Hey there, podcast listeners, welcome to the brand new season of Dragon Friends.

If you're joining us for the first time this episode, we're starting a new adventure,

so feel free to dive in here. You'll get the hang of it very soon, I'm sure.

And if you're up to date with the past two seasons, your favourite band of idiots are being taken from their familiar surroundings

in ancient Barovia to a strange new world.

Let's see how they fare.

The VIII. The very stones of Castle Ravenloft shake and groan around you, even as the vampire Straude von Zarevich shrieks his final curse.

As he collapses into dust and shadows,

you feel a surge of hope.

A curse has been lifted and an ancient wrong righted,

but it doesn't take long for that hope to turn sour.

The portal he has opened has grown unstable with his death.

Even as you watch it grows twofold,

threefold, sixfold in size, until it threatens to overwhelm the room.

Small objects are caught in its fell gravities

and fly through to God's know where soon you feel it's tugging even on you.

The portal becomes impossible. You're right?

I didn't say anything.

The portal becomes impossible to resist as you find yourself dragged one by one into its more.

Tiny bobby pancakes, the halfling rogue is the first to be overcome, flying into the swirling vortex and disappearing.

Frizo, the Warlock and Baston, the handsome man, follows soon after.

Baston still too proud even to scream.

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