Into the Greyspine Mines

"Into the Greyspine Mines" is the second episode of the first season of Critical Role.

Synopsis
After Scanlon Shorthalt brought the abomination of a Naga to it’s tortured end, Vox Machina vowed to Nostoc Greyspine to put an end to the darkness now bubbling up out of the bowls of the earth. The team quickly gears up and makes their way into the mine, and begins a miles long trek down into the veins of Khaloor. After many hours wandering the dark, they reach a subterranean river within a massive, inky cavern where they are are attacked by a pair of umberhulks. The beasts are dispatched without too much difficulty, but in a fit of rage and shortsightedness, Grog charges toward a flickering light further off in the cavern. He stumbles across several Duergar, dark cousins of the Dwarves above, as well as a skittering, four legged brain. The wretched thing is killed quickly, but not before lashing out at Grog’s psyche. The Goliath’s mind is broken, and he falls to the ground in a heap.

Previously on ...
"So [ Vox Machina ] has been hired by their friend Arcansit Allura Vysoren to head towards the dwarven town of Kraghammer as a good friend of hers has gone missing. [The] Halfling Paladin named Lady Kima of Vord, on a vision quest as part of a pilgrimage, was drawn towards some dark evil she said was manifesting somewhere deep beneath Kraghammer and hadn't been heard from since. The party was sent there to seek her. Upon arriving in Kraghammer, shenanigans ensued. They made some friends, made some enemies, wandered the town, a bear almost got into a fight, and eventually the party made their way to the bottom ring of Kraghammer. Talked to Lord Nostoc Greyspine, the head of the Greyspine mines where supposedly Lady Kima disappeared. After their conversation with him, a bunch of goblins and ogres sprang from the mines, attacking the workers. The party swooped down to aid, realized that the goblins and ogres weren't attacking, they were fleeing from something else that emerged from the mines. A strange naga-based hydraish abomination. The party proceeded to slaughter it, the final blow dealt by Scanlan."