Welcome, Travelers, to a new episode of Venture Maidens.

As always, we want to give a special thank you to Emily Mayo for composing the favor campaign theme song,

to Tabletop Audio for providing additional ambient music,

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Now, I'm going to hit you with the recap of the previous episode, then we'll dive right into

the action. Last time, on Venture Maidens. With successfully one mystic springwaters in hand,

our heroes circled back to the subterranean statuary holding their petrified Eldron

captain. Along the way, they had some encounters and in a stroke of stellar fortune

found not one, but two altars, which gave them some killer information. They learned the

knights had already claimed the two remaining blossoms, and one knight was waiting to ambush them

at Ravain's location. They also got a hot tip that the arena's rose dragon could be

bribed into helping the crew confront the knights who defeated her, if an offering worthy of a

dragon was gifted, of course. With the altar's warning in mind, the crew came in guns blazing

to duke it out with the red knight, who quickly revealed himself to be a rage-fueled opponent

consumed by a hatred

of all things, Faye. But, with the help of Duke Ravain, who they managed to restore during the

fight, the maidens emerged victorious. After the bloody battle, they discovered the knight's armor

had some kind of connection to a mythical relic called the Avatar.

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