Bad Heroes

Tensions rise as night falls at the Steelfire Forge. Gydeon questions loyalties, Tonreir loses his temper, Ira makes an impassioned plea, and Rihva picks a fight — with everyone. -- Notes: This episode contains content warnings. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠badheroescast.com/contentwarnings⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more details. Subscribe to our free Patreon tier at ⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/badheroes⁠⁠⁠⁠ to get news and updates about the show! -- Music: "Smoldering", "Laburnum", "Plague", "Cold War Echo", "Harbor" and "Great Expectations" – Kai Engel "Bittersweet" and "Anguish" – Kevin MacLeod "Innkeeper", "Grassland B" and "Solo Piano II" – Monument Studios "Solve the Damn Mystery" – Jesse Spillane Sound effects from Monument Studios and Yap_Audio_Production, SpliceSound, TRP, Greg_Surr, kyles and joedeshon on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠freesound.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. -- Use code BADHEROES for 10% off your order of coffee for game night and tea for the tabletop from ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Many Worlds Tavern⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

In a hidden sanctuary outside the city, our heroes learn the story behind Desa's collapse and just how much is on the line. -- Notes: This episode contains content warnings. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠badheroescast.com/contentwarnings⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more details. Subscribe to our free Patreon tier at ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/badheroes⁠⁠⁠ to get news and updates about the show! -- Music: "Darkest Child," "Bittersweet" and "Lost Time" – Kevin MacLeod "Mercy" – Kai Engel "Forgotten Civilizations" – KiestyleProductions "Solve the Damn Mystery" – Jesse Spillane Sound effect by hisoul on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠freesound.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. -- Use code BADHEROES for 10% off your order of coffee for game night and tea for the tabletop from ⁠⁠⁠⁠Many Worlds Tavern⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Gydeon, Ira and Rihva try to determine if Desa's guardian is friend or foe, while Tonreir unearths a hidden memory. -- Notes: This episode contains content warnings. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠badheroescast.com/contentwarnings⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more details. Subscribe to our free Patreon tier at ⁠⁠patreon.com/badheroes⁠⁠ to get news and updates about the show. -- Music: "Cinematic Suspense Series Episode 009" – Sascha Ende (CC BY 4.0) "Darkest Child" – Kevin MacLeod "Fog" – Sergey Cheremisinov "Downfall" – Kai Engel "Tense Ambience" – Monument Studios "Solve the Damn Mystery" – Jesse Spillane Sound effects by leonelmail on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠freesound.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, with additional sounds by Monument Studios. -- This episode features a promo from ⁠The Storyteller Squad. Use code BADHEROES for 10% off your order of coffee for game night and tea for the tabletop from ⁠Many Worlds Tavern⁠.

Separated by a magical barrier, our heroes must find their courage to survive a ravenous undead horde. -- Notes: This episode contains content warnings. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠badheroescast.com/contentwarnings⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more details. Subscribe to our free Patreon tier at ⁠patreon.com/badheroes⁠ to get news and updates about the show. -- Music: "Pre-Battle Theme," "They're Crawling," "No Time Left" and "Insidious" - Monument Studios "Nothing" - Kai Engel "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane Sound effects by TravieDoodle and szczur_banshee on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠freesound.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, with additional sounds by Monument Studios. -- Use code BADHEROES for 10% off your order of coffee for game night and tea for the tabletop from Many Worlds Tavern.

Outside the fallen city of Desa, our heroes contend with traps and each other as they push towards something terrible. -- Notes: This episode contains content warnings. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠badheroescast.com/contentwarnings⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more details. Check out ⁠⁠⁠shop.badheroescast.com⁠⁠⁠ for art prints and new merch! Subscribe to our new free Patreon tier at ⁠⁠patreon.com/badheroes⁠⁠ to get news and updates about the show. -- Music: "Hopeful," "Harp Waltz," "Conjuring," "They're Crawling" and "Insidious" by Monument Studios "modum," "Plague," "Smoldering" and "Imminence" - Kai Engel "Inexorable," "Night Vigil" "Darkest Child" and "Deep Haze" - Kevin MacLeod "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane Sound effects by klankbeeld, leonelmail, Johnny2810, Rmutt, TRP, bree0701, kyles, felix.blume, joaomjaraujo, Manim8, J.R.Mythical, Andy19 and szczur_banshee on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠freesound.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, with additional sounds by Monument Studios. -- This episode features a promo from Shrimp and Crits. Use code BADHEROES for 10% off your order of coffee for game night and tea for the tabletop from ⁠Many Worlds Tavern⁠.

