love due to her fears of watching Vax and the rest of the party die, as becoming the Headmaster of the Air Ashari will effectively make her The Ageless. It's not until Episode 65 where she finally makes her choice, allowing herself to confess to Vax her true feelings for him.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Vex never seems to run out of arrows, and is never seen fletching or buying them (outside of the special arrows created for her by Percy). It's revealed in the campaign wrap-up that Vex simply bought about a thousand arrows pre-stream and chucked them in the Bag of Holding. She only begins to run low at the tail end of campaign 1. Averted with Percy, who has to make his own bullets with varying success because there are (initially) only three people in Exandria who has even heard of black powder.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Vex'ahlia can sometimes be as excitable as her actor, Laura Bailey.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b4a7b5ef	type	The Queen's Latin
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b4a7b5ef	comment	The Queen's Latin: Despite the actors being American, all of their characters have quite prim Received Pronunciation, apart from Keyleth who retains Marisha Ray's usual voice most of the time, Pike who uses a cutesier version of Ashley Johnson's regular accent, and Grog who has a bit of London Gangster about his voice.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: In Episode 29, due to several very poor rolls, when the group of Percy, Vax and Scanlan try to enter the temple of Pelor through the front door (prevented from being opened only by a simple, if large, bar of wood) they spend several minutes trying to open it. In the process, Scanlan actually gets injured and also wastes three spells before the door is finally opened.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: Before venturing out to Whitestone, Tiberius had a plan that involved buying every mirror he could get his hands on. Since Orion left the show before they could confront the Briarwoods, the specifics of this plan were never revealed.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b7c53a22	comment	Grog (Knave): Kills without much forethought, Blood Knight, morally and ethically ambiguous.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Gilmore (A) is in love with Vax'ildan (B) who is in love with Keyleth (C) who isn't sure about Vax, and presumably doesn't have feelings for Gilmore.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b9918c48	type	Nobody Here but Us Statues
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_b9918c48	comment	Nobody Here but Us Statues: The Goblins one-shot - when human guardsmen come close, the goblins all get the idea to stay still and act like garden gnomes. Despite still looking like goblins. The guards buy it.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ba236071	comment	King Murghol ends up subject to this whe he's decapitated by Scanlan, whom he'd previously felled. He didn't stand on his head, so Scanlan took it.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ba6baee1	type	High-Altitude Battle
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ba6baee1	comment	The High-Altitude Battle in Episode 10 was caused by Vax calling a retreat, the withdrawal in episode 13 was confirmed later by Matt to be required — Vox Machina had to get out of Yug'Voril.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_bc103f8b	comment	Ultimately Subverted in Thordak's case as it's revealed that Raishan is The Man Behind the Man.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: The third arc begins with Vox Machina attacking the Briarwoods, a pair of villains with good publicity, at "their" castle and murdering an old woman, and as a result they are ejected from the Council of Tal'dorei and placed under surveillance. They're not actually arrested or exiled, but their reputation certainly needs some work. Uriel apologizes for the whole mess and returns the team's status in episode 37, though Percy, the guy who wanted the Briarwoods dead to begin with, admits that they had acted a bit rashly themselves.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_bd2812b5	comment	Percy opening the tomb of Purvan Sul, without waiting for Vex to finish checking for traps, changed a lot for Vox Machina. Vex died instantly, and Vax made a deal with the Raven Queen to save her. Through this, Vax became the Raven Queen's champion, radically altering his and Keyleth's character arcs and eventually resulting in his Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence at the end of the series.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_bda2a088	type	Did They or Didn't They?
