Welcome to the second installment of Wonderful World of Darklords' Small Screen Summer! In this episode, we're looking at the darklord who introduced a whole generation of fresh-faced little Disney XD viewers to cosmic horror. Bill Cipher is Baby's First Elder God and Gravity Falls is a phenomenal setting for occult investigation, but can a character as alien and amoral as Bill ever meet our four elements of darklord? (Spoilers: yes, but only with some help from Book of Bill. No, you don't have to read Book of Bill in order to understand the episode; we'll summarize it for you.) Topics discussed include:

• Preserving the feel of Gravity Falls, a town where everyone is deep in denial about the existence of the supernatural, in a world where magic is objectively real;
• Potential mysteries for your PCs to solve, since they probably already know what's hidden in the basement of the Mystery Shack;
• Tips for giving monsters a Gravity Falls spin, since brain-eating zombie clots feel a little too grim but bride-hungry gnome clots are an established part of the setting;
• The 2e/3e darklord whose powers and plans map almost perfectly to Bill's (although his name is confusingly close to that of a major Gravity Falls character, which isn't helpful for podcasting clarity);
• and more!

The full write-up for Gravity Falls is available on DM's Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/528280/Gravity-Fell-A-Ravenloft-Domain-of-Dread?affiliate_id=241770

The Shadow Rift adventure is also available on DM's Guild, although not for free: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/17482/The-Shadow-Rift-2e

Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

5:18 The Lord

39:42 The Land

1:11:52 Dread Possibilities

1:40:21 Parting Thoughts 

2:00:38 D’s Parting Thoughts

2:07:08 Episode 37 Watchlist

Content Advisory for D's Journal (details on content advisories can be found on Facebook, Tumblr, and Patreon)

Memory modification (major), gaslighting (major)

All music recordings are in the public domain (mark 1.0) and are licensed through https://musopen.org:

Chopin Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No.1 (main theme), performed by Eduardo Vinuela

Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 12 in C Minor: “Ocean” (darklord theme), performed by Edward Neeman

Chopin Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (land theme), performed by Luke Faulkner

Rachmaninoff Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3 - 2. Prélude in C sharp minor (Dread Possibilities), performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Chopin Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (parting thoughts), performed by Luke Faulkner

Dialog for Yensid was written by Azalin Rex himself: http://www.tumblr.com/darklordazalin

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