CW: This episode contains descriptions of torture directed at an NPC. Listener discretion is advised.

After the life-or-death battle against Mayor Merrian – who secretly worshiped the Old God Niaute – and his wood-golems-turned-villagers, Emilia heals Cecily after going down in battle, Sartheleon interrogates Jack to see if he knew the dark secrets lurking below the surface of the town, and Pogo finds a container filled with an endless amount of mayonnaise. In their search, our eccentric troupe confirms that Cook is, in fact, still missing. 

After returning to Elona to lick their wounds, Cecily goes to find the College’s onsite nurse to try and become stronger, Emilia visits a local blacksmith to get something for Sartheleon, Pogo does his best to make sure that everyone is safe, and Sartheleon tells his mysterious friend his “true” feelings toward the party.

Featuring...

Noah Bryan as your Dean of Magic

Anna Eliza as Violetta

Nick Tavanese as Sartheleon

Aaron Owens as Pogo

Taylor Murchie as Cecily

Gretter Naranjo-Leon as Calor

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In our ninth session, our Not-Quite-Heroes finally make it to dinner at Mayor Marion's manor along with the rest of the townsfolk in Etta. Sartheleon and Emilia sneak off to attempt a stealthy rendezvous, resulting in a major misunderstanding regarding the status of the relationship (and Emilia’s marriage). Attempting to salvage the night, Cecily tries to pull everyone into a game of “Zone of Truth or Dare”, but things take a dark twist after a series of questions about the villagers involvement with Cook’s disappearance takes a violent turn. 

Featuring...

Noah Bryan as your Dean of Magic

Anna Eliza as Violetta

Nick Tavanese as Sartheleon

Aaron Owens as Pogo

Taylor Murchie as Cecily

Gretter Naranjo-Leon as Calor

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After rescuing Sartheleon, the party finally commit to trying to figure why the townspeople in Etta are so weird, but our humble "heroes" might be the only real crazy people in the village. Going from store to store, the party start opening up about themselves thanks to the townspeople's weird interest in icebreaker questions that get a little too personal. The party may not have any leads on Cook's whereabouts, but they are uncovering a juicy love triangle brewing within the village.

Featuring...

Noah Bryan as your Dean of Magic

Anna Eliza as Violetta

Nick Tavanese as Sartheleon

Aaron Owens as Pogo

Taylor Murchie as Cecily

Gretter Naranjo-Leon as Calor

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Our Not-Quite-Heroes are finally back after taking a brief hiatus (being an adult is hard). After a wild night at the local tavern, the party realizes that the quaint, carb-heavy village of Etta veers into... uncanny territory. Cecily gets invited to a town lunch while meditating nude at sunrise, Emilia shows her true colors after convincing a man to destroy his own property, Sartheleon gets a large sum of money in a totally legal way, and Pogo learns how to be an upstanding member of nobility. Things take a turn for the worse when poking around the village for information turns into a race against the clock when everyone's favorite Soulknife gets himself trapped in a meat freezer.

Featuring...

Noah Bryan as your Dean of Magic

Anna Eliza as Violetta

Nick Tavanese as Sartheleon

Aaron Owens as Pogo

Taylor Murchie as Cecily

Gretter Naranjo-Leon as Calor

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After being rescued by a fiery new friend, the party set out into the heavily wooded region of Laxor to try and find out more information regarding their mysterious attacker. Cecily gets a clue as to what these mysterious adversaries wanted from her, Emilia's troubles with social cues despite her status as nobility become glaringly obvious, and we find out which members of the party can hold their drink. Plus, we get to see the motherly side of someone unexpected.

Featuring...

Noah Bryan as your Dean of Magic

Anna Eliza as Violetta

Nick Tavanese as Sartheleon

Aaron Owens as Pogo

Taylor Murchie as Cecily

Gretter Naranjo-Leon as Calor

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In our fifth sesion, the party decide to travel by train to Laxor to investigate the secret message (ransom note?) left behind at the scene of Cook's kidnapping after the party ran to Emilia's dorm room to hide from the authorities to complete their somewhat successful heist.

