Blackspire

Wherein BISHAMONTEN continues his eerie divinatory experience, while Saint Jezebel persists in her struggle to escape the horrific memories of the Charnel House.

 WARNING! The Blackspire Role-playing Game contains themes and situations that may be offensive to some audiences. Listener discretion is advised… and seriously… this episode we really, really mean it. We disturbed ourselves with this one.

You’ve been warned. 

And be sure to check out the very special episode of Adventure Hook: Legend Lore "Welcome to the Charnel House" where Aaron & Rob brainstorm up the adventure that became the backbone for this episode.

Click Here for more Campaign Resources

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Patreon

RESOURCES

Tarokka Deck (initial cards)

Tarokka Deck (BISHAMONTEN's Draw)

Artist Kevin Ross's "The Yellow Sign"

Welcome to the Blackspire RPG Campaign Actual-Play Podcast… a dark, baroque, postmodern love letter to Dungeons and Dragons.

Blackspire is an ongoing sci-fantasy epic told through the lens of a Dungeons & Dragons game and set in an original world of dark, baroque glory!

The episode was written, produced, and edited by Robert Randle and played by members of the Baltimore Role-Players Unite Weekly (or B.R.U.W. Crew for short).

Comedian Jim Meyer played BISHAMONTEN. Be sure to check Jim out on his other actual-play podcast: Laughfinder, or visit his website the Jim Meyer Experience.com for information concerning his upcoming appearances.

All music and foley content used in this program has been made available for use under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License… but extra special thanks is due to Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech, David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com, Jingle Punks, Audionautix, MK2, Silent Partner, the various talented composers at Media Right Productions, and the many inspired folks over at ZapSplat.com and Freesound.org.

SOUND CREDITS

This episode of the Blackspire RPG Campaign features music from The Cryo Chamber Collaboration off of the albums Nyarlathotep and Azathoth and from Metatron Omega off of the album Gnosis Dei

Visit https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/ for more dark ambient.

 

Music (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

With the chaos of the Battle of Window Hook Row behind them, our mercenaries find themselves taking a strange road home.

And be sure to check out the very special episode of Adventure Hook: Legend Lore where Aaron & Rob brainstorm up the adventure that became the backbone for this episode.

Click Here for more Campaign Resources

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Patreon

RESOURCES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II8MpLIEh20&list=PL3-PonsBj4qPT1FNluLQCj9bIPy-9bHns

The four face up tarokka cards BISHAMONTEN finds

Welcome to the Blackspire RPG Campaign Actual-Play Podcast… a dark, baroque, postmodern love letter to Dungeons and Dragons.

Blackspire is an ongoing sci-fantasy epic told through the lens of a Dungeons & Dragons game and set in an original world of dark, baroque glory!

The episode was written, produced, and edited by Robert Randle and played by members of the Baltimore Role-Players Unite Weekly (or B.R.U.W. Crew for short).

Comedian Jim Meyer played BISHAMONTEN. Be sure to check Jim out on his other actual-play podcast: Laughfinder, or visit his website the Jim Meyer Experience.com for information concerning his upcoming appearances.

All music and foley content used in this program has been made available for use under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License… but extra special thanks is due to Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech, David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com, Jingle Punks, Audionautix, MK2, Silent Partner, the various talented composers at Media Right Productions, and the many inspired folks over at ZapSplat.com and Freesound.org.

SOUND CREDITS

This episode of the Blackspire RPG Campaign features music from The Cryo Chamber Collaboration off of the album Yog-Sothoth

Visit https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/ for more dark ambient.

 

 

Music (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech

Gnarled_Situation (Introduction)

Apotheosis_Ghostpocalypse

SFX (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

MK2

Hero_Theme_Sting (Introduction)

Media Right Productions:

Wherein BISHAMONTEN and the rest of the White Hydra Mercenaries test their might in mortal combat against a fatalistic final boss…

Click Here for more Campaign Resources

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Patreon

RESOURCES

The full scope of Window Hook Row (showing the parameters of a certain oni's fiery spell)

  

 

Welcome to the Blackspire RPG Campaign Actual-Play Podcast… a dark, baroque, postmodern love letter to Dungeons and Dragons.

