Explore every episode of the podcast Rotgrind - Narrative Declaration
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| A Rotten Situation | 28 Jan 2022 | 03:43:10 | |
Six strangers. One Tyrant's Guild cell. Jailer Homel offers a multi-year rot or a pit fight against the Guild's aspirants. They punch their way free, take a shady inspection job at a condemned hanging apartment, and drop straight through the floor into something the city buried on purpose. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Under Dungeon | 11 Feb 2022 | 02:24:31 | |
Bruised, stranded, and one guide short, the party wakes in the temple that swallowed them. Rotten catwalks, a storeroom of cursed helmets, and a swarm of helmet-crabs — one of which Rahua names Jeremy and takes home. Nobody falls to their death. That counts as a win down here. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Splitting This Party | 18 Jun 2022 | 03:08:51 | |
Three ways into Derg Sandren House. Vali and Tanhauser front-door in stolen Guild colours, Oren slips a skylight as a rat, Rahua and Baldrick take the sewer with Crunch. Baldrick lectures on municipal disguise law. Rahua unionises the sewer workers. The worst-coordinated assault in Outset history steps off. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Enlightenment | 01 Jul 2022 | 04:20:06 | |
Baldrick bombs the basement garrison. Tanhauser and Vali bluff the upper floor. Glub Talk harvests bugs to patch a wound. Speaker improvises a beetle-rider mentor who gets canonised by PDF before the session ends. Down in the prison they free a girl called Gyrl — and learn Cardoza has been processing people into her hunt. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Aftermath | 17 Jul 2022 | 02:41:44 | |
Martinet Cardoza burns through a second form, then a third, before Rahua buries a thrown mace in her skull and she detonates into light. Vali drops into a rot-vision of black sludge and distant bagpipes, Glub Talk drifting past like a benediction. She wakes on fire in a fountain. The rot has a home now. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Concealment | 13 Aug 2022 | 02:57:26 | |
One assassinated martinet. One bribed caravan. The party vanishes into the Swamps of the Solitude, pinning revolutionary posters on every signpost they pass — until a fog rolls in stinking of wet fur, and six dank bears come through the mist. Baldrick meets a halfling named Picturn Squelchfoot. Everything gets worse from there. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Decision | 28 Aug 2022 | 02:39:23 | |
Zibulzap's trading post walks through the swamp on reptile legs. Vali converts to a crustacean god, Tannhauser crafts a functioning swamp-gas dirigible out of pig bladders, and a mercenary named Victrix reappears with a job. Three paths out. One blimp. The party takes all three and hopes the bladders hold. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Cube | 11 Sep 2022 | 02:07:36 | |
Thousand-year-old masterwork debris litters the swamp, leading somewhere no one wanted to go. An osseogrove — bone-rooted, red-leaved, patient — crits Oren for thirty-eight and starts squeezing. Past it: a silver cube half-buried in the mud, a Perfectite siege tower from the Fundamental Battlefield, leaking a floating particulum looking for orders. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Imperfect Perfection | 26 Sep 2022 | 02:52:06 | |
The cube is fifteen hundred years old and the towers used to fly. Tannhauser nails a dead tyrant's mask-essence to his armor and becomes a permanent glow-in-the-dark liability. At the perimeter, anarchite elementals float inside perfectite shells — and Rahua, offended on behalf of his imprisoned kin, charges one alone to duel for honor. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Echoes of the Past | 23 Oct 2022 | 02:30:55 | |
Inside the abandoned siege tower, a stone bust holds the memories of a military unit the swamp buried fifteen centuries ago. Tannhauser presses psychometry against the rock and a haunt lashes out mid-reading. Oren sniffs the stairwell and says the word nobody wanted tonight: dragon blood. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Pieces of Friendship Left Behind | 08 Nov 2022 | 02:43:56 | |
Second floor of the cube: blood-soaked testing rooms, an alchemist's notes left mid-experiment, decahedrons that shoot lightning through the walls. Picturn gets his feelings hurt. A glowing chest waits at the bottom of a murky pit, and Baldrick rigs a pulley off a table because nobody brought proper anchors. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Bowl Best Served Rotten | 26 Feb 2022 | 02:44:22 | |
A rune-puzzle that pays in frostbite and electrical burns. A ring of desiccated monks tending an eternal brazier. Visions that rearrange Tanhauser and Rahua from the inside out. Whatever's guarding the flame hasn't moved in a long time, and it's starting to notice. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| A Corrosive Vacation | 20 Nov 2022 | 02:56:45 | |
An acid lake. A ruined church. Beach umbrellas sized for fey. The party turns a wraith-haunted hazard zone into a spa day — bottled corrosive as souvenirs, candied bugs for everyone, Picturn drafted as pool boy. A psychometric feather reveals saucer fey stole a ring and watched a man dissolve. Rahua ends the day clubbing Oren over a foot massage. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The King the King | 04 Dec 2022 | 02:59:17 | |
