Season 2 | Ep. 36 | The Menagerie of Madness

Dark Dice

Fool and Scholar Productions

Performing Arts, Leisure, Fiction, Games, Arts

4.8 • 762 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

With the fate of the world in their hands, the team enters the domain of the Nameless God one final time. Do you seek Him? Unnatural Horrors is ⁠⁠now available in hardcover⁠⁠! Story by Travis Vengroff & K.A. Statz (Game Masters) Produced, Edited, and with Sound Design by Travis Vengroff Co-Sound Design, Co-Editing by Asbjørn Guldager & Finnur Nielsen Executive Producers: Dennis Greenhill, Carol Vengroff, AJ Punk'n, & Maico Villegas Mixing and Mastering by Finnur Nielsen Transcriptions by Asbjørn Guldager & Travis Vengroff Cast: Narrator / Co-Game Master – Travis Vengroff Narrator / Co-Game Master – K.A. Statz Jeff Goldblum – Balmur Father Sindri Westpike – Eyþór Viðarsson Rowena Granitepike / Glóey Westpike – Hem Brewster Soren Arkwright – Peter Joeseph Lewis David Ault – Iaus Innskeep Music:Music Director / Arranged by - Travis VengroffMusic Engineer (Musiversal) - Gergő Láposi "Motus" – Arranged with Accordion by Travis Vengroff, with Cello by Studio Pros, & stock media provided by avinograd/ Pond5, Written and Performed by Andrey Vinogradov, Mixed by Finnur Nielsen "Theme of the Realmweaver" "The Dead Pines" - Written and Mixed by Steven Melin, Orchestrated by Christopher Siu, with Additional Copyist Catherine Nguyen, Lyrics & Translations by Travis Vengroff, Violin by Matheus Garcia Souza, Budapest Strings Recorded by Musiversal, Choir Recorded by Budapest Scoring "Dark Dice: The Musical" - Sung by Peter Joseph Lewis, Lyrics by Travis Vengroff & Brandon Boone, Melody by Steven Melin "Weaver of Fate" - Written and Performed by Steven Melin, Lyrics by Travis Vengroff with Cello by Sam Boase-Miller, Hurdy Gurdy, Lutes, and Dulcimer by Enzo Puzzovio, and Choir by the Budapest Scoring Choir "The Old Ritual" Written & performed by Brandon Boone "Virtues of the Destined" & "Lights Beyond the Trees" – Written by Yuzo Koshiro, Orchestrated and Mixed by Steven Melin, Lyrics & Translations by Travis Vengroff & Florian Seidler, Woodwinds by Kristin Naigus, Violin by Matheus Garcia Souza, Hurdy-Gurdy by Matthias Loibner, Hammered Dulcimer by Kyle Paxton, Glockenspiel by Travis Vengroff, Budapest Strings, Choir, and Brass recorded by Musiversal "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 "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 ^ "The Light of Eastwood" "Westmann's Hold" "Audin" & "Victory Jingle" - Written and Mixed by Steven Melin, Orchestrated by Christopher Siu, with Additional Copyist Catherine Nguyen, Lyrics & Translations by Travis Vengroff, Violin by Matheus Garcia Souza, Budapest Strings Recorded by Musiversal, Choir Recorded by Budapest Scoring, Feat. Vocalist Amelia Jones "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 "Empty Hearts" – 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 "A Burden Shared" - Written by Steven Melin, featuring Violin by Matheus Garcia Souza, & Hammered Dulcimer by Kyle Paxton Dark Dice art by Allen Morris with lettering by Kessir RilinikiThis is a Fool and Scholar Production.Check out our Merch: www.DarkDice.comFree Transcripts are also available: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dark-dice-22460850 Special Thanks to:You, our Patreon supporters! | Hem Brewster | Our Fool & Scholar Discord Lampreys! | Carol Vengroff Content Warnings:If you've gotten this far, you know the drill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Greetings Adventurers. What a month, what a month. As some of you are aware, we had a more complicated than expected trip at a hospital.
0:11.0	And when I started recording this episode's retakes for my own lines using the same microphone I always use,
0:17.0	it quickly became apparent that the audio quality of recording at my home studio could not be so easily matched.
0:23.6	So I'd like to say thank you again for your patience.
0:26.6	I know it's two weeks later than promised, but we're all healthy on this end, and the story will sound better for all of time,
0:32.6	having not been rushed and my audio re-recorded.
0:35.6	As some of you are aware, this is the final episode
0:38.1	of our first story, Domain of the Nameless God, as well as our second one, The Long Road. Everything
0:44.1	we've worked on for the last eight years has led to this point. Can an improvised podcast
0:48.6	ruled by Dice Rules really guarantee a memorable ending? I hope so, because we put everything we had into making it.
0:56.0	In many ways, tonight's conclusion is a lot like letting go.
1:00.0	We're saying goodbye to our protagonists and their adventures,
1:03.0	but we'll also still always have these recordings to go back to, to re-listen, to relive,
1:08.0	to thank the gods that they've been dutifully transcribed and enhanced, to edit them down into something really listenable, especially the combats.
1:14.6	Because, man, I hate listening to combats otherwise.
1:17.6	At this moment, during your first listen-through of our finale, any outcome is still possible.
1:22.6	Sorin could reveal himself as something terrible.
1:25.6	Sindri could still go home to his wife.
1:27.8	Jeff could still crash our Zoom call as the silent one.
1:30.8	And Gloway could completely ruin the time loop I've been editing around since 2018
1:34.1	with a vicious, magically charged rhyme and a wink.
1:36.8	You've probably heard me mention before that the horrors you've heard are largely rooted in my own fears and experiences.
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