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_bda2a088	comment	Did They or Didn't They?: In Episode 42 Vax calls at Keyleth's door at night saying he doesn't want to spend the night alone, and is let in. That's all we ever see. It's certainly implied they had sex, but we may never know for sure. The end of Episode 64 is set up as a Did They or Didn't They? cliffhanger, but Episode 65 immediately starts with Keyleth telling Vax she's ready to love him, and Vax tackle-hugging her onto the bed.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_be009544	type	Holy City
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_be009544	comment	Holy City: Vasselheim in the second arc. Of the Multi-Deity flavor. The deities within the city are: Bahamut, the god of metallic Dragons, justice and nobility and Lady Kima's patron deity. Kord, The god of Strength, Warfare, and Storms. A traditional D&D god. Erathis, the goddess of civilization and the muse of great invention, founder of cities, and author of laws. Melora, goddess of the wildlands and seas. The Raven Queen, goddess of Death and Vax'ildan's patron deity after he became her champion. Ioun, Mistress of Knowledge, has a hidden temple where Osisa resides and guides the Slayer's Take. Finally, there's Sarenrae, Pike's patron deity, and a deity of healing, the sun, and protection. Interesting in contrast to Kord, as she's from Pathfinder's setting. Percy's hometown of Whitestone is revealed to worship the sun god, Pelor. Whitestone is also home to a temple of Erathis. Percy later arranges for the creation of a shrine to the Raven Queen for Vax. The Platinum Sanctuary High Bearer was initially concerned that the Chroma Conclave's attack on Emon was caused by Tiamat, sister and rival of Bahamut.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_bec0417c	comment	Although they were a couple before the campaign ever began and they had separated for reasons, Lady Kima of Vord and Arcanist Allura Vysoren rekindled their love for each other off-screen after they were reunited. They even get married during the one-year time skip.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: In Universe example. Poor Grog suffers a bad one when Kima tries to invoke "lying is such an ugly word".
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Pike, Vex and Keyleth respectively - also, Ashley, Laura, and Marisha, since their hair colors match those of their characters.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c0935922	type	Dragon Rider
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c0935922	comment	Dragon Rider: Several wyvern riding bandits accost the party in episode 15. The party themselves also ride on a brass dragon on the way to the final fight against Vecna in episode 109.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: When Percy interrogates the carriage driver in Episode 25, he begins listing off the names of his family members to confirm their deaths, because Delilah's taunt, "be nice of you to visit your family once in a while", makes it sound like they might still be alive. The only name Percy doesn't say is exactly who Delilah was referring to: Cassandra de Rolo, whose death he witnessed himself.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: While the group convinces Clarota and Kima not to try to kill each other for the moment, it's each hates the other and they take every private moment they have with the other members of the group trying to convince them that the other should not be trusted.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c3c18143	comment	In Episode 11, a minute or two after Vex seemingly deals a killing blow to a boss monster, Matt says that the monster's turn is up next, proving that the boss's "death" was just a Hope Spot and that the three-hour battle still isn't finished yet.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c48dfa35	type	"With Our Swords" Scene
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c48dfa35	comment	"With Our Swords" Scene: The cast's characters frequently trade magical items after gaining new ones or before going into difficult fights. Most notably, Vax has given his much-envied Boots of Haste to his twin sister on two occasions. In both instances, the two were facing impossible odds against dragons, the same creatures that killed their mother, and Vax put aside his childish feuding with Vex to give the group the best chance to avenge their mom. Percy lends his Dragon-Slayer longsword to Vax for two dire dragon fights. Percy mainly uses his guns, but giving it up means Percy is defenseless if the dragons get up close and personal, which is the risk of his life. In the face of the growing danger in their life and political intrigue, Vax gives up the Displacer Cloak he's had on for forty episodes to Keyleth, who he has come to love. This is right before they go to another continent to fight an ancient demon and a predator dragon in the middle of a snowstorm. For the final battle, Percy gives up his beloved Boots of Spider-Climbing to his rival, Grog. Percy may be stuck-up and a bit of prick, but in the face of a flying necromancer, he's more than willing to swallow his pride to get a half-giant barbarian a better chance to get in close and finish the sucker.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c6bc89f7	type	Curb-Stomp Cushion
