Puns & Potions

The incessant beating of crystal and flesh has pulled our heroes to their first objective, or perhaps into their first trap. Have the hallowed halls been twisting and turning them to their inevitable end? Or are these four friends marching confidently through the dark to where fate will triumph?

Through trepidation the worried heroes of this sorrowful tale band together and run swiftly toward their first objective in this blackened stone citadel. Some may call it throwing caution to the wind, while others may simply believe they're running from their own fear. Will it catch up to them? Or are they running directly at it?

All roads, both marble and dirt, lead to darkened walls and shining towers. All paths, both hidden and celebrated, are traveled by willingness and dread. All avenues, both familiar and foreign, eventually come to a crossroads... or an end.

Our adventurers come to realize that the end has truly begun. Communing with both distant deities, and the nascent forces of nature, they woefully reach at as many final comforts as they can grasp. Will the presence of family, friends, and allies, be enough to overcome the dread of a forthcoming conclusion?

Grappling with a centuries old mystery coming to a potential close, our hopeful to-be-heroes contemplate the weight of forgetting. Whether it be in victory or collapse, what does it mean to witness the end without each other? Is it worth risking that fate simply to avoid the pain of separation?

Our party spends their next few anticipatory moments together in laughs, but unfortunately, worry doesn't seem to stay quite so far away. Faced constantly with the haunted past, and a dreadful future, how are they expected to live in the present? Left to wonder, is a forgotten picture only worth a thousand unspoken words?

Disclaimer: Due to a hardware malfunction, you may hear several dropped words or small pops. We did our best to mitigate this, and don't believe it to be a major disturbance to the content of the episode. The issue has been resolved, but as we record in batches, it may be present for a short period. Thank you for your patience.

In a strange show of clashing swords, a long harbored anger melts away into sadness. By the light of a silent fire, another deal is offered, and questions answered. What does this mysterious man of contradictions want with a once-lonely bard, and his newfound family?

Disclaimer: Due to a hardware malfunction, you may hear several dropped words or small pops. We did our best to mitigate this, and don't believe it to be a major disturbance to the content of the episode. The issue has been resolved, but as we record in batches, it may be present for a short period. Thank you for your patience.

The long-awaited descent from the mountain has finally begun, and the chilling winds cut through a thick tension in the party. With only one road downward, who will they be able to trust when they reach the bottom?

Disclaimer: Due to a hardware malfunction, you may hear several dropped words or small pops. We did our best to mitigate this, and don't believe it to be a major disturbance to the content of the episode. The issue has been resolved, but as we record in batches, it may be present for a short period. Thank you for your patience.

Before the battered and bruised but ever-hopeful heroes of Barovia can descend through the snowy mountain pass, they have one more heavy chain to break. Chaotic, complex, unseen, and unstable, can they follow their tattered thread of hope towards salvation?

The hands on the clock have halted for a moment, but its chimes, which reverberate in the blood-soaked amber chamber, ring an ominous tone. Reunions of both a darker and deeper nature shake our adventuring party to their core, but has their time in the temple really come to a close?