The Saucer King dies by committee. A surviving fey regurgitates the stolen ring and crowns Oren monarch of a bird cult he never asked for. Tannhauser dreams of sketched-out men peeling his shadow-flesh off. Baldrick keeps blowing up the grove anyway. An oread named Tashti walks up asking about the explosions. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Precipice of Sorrow | 18 Dec 2022 | 03:00:03 | |
Through the fog-wall in a submerged church, Gorgamonger is waiting — rot-corrupted, breathing cold, the white dragon Oren has been chasing all season. A scroll saved since session two gets cracked open. Resist cold goes up in silence. Tannhauser ruins the moment asking about elemental allergies mid-eulogy. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Misty Eyes | 29 Jan 2023 | 02:27:53 | |
Gorgamonger is dead and Vali is worse. The rot has reached her eyes. Every mile deeper into the swamp costs something now — the party keeps walking because standing still has become its own kind of dying, and the fog won't let anyone look away from what they've become. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Think of Them | 13 Feb 2023 | 02:38:16 | |
Oren insists the dragon burns. Tannhauser shuts down mid-sentence. Baldrick finally says out loud that Vali's rot has turned to black lesions. A Zeskorin reality engine hands Rahua a vision of another caravan dying. Then Oren turns into a dinosaur, rust chickens come screaming out of the brush, and the mantra that carries the season is born. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Village | 26 Feb 2023 | 02:45:02 | |
Lightning strikes Vali twice on the road to the Twangfolk's Kaibu — Rahua yells at the sky until it backs down. A mischievous old man serves broth. A politely zombified medicine-woman bleeds off one tier of Vali's rot. Tannhauser wakes up furious he missed the reality engine, and then somebody mentions a three-mouthed toad god. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Mercenaries | 12 Mar 2023 | 02:46:35 | |
The A-team outsources. Enter Victrix the glaive-mercenary, Duodriller Guiltgrip the dwarven sniper, Tokata the fleshwarp bard, and Sir Braybarrow — an undead skeleton tyrant on a horse named Glue. Within ten minutes Victrix punches the King of Moths in the stomach. They are looking for a burned caravan. They are finding each other first. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Fiery Results | 27 Mar 2023 | 02:51:31 | |
Zoran is too sick to GM. Baldrick's player takes the chair, Thurston finally plays Picturn Squelchfoot for real, and the session threads rust chickens and MILF jokes into something load-bearing: a Children of the Blaze encampment at the edge of the map, and the quiet groundwork for the arson about to come. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Frog Eater | 23 Apr 2023 | 03:17:12 | |
Oren becomes an invisible frog with satchel charges strapped to his back, hopping under every bridge in a Children of the Blaze camp while the rest of the party sings a swamp cover of Snake Eater. Baldrick holds the detonator. Ash-weeping gnolls patrol above. It is, objectively, the most functional plan of the season. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| All Together Now | 07 May 2023 | 02:59:04 | |
The Blaze camp burns. A talking ash-simulacrum of Mr. Lort threatens Outset and Baldrick's home and vanishes. The party splits — half limping home, half marching to a three-mouthed toad god named Ribius whose third mouth is in torpor. The cure for Vali starts with waking it up. The session ends with a tentacle dragging Oren under. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Times That Bind | 11 Mar 2022 | 03:20:48 | |
The Rotten Drowned Devoted goes down, Baldrick bombs a staircase back to daylight, and Crunch — impossibly — is still breathing. Cousin Ginebrin says the rot hasn't taken yet and points them at a halfling called the Fly Merchant. Then pig spiders erupt out of Crunch's forge floor. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Meet the Family | 21 May 2023 | 03:08:16 | |
Victrix pole-vaults forty feet with a glaive to stab a tentacle. Rahua tries to Tame Animal it and fails. Past the fight, the Grotto bends into the Squelchfoot farm — Radaman raiders, a dying mother's speech about destiny, a rot that's been eating Picturn from the inside since episode one. The halfling cracks. Rotdadimus rises. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Rotdadimus | 06 Jun 2023 | 01:33:21 | |
A gargantuan rot-crustacean waits on the roof of a farm that shouldn't exist. Oren reach-heals from cover. Rahua cones light across the shingles. Tannhauser stacks mirror images and lines up one decisive electric strike. The creature drops. Picturn is still in there. The fight isn't actually over. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Song of Squelchfoot | 17 Jun 2023 | 02:04:20 | |