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c6bc89f7	comment	Episode 102: The first battle against Vecna is this, full stop. The lich has support from Delilah, already proven to be an incredibly formidable opponent, and a death knight, an evil undead paladin that is one of the most dangerous undead in the game. The battle ends with Delilah dead, but the death knight barely fazed and Vecna hardly even scratched (for reference, Vox Machina did 275 damage to Vorugal in the above encounter. They barely did 50 to Vecna.) Meanwhile, Vecna killed Vex (temporarily) and Vax (less temporarily) and forced the party to flee to another plane.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c85c6d21	type	Knight, Knave, and Squire
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c85c6d21	comment	Knight, Knave, and Squire: Percy, Grog, and Scanlan fit this trope pretty well. Percy (Knight): Insightful, well-read, Blue Blood. Grog (Knave): Kills without much forethought, Blood Knight, morally and ethically ambiguous. Scanlan (Squire): Most light-hearted during tense situations, rarely uses physical weapons, typically surprised when getting a killing blow. Vax'ildan most identifies with the Knave, as befitting his Class.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Sovereign Uriel steps down in Episode 39, claiming the city will be safer in the care of the council. Literally while he is making his retirement speech, four ancient dragons swoop in and start tearing Emon to shreds. It was unknown if Uriel survived their attack, until Gilmore later confirmed that he saw Uriel die.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: At the end of episode 17, the group is divided into two teams to be used in this way in the following four episodes.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_cb0743c0	type	Lame Pun Reaction
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: In Episode 43 when Scanlan says the sphinx "gave us a lot to sphinx about," the rest of the table reacts with groans and Vanessa off-screen starts a sarcastic Slow Clap.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_cb2d889	type	Won the War, Lost the Peace
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_cb2d889	comment	Won the War, Lost the Peace: A minor and subverted example: the end of the Chroma Conclave Arc. Vox Machina successfully collects all of the Vestiges of Divergence, kills all four members of the Conclave and liberates both Tal'Dorei and Draconia from their tyranny. However, at the end of it all, they inadvertently lose the trust of their beloved bard Scanlan Shorthalt, who then officially leaves the party to live a quieter life with his daughter Kaylie. In the grand scheme of things, this is undoubtedly a decisive victory for the free peoples of Exandria with little to lose for it, but Scanlan's departure is a nearly unbearable personal loss for Vox Machina. A bit similar example happens at the end of the campaign, specially for Vex and Keyleth. Vox Machina has successfully saved Exandria by sealing Vecna, but Vax is gone forever, to stand with the Raven Queen.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_cb92ce71	type	DefeatEqualsFriendship
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_cb92ce71	comment	Defeat Equals Friendship: After Grog beats Kern in the arena, the two become friends.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_cbbf302c	type	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_cbbf302c	comment	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: Kashaw and Keyleth have a talk about their First Kiss. Kashaw states that while he was glad it happened, he was sorry that he stole it. Keyleth in kind informs him that he didn't have to apologize, and that she didn't want to hurt him, emotionally.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: Makes sense for a D&D campaign. Each arc (counting the first four: the Underdark, the Trial of the Take, the Whitestone arc, and now the Chroma Conclave arc) manages to outdo the previous in terms of enemies, danger, and emotional investment on the part of the heroes. The escalation can basically be summed up in a single contrast between Episode 19 and Episode 39. How many monsters in Episode 19? One adult white dragon. How many in Episode 39? Four ancient chromatic dragons. The villain of the final arc? Vecna, a literal god.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ce4f133d	type	Gun Twirling
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ce4f133d	comment	Gun Twirling: The first thing Scanlan does when he gets his hands on Dr. Ripley's gun is to twirl it, which promptly results in the rest of the group deciding it's a bad idea to allow him to handle a firearm. note He actually pulls the trigger while he does this. Thankfully the gun wasn't loaded at the time.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ce767e6f	type	Co-Dragons
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ce767e6f	comment	Co-Dragons: Now with literal dragons! It seems that the other members of the Chroma Conclave report to the ancient red dragon Thordak the Cinder King. There are three such subordinates: Vorugal, an ancient white dragon; Umbrasyl, an ancient black; and Raishan, an ancient green.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d03fc3f1	type	Good Shepherd