Before learning about the third and final curse, our heroes attend a royal audience full of deadly surprises. Tonreir fumes, Gydeon lies, Ira gets a timeout and Rihva puts it all on the line. -- Notes: This episode contains content warnings. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠badheroescast.com/contentwarnings⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more details. Check out ⁠⁠shop.badheroescast.com⁠⁠ for art prints and this season's new merch! Subscribe to our new free Patreon tier at ⁠patreon.com/badheroes⁠ to get news and updates about the show. -- Music: "Fog" - Sergey Cheremisinov "Darkest Child" and "Past the Edge" - Kevin MacLeod "Dimensional Rift," "Growing Whispers," "The Moment Before" and "Insidious" by Monument Studios "Cold War Echo" and "Downfall" - Kai Engel "Cliffs of Desa" - Koulnis "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane Sound effects by craigsmith, fission9, Voices_of_Marz, bsperan, KevinT1001, josecruz98, joaomjaraujo and PimFeijen on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠freesound.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, with additional sounds by Monument Studios. -- This episode features a promo from ⁠⁠Cosmopunk⁠.

Back together at last, Gydeon, Tonreir, Ira and Rihva head to the royal armory and find mischief afoot — and for once, it's not their fault! -- Notes: This episode contains content warnings. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠badheroescast.com/contentwarnings⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more details. Check out ⁠shop.badheroescast.com⁠ for art prints and this season's new merch! Subscribe to our new free Patreon tier at patreon.com/badheroes to get news and updates about the show. -- Music: "Harbor" - Kai Engel "Thinking Music" and "Marty Gots a Plan" - Kevin MacLeod "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane Sound effects by scarbelly25 on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠freesound.org⁠⁠⁠⁠ -- This episode features a promo from ⁠A Couple of Characters.

Information in Vyer burns, bubbles, and lives on in undeath. The real question is, what will our heroes do with it? -- Notes: This episode contains content warnings. Visit ⁠⁠⁠badheroescast.com/contentwarnings⁠⁠⁠ for more details. We have launched prints in our merch shop! Find them at shop.badheroescast.com. -- Music: "Plague", "Cold War Echo", "Harbor", "Mercy" and "Downfall" - Kai Engel "Investigations", "Umbrella Pants" and "Night of Chaos" - Kevin MacLeod "Dimensional Rift", "Grassland B", "Forsaken Sanctum", "The Moment Before" and "Friendly Celeste" by Monument Studios "Fog" by Sergey Cheremisinov "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane Sound effects by Enri2991co, Osiruswaltz, tothrec2, GaryQ, Sirderf and MATRIXXX_ on ⁠⁠⁠⁠freesound.org⁠⁠⁠

Beneath Vyer's capital, Tonreir and Ira strike dubious deals to further their causes. -- Notes: This episode contains content warnings. Visit ⁠⁠⁠badheroescast.com/contentwarnings⁠⁠⁠ for more details. We have launched prints in our merch shop! Find them at shop.badheroescast.com. -- Music: "Dark Walk," "On the Shore", "Temple of the Manes" and "Tango de Manzana" - Kevin MacLeod "Labyrinth" - Sergey Cheremisinov "Trees in the Wind" - Daniel Birch "Smoldering", "Cold War Echo", "Tumult", "Mercy" and "The Devil You Know" - Kai Engel "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane -- This episode features a promo from Beyond the Furthest Stars.

