Alternate Alternate Title: How Much Canon Can We Fit Into One Episode?
In this week's episode, the party has a moment to recuperate after last episode's decisive battle, and Akabar Bel Akash exposits for a little while about the origin of their tattoos (for more info, read Azure Bonds by Jeff Grubb and Kate Novak!). After that, Ildana takes the opportunity to sleuth around the now-empty village- until an unexpected ally makes themselves known. This ally may be able to deliver the party directly to their destination- but is that what they truly want? Listen and find out!
This episode was both fun and not fun to make, because a large part of it involves just kind of... giving the PCs a lot of information that they may or may not care about. I think it turned out well in the end, but I feel like there may have been better ways of doing it; though I also think there may have been way, way worse ways of doing it too. (Fun fact: one of the players made it known to me that they were NOT too pleased with how this episode shook out. As the weeks go on, see if you can figure out which player!) But this was a necessary part of the story, especially for the podcast audience, so in the end I'm happy with the result. I wish I could have done a bit more with characters like Akabar and Silk (another fun fact: Silk is completely absent in the printed module, I cribbed her involvement from a cameo she has in the computer game) but hey, there's only so many hours in the day and there's more story to get to. Onward and upward!
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Chapter 2, Episode 5: The Enemy of My Enemy
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