Season 2 | Ep. 30 | PvP

Dark Dice

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Performing Arts, Leisure, Fiction, Games, Arts

4.8 • 762 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Sindri and Rowena are ambushed by Soren and his team in a bloody battle for the ages. Story by Travis Vengroff (Game Master) Produced, Edited, and with Sound Design by Travis Vengroff Executive Producers: Dennis Greenhill, Carol Vengroff, AJ Punk'n, & Maico Villegas Mixing and Mastering by Finnur Nielsen Transcriptions by Travis Vengroff Cast: Narrator / Game Master – Travis Vengroff Balmur – Jeff Goldblum Father Sindri Westpike – Eyþór Viðarsson Rowena Granitepike – Hem Brewster Lirril – Tanja Milojevic Elias "Payne" Embertree – Drew Tillman Soren Arkwright – Peter Joeseph Lewis Ildrex Mystan – Russ D. More Glom Vogelberg – Sean Howard Gaelle Vogelberg – Holly Billinghurst Music: (in order of appearance) Music Director / Arranged by - Travis Vengroff Music Engineer (Musiversal) - Gergő Lápose "Theme of the Realmweaver" – Written and Mixed by Steven Melin, Orchestrated by Christopher Siu, with Additional Copyist Catherine Nguyen, Violin by Matheus Garcia Souza, Budapest Strings Recorded by Musiversal, Choir Recorded by Budapest Scoring "Valor" – Written by Nobuo Uematsu & Steven Melin, Orchestrated and Mixed by Steven Melin, Lyrics & Translations by Travis Vengroff & Florian Seidler, Budapest Strings, Choir, and Brass recorded by Musiversal "Conspiracy" Written and performed by Brandon Boone, orchestrated by Christopher Siu & Catherine Nguyen, Budapest Strings (orchestra) recorded by Musiversal, Budapest Choir Recorded by Budapest Scoring, mixed by Steven Melin "Unchecked Ambition" - Co-Written by Travis Vengroff, Co-Written, Orchestrated, and Mixed by Steven Melin, Other credits match ^ "Dark Dice The Musical Excerpt" - by Steven Melin and Mike Pettry "Sufferers' Cant" Written by Hitoshi Sakimoto, Orchestrated by Steven Melin, Copyist Catherine Nguyen, Lyrics by Travis Vengroff & Florian Seidler, Feat. Matheus Souza Garcia (Violin), Kristin Kaigus (Woodwinds), Andrew Dunn (Cello), Johannes Geworkian Hellman (Hurdy), Kyle Paxton (Dulcimer), Budapest Strings, Budapest Choir, & Budapest Brass by Musiversal "The Lucky Die Intro" - Written and Performed by Neil Martin of Blighthouse Studio, Budapest Choir by Musiversal "Sheila" & "Secret Water" - Written and Performed by Dark Fantasy Studio "A Plot Most Sinister" & "Lament" - Written and Performed by Josh Barron "Sun for Grandpa" - Harp Performed by Steven Melin"Danse Sanguis" - Written and Performed by Steven Melin, and Travis Vengroff, arranged and performed by Steven Melin, with Cello by Sam Boase-Miller, and stock media provided by avinograd/ Pond5, Written and Performed by Andrey Vinogradov "The Silent Clan" - Arranged by Travis Vengroff, Performed and Written by Steven Melin "Empty Hearts" & "Danse Silencieuse" – Arranged and Performed by Travis Vengroff with Cello by Sam Boase-Miller and stock media provided by avinograd/ Pond5, Written and Performed by Andrey Vinogradov Dark Dice art by Allen Morris with lettering by Kessir Riliniki This is a Fool and Scholar Production. For early episodes and bonus content join us at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/FoolandScholar⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our Merch: www.DarkDice.com Free Transcripts are also available: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/posts/dark-dice-22460850⁠⁠ Special Thanks to: Our Patreon supporters! | Hem Brewster | Our Fool & Scholar Discord Lampreys! | Carol Vengroff Content Warnings: Agency (Loss of), Animal people (harm to), Death, Feelz (you may cry), Gaslighting, Loss (Familial), Mind Control, Murder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Greetings Adventurers.
0:02.0	This is the moment you've all been waiting for.
0:04.0	The episode that makes the rest of our season make sense.
0:07.0	I mean, the finale, because surely a huge PVP battle is the finale of season two, right?
0:12.0	As you might have guessed, this encounter is a player versus player or PVP battle.
0:18.0	They generally suck to run its home games.
0:20.0	They take forever, characters we care
0:21.6	about die, feelings can get hurt out of game, people min-max. However, all of us here at Dark Dice
0:26.7	knew what we were getting into when we started this thing. So let's get into the rules for a little
0:30.8	PVP. To make things fair, initiative was re-rolled every round, and at the top of each round,
0:35.6	players wrote down and texted me their
0:37.7	intended actions since this is all supposed to be simultaneous and one player
0:41.9	might try to fuse things while another starts attacking as a result this
0:45.1	combat may seem unconventional to those who min-max or don't consider that
0:48.3	every character might not have the full tactical understanding of the entire
0:51.6	battle at every moment please also forgive forgive our dear, dear players and
0:56.1	their flawed characters. You might also quickly come to realize how Rowena, Cintry, and Lyrl
1:00.8	completely ditch Elias, leaving the poor guy to his terrible fate described in the previous episode.
1:06.1	In an effort to make this story entertaining, interesting, and not me stating the results of repeated
1:11.1	dice rolls over and over again, a few dramatic embellishments have been added mostly
1:15.5	to extra swings during some of the attacks that can be attributed to a single attack role,
1:20.0	or the timing of events within a round that lend toward a more cohesive sequence of events.
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