#308 – Fractal Spire – The Royal Guard, Pt. 9

This episode carries content notes for animate mannequins, hand-to-hand combat, forced transformation, magical devastation, person in a comaThe team confronts the puppetmaster at the center of the “spa”. Cat and Vik both try to get things under control, but they keep spiraling. A second avatar manifests and purposes become crossed, resolving quite…dramatically.Fractal Spire is a joint production with Greg’s Twitch channel, playing Girl by Moonlight by Andrew Gillis (forthcoming from Evil Hat Productions). We are grateful for the sponsorship and support provided by Evil Hat in helping us make this show. Brandon O’Brien (@therisingtithes) GMs for the crew of Valerie Valdes (@valerievaldes), Iori Kusano (@iorikusano), Jeoi Gawain Lin (@thisismydasein), and our own Michael R. Underwood (@mikerunderwood).Special Offer! For a limited time (July and August 2022), you can get $10 off your first booked one-shot or campaign at StartPlayingGames to play ttrpgs online with professional game masters: https://startplaying.games/referral/62dc7cb1ccf4f0986c39e3b2If you like what you hear, please spread the word about the show! Become a subscriber to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/speculate to get even more content (including Fractal Spire extras, special episodes, access to behind-the-scenes material like GM streams and session zero recordings, and more!You can watch our completed series “Splendour and Shadow” and “The Case of the Cindered Seal” at Youtube.com/ArvanEleron. Watch our new Court of Blades series“Valloward” at https://bit.ly/3yh6BxhThis episode was edited by the amazing Rudy Basso (find him at https://twitter.com/RudyBasso). As always, thanks for listening!