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Episode 29: Vax, Percy and Scanlan investigate a local church of Pelor to seek assistance from its Good Shepherd, while Keyleth focuses on reviving the Sun Tree while Grog and Vex guard her (because Laura and Travis hadn't arrived yet. This results in Percy falling unconscious while Vax and Scanlan are almost overcome by a banshee.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: The arm-wrestling contest in Episode 36 - Matt plays the regular battle music to go along with each bout. The cannonball contest in Episode 56, which sees every member of Vox Machina breaking out absolutely ridiculous tactics to win. The victor is Percy, who wins by diving into the water with a kettle full of raw sodium.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: Matt seems rather fond of giving the party objects or letting them visit places that would almost certainly kill any character who touches / uses / visits them. Though he generally is fair enough to have an NPC point out that doing so would be a very bad idea (as with the Githyanki skull or the theatre in the Fey Wild) and usually the party is good about resisting temptation. (Except in the case of Percy handing Lord Briarwood's sword to Grog, fully knowing how bad an idea it is to handle sentient weapons and having just finally been released from his own Deal with the Devil; while Grog himself did specifically ask for the sword and offered to trade it for the Dragon Slayer Longsword, he also has too low an intelligence / wisdom score to not keep it after it revealed it was sentient and still stay in-character.note Travis, out of character, was also making it extremely obvious that he really, really wanted the weapon and the roleplaying opportunity that came with it, and its stat card showed that it would be a very effective weapon in Grog's hands.) Though sometimes, they only survive because of sheer dumb luck, like when Keyleth touches the mini black hole under Castle Whitestoneâ€”Matt later revealed she basically only survived because she rolled a natural 20. The hugely powerful necrotic damage trap that one-hit-killed Vex (she got better) because the party didn't examine the high-level loot carefully enough before taking anything can probably also be counted in this category.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d2e5d85d	type	Dragons Versus Knights
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d2e5d85d	comment	Dragons Versus Knights: The Platinum Knights are an order of paladins who swear an oath to protect the holy city of Vasselheim and kill any evil dragon they find in honor of their patron, Bahamut, lord of all good dragons. Their most notable member is Lady Kima, a little hafling woman whose platinum plate armor and her magical two-handed sword allow her to help the heroes more than anyone else in their battles against the ancient dragons bent on destroying human civilization.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Tiberius and Vex call Vax out on his Cruel to Be Kind attitude towards their fanboy Kynan in episode 23. They turn out to be completely right, given that this led to Kynan being manipulated by Ripley. Keyleth is so shocked by Percy's displays of Ax-Crazy in Episode 25 that she breaks her concentration spell and skips a turn.note This was not imposed by Matt; Marisha simply decided to give up her turn for role-playing effect, probably because the group was already obviously winning. The next episode, Tiberius is called out by at least three characters for killing incapacitated enemies and not really showing much remorse for it (though they do acknowledge they all do this from time to time). He seems to finally get the point when Allura made it clear she was disappointed in him. Vax to Grog in episode 39 after he knocks Vax unconscious trying to rescue him inside a Purple Worm with Craven Edge. Grog refusing to back down and apologize combined with Poor Communication Kills about the portal causes Vax to leave for several hours, possibly losing faith in his ability to lead. The episode after that, Keyleth calls out everybody due to said Poor Communication Kills leading to an in-party scuffle. And then Percy returns the favour in Episode 42, after her inflexibility (and, in Percy's opinion, her ego) costs Vox Machina an alliance with the Clasp. Keyleth, however, doesn't back down and outright claims the exact opposite. And then the shoe's on the other foot in Episode 50 when Percy gets called out on already knowing about Craven Edge and not keeping the party in the loop and with how his "cleverness" has led to bad situations in the past. Everyone to Percy for attempting to stab a disguised Raishan in the war room. Even if she was merely projecting herself to their location and she was then forced to reveal important information, it was still a very risky ploy. Scanlan has a misguided one towards the rest of Vox Machina in episode 85 about him being brought back from the dead a second time and bringing Kaylie to possibly give her last respects despite promising her that he'd live, convinced the team doesn't care about him. Vex to Vax, Grog, and Keyleth in episode 86 by sending Trinket to Cannonball them after they haze Taryon. Literally the entirety of Vox Machina to Scanlan in Episode 99, but particularly Pike.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: Scanlan's stock-in-trade (the scrying poo is the least of it) but Matt also described Keyleth's Gust against the cliff as "like a gentle fart".
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Some of the characters have more strained friendships than others. Tiberius and Scanlan tend to clash, as do Vax and Grog. Despite that, they're still utterly loyal to each other and everyone else in Vox Machina.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Scanlan asks Kashaw about his...ahem...'preferences' by asking whether he'd go for "the rogue or the ranger." * In reference to the fraternal twins, rogue (Vax) meaning male and ranger (Vex) meaning female. The Critters ran with this, with bisexual fans claiming they "multiclassed" and asexual or aromantic fans calling themselves "clerics."
