Minds Never Matter

CW: This episode discusses psychological torture, death, and hanging. In our eighteenth session, the party recovers from the Family Day incident by picking up the pieces of their friendships and the auditorium.  Cecily jumps into protective older sister mode and tends to her younger siblings following the explosion; Sartheleon starts to realize that Raven may have been telling the truth the w...

In our 17th session, the History Exhibition kicks off to celebrate Family Day. To nobody's surprise, Cecily's twin brothers interrupt the ceremonies with a special game show with the best of intentions. Meanwhile, Emilia begins to hear the voices of a bygone era call out to her; Sartheleon is ordered to do something that puts everyone in danger, and Pogo tries to figure out what he would do if Cec...

In session 16, Pogo and Cecily head back to campus after fending off the monster plant in the mall and catch up with Emilia and Sartheleon in just in time to attend the History department's assembly. After getting the opportunity to see some of these legendary artifacts in person, something strange happens as Emilia's body and mind begins to connect with a mysterious pair of gauntlets on display....

In the aftermath of the party's first ever house party, ACE's Family Day looms over our not-quite heroes as they prepare for the festivities. Cecily and Pogo, the glue that they are, invite the party (and their many friends) to their local-corporate-coffee chain for breakfast to catch up on everything that's happened since they made it back to Elona. Emilia and Frederic are once again on the outs...

The drinks are flowing and the beats are bumping... but something angsty is brewing at our Not-Quite-Heroes' first ever house party. In our 14th session, the party continue to try and fit in at one of ACE's first parties of the year with mixed success after being kicked out when they initially tried to get in with the cool kids. Cecily tries to make amends with the jock who kicked them out, Pogo s...

It's party time!  In our 13th session, the party are poking around the mall in a somewhat impromptu shopping episode! After messing around in the mall's armory (and Emilia losing her infinite money strategy) the party run into ACE'S cheerleading squad, who are making last minute preparations for the house party.  While Cecily, Sartheleon, and Pogo aren't formally invited to Cindy's exclu...

In our 12th session, Emilia and Cecily have an impromptu training session to spar, which causes Emilia to learn brand-new things about herself with ancient, ominous implications relating to her family history, and has Cecily questioning the well-being of those around her. Later, the party officially reconvene after everything that's happened to them and decide to embark on one of the biggest adven...

In our 11th session, the party finally make their return to Elona and catch-up on all the things they left behind when looking for Cook. Pogo finally scores his first date with Petra, and learns a brand-new wizarding trick in the process; Cecily settles in to make soup for everyone and finally makes it to the nurse's office on Juno's orders; and Sartheleon and Emilia patch things up and deepen the...

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 f...

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 Trut...

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...

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 lar...

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...

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 sweari...

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 h...

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 -- bu...

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...

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;...