Blackspire is an ongoing sci-fantasy epic told through the lens of a Dungeons & Dragons game and set in an original world of dark, baroque glory!

The episode was written, produced, and edited by Robert Randle and played by members of the Baltimore Role-Players Unite Weekly (or B.R.U.W. Crew for short).

Comedian Jim Meyer played BISHAMONTEN. Be sure to check Jim out on his other actual-play podcast: Laughfinder, or visit his website the Jim Meyer Experience.com for information concerning his upcoming appearances.

All music and foley content used in this program has been made available for use under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License… but extra special thanks is due to Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech, David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com, Jingle Punks, Audionautix, MK2, Silent Partner, the various talented composers at Media Right Productions, and the many inspired folks over at ZapSplat.com and Freesound.org.

SOUND CREDITS

Music (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech

Gnarled_Situation (Introduction)

Pop Goes the Weasel

Final Battle of the Dark Wizards

Deep Horrors

Apotheosis_Ghostpocalypse

Darkness Speaks Sting

Asian_Drums_Vadodara

Eastern_Thought

Heroic_Age

Cambodian Odyssey

Opium

Bushwick Tarantella Loop

Long Note Two

Doug Maxwell, Zac Zinger

Hon_Kyoku

David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com

Battle of the Awake

Orc Chase

Orc Warcry

Dark Hero (Outro)

SFX (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

 

MK2

Hero_Theme_Sting (Introduction)

Media Right Productions:

Max Surla

Day_of_Recon_Sting (Introduction)

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

-Sun Tzu

The Art of War 

Click Here for more Campaign Resources

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Patreon

RESOURCES

The full scope of Window Hook Row (showing the parameters of a certain oni's fiery spell)

  

 

Welcome to the Blackspire RPG Campaign Actual-Play Podcast… a dark, baroque, postmodern love letter to Dungeons and Dragons.

Blackspire is an ongoing sci-fantasy epic told through the lens of a Dungeons & Dragons game and set in an original world of dark, baroque glory!

The episode was written, produced, and edited by Robert Randle and played by members of the Baltimore Role-Players Unite Weekly (or B.R.U.W. Crew for short).

Comedian Jim Meyer played BISHAMONTEN. Be sure to check Jim out on his other actual-play podcast: Laughfinder, or visit his website the Jim Meyer Experience.com for information concerning his upcoming appearances.

All music and foley content used in this program has been made available for use under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License… but extra special thanks is due to Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech, David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com, Jingle Punks, Audionautix, MK2, Silent Partner, the various talented composers at Media Right Productions, and the many inspired folks over at ZapSplat.com and Freesound.org.

SOUND CREDITS

Music (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech

Gnarled_Situation (Introduction)

Pop Goes the Weasel

Corruption

Faceoff

David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com

Battle of the Awake

Descendants

Gym Workout

Dramatic_Scene_Ending_Music_1

Looking For Trouble

Ninja Fight

Hybrid Chaos

Preparation 2

This Day We Die

Can It Be

Preparation

Take Down

Dark Hero (Outro)

Jingle Punks

Action Hero

Twin Musicom

Fall of the Solar King

SFX (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

 

MK2

Hero_Theme_Sting (Introduction)

Media Right Productions:

Max Surla

Wherein the White Hydra Mercenary Company meets the fearsome proprietor of the notorious Charnal House of Window Hook Row… the oni… Ajnakara the Flame-Flayer..!