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d87ba943	type	Combat Sadomasochist
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d87ba943	comment	Combat Sadomasochist: Kern, the Vasselheim pit fighting champion, positively enjoys getting his face smashed in by Grog. Just as much as he enjoys returning the favor.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: "Adventures of the Darrington Brigade" is a textbook example, not only turning Guest-Star Party Member Taryon Darrington (Sam Riegel) into the lead character but giving all the regular players the Darrington treatment ie. playing as completely new characters within Vox Machina canon.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_db1ab4b1	type	Just a Stupid Accent
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_db1ab4b1	comment	Just a Stupid Accent: The party members play it safe with either Received Pronunciation (Vax, Vex, Percy, Scanlan), an East London accent (Grog), or their own, mostly Midwestern American accents (Keyleth, Pike).
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_db4b76d1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_db4b76d1	comment	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Before any given fight, Grog will always yell "I would like to rage," signifying that he's about to do just that and begin Hulking Out.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_dbd2c15e	type	Everyone Can See It
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Everyone Can See It: A more literal example than usual. Every member of Vox Machina is present when Vex confesses her love for Percy during his resurrection ritual. This means that everyone knows about her feelings except him. Though Percy does later admit to Vex that he heard her as well, which was why he reciprocated by acting on his feelings for her.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_dc0ca62a	type	Public Execution
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_dc0ca62a	comment	Public Execution: The Sun tree in the middle of Whitestone proper is a once beautiful, but now dead symbol of the Sun god, Pelor. Now, it's simply used to hang seven people (and one bear) who are dressed up and painted to resemble the members of Vox Machina. Most likely to call attention to what fate would befall our intrepid heroes.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ever since the first custom arrow, Percy and Vex's Ship Tease had been going on for anywhere between twenty-four and fifty-four episodes * Episode 15 marks the first time Vex kisses Percy; Episode 45 is arguably the first indication that he has strong feelings for her. before Vex declares her love for him in Episode 69. As of Episode 72, they become a couple, after Percy gives Vex The Big Damn Kiss in the forest outside Draconia.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Episode 14 makes a passing mention of something connected to one of the backstories: the Briarwoods — who had killed Percy's family — had recently passed through Emon. Percy picks up on this and tells the person responsible to keep him updated. He gets one in episode 23. Dr. Dranzel, Scanlan's mentor, was mentioned in another backstory and makes a proper appearance in episode 37. In Episode 39, when Thordak appears, Vox Machina realize that most of them narrowly stealthed past the exact same dragon in the Fire Plane during episode 22. Hotis, the Rakshasa that Vax slays in Episode 21, returns in a very sinister way in Episode 58 to exact his revenge on the rogue. Vox Machina fanboy Kynan from episode 23 returns in episode 68... but allied with Dr. Ripley. Orthax has also formed a pact with Ripley, and is bent on revenge.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_dd822ab9	type	Kissing the Ground
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_dd822ab9	comment	Kissing the Ground: In Episode 13, Keyleth does this as soon as the party steps outside into Emon. For context, not only have they spent the last week in the Underdark, they've just narrowly escaped an entire city of mindflayers, immediately after fighting and slaying a beholder possessed by the Horn of Orcus. The fact that they all survived and have now teleported to safety is very much worth celebrating.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e0b0058a	type	Chaotic Evil
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e0b0058a	comment	As for non-player characters, K'varn is, unsurprisingly, invoked Chaotic Evil according to his character sheet. Kevdak, Grog's uncle, is Neutral Evil, and according to a brief glimpse of Matt's notes in a DM Tips video, Saundor is Lawful Evil.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e0b0d4b3	type	Chaotic Good
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e0b0d4b3	comment	Percy: invoked Chaotic Good
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e2767d5c	type	House Rules
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e2767d5c	comment	House Rules: Percy's "Gunslinger" class does not exist in D&D, so Matt made a special homebrew version for him.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e398be11	type	Chaotic Neutral
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e398be11	comment	Tiberius: invoked Chaotic Neutral (changed from Chaotic Good after Episode 25, when he uses an improvised telekinetic buzzsaw to execute an enemy who had already been rendered unconscious by Scanlan's casting of eyebite while she was attempting to flee. An old woman at that.)
