The Hired Swords

It's hard to believe there aren't eyes in the darkness. Watching from the Shadows. Waiting for the Hired Swords to let down their guard.. They're not ready. Are you? -This show is created using Zencastr, an all-in-one podcast production suite! We love it and we know you will too. To try Zencastr today, visit https://zen.ai/thehiredswords for 30% off and a 14-day free trial of the Professional leve...

After a night of challenges and mystery, the Swords continue on their journey.. Unfortunate for them, they're walking directly into the rising darkness.  -This show is created using Zencastr, an all-in-one podcast production suite! We love it and we know you will too. To try Zencastr today, visit https://zen.ai/thehiredswords for 30% off and a 14-day free trial of the Professional level that...

Gods, Gals, Guides and Glory.. This episode has it all.. Follow the Swords as they experience one of the largest Lore Drops they've experienced to date. -This show is created using Zencastr, an all-in-one podcast production suite! We love it and we know you will too. To try Zencastr today, visit https://zen.ai/thehiredswords for 30% off and a 14-day free trial of the Professional level that we use...

I can't accept this. We've found no reason that so many lives were lost in this place. We scraped by yet another fight that could have expired Gwen.. It could have taken us all. So why here? There can't just be nothing. There has to be more than a cruel joke or is this really just a cave many swords were sent to as a means of execution.  -This show is created using Zencastr, an all-in-one pod...

Combating vines and poisonous spores isn't the dream one imagines when setting out to find their long-lost father. Hoping for a long-awaited reunion.. How did we end up here, mixed up in all this...? And how will we get out? -This show is created using Zencastr, an all-in-one podcast production suite! We love it and we know you will too. To try Zencastr today, visit https://zen.ai/thehiredswords f...

Down in the dark, dank cave of Lonely Hill lives the Mother of Spores. She knows your thoughts. She hears your dreams.    "There must be no more She."

The Swords find themselves in this abandoned waystation. Filled with Mushroom Creatures and an air filled with thought-broadcasting spores. If whatever monsters await the Swords down below don't kill them, they might just be at each other's throat soon enough. 

Don't think.. Don't think.. Don't think.. Don't think.. Don't think.. Don't think.. Don't think.. Don't think.. 

Following her instincts and voices from Dale, Gwen dives deeper into this mysterious cavern. A cave full of illusory magics and expired adventurers.. Hope the Swords brought their spelunking gear.. 

The Swords finally made time to rest in this abandoned camp, trying to ignore the darkness just beyond the trees that always watches and waits for the right moment.. That moment could just be your very next.. 

Hot on the trail of earlier adventurers, Gwen leads the swords to an abandoned camp. Hopefully, the things found here are enough to reveal the truth behind these happenings in the north.

Left in the wake of the argument, Joxxer and Krigs make camp and wait for the hopeful return of their friends. Passing the time is all they can do for now.. Have *You* heard of 52 pickup?

Long is the road and painful is the journey. There's only so long one can stand before the toll must be paid. 

With visions swirling through the mind of Gwen, our Swords must carry on. What were these visions? What was this dream?

It's strange how easy it is to find even more reasons to keep fighting when it would just be so easy to be let to exist. To not spend so much time and energy on "fixing" this world. But I see my friends, and I want the world to be a bit brighter for them.. and I see these goblins.. they deserve to be able to thrive.. I'm getting oh so very tired after all these years with no end to the madnes...

Our Swords go Shopping.. or.. Stealing? You decide!

The fragility of life is something I think we try to forget. At least I know I do.. If I remembered how easy all of this can be taken away, would I fight? Would I be able to protect those dear to me? No.. No that can't be it.. We must remember. We must fight. Because we may not have tomorrow. I will fight for the weak, I will fight for love, and I will fight for you.. Until my last breath. 

... one Final Saving Throw.

Stirring interrupting the silence of the night. Don't look now but we have unwelcome visitors..

As the Sun Sets on the Festivities in this Goblin Village, the Swords make sense of the secrets found and the stories told by the Goblin Elders..

There are memories that can feel so real.. You question your own sanity.. Thoughts that plague your mind so intensely that you believe the lies your eyes and ears tell you in the pale moonlight. Rest easy, Swords. Enjoy your festivities.. Have your night to shed the cares of the world. 

As the Swords travel north, they're met with a familiar face. Hopefully, past transgressions can be overlooked and left back in Wildhill. This could also be a great opportunity to gauge what the landscape is they will be walking into in the near future. 

Welcome Hirelings, to Season 2. We recommend Listening to Letters To Home for a Season 1 Recap before proceeding.    With Wildhill fallen and stood on the backs of new leadership, our swords do their part to bolster the foundations of Wildhill to be as successful and honorable as it can be. They know they must move on, for now, for there are more evils that they must face responsible for...

With the events that took place in Wildhill and beyond, our Swords take a moment to remember where they've been and how far they've come. In Letters To Home, you will find the thoughts and recollections of the party, as well as a Key member of Wildhill. 

Hosted by @strrbuck, our cast and DM answer all your questions about Season One and all the juicy details leading up to Season 2!