Click Here for more Campaign Resources

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Patreon

RESOURCES

The full scope of Window Hook Row (showing the parameters of a certain oni's fiery spell)

Terry Gilliam's "Brazil"

 

Window Hook Row (street level)

The Charnal House

 

The Charnal House

The Charnal House

The Charnal House

Standoff with Ajnakara the Flame-Flayer

Standoff with Ajnakara the Flame-Flayer

Jolly Paul on the rooftops observes the standoff with Ajnakara the Flame-Flayer

Jolly Paul on the rooftops observes the standoff with Ajnakara the Flame-Flayer

Jolly Paul on the rooftops observes the standoff with Ajnakara the Flame-Flayer

Maelik Kileam and Solina rescue the prisoners

Maelik Kileam and Solina rescue the prisoners

Maelik Kileam and Solina rescue the prisoners

A tense first meeting

 

Welcome to the Blackspire RPG Campaign Actual-Play Podcast… a dark, baroque, postmodern love letter to Dungeons and Dragons.

Blackspire is an ongoing sci-fantasy epic told through the lens of a Dungeons & Dragons game and set in an original world of dark, baroque glory!

The episode was written, produced, and edited by Robert Randle and played by members of the Baltimore Role-Players Unite Weekly (or B.R.U.W. Crew for short).

Comedian Jim Meyer played BISHAMONTEN. Be sure to check Jim out on his other actual-play podcast: Laughfinder, or visit his website the Jim Meyer Experience.com for information concerning his upcoming appearances.

All music and foley content used in this program has been made available for use under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License… but extra special thanks is due to Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech, David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com, Jingle Punks, Audionautix, MK2, Silent Partner, the various talented composers at Media Right Productions, and the many inspired folks over at ZapSplat.com and Freesound.org.

SOUND CREDITS

Music (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech

Gnarled_Situation (Introduction)

Sugar Plum Breakdown

Apotheosis_Ghostpocalypse

Shamanistic

Sneak n Get Caught

Attack_of_the_Mole_Men_Stings

Special Spotlight

Industrial Revolution

Wherein the White Hydras begin their assault on the Charnal House in their attempt to bring to heel the revenge-seeking instigator… Narl Darkfury!

Click Here for more Campaign Resources

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Patreon

RESOURCES

Stormtooth readies to charge the halberd-wielding ogre atop the Charnal House.

BISHAMONTEN, G'eldatar D'Vosh, and Maelik Kileam approach the portcullis gate

BISHAMONTEN, G'eldatar D'Vosh, and Maelik Kileam approach the portcullis gate

Stormtooth and Fogarth the Mighty duke it out

Solina's dominated orcs flee out the back alley

 

 

Jolly Paul drops a bugbear with a critical hit!

 

 

Same POV showing Stormtooth and Forgarth (and the ogre's dropped halberd)

 

 

Ajnakara the Flameflayer arrives!

Welcome to the Blackspire RPG Campaign Actual-Play Podcast… a dark, baroque, postmodern love letter to Dungeons and Dragons.

Blackspire is an ongoing sci-fantasy epic told through the lens of a Dungeons & Dragons game and set in an original world of dark, baroque glory!

The episode was written, produced, and edited by Robert Randle and played by members of the Baltimore Role-Players Unite Weekly (or B.R.U.W. Crew for short).

Comedian Jim Meyer played BISHAMONTEN. Be sure to check Jim out on his other actual-play podcast: Laughfinder, or visit his website the Jim Meyer Experience.com for information concerning his upcoming appearances.

All music and foley content used in this program has been made available for use under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License… but extra special thanks is due to Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech, David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com, Jingle Punks, Audionautix, MK2, Silent Partner, the various talented composers at Media Right Productions, and the many inspired folks over at ZapSplat.com and Freesound.org.

SOUND CREDITS

Music

(Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech

Gnarled_Situation (Introduction)

Action

Stoneworld Battle

Stormfront

Halls_of_the_Undead

Colossus

Ambush_The_Descent

Clash Defiant

Achilles_Strings

The Escalation

Alchemists Tower

Apotheosis_Ghostpocalypse

Long Note Three

Twin Musicom

Video_Game_Soldiers

David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com

Wherein the White Hydra Mercenaries begin their infiltration of a thug-occupied slaughterhouse… and discover the various players who have an interest in the outcome of this particular standoff.

