Favorite Moments from Campaign 1 of Critical Role

eponymous-rose:

Heck yeah, let’s get this list done for the whole series!

Tried to keep the descriptions as spoiler-free as possible so people can just jump in wherever, but I’d skip this if you’re really worried. Every link leads to the exact timestamp, some of which are obviously very spoilery. Here we go!

Episode 3: Vex and Keyleth say “fuck it”. (Note: early episode means v. loud at times and sound quality is pretty rough.)

Episode 4: Laura gets to the episode a bit late, just in time for an elaborate and extremely well-thought-out plan to go into play.

Episode 17: Grog mopes after a rough fight.

Episode 18: Matt gets a subtle revenge after Percy absolutely wrecks shop with multiple natural twenties… while wearing buttflap pajamas.

Episode 19: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn has a helluva moment as Zahra during a particularly nasty fight in her first-ever D&D game.

Episode 22: Vex is Not Pleased.

Episode 23: Matt invents Victor the blackpowder merchant on the spot.

Episode 24: The party refuses to let Percy face the Briarwoods alone.

Episode 24: Vax gets revenge on Grog for tripping him several months ago.

Episode 25: Vax alone.

Episode 25: Vex charges in with the most dramatic dice rolls possible.

Episode 26: “Here’s my plan… we’re all cows.”

Episode 28: The show takes on a distinctly different and more disturbing tone. Welcome to Whitestone.

Episode 31: [Jurassic Park theme intensifies]

Episode 34: The sixth barrel.

Episode 34: To quote an earlier post: the walls are people and magic is dead. Everything is fine.

Episode 35: Scanlan casts a spell on Percy.

Episode 36: Percy gives Grog a sentient sword. What could go wrong?

Episode 36: Keyleth, Scanlan, and Percy take in a magic show during the festival. They’re… still a little frazzled.

Episode 38: Scanlan’s flirtatious relationship with Kaylie takes a dramatic turn.

Episode 39: Everything changes.

Episode 40: The party starts to fracture under the strain.

Episode 41: Finding Gilmore.

Episode 42: Vex’s limerick for Scanlan.

Episode 44: Matt is DMing a room full of twelve-year-olds.

Episode 44: Half the party’s character arcs turn on a single roll of the dice…

Episode 45: “I like you people, okay?”

Episode 47: Vex seeks help with a magical artifact.

Episode 47: Vax and Grog slip into nightmares.

Episode 48: Vex does some flying target practice over breakfast. Things escalate.

Episode 49: Grog escapes the portal in the most heartbreaking possible way.

Episode 51: Scanlan coaches Kaylie through a distraction.

Episode 52: Unbe-fucking-lievable sequence of dice rolls.

Episode 53: Bickering twins being bickering twins.

Episode 55: “Left.” Chills every time.

Episode 56: Grog gets his hands on a magical artifact. Experimentation ensues.

Episode 56: Percy and Keyleth talk about cities and lifespans. Unbelievably good improv.

Episode 57: Chatting with trees.

Episode 57: Vax has an unexpected late-night visitor.

Episode 58: Scanlan to the rescue. (”I don’t do these things!”)

Episode 59: Percy has a couple of late-night conversations after a charm wears off.

Episode 59: Pike commissions a family portrait.

Episode 60: Vox Machina is a close-knit group.

Episode 63: Saundor and Vex. Link is to the fixed audio, because the background music times up perfectly and it’s a little uncanny.

Episode 64: A belated discovery and farewell.

Episode 65: The perils of mist-walking in a desert environment.

Episode 65: Scanlan looks for someone to help him out with a drug deal.

Episode 67: Keyleth, the airship, and the storm.

Episode 68: Scanlan and the Onyx Dog.

Episode 69: A letter for Keyleth.

Episode 69: An ominous meeting.

Episode 71: “I sing at it.”

Episode 72: Vex and Percy talk about forgiveness.

Episode 74: Senokir introduces himself. Things get a little weird.

Episode 75: Pike teaches Grog to read.

Episode 76: “I’m so amazing!”

Episode 78: Kashaw the strategist.

Episode 81: Grog finds a famous (infamous) D&D magical item.

Episode 82: “Gravity is fuuuucked.”

Episode 83: Critical Role in a five-second soundbite.

Episode 83: Keyleth’s Hail Mary.

Episode 84: Kima asks the party to lie on her behalf.

Episode 85: Taryon Darrington makes his debut.

Episode 86: “You’ve never played Boulder, Paper, Shears?”

Episode 87: Vax and Grog play hide and seek.

Episode 89: Doty does some sketching and Taryon gets some flash cards.

Episode 90: Taryon and Grog go shopping and things… escalate.

Episode 93: Everyone belatedly realizes that the entire campaign was one dice roll away from ending.

Episode 95: Grog completely changes the course of a stranger’s life.

Episode 97: Dealing with the mechanics of your canon Coffee Shop AU.

Episode 100: Commune with Ducks.

Episode 100: Grog feels replaced.

Episode 102: Ninth-level spells are terrifying.

Episode 102: Sam plans ahead.

Episode 103: The return.

Episode 103: Grog and Scanlan go to run an errand and things… escalate.

Episode 104: Keyleth talks to a disgruntled tree.

Episode 104: What does Vex mean to you?

Episode 105: The chat knows where Laura’s item card went.

Episode 107: Singing to the librarians.

Episode 109: The love potion. (headphone warning: live audience is LOUD with very good reason)

Episode 110: Reverse math.

Episode 112: The narrowest escape.

Episode 112: Summoning help via dick pics.

Episode 112: Things get a little weird (terms & conditions may apply).

Episode 113: The most vicious and cruel trick.

Episode 114: Fighting with one hand tied behind your back.

Episode 114: An end, once and for all.

Epilogues:

(a debt repaid)

(mending fences)

(the family you make)

(the clockmaker and the huntress)

(higher learning)

(and every day…)

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