Tales from the Glass-Guarded World

Let's follow Aster Fortuna as he pursues Nondle the Nimble back into World 83! Nondle has a dangerous magical weapon--the Soul Sucker Mark I--and he has something unpleasant planned. Can Aster stop him? 

Why are we having a discussion episode here? If you've listened to episode 59, you should already have an idea. You definitely  should n't listen to this if you haven't heard episode 59!

Aster, Tara, and Paxton have made a deal with a devil, and if they can get Paxton to understand it, they should be able to carry it out, right? Then they can get that portal key and go find the wand fragment. Hopefully there won't be any big surprises in store. 

The adventurers from world 83 have begun to explore the Conjuration level, and have encountered a friendly devil named Yapka. Yapka offered to take them to his boss, Kremex, saying they might be able to help with a demon problem. Of course, the party knows nothing about demons or devils, so they happily agreed.  Having met Kremex, they might regret this.  Aster is still kind of freaked out. 

It's been a cakewalk so far, but now it starts to get weirder and more dangerous. We're starting to bring in some classic D&D lore, too.  Enjoy your favorite characters while you can, because some of them won't be around forever...

The heroes nearly wrap up their exploration of the Abjuration level--and even though they've found two wand fragments, they still haven't actually recovered them yet. Things are going to start getting really weird after this! The next few episodes are doozies. 

The party rushes to deal with Tara's incapacitation so that they can return to exploring the Abjuration floor.

After being thoroughly creeped out by a disembodied voice and an irritating maze, the party ventures out into the open sections of the Abjuration floor. It doesn't go well!

The party continues to explore the Abjuration level of the wizard research complex, and Aster begins to freak out a little bit. 

In which the DM forgets an important monster immunity but clobbers the party anyway. They finally make their way down to the second level down: Abjuration.

The party continues exploring the Administration floor, smashes through a puzzle when searching a bedroom, reads a dead man's journal, and reads through other peoples' mail. It's invasion of privacy all around! Hopefully no one will mind. 

The heroes continue to explore the underground complex, and begin to piece together what happened on this floor.  The next few episodes don't have much combat, but there are quite a few clues dropped here and there, so pay attention!

The party begins exploring the underground wizard complex, starting with Administration.  Also, Paxton lets the dogs out. 

The party prepares to take on its next adventure and tries to strike a bargain with an odd gnome. 

The party has finally ventured beyond the ruined fortress walls, and Season 2 starts to take shape: MEGADUNGEON!

In which our heroes fight some mimics and decide to finish investigating the area above ground. The shape of this season will finally start becoming clear in the the next couple episodes. 

The party finally looks around outside, but decides (to their DM's secret consternation) that it's more interesting indoors. So they look around the Hall of Scholars some more, find a very old note, and investigate a secret room. 

The party gets an alarming update from Eppalima, and returns to the building containing their own world in search of the monster that has killed some of the refugees. 

As they explore the area around their glass world, the party encounters weirder and weirder stuff. Now they've run into a dead guy who's acting like he knows Paxton--but he's calling him Kwiyeh. Also, they still haven't taken that long rest in a safe place so that they can level up!

In which the party further explores their immediate area, and opens a securely locked door to a potentially dangerous area...and leaves it open!

We're back with the first episode of Season 2! It jumps right in where we left off at the end of Season 1.  Be sure to visit tftggw.com and check out the artwork, or leave us a message! You can also email us at tftggw@gmail.com  or follow us on Twitter or on Facebook !

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We should be back in one or two weeks, if all goes according to plan. Here's a song that will be in an early Season 2 episode. I can't really play guitar, but with modern editing tools, I can sort of make it sound like I can. The drums aren't great, either, because the style switches around quite a bit, and the drums aren't ideal for all the different styles. Still, it was an interesting experimen...

This is another looping combat track. Before I figured out how to score an entire episode, I just wrote a track that I would loop over and over again for combat. It works fine, and it's less work than scoring the whole episode. It obviously gets repetitive, and the more interesting the song is, the more annoying that gets. Also, this is probably the second track I did with upgraded horn sounds. Th...

Here's the second of this week's character themes. This one is used to introduce "The Adventures of Aethelflaed" side episodes. It's supposed to sound bright and cheerful, and maybe even innocent. That's definitely part of Aethelflaed's character.  On the other hand, she is not reluctant to gut a person. I don't know if that makes her complex or just scary.