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: In the Darrington Brigade spinoff, Laura plays a new monk character who uses the "pop-pop" that was popularised by Beau... over 10 canon years later. Marisha is justifiably proud.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: The character avatars are given an upgrade in episode 32. Kit Buss discussed how much she's improved on drawing them in 6 months. The final portraits are beautiful to look at.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e46b6d66	type	RagTagBandOfMisfits
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e46b6d66	comment	Ragtag Band of Misfits: Three half-elves, two gnomes, a goliath, a human, and a dragonborn (plus a bear) make for an odd, if effectual, group. Add in an illithid and a halfling, albeit temporarily, as well as the myriad of interesting characters that cross their paths, and this is taken even further.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e4c0b2b6	type	Primal Scene
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e4c0b2b6	comment	Primal Scene: Two instances of this occur in Episode 89, where Pike makes the mistake of asking a very literal robot to sketch a bunch of characters in the middle of the night, resulting in the robot coming back with sketches of several people naked, in bed, and in various degrees of discomfort.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e4d98039	type	Down to the Last Play
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e4d98039	comment	Down to the Last Play: The pit brawl between Grog and Kern the Hammer in episode 16 goes down to the last hit point. Kern wins, largely because Travis Forgot About His Powers and Matt didn't. Happens again in Episode 23 during their rematch where Grog wins this time! Grog's fight with Earhbreaker Groon in episode 85 also counts. The Earthbreaker actually brings Grog down to zero hit points, but Grog wins when his Relentless Rage abilities allow him to keep fighting.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e545e190	comment	Nerf: After episode 17, the homebrew rules for Quicken Spell received a noticeable downgrade (now only casting up to 2nd level spells). Considering the damage Tiberius had done to the Hydra at full power, quite justified. This is still a more powered up version than the one you'll find in the Player's Handbook, which only allows for a cantrip to be cast as a Quickened Spell. This also applies to Percy as his Trick Shot was quite overpowered as shown during the battle with K'Varn and over time, his archetype was given several tweaks to make him more balanced.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: Grog's "I would like to rage", stated with varying degrees of emphasis depending on the situation at hand. Occasionally modified, replacing 'rage' with some other action. "Hi! I'm Tiberius Stormwind, from Draconia!" for... well, you know. The current record is eight times within a single session, five of those within the span of eight minutes.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e70c45f0	type	All Animals Are Dogs
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e70c45f0	comment	All Animals Are Dogs: Trinket the bear is often treated like a pet dog.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e81f5639	type	Moe Greene Special
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e81f5639	comment	Moe Greene Special: Vax frequently goes for his opponents eyes. Vex and Percy also score kills this way, occasionally.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In Episode 41, when Vex tries to offer Jarrett a bonus of 100 gold, the rest of the cast is stunned. In Episode 109, when Vex suggests that the fate of the world is more important than saving a few hundred gold, everyone gasps and Scanlan implies she might be unwell.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e8aa2b1d	type	Tactical Withdrawal
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e8aa2b1d	comment	Tactical Withdrawal: The High-Altitude Battle in Episode 10 was caused by Vax calling a retreat, the withdrawal in episode 13 was confirmed later by Matt to be required — Vox Machina had to get out of Yug'Voril. Episode 39 has the team fleeing Emon as the Chroma Conclave launch an assault. Episode 102 — the team Plane Shifts the heck out of the Shadowfell to the Feywild when it's clear they're no match for Vecna. One last time in episode 112, when cornered by the Briarwoods after having retrieved the Sword of Kas. Getting back from this situation (which was on a time limit) involved parleying favor from Artagan.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Garmelie wants "a piece of a Syngorn threshold crest", meaning a fragment of the magical devices that allows the whole city to travel between the Material Plane and the Feywild, but never explicitly specifying it as such. What Percy gives him is a piece of a crest which Keyleth molded out of the threshold of the door to their guest room in Syngorn, using the Stone Shape spell. Much to Garmelie's dismay, he has to accept this deal as fulfilled.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ea480f92	type	Simple, yet Awesome
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ea480f92	comment	Simple, yet Awesome: For all the impressive magical powers that Vox Machina brings to the table, their most damaging and effective attacks usually involve Grog hitting people with an axe or Vax repeatedly stabbing people with his daggers.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_eb7d0d71	type	Quirky Bard
