History Awesome / CriticalRoleKraghammerArc

* The entire party (sans Trinket) successfully infiltrates the warcamp and lands on its barracks without alerting the army. Then Vax and Scanlan sneak into the barracks, stealth-kill a guard, and enter the command room. The mind flayer has no idea they are in the same room as it until Scanlan chucks a bucket worth of gobin feces into its eyes! It's a very tense sequence, requiring several stealth checks and a number of close calls. ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' gets a mention when Vax throws a coin to distract a guard, and, indeed, Solid Snake himself couldn't have done better.

* Kudos for the healer. In order to cast Cure Wounds on an unconscious Scanlan, Pike dashes across the battlefield, pulls herself up a ledge (just barely making the acrobatics check needed) and grabs her fellow gnome, who is still gripped in the Bluette's teeth.

*** She then proceeds to grabble the beholder and, because her earth elemental form's hit points are not her hit points, the others don't have to hold back with their attacks on her behalf.

** Scanlan gives all four of his inspiration dice before the battle, and then he becomes a sort of lightning blast brigade with Clarota. He even uses a Chain Lightning scroll, which is the biggest big gun in his arsenal. It not only blasts K'Varn, but two of his stitch monsters, which forces the one grabbling Pike to let go.

* The escape sequence is incredibly intense. Everyone is desperately fleeing K'varn's lair while struggling against many, many things trying to stop them: mind blasts and stuns from mind flayers and intellect devours, Grog was still grabbled by a stitch monster, Lady Kima was petrified, three trolls were trying to get into the room for the bulk of the battle, and the Elder Brain was waking up and growing stronger. It is touch-and-go all the way through everyone running through Tiberius' Circle of Teleportation.

* Later in the episode, we see Clarota help out the party in battle for the first time. His first attempt [[TheMillstone only makes things worse]], but his second more than makes up for it: after seeing Tiberius use Telekinisis to throw one of the Hook Horrors into a lava pit, he does the same to one of the slimes (which is at serious risk of killing Grog), telekinetically hurling it into the same lava pit, ''onto the Hook Horror already in it''. Matt announces that the Hook Horror is ''dissolved instantly'' by the slime's acid, followed by the slime itself melting into nothing in the lava. With a single move, Clarota turned the tide of battle and likely saved the team's lives!

-->'''Scanlan:''' We, my friends and I, have come, we’ve come from the Above World- The Normal World, let’s say- to your fine kingdom, down here below. And, we were on a mission, a bit of- I don’t want to brag, but we’re an elite task force sent in by kingdoms and kings that you probably haven’t heard of down below. But, anyway, I’ll spare you. […] M’lady, we have come on a mission to save someone that you are holding captive. We have completed our mission, and in the melee, in that, um, hovel you call a palace back there, we lost one of our own, and we would like him back. Now, I’ll make it very simple, ‘cause my fellows are begging me keep things simple. It’s a simple binary choice: you can all die right now, or you can turn over our friend and we will probably, probably leave you in peace. I would promise, but I don’t make promises to dogs.

** When the polymorph wears off and the Umber Hulk returns and attacks Scanlan, Vax deals the killing blow by [[GroinAttack by cutting it open from its nads.]]

* Tiberius using Counterspell to stop a mindflayer from getting away, followed up by roasting it with a fireball.
* Grog riding on Shark Keyleth. That alone is pretty awesome.
* Scanlan's speech to the Duergar queen before combat starts.

-->'''Scanlan:''' We, my friends and I, have come, we’ve come from the Above World- The Normal World, let’s say- to your fine kingdom, down here below. And, we were on a mission, a bit of- I don’t want to brag, but we’re an elite task force sent in by kingdoms and kings that you probably haven’t heard of down below. But, anyway, I’ll spare you. […] M’lady, we have come on a mission to save someone that you are holding captive. We have completed our mission, and in the melee, in that, um, hovel you call a palace back there, we lost one of our own, and we would like him back. Now, I’ll make it very simple, ‘cause my fellows are begging me keep things simple; it’s a simple binary choice: you can all die right now, or you can turn over our friend and we will probably, probably leave you in peace. I would promise, but I don’t make promises to dogs.
** When the fighting starts, he banishes Ulara moments before she casts ChainLightning, thus saving the party from significant damage. Due to crummy rolls, she's neutralized for the entire fight. Vox Machina even has the opportunity to gather around the spot where she will reappear so they can ambush and subdue her.

** When the polymorph wears off and the Umber Hulk returns, Vax deals the killing blow by [[GroinAttack by cutting it open from its nads.]]

** The 3-hit combo finish is pretty great - [[TalkToTheHand Scanlan immobilizes it with Bigby's Grasping Hand,]] [[EyeScream Tiberius telekinetically rips one of its eyes out (rendering it blind since the other had already been disabled),]] and [[RuleOfThree Vax gets a perfect throw and drives a dagger right through the socket.]]
* Meta-awesome, but the post-Episode Q&A reveals that the gang is planning to bring on guest stars or even entirely new permanent teammates, something sure to excite voice actor fans. Creator/TroyBaker is mentioned as being interested, and Creator/YuriLowenthal is likely to join in having played with them before the show began. Matt also responds positively to the chat suggesting [[WebVideo/GameGrumps Danny]] [[Music/NinjaSexParty Sexbang]], and several of the group like the idea of bringing on Music/GarfunkelAndOates. The show is only going to get bigger and better!

* Scanlan uses magical lightning to finish off a particularly tough monster that was giving the team trouble. Since he's the bard of the group, this is particularly impressive.
** It's his first kill ''of the entire campaign.'' Even the anticipation is awesome. Travis has his arms around both Liam and Laura as they wait to see if Matt will utter those seven magic words.