Click Here for more Campaign Resources

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Patreon

RESOURCES

Stormtooth in his Sapphire Dragon form

Setting the stage. Below the restaurant "The Emperor's Bounty" with St. Jezebel flying above. Beyond the Charnel House crawling with "gaijin" thugs from outside of Jade Town.

A view of the Charnel House portcullis gate from Jezebel's vantage

Jezebel rolls a natural 1 on Stealth... not the best timing... now everybody roll initiative...

 

 

BISHAMONETEN (carrying his "table shield") charges the Chanel House portcullis gate, with G'eldatar and Maelik Kileam (in the form of the Shinobi Samurai) close at hand...

 

Welcome to the Blackspire RPG Campaign Actual-Play Podcast… a dark, baroque, postmodern love letter to Dungeons and Dragons.

Blackspire is an ongoing sci-fantasy epic told through the lens of a Dungeons & Dragons game and set in an original world of dark, baroque glory!

The episode was written, produced, and edited by Robert Randle and played by members of the Baltimore Role-Players Unite Weekly (or B.R.U.W. Crew for short).

Comedian Jim Meyer played BISHAMONTEN. Be sure to check Jim out on his other actual-play podcast: Laughfinder, or visit his website the Jim Meyer Experience.com for information concerning his upcoming appearances.

All music and foley content used in this program has been made available for use under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License… but extra special thanks is due to Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech, David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com, Jingle Punks, Audionautix, MK2, Silent Partner, the various talented composers at Media Right Productions, and the many inspired folks over at ZapSplat.com and Freesound.org.

SOUND CREDITS

Music

(Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech

Gnarled_Situation (Introduction)

Tectonic

Crisis_Scoring_Action

Long_Time_Coming

Apotheosis_Ghostpocalypse

Faceoff

A Mission (Outro)

David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com

Dramatic_Scene_Ending_Music_1

Dramatic_Scene_Ending_Music_2

Enemy

Dark Hero (Outro)

Jingle Punks

Earthy_Crust

SFX

Wherein the White Hydra Mercenary Company makes their way to the main restaurant district of the Jade Town neighborhood… territory of a gang run by the notorious butcher: “Emperor” Toko!

Click Here for more Campaign Resources

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Patreon

RESOURCES

 

Setting the stage. Below the restaurant "The Emperor's Bounty" with St. Jezebel flying above. Beyond the Charnel House crawling with "gaijin" thugs from outside of Jade Town.

 

Welcome to the Blackspire RPG Campaign Actual-Play Podcast… a dark, baroque, postmodern love letter to Dungeons and Dragons.

Blackspire is an ongoing sci-fantasy epic told through the lens of a Dungeons & Dragons game and set in an original world of dark, baroque glory!

The episode was written, produced, and edited by Robert Randle and played by members of the Baltimore Role-Players Unite Weekly (or B.R.U.W. Crew for short).

Comedian Jim Meyer played BISHAMONTEN. Be sure to check Jim out on his other actual-play podcast: Laughfinder, or visit his website the Jim Meyer Experience.com for information concerning his upcoming appearances.

All music and foley content used in this program has been made available for use under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License… but extra special thanks is due to Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech, David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com, Jingle Punks, Audionautix, MK2, Silent Partner, the various talented composers at Media Right Productions, and the many inspired folks over at ZapSplat.com and Freesound.org.

SOUND CREDITS

Music

(Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech

Gnarled_Situation (Introduction)

Fairytale Waltz

Cambodian Odyssey

Martian Cowboy

Darkness is Coming

Shenyang

Echoes of Time

Eastern Thought

Malicious

Darkness Speaks Sting

Steel and Seething

Jingle Punks

Into the Depths

MK2

Rolling Through Osaka

David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com

Death Note Tribute

We Need A Hero

Day of Exile

Dramatic_Scene_Ending_Music_2 (Outro)

Dark Hero (Outro)

Jimmy Fontanez

Dub_Hub_Sting

SFX

Wherein the White Hydra Mercenary Company dip their toe into Jade Town… and cause some ripples.

