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S3 The Story So Far: Eps 21-30 · Tale of The Manticore, a Dark Fantasy Dungeons & Dragons Audiodrama

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  Speaker 1: Tale of the Manticor bonus material the story so far
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  Speaker 1: chapters twenty one through thirty. The following a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: of audio is not an episode of Tale of the Manticor,
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  Speaker 1: and it will not take the place of a real episode.
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  Speaker 1: It's just bonus content. A summary of the last ten
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  Speaker 1: chapters told in the shortest time possible. Let's get started.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty one begins with Queen Anaya's offer sacrifice fair
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  Speaker 1: one to her and she will let the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the companions go free. By way of answer, Achilleus sends
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  Speaker 1: a jarring psychic blast with her last message spell, and
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  Speaker 1: with that the fight is on and the Queen's animated
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  Speaker 1: skeletal warriors rush to attack. After a string of critical
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  Speaker 1: failures and hits, the pieces vanquished the enemy and the
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  Speaker 1: Queen retreats to the nether world after tender who's gone
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  Speaker 1: awful to retrieve a new torch, considers investigating part of
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  Speaker 1: the unexplored sessions of the crypt alone. The next chapter
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  Speaker 1: follows Tendier on his solo exploration. Eventually he finds the
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  Speaker 1: chamber that features two suits of armour, both rusted and useless.
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  Speaker 1: There is also an iron bound chest with no lock.
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  Speaker 1: While he's looking at that, a supernatural breeze passes through
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  Speaker 1: the room, and the sword, held in the gauntleted hands
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  Speaker 1: of one of the suits of armour, becomes shining and new,
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  Speaker 1: as though by magic. Tender examine the sword more closely
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  Speaker 1: and finally dares to take it. He knows he should leave,
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  Speaker 1: but his curiosity is still strong. Perhaps he will quickly
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  Speaker 1: examine the chest before he goes. Chapter twenty three begins
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  Speaker 1: with Tenio's decision to leave the chest alone and return
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  Speaker 1: to the others. While he's away, Achille and Court examine
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  Speaker 1: the wand taken from the Royal Magus's slab, and Fairwyn
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  Speaker 1: performs his first ever miracle of healing on court. When
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  Speaker 1: Tender returns in reports, the others decide not to investigate
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  Speaker 1: the crypt and its contents any further. Instead, they leave
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  Speaker 1: it altogether. In the evening, as they shelter in Fawin's chapel,
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  Speaker 1: the clearerg offers to join the party. In the next chapter,
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  Speaker 1: with Frewind now part of their number, the party leaves
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  Speaker 1: the land of the kym Wors, heading north for over
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  Speaker 1: two days. Nothing interrupts their travels. On the evening of
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  Speaker 1: the third day away from the Kymoor Ruins, the companions
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  Speaker 1: round a hillock and are shocked to see an iron
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  Speaker 1: tower in the distance not too far away. In chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, Achillea runs for the iron tower, but by
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  Speaker 1: the time she gets there, it has once again vanished.
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  Speaker 1: She's distraught, but her friends off for their support, and
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  Speaker 1: Duranting points out that her quest remains the same, and
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  Speaker 1: so the journey continues north in search of the historian
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  Speaker 1: odok Zygog. The next day, at around sunset, the companions
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  Speaker 1: here howling close by and then practically collide with a
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  Speaker 1: vicious battle between dire wolves and blink Dogs. The party
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  Speaker 1: steps in on the side of the blink dogs and
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  Speaker 1: say two of them, but Tenier almost dies in the effort.
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  Speaker 1: In the next chapter, after the two surviving blink Dogs
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  Speaker 1: abruptly vanish during any levels are harsh reprimand to Achilia
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  Speaker 1: for having forced everyone into the fight, pointing out how
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  Speaker 1: close his brother came to death as a result of
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  Speaker 1: her rashness. The half elf admits her fault and apologizes,
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  Speaker 1: her words smooth over the tense situation, and the companion's
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  Speaker 1: journey north continues all that evening and into the next
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  Speaker 1: day without further incident. By now food is becoming a
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  Speaker 1: growing concern once again. The episode ends with a flashback
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  Speaker 1: describing the elf maiden Eulaloon's very unfortunate encounter with the
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  Speaker 1: group of Sprites when she accidentally trespasses in their land,
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  Speaker 1: they threaten her with curses. Things get worse when Ulaloon
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  Speaker 1: accidentally kills their leader and then succumbs to the other
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  Speaker 1: fairies drug tips peers. In chapter twenty seven, the pieces
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  Speaker 1: manage to hunt some food, but as the miles go by,
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  Speaker 1: water supplies grow short. The companions have just finished the
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  Speaker 1: last to theirs when something unexpected happens in a forest.