As our heroes begin to reconvene in the capital, Tonreir faces his wolf and Ira takes Rihva on a much-needed night on the town. -- Notes: This episode contains content warnings. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠badheroescast.com/contentwarnings⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more details. We have launched prints in our merch shop! Find them at ⁠shop.badheroescast.com⁠. -- Music: "Smoldering," "Seeker," "Oecumene Sleeps" and "Plague" - Kai Engel "Trees in the Wind" - Daniel Birch "Umbrella Pants," "Wizardtorium," "Ossuary 1," "Dark Walk," "Netherworld Shanty," "Teddy Bear Waltz" and "Heartbreaking" - Kevin MacLeod "Now You Are Here," "Fog" and "When You Leave" - Sergey Cheremisinov "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane Sound effects by felix.blume, Cinetony, zazz.sound.design, Tomlija, TRP, sagetyrtle, bsperan, RaspberryTickle, Braxen, nickrandomsounds, not_yr, brunoboselli, ditnoka, oldedgar, kyles and Ev-Dawg on ⁠⁠⁠freesound.org⁠⁠⁠ -- This episode features a promo from Friend & Foe Adventure Co.

Tonreir and Gydeon test their skills, and on a secluded mountaintop, Gydeon's draconic origins make themselves known. -- Note: This episode contains content warnings. Visit ⁠⁠badheroescast.com/contentwarnings⁠⁠ for more details. Bad Heroes is made possible by listener donations — you can support us at ⁠⁠patreon.com/badheroes⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠ko-fi.com/badheroes⁠⁠. -- Music: "Great Expectations," "Snowmen," "Meekness," "November," "modum" and "Global Warming" - Kai Engel "Long Note Three" - Kevin MacLeod "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane Sound effects by lwdickens, univ_lyon3, CCCanary, Euphrosyyn, Nakhas, Vital_Sounds, oldmansmusic, kooust, JonasTisell, bajko, DeVern and waveplaySFX on ⁠⁠freesound.org⁠⁠ -- This episode features a promo from In Two The Dungeon.

Gydeon and Tonreir reunite in Silverscale and begin to set the board. -- Note: This episode contains content warnings. Visit ⁠badheroescast.com/contentwarnings⁠ for more details. Bad Heroes is made possible by listener donations — you can support us at ⁠patreon.com/badheroes⁠ and ⁠ko-fi.com/badheroes⁠. -- Music: "Harbor," "Global Warming," "Downfall," "Great Expectations" and "Mercy" - Kai Engel "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane Sound effects by lwdickens, craigsmith, Reitanna, Sheyvan, BlackAtomProductions, tim.kahn, faxfaxfax, Denis Chapon, sterferny, e0fd96, Qat on ⁠freesound.org⁠ -- This episode features a promo from ⁠Deck of Many Aces⁠.

Following the Pendant of the Seeker, Ira embarks on a wild adventure in search of what he's lost. -- Note: This episode contains content warnings. Visit badheroescast.com/contentwarnings for more details. Bad Heroes is made possible by listener donations — you can support us at patreon.com/badheroes and ko-fi.com/badheroes. -- Music: "Brand New World" - Kai Engel "Manly Nunn Steps Out" - Doctor Turtle "Terminal", "Thinking Music", "Sneaky Adventure", "Deep Haze", "The Pyre", "Oppressive Gloom", "Long Note One", "Long Note Three", "Hush", "Movement Proposition", "Nightdreams", "Evening Fall (Harp)" and "Evening Fall (Piano)" - Kevin MacLeod "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane Sound effects by PuzzleAudio, DanGasior, greysound, Liancu, DeVern, BenjaminNelan, Duophonic, Noted451, itsmrjack, Daphne_in_Wonderland, rucisko, Danjocross, harveyism, kasjura, maryannem, briankenny, FunWithSound, reci77, FlyingMarmot, D.jones, craigsmith, GojiS.O.S., AdminMP, cliftonmcarlson, Escapop, colorsCrimsonTears, IENBA, andersmmg, Merrick079, NachtmahrTV, aerror, brennanium135, roman_cgr, Podcapocalipsis on freesound.org -- This episode features a promo from The Lucky Die.

