The Trick about Falling

"The Trick About Falling" is the fifth episode of the first season of Critical Role.

Synopsis
Having successfully slain a dangerous Illithid and its Dwarven general, Vox Machina find themselves surrounded by a small army of Duergar. They once again take to the air, hoping to clear the war camp and travel deeper into the territory of the Mind Flayers. Not quite fast enough, they are attacked mid flight and brought crashing to the ground, within a stone’s throw of the tunnel that will hopefully lead them to Lady Kima. With some quick spell work from Tiberius and Keyleth, the group is able to flee further into the bowels of Khaloor and find shelter long enough to heal their wounds. Pressing forward, they quickly realize their path is growing more dangerous with every step into the darkness. Running into a pair of ogres hauling some rather exotic cargo, Vox Machina quickly find things moving from bad to worse.

Previously on
"The party has initially been sent down on a mission by the arcanist Allura Vysoren in search of a halfling paladin whose gone missing, named Lady Kima of Vord. A folk hero and very respected individual, she went on a vision quest and apparently went alone into Kraghammer seeking some sort of great evil that was festering beneath the city and hasn't been seen for weeks and weeks. The party was hired by [Allura] to go and try to find [Kima's] whereabouts and hopefully bring her back safely. Since traversing and meeting individuals in Kraghammer they then spearheaded into the greyspine mines where apparently these monstrosities had been burbling out time and time again over the past few weeks. Pushing down they had encounters with umberhulks, they managed to inquire some duergar which apparently there is a lot of them down here (duergar being a ashy-skinned, subterranean, dark, evil dwarf-type offshoot.) One of which had with it a brain-type quadruped that managed to brain spike Grog and send him catatonic for a short time. Wandering through the caverns, discovered there was a duergar warcamp across this large chasm that was currently being run by a general duergar along side what appeared to be, and what they've now discovered to be, a mind flayer, an illithid. They managed to, upon looking deeper into this cavern, find hidden behind a waterfall thanks to the Druid and the Ranger completely stealing from the rest of the group their flying carpet made a very tenuous relationship, alignment, with another mind flayer apparently cast out of his own society searching to find a way to both get revenge and find his way back into his colony of people. His name was Clarota, lovingly called Clarence by the group, probably much to his own chagrin. After which they decided to go ahead and try to extract information from this duergar general and stop this warcamp from preparing itself for battle and its attack seemingly on Kraghammer in the near future. Through a strange crazy plan they came up with, they managed to fly undetected via flying carpet, giant eagle, and floating sorcerer, over the entire warcamp, made a metal gear run into the center of their main barracks, threw a bucket of goblin shit into the face of the one mind flayer, after which Vax bisected it pretty much in one surprise round of attacks, lead into a large battle in the center of this building, part way through of which the ground began to rumble and then, digging forth from underneath a bulette, a gargantuan armored burrowing creature that was hungry and very dangerous, that then made the battle that much more intense. A heavy blood-filled battle later, involved with Percy getting his hand caught and firing his gun into the gullet of the beast, eventually it had its armor pulled apart and was defeated by the party. The remnants of the duregar army inside of this building have been destroyed aside from a few stranglers that have laid their weapons down and the general now lies beaten on his knees before the rest of the party."

Trivia
Critical Role was gifted with Castle Grayskull from #teamnostream.

This is the first episode to feature Pike's intro video.