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_eb7d0d71	comment	Sam is no stranger to Quirky Bards, seeing as he once voiced one of the most famous ones of all.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ecee5a56	type	A Lady on Each Arm
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ecee5a56	comment	A Lady on Each Arm: Invoked/Parodied by Percy, Keyleth, and Vex while entering the Luck's Run Casino in Marquet. They keep it up for all of five minutes before Keyleth gets caught cheating and is literally kicked to the curb.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_eddfe7e5	type	Underground City
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_eddfe7e5	comment	Underground City: Kraghammer in the first streamed story arc. There's also the duergar city and the illithid colony of Yug'Voril deep in the Underdark.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted - there are now three Non Player Characters named, respectively, Shaun, Shane, and Shauna.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_eea96e78	type	Swallowed Whole
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_eea96e78	comment	Swallowed Whole: Played with in Episode 54, where Vax and Scanlan teleport inside the ancient black dragon Umbrasyl the Hope Devourer. They manage to survive by way of crawling out of a gaping wound Grog inflicts on the dragon's belly from outside in the next episode, but it is described as a thoroughly disgusting and terrifying experience. In Episode 88 Tangled Depths, Grog is swallowed and spat up by the Kraken a total of three times, and Keyleth and Vax once each.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f2b365c1	type	Libation for the Dead
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f2b365c1	comment	Libation for the Dead: Grog pours one out for Tiberius in episode 64, but uses water instead of alcohol because Tiberius was The Teetotaler.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f329f2a2	type	Got Volunteered
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f329f2a2	comment	Got Volunteered: Zac suggests doing something "crazy" if the subscriber count reaches 4,000 by the night's end. He completely shoots himself in the foot by saying Vox Moronica (from episode 12) will do a rap video if the channel gets 4,000 subs (which it naturally does). At the show's end, he laughs at himself while saying that he has to inform Dan Casey and Ify Nwadiwe about "the work I volunteered them for".
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f4a0408f	type	Wake-Up Call Boss
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f4a0408f	comment	Wake-Up Call Boss: Umbrasyl is the first member of the Chroma Conclave to be killed, but gave Vox Machina their hardest victory yet, to the point where the party had to stop and rest in-between battles with the dragon before finishing him off. While his death did show that Vox Machina could kill the dragons, he was also able to kill dozens of Herd members, and the difficulty of the fight means that they wouldn't attempt to take on another Conclave member until they had found more Vestiges and leveled up more.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Most of Vox Machina, save Tiberius and Vax. Vex/Percy and Scanlan/Pike marry, Grog lives with his two best friends, Keyleth continues to lead her people and eventually becomes one with the land, and Tary not only fixes his family's name but he also finds Lawrence.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f821e963	type	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f821e963	comment	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon: Vecna's terrifying mobile fortress, the city of Thar Amphala carried upon the shoulders of an immense undead Earth Titan. The final episodes of the campaign concern Vox Machina making their way through the titan's innards, sneaking through Thar Amphala, and scaling the tower of Entropis at the heart of the city, to at last confront Vecna in the Final Battle at the peak of Entropis.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: Arguably, they've had three: Episode 39, narratively speaking, in which the Chroma Conclave arrive to take over Tal'Dorei. Cities are destroyed, thousands of people (including some vital allies) are dead, and the path to defeating the dragons and reclaiming their home is unclear. The next thirty-plus episodes are spent dragging themselves out of this situation. Episode 68, emotionally speaking. Anna Ripley, assisted by Orthax, attacks the party, nearly causes a TPK, and kills Percy. Vox Machina defeats Ripley, but they are hundreds of miles away from anyone who could resurrect Percy, and unlike Vex and Grog, who are resurrected almost immediately, Percy is still dead by the episode's end. Episode 102, which makes sense since it's the start of the Grand Finale. Vecna is reborn and utterly trounces Vox Machina. Killing Vex, disintegrating Vax, and trying multiple times to do the same to Pike. Our heroes have no choice but to flee.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f945dff4	type	Facepalm