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  Speaker 1: They come across a clearing with a fallen log a
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  Speaker 1: top which is a broken arrow. Dernni recognizes it right
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  Speaker 1: away as an alvin piecetoken. When he picks it up,
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  Speaker 1: an unknown Elf walks into the clearing from the other side.
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  Speaker 1: He introduces himself as Colin, and warning the companions that
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  Speaker 1: he has two dozen archers hidden in the trees, proceeds
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  Speaker 1: to question de Renny. Before long, they meet a second Delf. Zotope,
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  Speaker 1: is Colin's sister and the only other female of her
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  Speaker 1: race that Achilia has ever seen. When the pair question Ferwynd,
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  Speaker 1: asking if he comes from a place called Duroth, Achilia
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  Speaker 1: suddenly remembers something. The next chapter picks up in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the conversation with Colin and Tootope. They give
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  Speaker 1: the party directions to Duroth, which Achilia believes to be
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  Speaker 1: the most likely place to find odok Zygog. It is
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  Speaker 1: a little off course, but not so far off Valkene's
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  Speaker 1: directions to be obviously wrong. Calin ands Tope also provide
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  Speaker 1: directions to a nearby lake and some provisions for taking
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  Speaker 1: their leave. The lake turns out to be a place
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  Speaker 1: of beauty. While there, Cord undergoes another set of changes
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  Speaker 1: as he slowly evolves into his potential. The companions leave
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  Speaker 1: the next morning and for two days journey to the northwest.
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  Speaker 1: On the morning of the next day, they discover something.
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  Speaker 1: In chapter twenty nine, the companions find the village of Duroth.
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  Speaker 1: It's a place that's built into the side of a hill,
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  Speaker 1: with a number of outbuildings constructed in a basin at
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  Speaker 1: its foot. Ominously, the place is ringed with stake skeletons.
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  Speaker 1: When the party passes this border and lays eyes on
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  Speaker 1: the village itself, they can see that some kind of
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  Speaker 1: disaster has occurred there. Every building is broken and there
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  Speaker 1: is no sign of life. The companions walk through a
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  Speaker 1: scene of desolation as they go to the broken stairs
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  Speaker 1: to the lowest cave opening. Next, in a flashback, we
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  Speaker 1: learn what happened to Duroth seven years before the events
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  Speaker 1: of achilles Quest. The community was attacked by some kind
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  Speaker 1: of giant humanoid monster. The derothe eliter and rector, a
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  Speaker 1: man named by, does his best to get his people
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  Speaker 1: to safety, but it is still a massacre. In the
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  Speaker 1: final chapter of this round up, chapter thirty, we witness
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  Speaker 1: Rector Bium's attempts to maintain order. Their only hope, now
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  Speaker 1: he knows, is to evacuate everyone to the inner caves,
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  Speaker 1: where the monster cannot reach them. This immediately presents a
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  Speaker 1: second problem. There are no other exits to the cave
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  Speaker 1: system they call home, and so they are trapped. Between
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  Speaker 1: flashes of the past, we followed the explorations of the
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  Speaker 1: player characters, who investigate the first two rooms of the
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  Speaker 1: cave complex discover a skeleton bound to a chair in
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  Speaker 1: one room, and they continue until they're forced to stop
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  Speaker 1: in a large cavern filled with corpses covered in hairy
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  Speaker 1: yellow mold. In a final flashback scene, Biom has a
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  Speaker 1: terrible argument with the curate Amsen, who wishes to make
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  Speaker 1: a break for it everyone all at once, but Biome refuses.
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  Speaker 1: He's not willing to risk losing the second scroll of Galandal.
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  Speaker 1: The dispute ends with violence when the curate abruptly attacks
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  Speaker 1: his le