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It's our 100th episode! To celebrate, we answer questions from our wonderful listeners in our very first mailbag episode. Get ready for some sweet behind the scenes insights, hints at future developments, and answers directly from the characters in addition to the players. Thank you all so much for listening. We're looking forward to making it to episode 200 with y'all, and beyond! :) Adam brings...

The party faces down a brightly lit room. Lucky for them, blinding light has never, ever, EVER been a sign that something bad was about to happen. Ever. Especially when there's magic crystal cores involved. It'll be fine, and definitely no one will get hurt at all. Aracyne stars in a facial cleanser commercial. Vons asks an important question. Grickx encounters a big red button. Wealthy thinks som...

The party starts their delve into the deepest maintenance tunnels to try and recover hazardous-environment suits. There they encounter their natural predator: a ledge. How will they best it this time? Will there be rope? Will there be...rope MATH? Grickx finds help in chaos. Aracyne reties a knot. Vons supervises. Wealthy pulls off an amazing trick. Please note that this is *not* coming out before...

The party gathers allies to go to the ground, comes up with more of a plan, and even asks for advice. They'll need every advantage they can get to survive this, and they plan on doing it right. Grickx plays darts. Wealthy comes face-to-face with a wolf. Vons has a stiff drink. Aracyne doesn't know why she likes someone. You have only a few days left to submit your letters for the 100th episode! Ma...

The party digs into what the ground's like before they head out, and explores options for (relatively) safe transportation. They also start looking into possible defenses against The Corruption, and maybe even researching a cure. Grickx goes to the archives. Wealthy thinks about the weather. Aracyne learns about fancy preppers. Vons is vindicated. Our 100th episode mailbag is drawing close! Submit...

The party's decided to go to the ground, so now it's time for them to do everything they can to make sure it's not a one way trip. Wacky wizards, building gear from scrap, and being threatened by a scary old man are but three of the challenges they'll need to face to get ready. Grickx gets a location marked on his map. Wealthy bravely asks for someone's contact info. Vons conducts a survey. Aracyn...

The party has some downtime and reviews their progress, picks at loose threads, and starts to make a good plan to do a normal chill thing that definitely isn't dangerous or scary at all. Crimes against god(s) are also considered. Grickx edges towards Terminator. Aracyne starts her invite list. Wealthy provides collateral. Vons won't take wiener for an answer. Shoutout to Jo Ladzinski, who's @LadzW...

It's our second Winter Solstice episode! Yay! On the longest night of the year, the party finds that the children of the Arx aren't getting their presents. So our heroes leap into action to save the Solstice, even if it means negotiating with their most hated enemies. For the children! Aracyne sings a little song. Vons is decked by boughs of holly. Grickx invents a terrible beer. Wealthy brings do...

The Maefynwes have their confrontation about Aracyne's adventuring and certain set of skills. Everyone else has to awkwardly overhear it in the next room. And then: long late-night chats! It's like a slumber party, except not at all like that. Wealthy uses her word of the day. Vons remembers to read his sign. Grickx pitches a business idea that scales well. Aracyne damages the finish. Reminder tha...

Sometimes you just want to have a nice day of research and then something comes along and ruins it. Deadlines, books being checked out, erroneous citations, someone fucking up on accident… There's all sorts of thrilling possibilities! Vons gets in the gravy. Wealthy's really out of it, man. Grickx delves into the secrets of the soul. Aracyne watches things fall apart. Check us out online! We're at...

During an apocalyptic storm the party turns to the true struggle: answering an unsolvable philosophical question being asked by a cold, calculating, terrifying patriarch. Honestly, they might rather be back outside. At least killing that shadowy giant bird was straightforward. Sort of. Maybe that's where the secret passage leads, if they're lucky. Grickx mismeasures. Wealthy gets carried. Vons goe...

The storm still rages outside and traps the party in the Maefynwe estate, a gilded cage if there ever was one. Full of treacherous snakes. Elf snakes? Snelfs? They'll have to play it cool and keep their wits about them as they bond with the elder Maefynwes and try to find out everything they can about their mysterious motives. Snacks and secrets must also be found. Snacks are important, and secret...

The party holes up at the Maefynwe estate as the storm howls outside and the lockdown continues. They might be stuck, but there's an investigation to do and with a little ingenuity they could crack the case and find Professor Jenkins. Or destroy a bunch of expensive stuff. Or both! Grickx is the host with the most. Wealthy turns on Find my Friends. Vons has a million-gold idea. Aracyne tries to fo...