 

Click Here for more Campaign Resources

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Patreon

RESOURCES

The state of exploration of Golemoro's mansion prior to the White Hydra Mercenaries' exit

City of Blackspire

 

Map of the Jade Town neighborhood in Pickett's Ward

Map of the Jade Town neighborhood in Pickett's Ward

Spire comparison: The Obelisk of Blackspire vs. the Washington Monument in DC

Welcome to the Blackspire RPG Campaign Actual-Play Podcast… a dark, baroque, postmodern love letter to Dungeons and Dragons.

Blackspire is an ongoing sci-fantasy epic told through the lens of a Dungeons & Dragons game and set in an original world of dark, baroque glory!

The episode was written, produced, and edited by Robert Randle and played by members of the Baltimore Role-Players Unite Weekly (or B.R.U.W. Crew for short).

Comedian Jim Meyer played BISHAMONTEN. Be sure to check Jim out on his other actual-play podcast: Laughfinder, or visit his website the Jim Meyer Experience.com for information concerning his upcoming appearances.

All music and foley content used in this program has been made available for use under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License… but extra special thanks is due to Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech, David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com, Jingle Punks, Audionautix, MK2, Silent Partner, the various talented composers at Media Right Productions, and the many inspired folks over at ZapSplat.com and Freesound.org.

SOUND CREDITS

Music 
(Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech

Gnarled_Situation (Introduction)

Eastern Thought

Shenyang

Hit_the_Streets_Version_1

Final_Count

Cambodian Odyssey

Heavy_Interlude

Lamentation

A Mission (Outro)



Media Right Productions:

Doug Maxwell

Baroque_Coffee_House

Doug Maxwell, Zac Zinger

Sao_Meo

Minyo_San_Kyoku



Jimmy Fontanez

Dub_Hub_Sting



ZapSplat

in-search-of-asia



David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com

Dark Hero (Outro)



SFX 
(Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.

Whereby the White Hydra Mercenaries begin to experience some of the more fantastical elements of Golemoro’s magnificent mansion.

Click Here for more Campaign Resources

Facebook

Twitter

Patreon

RESOURCES

The hand-made tabletop map of the main structure of Golemoro's magnificent mansion. I'd actually used a combination of pen and ink wash to create this map, and then covered the undiscovered sections with post-it notes which get removed as the characters explore.

 

Golemoro's with labels of the sections of the mansion that were explored by the end of S01E04

Welcome to the Blackspire RPG Campaign Actual-Play Podcast… a dark, baroque, postmodern love letter to Dungeons and Dragons.

Blackspire is an ongoing sci-fantasy epic told through the lens of a Dungeons & Dragons game and set in an original world of dark, baroque glory!

The episode was written, produced, and edited by Robert Randle and played by members of the Baltimore Role-Players Unite Weekly (or B.R.U.W. Crew for short).

Comedian Jim Meyer played BISHAMONTEN. Be sure to check Jim out on his other actual-play podcast: Laughfinder, or visit his website the Jim Meyer Experience.com for information concerning his upcoming appearances.

All music and foley content used in this program has been made available for use under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License… but extra special thanks is due to Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech, David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com, Jingle Punks, Audionautix, MK2, Silent Partner, the various talented composers at Media Right Productions, and the many inspired folks over at ZapSplat.com and Freesound.org.

SOUND CREDITS

Music

(Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech

Gnarled_Situation (Introduction)

Dopplerette

Vulcan

The Forest and the Trees

Eastminster

Sneaky Snitch

Flighty Theme (Outro)

Media Right Productions:

Doug Maxwell

Renaissance_Castle

xserra

chinese-orchestra-1

David Fesliyan at FesliyanStudios.com

Dark Hero (Outro)

SFX

(Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

MK2

Hero_Theme_Sting (Introduction)

Media Right Productions:

Max Surla

Day_of_Recon_Sting (Introduction)

Doug Maxwell