Time's up. Rihva is forced to face the monsters of her past, both figuratively and literally. -- For a written recap of this episode, click here. Note: This episode contains major content warnings, including abuse, manipulation, suffocation, extreme fear and panic. For a complete list, visit badheroescast.com/contentwarnings. Bad Heroes is made possible by listener donations — you can support us at patreon.com/badheroes and ko-fi.com/badheroes. -- Music: "Inexorable", "Nervous Piano", "Shadowlands 1 - Horizon", "Shadowlands 2 - Codex", "Unseen Horrors", "Right Behind You" and "The Escalation" - Kevin MacLeod "Cold War Echo" and "Plague" - Kai Engel "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane Sound effects by MaxDemianAGL, bouncyblueball, ultraaxvii, shelbyshark and JPolito on freesound.org -- This episode features a promo from Ballad of the Seven Dice: Escaping Carcosa.

Tonreir's heart leads him home, to a changed forest holding memories, magic, and unexpected messages. -- Note: This episode contains content warnings. Visit badheroescast.com/contentwarnings for more details. Bad Heroes is made possible by listener donations — you can support us at patreon.com/badheroes and ko-fi.com/badheroes. -- Music: "September", "Cobweb Morning", "Laburnum", "Smouldering" and "Great Expectations" - Kai Engel "Folk Round", "Long Road Ahead", "Magic Forest", "Night Vigil" and "Rites" - Kevin MacLeod "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane Sound effect by duckduckpony on freesound.org -- This episode features a promo from The Monster's Playbook, a Monster of the Week actual play podcast.

High in the mountains of her ancestral home, Gydeon has a tense family reunion and plays a game of strategy. -- Note: This episode contains content warnings. Visit badheroescast.com/contentwarnings for more details. Bad Heroes is made possible by listener donations — you can support us at patreon.com/badheroes and ko-fi.com/badheroes. -- Music: "November", "Harbor", "Great Expectations", "Global Warming", "Downfall" and "modum" - Kai Engel "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane Sound effects by craigsmith and chris5s on freesound.org

After our heroes go their separate ways, Rihva's debt leads to some risky business. Meanwhile, Ira rekindles a connection and tells an important tale. -- Note: This episode contains content warnings. Visit badheroescast.com/contentwarnings for more details. Bad Heroes is made possible by listener donations — you can support us at patreon.com/badheroes and ko-fi.com/badheroes. -- Music: "The Wilderness I Want" - Jim Rooster "Night of Chaos" - Kevin MacLeod "A Robust Crew" - Darren Curtis "Plague" and "Brand New World" - Kai Engel "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane

Hidden under the city, our heroes grapple with new information and a course of action that could impact the fate of Vyer, their homes and the world. -- Note: This episode contains content warnings. Visit badheroescast.com/contentwarnings for more details. Bad Heroes is made possible by listener donations — you can support us at patreon.com/badheroes and ko-fi.com/badheroes. -- Music: "Temple of the Manes," "Darkest Child" and "Unholy Knight" - Kevin MacLeod "Homeroad" - Kai Engel "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane

In her castle of obsidian and steel, Queen Sephira grants our heroes the answer to one question. For a glimpse into the secrets of Vyer... they'd better choose wisely. -- Note: This episode contains content warnings. Visit badheroescast.com/contentwarnings for more details. Bad Heroes is made possible by listener donations — you can support us at patreon.com/badheroes and ko-fi.com/badheroes. -- Music: "Labyrinth" and "Fog" - Sergey Cheremisinov "Trees in the Wind" - Daniel Birch "Darkest Child" - Kevin MacLeod "Homeroad" - Kai Engel "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane

In the aftermath of the Wild Hunt, our heroes say goodbye to Sosalia and Sanguine Silvis, and turn their eyes back to Vyer's capital. -- Note: This episode contains content warnings. Visit badheroescast.com/contentwarnings for more details. Bad Heroes is made possible by listener donations — you can support us at patreon.com/badheroes and ko-fi.com/badheroes. --  Music: "Midnight Tale" and "Darkest Child" - Kevin MacLeod "Labyrinth," "Now You Are Here" and "Fog" - Sergey Cheremisinov "Smoldering," "Seeker" and "Mercy" - Kai Engel "Solve the Damn Mystery" - Jesse Spillane