Session 11 · Runtime 1:05:40 · Subscribe to the podcast
It turns out everyone was at the canapé party — all of us, eating a hostile noblewoman’s hors d’oeuvres while Drew’s invisible voice yelled fire at a crowd that declined to panic. In a quiet corner, the man filed under “appendage” tells Sirius a story — two brothers, a rotten apple, the Reformation Center — and ends it with the line of the season: “There’s only one devil in Barovia, and you are flashing his writ.” Back at the inn: Ireena has a job, the wine is half water, and a woman with feathers in her hair has been watching us sleep since the village of Barovia — “I can stab things.” Morning brings Izek and a lesson in civic epistemology (“There are no undead in Vallaki. You literally can’t bring evidence, because it’s impossible”), a deadline with our priest as the collateral, and a heavy chest from the bard with five words on a rolled note: hunt well those who hunt. So we go to finish the coffin problem, and learn what was actually in the coffins. Four go out the windows. One goes for Lily’s throat. And by the time the screaming starts, the town is burning, an angel is telling a mob whose servants did this, and Father Lucian is standing on his own altar holding back the dead with nothing but faith. Roll initiative. Stay past the credits.
Chapters
| 00:00 | Cold Open |
| 01:34 | Fire in a Crowded Party |
| 04:05 | Only One Devil in Barovia |
| 08:41 | The Active Part |
| 12:23 | A Quick Win |
| 13:33 | Status Report |
| 18:10 | Hunt Well Those Who Hunt |
| 21:18 | Thirty Coffins, No Paperwork |
| 26:04 | Six Crates |
| 43:55 | Vampires! Vampires! |
| 55:23 | The Church of St. Andral |
| 1:03:33 | Next Time |
| 1:04:48 | Stinger |
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