Glass and Bone

is the eighth episode of the first season of Critical Role. Vox Machina, broken and battered, struggles to survive after a catastrophic battle with the duergar king and queen. Relying on Vex'ahlia's knowledge of the Underdark and her skill at tracking prey, the weary adventurers press on into the depths. They come across yet another abomination in the dark, and battle the strange creature in a sea of bone and glass. Finally leaving the wretch behind them, they spy a fire twinkling in the distance...

Previously on Critical Role
''"The party was hired to find an individual named Lady Kima; she is a halfling paladin of the platinum dragon Bahamut. [ Vox Machina ] went seeking her in the caverns beneath the dwarven city of Kraghammer. After much fighting and surviving, they managed to find their way to a duergar fortress called Emberhold where they found Lady Kima captive beneath. They released her and, with her help, assaulted the throne room at the top and managed to slay King Murghol of the duergar. However, in the process, Grog, the intrepid barbarian, was kidnapped by the queen mage before she could be slain, who then also disintegrated a portion of the roof, letting an entire cavalcade of molten rock into the fortress. The party then had to make a heated escape, however a number of their party members—due to the gazes of the two basilisks who were kept in the throne room as pets—Lady Kima and Tiberius Stormwind, the dragonborn sorcerer, are currently stone. Dragging them out of the fortress as the magma began to fill the interior, a very deft escape was made, aside from Vax unfortunately getting his foot temporarily submerged in the lava, taking some serious damage to his foot. The party managed to make their way outside of Emberhold proper, and [they've] all taken a moment to breathe, at this point realizing that, thankfully, for the most part [they've] all survived, aside from the missing party member and a few in a state of flux at the moment."''