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f945dff4	comment	Facepalm: The reaction of Taliesin/Percy to... pretty much everything that the others do.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The party members continually confusing Vax and Vex. Whenever Grog uses the Dust of Tracelessness, Travis describes his eight-foot tall mass murderer throwing dust behind his back like a flower girl. It finally pays off when Grog actually became the flower girl at Vex and Percy's wedding. In one of the early episodes, Vax badly burned his foot in some lava and the healing process required Pike to perform a healing spell on it once a day for several days in a row. Every time it was time for Pike to administer the spell, Liam insisted on putting his real-life foot up on the table, much to Laura's dismay. The party loves to plug Glorious Gilmore's Goods during inappropriate situations. It starts out as part of their deal with that magic shop, but long after they stop needing to advertise for money, they keep on mentioning it to people with no chance of going to the store. Vox Machina and doors don't get along. On several occasions, doors prevent the team from accessing areas, in some cases even causing damage. Put to rest with extreme prejudice in Episode 95: The servants in Scanlan's extra-dimensional mansion serve whole chickens for every meal every time the party rests there.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_faece9aa	type	The Power of Friendship
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_faece9aa	comment	The Power of Friendship: Episode 22 is chock full of this trope since its focus is the group supporting Keyleth on her Aramente both emotionally and by force of arms. Played with by Percy in Episode 30. Keyleth asks if his quest in Whitestone motivated by revenge, altruism or friendship, and Percy says that any answer that was not revenge would be a lie. Still, he later implies that Vox Machina's friendship is the only thing stopping him from becoming as bad as the Briarwoods. Played straight by Earthbreaker Groon in Episode 43, during his fight with Grog:
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_fc07d409	type	Hopeless Boss Fight
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_fc07d409	comment	Hopeless Boss Fight: Three major examples: Episode 13: The Elder Brain of Yugâ€™Voril, a huge sack of hit points that was constantly getting stronger and summoning more and more mind flayers. The party quickly realized they needed to get out of there rather than try to fight an entire city. Episode 39 and 40: The Chroma Conclave, a group of four ancient dragons, attack Emon. Grog attempts to engage one, but the party immediately realizes they need to run when one of the dragons slaughters an entire crowd of people. In the next episode, they are set against the white dragon Vorugal in a desperate fight to buy time for civilians to get into their keep, and are only saved from destruction by the timely intervention of the larger red dragon sending its underling away. Episode 102: The first battle against Vecna is this, full stop. The lich has support from Delilah, already proven to be an incredibly formidable opponent, and a death knight, an evil undead paladin that is one of the most dangerous undead in the game. The battle ends with Delilah dead, but the death knight barely fazed and Vecna hardly even scratched (for reference, Vox Machina did 275 damage to Vorugal in the above encounter. They barely did 50 to Vecna.) Meanwhile, Vecna killed Vex (temporarily) and Vax (less temporarily) and forced the party to flee to another plane.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_fd497586	type	You Mean "Xmas"
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_fd497586	comment	You Mean "Xmas": The Winter's Crest festival serves as the campaign's Christmas episodes. The first one celebrated is summarized in comic form, and episode 36 has one in Whitestone (a much-needed Breather Episode).
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_fd86da63	type	Crisis of Faith
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_fd86da63	comment	In the same episode, Pike decides to slit an unconscious duergar's throat with her mace. When she tries to justify what she did and ask if Sarenrae would get mad at her, Matt simply says, "We'll see." And then in the next episode, her holy symbol gets a crack in it, signifying that her deity is indeed mad at her.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_fdc1e848	type	Will They or Won't They?
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: After his surprise confession, Vax and Keyleth spend about 30 episodes awkwardly negotiating their feelings and dealing with numerous complications before things are finally settled between them with Keyleth's confession in Episode 65. Ever since the first custom arrow, Percy and Vex's Ship Tease had been going on for anywhere between twenty-four and fifty-four episodes * Episode 15 marks the first time Vex kisses Percy; Episode 45 is arguably the first indication that he has strong feelings for her. before Vex declares her love for him in Episode 69. As of Episode 72, they become a couple, after Percy gives Vex The Big Damn Kiss in the forest outside Draconia.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In episode 115, Sam Riegel makes an off-hand that one of the character's lost an arm during a Time Skip. In the middle of the Search of Grog one-shot set during that Time Skip, Matt has a group of bugbears appear out of nowhere and rip that characters arm off. No checks to see them coming, no saving throws to stop them, they just show up and rip it off clean. It's only after the campaign wrap-up that Vex realizes that when Vax was taken by the Raven Queen, he took his Boots of Haste with him. Right when he leaves again after her wedding, in the one-shot that was run over a year later, she only remembers the boots a split-second after he disappears.
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Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_fe1c3451	type	Prophet Eyes
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_fe1c3451	comment	Prophet Eyes: Happens to Keyleth and Allura temporarily as they're scrying on Raishan.
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