The shell goes still and Picturn's soul coalesces at a campfire he thinks is real. He doesn't know he's dying. He asks, finally, to hear each of their stories — so the party takes turns with truths they've been carrying all season. Vali talks about her airship-captain mother first. Nobody corrects him. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| A Golden Deal | 17 Jul 2023 | 03:34:59 | |
A gold-plated skeleton drops a platinum coin at their door, and suddenly the party is standing before Chamberlain Anathian — a man with skin like a minted coin, offering an airship for a little quiet snooping. The job ends on a gallows, looking up at the rat-folk noble they freed last season. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| He is the One Who Did This | 07 Aug 2023 | 02:36:40 | |
Their crimes. Someone else's neck. A gold-armored Infilium is about to hang rat-folk noble Stewart Medium as the scapegoat when the swamp-born elemental amalgamate crashes the execution and shreds the Tyrant's Guild into kindling. The rescue comes with a gilded invitation — the Decklands want them at the soiree. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| A Party to Remember | 27 Aug 2023 | 03:05:02 | |
Black tie. Rot-cures. A sausage mogul with opinions. The crew works the Deckland salon one poisoned smile at a time, flipping a huckster gnome and posing as Golgothan brass to lift an office address. Then Oran looks up at the balcony and finds the red-caped Hegemon who once ran them down in a chainsaw car. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Party Went So Wrong | 17 Sep 2023 | 02:47:35 | |
One belladonna cocktail. Wrong hand. A tongueless Kwan-shiri assassin draws steel across the ballroom as Vena's plan unravels around Lagertia's lips. Then the Hegemon himself saunters in, flicks gold at their dead, calls the whole revolution pathetic — and leaves them staring at a trail that runs through a dying grandfather nobody mentioned. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Gnome Strangler | 02 Oct 2023 | 02:08:26 | |
Ponkle-Kompd, huckster gnome of the Medic's Guild, dangles upside-down from a druid's branch and spills everything: tooth-stealing fey, blackmail, the whole rot-cure lie propping up Sandal Deckland. They stash him in a safehouse and pin Sacristy Manor as the target. Then, late that night, a floorboard squeaks at the front door. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Party at Baldric's House | 24 Oct 2023 | 03:23:47 | |
Invisible. Silent. Four-finger throat strikes out of thin air. Kwan-shiri monks teleport into the People's Duplex and nearly kick Rahua's jaw clean off before round one ends. Poisoned, unconscious, bleeding through the hallways of their own home, the revolutionaries only live because Vena empties a pistol into the last assassin at point-blank range. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| A Manor of Speaking | 06 Nov 2023 | 02:12:48 | |
Flour for the invisible. Antidotes for the poisoned. A soul jammed into a rapier. The crew descends into Sacristy Manor — a noble estate sunk ninety feet beneath the Prince's Pilaster — where a helpful skeletal butler warns them about a fountain that kills. They cross it anyway. Four ice elementals rise from the water. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Fly Merchant | 25 Mar 2022 | 02:48:44 | |
Pig-spider corpses stuffed into the walls. Spider-fluid surgery on Tanhauser. Then Blotus — an emaciated halfling who sells contraband from nowhere and talks mostly to his cage of flies. New guns, a new crossbow, a shakedown at the architect's guild, and one heckling saucer-fey waiting outside the Cackling Jackass. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Establishing Bad Manors | 20 Nov 2023 | 02:33:24 | |
Baldric eats a fireball to open the door. A cursed portrait of Sandal melts seventy points off Tanhauser's face. A tongueless assassin begs for freedom, then chokes to death on a rot-grown tongue the instant he crosses the threshold. And an illusion wearing Stewart's body rips its own head off to whisper two words: "find Zale." Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Rotten Manors | 06 Dec 2023 | 02:23:30 | |
In the kitchen, a fey raccoon-prince named Raki is hacksawing a waiter in half. Rahua, also a king, negotiates a formal parking-lot duel at Mutton King. Deeper in, a stitched-flesh golem melts to alchemist's fire, Vena pirouettes onto her own rapier and impales a kidney, and a hallway of mocking portraits shows the party as wanted posters. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Mansion Expansion | 18 Dec 2023 | 02:57:08 | |
The house is bigger than it should be. A wing that wasn't there yesterday. A staircase that doubles back on a room nobody entered. Sacristy Manor keeps folding new corridors out of rot and memory, and the deeper the party goes, the less the architecture wants to let them leave. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Rot Mansion | 22 Jan 2024 | 03:24:47 | |
The walls have started weeping. Black sap in the wainscoting, mold blooming in the shape of faces, a smell that follows them between rooms. Whatever is wearing Sacristy Manor like a suit has stopped pretending to be a house. Somewhere below, the real master is very much still awake. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| It's No Shopping Manor | 12 Feb 2024 | 02:26:19 | |