Crammed into a small emergency bunker after barely escaping the storm with their lives, the party tries to figure out what to do next. Meanwhile, they search for more tolerable long-term shelter, and the lockdown drives them to get at each others' throats. Wealthy doesn't want to go, but she can't stay here. Vons has a stirring conversation. Grickx looks for a sublet. Aracyne gets punchy. Check us...

On the outside of the Arx during a howling storm, the party tries to take down an enormous bird-creature made of shadow that falls off of it like smoke as it threatens to shred the party to pieces. On top of that it already has Vons in its grip, Wealthy's having a little bleeding out trouble, and there's a bunch of civilians around. Because nothing can ever be easy, it seems. Aracyne picks up a fe...

It's time for our second annual Halloween special! We're old enough to have annual traditions now! Aaaaaaa! Wealthy wakes up. Things go downhill from there. Wealthy is trapped in a metal box. Wealthy is tied down. Wealthy is trapped in a metal box. Wealthy hears singing. Wealthy is trapped in a metal box. Wealthy doesn't know how she got there. Wealthy is trapped in a metal box. Wealthy is blinded...

The party risks life and limb as they try to find Grickx on the outside of the Arx during a storm. Through driving rain, harsh winds, and killer corrupted creatures, nothing will stop them from reaching their friend. Hopefully. Grickx taunts a bird. Vons gets a grip. Aracyne only has one knife. Wealthy drops something. Read 'The Most Dangerous Game' (1926) by Richard Connell. https://gutenberg.ca/...

The brewery opening is derailed! Grickx fights to get himself and his patrons back inside the Arx after lockdown while the rest of the party fights to get out of the locked down Arx to go find Grickx. They bring along enough NPCs to make the CK blush. We lose track of Gex, the hero of the story. Wealthy grapples with gravity. Aracyne is just a little tipsy. Grickx doubles down on dragons. Vons kee...

Note to new listeners: Hey, if you're new this is like the start of our Season 2, if we did seasons! This or the previous episode are solid jumping off points if you don't want to binge the archive. The previous episode would be the cold open and this would be the first scene of the season proper, if that helps you choose. We join the party at the brewery's grand opening! They're level 5 and nothi...

Note to new listeners: Hey, if you're new this is like the start of our Season 2, if we did seasons! This or the next episode are solid jumping off points if you don't want to binge the archive. This would be the cold open and the next episode would be the first scene of the season proper, if that helps you choose. We catch up on Vons's dreams during the time skip! It's all fluffy clouds and rainb...

We finish our time skip! The party goes and does their best to wrap up their long-term investigations as the clock runs down. Will Aracyne get her grandfather's trust? Will Vons get the brewery up and running? Will Grickx manage to keep his honeypot scheme going? Will Wealthy ever manage to actually kiss the girl she's dating? We roll piles of dice to find out! Vons lets two parts of his life meet...

We start our time skip as the party levels up to 5! They figure out what they're going to do with all that copious free time when they're not training their asses off. Breweries are built (finally), dating is failed at, and clandestine operations are continued. Turns out time management is the greatest adventure of all~ Don't worry, there's only two level up episodes this time. :D Aracyne spends t...

The party heads down to the Department of Investigations with their arrested, handsome, and/or unconscious rogues and tries to get some answers. What they find out rocks them to their core. Vons feels the gravity of the situation. Aracyne drops off a delivery. Grickx puts the pieces together. Wealthy struggles with setting priorities. Bartholomew commits to the bit. Check us out online! We're at h...

Aracyne and Grickx are pinned down as they attempt to get back to the city from Dr. Groves's lab. Are the approaching people friend or foe? And, more importantly, are they attractive??? Meanwhile, Vons and Wealthy have a slumber party. Wealthy doesn't consider jurisdiction. Aracyne's a chill bro. Grickx forgets all about opsec. Vons yawns. Check us out online! We're at https://primaryattribute.com...

The party investigates the whereabouts of one Professor Jenkins. They also try to recover the strange machine from Dr. Groves's lab. Shit's heavy, y'know? Grickx blows something up. Vons gives someone a discount. Aracyne gets a hug from a sucker. Wealthy finds vintage clothes. Check us out online! We're at https://primaryattribute.com/ Fun fact! Turns out you *can* make paper from mushrooms: https...