Sagas of the Sunless Reach
Hydra Delta Blues

S2E28 - The Moon Shines On Everybody

Episode Notes

Content Warning for graphic violence and body horror

It seems useless at this point to be asking why? And they’re not even good investigative questions either.

Why do the Errols want to control Tarandaur? Spare me the greater good rhetoric, you’ve proven you’d just as soon control mindless sheep than lead people to prosperity. Endless food supply? Finally a chance at freedom, for your chosen handful?

Why did Hans and Nico want to become vampires? What reward was worth so great a risk? Why subject yourself to such a miserable way of life simply because you eke out the slightest advantage against the common man?

It’s a foolish and childish question. I can’t say I inherently believe in the good of any one individual as a general sense; I’ve been a hunter and an investigator long enough to know that people will do awful, petty things for their own advancement, even if it only earns them inches. It isn’t like the adventure serials where the bad guy always gets their comeuppance.

Why is this the future that the Errols want to promote? Why do I feel like none of them have an ounce of common sense, because all they have created is a breeding ground for dissent.
- From the investigation notes of Elżbieta

Cast:
Bitmap as Ksana the Spear
Cory as Apricus the Luminary
Jade as Orin Nāttsku
Mab as Elżbieta Wrona
Zachary as The Game Master

Produced by: Mab
Theme song: "Stray Not, And Be Safe" by Zachary Frederickson.
Sound effects: zapsplat and Freesound users richardemoore, dermotte, matucha, halleck, artninja. Webbfilmsuk, eminyildirim, julianmateo, and sounagix
Other music: Ovani Sound

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S2E29 - Hopelessly, Utterly Human

S2 Finale

Episode Notes

And with that, our time in the Delta draws to a close. There’s just enough time for us to catch our breath and regroup before we go our separate ways and tackle the next big thing.

Dragomir and I have reached a sort of impasse, I think. He wants to have a relationship with his daughter, and for a long time Daria had been that proxy. I still don't know if I want a relationship with my father, because I have made it this long without one. I was afraid, at first, to see what kind of man he would be. Then I was terrified once I learned who he was.

Him? I had thought, remembering that look in his eyes as he slaughtered a hydra or forced Cipru to hold a gun to his own head. This is the man my mother had loved? Still loves, in her own way.

Now, after working and fighting alongside him, I have come to understand him in another light. I won't say that he's a good man, but I can see how he thinks he is one — or at least not a bad one. I say that because I am not a good person in the same ways, and I can see familiar pieces of me in him. I can see the same sort of ache in him that I see in my mother when he talks to me.

He’s not interested in the greater good, but he wants to do right by me. I will give him that chance. I am not a little girl anymore, and he is not the selfless, heroic man I once thought he might be. But he wants to try, for me, for what we could have been if circumstances were different, and that’s enough.

Because if there’s one thing that I’ve learned from working with the Rams this past year, it’s that so long as you’re willing to try, and so long as you care, then that’s enough. There will always be someone there to help carry you the rest of the way.
- From the investigation notes of Elżbieta

Cast:
Bitmap as Ksana the Spear
Cory as Apricus the Luminary
Jade as Viidra Matei
Mab as Elżbieta Wrona
Zachary as The Game Master

Produced by: Mab
Theme song: "Stray Not, And Be Safe" by Zachary Frederickson.
Sound effects: zapsplat and Freesound users matucha, dermotte, julianmateo, and eminyildirim
Other music: Ovani Sound and Kevin MacLeod

Find us on Twitter at SunlessReach, Tumblr at SagasoftheSunlessReach, and Bluesky at SunlessReach. Don't forget to post about the show using #SunReach.

Follow all of Standing Stones' projects @stones_standing

Once, a hero killed a tyrant. Then, the sun went out. Two hundred years later, a motley group of maybe-heroes try to make a difference. Sagas of the Sunless Reach is a dark fantasy Actual Play podcast using Pathfinder 2nd Edition, set in the night-drenched land of Tarandaur.