Greetings adventurers and welcome to a brand new episode of the Venture Maidens

podcast. Thank you so much for joining us. Now before we hop in, I need to say thank you

so much for supporting us this past week while we were silent in our solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Thank you for checking up on all the resources we've been providing to help with this civil rights

issue. This is a very important time in our country and we think that we can all do just a little bit more to bring better days ahead,

make sure that justice is served to those who have been denied it for decades, for centuries, really. It's a deep-rooted issue and it's not a political issue, it's a human rights issue.

So just thank you so much for doing what you can and allowing us to support the things that

are important to us as well.

If you'd like to learn of some other resources of how you can help, we have a video up on our

YouTube channel that shares some links and information about artists, creators, podcasters, books and authors, lots of resources for you to educate

yourself on or support however you want to take action, there's many forms of activism.

So I encourage you to check out that video.

Now, I'd also like to say thank you to our Patreon donors

for getting us here, for keeping us here.

We love you so much.

You're everything. And also thank you Emily Mayo for

composing our theme song. And now let's talk about what happened last time on the Venture Maidens.

Last time on Venture Maidens, our heroes were summoned to the Crystal Heart Chamber of the

massive Earth elemental pulling around the bazaar.

The elemental offered to take their maidens to the destination quickly and sent their children

out into the sands to find Duke Ravain and the rest of the missing escort.

With that problem solved, the maidens journeyed back into the bazaar and set themselves up with

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