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One Shot

386. Blades in the Dark Part 2

One Shot

Dillin Apelyan

Games, Leisure, Comedy

4.8908 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Behind the flaking gold lettering of the window to "Lavarift's Gifts" acolytes of The Order of the Jubilant Slide- the cult of Vashraliff prepare to answer a sacred call from The Spiral. Soon they will bring reverie to Duskvol, but the spiraling coil cannot pierce the veil without a vessel for joy. THE ULTIMATE MICRO RPG BOOKPre-Order Now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We are adventurers.

0:02.0

Big into every place anywhere in the world.

0:06.0

We are adventuring.

0:08.0

We are adventurers.

0:10.0

Happy Holidays, Heroes, and welcome to another exciting episode of one shot. I'm James Damato your host in game master

0:17.6

Heroes we've got more blades in the dark for you this week and I'm excited for you to hear it so let's get right to it. Oh, We are about to start and we open on the city of Duskval, this industrial nightmare.

0:57.3

The sky and everything about it is dim and dark.

1:02.3

When it is daytime, you barely notice the transition. Like, there, when the sun comes up, it is just this faint ball behind a heavy cover of not clouds but smog. You see everything in the

1:18.6

sky and the world around you through the electric blue purple shielding that protects the city from

1:25.9

demons and other things outside its walls. There's always a faint buzzing in duskfall because of the electricity that is powered by ghosts that moves the whole city.

1:40.0

That faint buzz is joined by a clanking of mechanical gears because everything in

1:46.8

duskvall turns. We see this shot of the city itself, a dim blue and gray nightmare, and we see the things around it move,

1:59.3

smokestacks billowing more vile pollution into the air. We see stage coaches and people walking around

2:08.2

with this almost mechanical thump to everything they do, and that thump becomes the diagetic sound that joins

2:16.4

the hum that forms this city.

2:19.6

We see around dusk wall, the dirty-faced and pale workers that make the city move, and the comfortable

2:30.3

and laughing faces of the wealthy classes that rule over with their money, their

2:37.2

thick coins that clank in their hands, joining the movement of the factories that thump the city has and the buzz of the electricity around it.

2:48.0

Glass clink as well, from the workers, people clanking these large stines trying to drown out the horrors of life

2:57.6

here and the wealthy clanking delicate champagne fruits and martini glasses to celebrate the wealth that they

3:05.1

lord over all those around them. We zip through the filthy streets which are

3:11.6

lined with garbage and overflowing sewage systems that

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