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Sangfielle 56: Six Travelers: Pickman

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🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

This episode carries content warnings for memory loss, multiple realities, blood, gun violence, vomiting, death, mention of mass destruction, insectoid creatures, and a character trapped in an enclosed space.

And so the Blackwick Group went its ways: Marn north towards the Telluricists and Duvall to Aldomina; Lyke to a place where he could confront himself fully and Es to aid Dyre Ode and the boy Gasto in destroying the wards of Concentus. Hazard, never officially a member, nevertheless found themself picking up one of the group’s oldest threads, and bloodying the nose of a foe each would be happy to wound.

So what about Pickman? Well. Pickman stayed, of course. There was work to be done. And it would take her quarry leaving town to get her to do the same…

This week on Sangfielle: Six Travelers: Pickman

The Almanac of the Heartland Rider

Places

The First Canton, aka Aldomina the Throne of Dominion: Once a fledgling human empire but nearly 1900 years ago, a minor duke of some great hell led an effort to take it over. And once they did, they pushed what was an already spreading empire even further in that direction.

The Second Canton, aka The Pale Magistratum (ma-juh-strah-tuhm): The Second Canton has ordered itself around its Magistrates—holy marshals given weapons blessed by Fulmina, goddess of immediate justice, and the right to use that power as they see it.

Sangfielle, the Heartland: Once, it was a breadbasket for the whole Dominion, now this is territory haunted twice: first by a bloody, buried past, and second by an uncanny, indifferent future.

Concentus, the Ringed City (kun-CHEN-tus): A vast ringed city surrounding (and containing) Sangfielle. Covered in magical wards, filled with those eager to delve into the heartland or to push back its most fearsome creatures. The gaslit city of Concentus is now the most technologically advanced metropolis of the continent.

Facts and Figures

Maleister Price (he/him): Sherriff of Blackwick and newest member of the town council. The miners in town would all tell you that Price is the best of them and always has been, but you're not quite sure that you remember that about him.

Alekest san Geraint, the Margrave of Tescano, the Porcelain Knight (he/him): If you’re a long time reader of this publication, Alekest needs no introduction. You know him from his past adventures, like the slaying of the UnSevered Beast or his solitary stand at Cedartree Station. Maybe you forget some of the details, his angst-filled childhood, the fraught years after his mother’s death, his uncanny dreams. Somehow, someway, he has become fast friends with the Shape Knight Pickman.

The Visitor: According to the Wrights, a figure came to them from Zevunzolia and opened their eyes to the truth above it all.

Organizations

Aldomina (al-doh-mee-nah): What once stood as the name of the whole continent is now only the name of the Confederation that runs across the eastern half of the territory surrounding the Sangfielle, currently constituted by three sub-states called Cantons.

The Shape Knights: It took people with clear minds, great ingenuity, and implacable spirit to face down and defeat one of the living trains of Sangfielle. In the time since, they’ve crafted armor from their slain foe, and with that have come to be experts of all things train. They herd, they breach, they redirect. But they haven’t yet killed a second.

Wrights of the Seventh Sun: A secret society dedicated to the construction of Zevunzolia, whatever the cost. Their motivations are many: Some believe that the Devils ought to have continued climbing whent hey escaped hell, that this was not the paradise earned. Otherse believe that Zevunzolia is telos of telos, the end-cause of all end-causes, and thus will inevitably bring itself into being. And given that, to do anything but aid it is to risk exclusion from it, or worse.

Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)

Featuring Jack de Quidt (@notquitereal)

Produced by Ali Acampora (@ali_west)

Music by Jack de Quidt (available on bandcamp)

Text by Austin Walker

Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)

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0:00.0

Song Fiel is a series that draws on elements of dark fantasy, horror, and gothic fiction.

0:05.6

As such, a list of content warnings will always be made available in the episode description.

0:12.0

Ernestina Pickman, The Shape Knight

0:15.6

Of all the members of the Blackwick group, yes, including Queen Virtue Downs' Appadilla way,

0:21.5

there is none I wish could have been here in town more when they pulled this huge, uh,

0:27.5

what do they call it, antenna, out of the minds. What's that, she'd say. Don't trust it,

0:33.9

something like that. Y'all know how Pickman gets, but give it a few months, and I bet she'd come

0:40.0

around. Hell, she might have even found her way into this very booth. That is the hard to understand

0:46.2

thing about Pickman. Most people know Danger Well enough to recognize it. She knows Danger Well

0:53.8

enough to respect it. So my character's name is Pickman. My class is a Shape Knight.

1:01.2

This fucker thinks that you would just get off a train. You did just get off a train. We just

1:06.1

got off a train. You can't get off with the, oh yeah, the macula, huh? You see a lot of them right

1:11.5

there? And the station has anything happened with the train. Every single one of these motherfuckers

1:17.4

keeps trying fancy business with the trains. Leave them be or kill them. That's it.

1:23.2

Wake up, you little worm. Anything you think you have taken will be stolen back 10

1:29.3

followed by the shape. You have become a creature of fire and majesty. Is the book from the future?

1:37.2

No, it's a book from a different present. Shut the fuck up. What do you think you're doing?

1:45.2

The entrepreneur moved into town and starts distributing his own script. The sheriff kills a

1:51.2

cashy wolf who the hell knows what the system voted. This is a work. Every time I have met the city,

1:58.8

it is done me good and it has brought me immeasurable unease. I don't know how to explain to you

2:06.6

that you are making a dangerous mistake. You might not care about the consequences, but I do.

2:21.2

Okay, Pikmin. Where are you headed? What's going on with you? What's this delve going to be?

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