While hiding out in her dorm, they realize Frederic has become way less of a jerk than he was before after seemingly swearing an oath of his own. Whether the kidnappers, or Pogo, are more of a threat to society, however, has yet to be seen.

Featuring...

Noah Bryan as your Dean of Magic

Anna Eliza as Violetta

Nick Tavanese as Sartheleon

Aaron Owens as Pogo

Taylor Murchie as Cecily

Gretter Naranjo-Leon as Calor

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CW: This episode contains mentions of kidnapping. Listener discretion is advised.

In our fourth session, Cecily is nervous about her first date with Cook and drags the party to the off-campus coffee shop Moondollars to get questionable dating advice from everyone. A threat emerges when police sirens interrupt what should have been an easygoing day, and the party find out that one of the students has been kidnapped. The party pull their own version of a heist to try and find out more, but may have just made the rumors surrounding their bad behavior worse than they could have ever imagined after––allegedly––punching law enforcement.

Featuring...

Noah Bryan as your Dean of Magic

Anna Eliza as Violetta

Nick Tavanese as Sartheleon

Aaron Owens as Pogo

Taylor Murchie as Cecily

Gretter Naranjo-Leon as Calor

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CW: This episode contains mentions of branding and harm against one of the player characters. Listener discretion is advised.

In our third session, our party members finally start hitting crucial milestones that will begin defining who they'll become throughout their adventure. Sartheleon meets a mysterious woman that knows a little too much about him, Cecily manages to avoid killing someone -- but she does explode the Alchemy club's lab -- Pogo may actually have the potential to become a powerful wizard after all, and Emilia gets the surprise of a lifetime when she takes her official Oath as a Paladin.

Featuring...

Noah Bryan as your Dean of Magic

Anna Eliza as Violetta

Nick Tavanese as Sartheleon

Aaron Owens as Pogo

Taylor Murchie as Cecily

Gretter Naranjo-Leon as Calor

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In our second session, our party experiences campus life at ACE for the first time, and the unfortunate consequences of not declaring a melee attack as "non-lethal". After a confrontation with ACE's headmaster, the elusive Aasimar Juno Everheart, our adventurers experience their first day of classes.

From Pogo taking an interest in Elonian history and Sartheleon becoming invested in the locations of the many magic artefacts throughout Divitotum, Cecily being asked out by everyone's favorite baking Bugbear, Cook, to Emilia facing off against her estranged fiancé in the middle of a class presentation, each of our "heroes" start learning the hard truths of being a student at the adventuring college.

Featuring...

Noah Bryan as your Dean of Magic

Anna Eliza as Violetta

Nick Tavanese as Sartheleon

Aaron Owens as Pogo

Taylor Murchie as Cecily

Gretter Naranjo-Leon as Calor

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Welcome to the Minds Never Matter Podcast!

We are an actual play, narratively driven homebrew campaign that follows four budding adventurers as they take on their most perilous challenge yet -- being college students using Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.

In our first ever session, we get introduced to each of our party members: Emilia Victosolis, the Paladin noble with a not-so-heart of gold; Pogo Stardust, the hard-working Barbarian doing his best to become a Wizard; Cecily Belghriom, a bubbly Cleric with the same vibe as a homeschooled church fanatic; and Sartheleon Grey, the charmingly self-centered Rogue with more problems than his aim with a dagger as they're whisked away for Orientation Day at the Adventuring College of Elona -- the top university in Divitotum for preparing potential adventurers to join one of the many guilds that can be found in the world upon graduation.

As the party try to connect with each other for the first time despite their very obvious differences, they're given their first task as an official adventuring party: signing up for clubs and extracurriculars.

Featuring...

Noah Bryan as your Dean of Magic

Anna Eliza as Violetta

Nick Tavanese as Sartheleon

Aaron Owens as Pogo

Taylor Murchie as Cecily

Gretter Naranjo-Leon as Calor

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