Aeon stones. Armor runes. Pemmican energy treats for a newly hatched Gorgomunger. The crew retreats to Blotus the fly-merchant's stall to gear up — until Rahua talks Tanhauser into pickaxing Crunch's floorboards "for dirt" and finds a primal scrying crystal rooted in the foundations. Someone has been listening to every word in Baldric's house. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Rotten Delusions | 19 Feb 2024 | 02:15:04 | |
First they recruit Steward, a vitamin-dispensing service robot, into the revolution. Then they step through an archway into a rot-grown forest buried beneath the manor, where giggling fey sprites begin magnetically tearing the teeth out of Vena's skull. The trees part — and a fifty-foot crocodilian horror with a room-sized sack steps forward. Hello, Tooth Fairy. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Tooth Fairy | 01 Apr 2024 | 03:20:42 | |
It isn't one fairy. It's five. Five bile-spitting duplicates with giant gloved grab-hands and an aura that rips molars out mid-combat as persistent bleed. The crew grinds through it on healing mist-bombs and temporal spell-strikes, only to push past the corpse-sludge and find something impossible in the dark: an entire intact cathedral of the Black Papacy, buried under Outset. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Delvers | 15 Apr 2024 | 02:07:10 | |
Mallet-lady. Scythe grifter. A diver. A cowled organ harvester. The rival crew smashes through the wall claiming the cathedral as their find, just as a Transylvanian Deacon starts a Simon-Says game that literally unpersons Tanhauser for a misspelling. Rahua divines the whole complex is a screaming rot-infected stone brain. Elsewhere, Tanhauser opens a door and falls onto an airship. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Grandfather | 29 Apr 2024 | 02:45:00 | |
Cademan Deckland isn't a man anymore. He's a titanic rot-infested stone face screaming from a cathedral wall, a pulsing brain behind it blasting the party with psychic dubstep. Oran drops. Tanhauser flickers between reality and a ghost-crewed airship. Vena ends it with a sixty-nine-damage plunging crit that shatters the illusion whole. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Man Child | 16 May 2024 | 02:20:13 | |
The real Sandal Deckland was never the villain — just a pampered boy locked in a cage. The crew hauls him out into an Outset already on fire: coordinated riots, a pillar of flame over the Smoldering City, Vena's stolen airship fleeing toward a storm. Someone has stripped Tanhauser's pamphlets of their principles and weaponized the mob. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| We Hate Taverns | 09 Apr 2022 | 03:15:41 | |
Tanhauser kicks in the Cackling Jackass door. Vali orders rum. Rahua, ambushed outside by a flock of owl-faced fey, solves the problem by running through the wall. Oren goes bear, Baldrick lights a woman on fire, and the Children of the Blaze fall back upstairs toward their boss, Mr. Allort. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Revolution | 27 May 2024 | 02:40:35 | |
Victrix smuggles a package to the Kaibu. An airship drops into a storm. Underground, Dita and Bjarna move in the dark. In a burning Outset the party cuts down Mr. Ilort's rot-tormented former gang and climbs to the base of the pillar of flame itself — where tiny, ridiculous Ilort sheds his skin and reveals himself as the avatar of Uncle Blaze, god of fire. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Uncle Blaze | 18 Jun 2024 | 03:12:42 | |
Divine immolation. Ash-simulacra. A pillar of flame converting the Smoldering City into an arena. The party trades blows with Uncle Blaze's avatar and cannot finish the fight — and the amalgamate corners them on the way out. Then Gorgomunger speaks for the first time, a full and formal farewell, and walks alone into the fire to hold it off. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Recollections | 09 Jul 2024 | 02:43:43 | |
Broken. Destiny-less. Crawling home through the solitude swamps with the knowledge that Marlene played them from the start and the old powers have been sealed away. They trade quiet speeches — Rahua's constellations, Vena's pirate future, Baldric wanting only his bed — and fireflies drift through the reeds around them. Some of those lights don't flicker. Something is watching. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Running from the Law | 23 Apr 2022 | 02:43:09 | |
Mr. Allort is a simulacrum. The alchemist upstairs is Dr. Crim, and her homunculus is named Glub Talk. The gargoyle scholar they've been hunting has been roosting here the whole time. Downstairs, Homel tips Baldrick that Martinet Cardoza has gone strange — just as a Guild patrol closes the block. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Rehua Special | 08 May 2022 | 03:12:08 | |
Rahua gets press-ganged into waitering at Granny Sweet's and serves a 600-pound fly-proboscis horror named Bremblo a cabbage "avocado casserole." Bremblo detonates into a centipede-teleport fever dream. Outside, the Tyrant's Guild outriders hit the street, and Rahua has to sprint back to a fight already bleeding. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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