Session 9 · Runtime 1:05:06 · Subscribe to the podcast
Milivoj breaks in a crowded hallway — he took the bones, for 300 gold and three missing boys, paid by a stranger with a hidden face and very clean shoes — and a paladin quoting liturgy about exactly how many hands a man needs is talked down to a deferred sentence. The Baron’s family crypt gives up a handful of custom nails; a reluctant headmistress names the abbot above Krezk as the only man in Barovia who might handle a demon in a box. Then dinner at Wachterhaus: a hostess who says the devil’s name freely and wants two men dead (“they just don’t know it”), a 50-gold commission, the name tested five times to an empty night — and a pet raven that reads as a fiend, overhears the least subtle covert conference in the history of espionage, and flies out of the house for good. Back at the Blue Water, Ireena stands on a stage for the first time in her life and sings a song she dreamed — two brothers, a stolen sun, a girl beneath the lake remade over and over — and upstairs, in a locked room, a letter from the Ravens of Barovia lies in the middle of the floor. In the morning, a smith glances at the party’s only evidence and names it on sight: “Oh. You’ve got Henrik’s nails.” Stay past the credits.
Chapters
| 00:00 | Cold Open |
| 02:20 | It’s Only Two Hands |
| 07:46 | Unfortunately, the Abbot |
| 12:44 | A Pocket Full of Nails |
| 17:24 | We’re All Equals Here |
| 24:14 | Worth More Than Fifty Gold |
| 27:31 | Something in Your Teeth |
| 33:44 | Just a Bird |
| 38:24 | Push the Doom |
| 42:28 | She Is Ready to Sing |
| 43:19 | Cut the Thread |
| 46:23 | I Think I Dreamed It |
| 50:50 | The Ravens of Barovia |
| 56:39 | Henrik’s Nails |
| 1:03:12 | Next Time |
| 1:04:28 | Stinger |
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