19 - Berlin - Dances of Vice - Dies Irae, Dies Illa

An unearthly piano piece forces the investigators to confront feelings they have been veiling, and the cruel gaze of mirror magic brings even the best-hidden insecurities into the light. In a grey and dead dreamscape of an unfamiliar Berlin, a terrifying chase ensues.   Here's a link to buy the Berlin: The Wicked City sourcebook published by Chaosium.   Cast: Phaedra as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Lydia as Brita Lantz Tyler as Dr. Ester Rosenbaum Howl as Luise Engel Jayson as Helene Krauss   Audio Editors for this episode: Tyler, Lydia & Jayson   Excerpt of Totentanz by Franz Liszt is a derivative of Liszt's Totentanz performed by Neil O'Doan available under CC license. Title: "Neil O Doan - Totentanz" Author: Neil O'Doan Music Source: https://musopen.org/music/32872-totentanz-s-1262/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike (BY-SA) 4.0 Unported Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en   Website | Review us | Support us on Patreon | Buy merch! Discord | Twitter | Mastodon | Facebook | Instagram | Reddit For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate.

Last night’s events still ring loudly in the investigators’ ears, but Grau is keen to get answers, setting up a meeting with Berber at her hotel. After concealing some mysterious pamphlets on their person, Berber’s husband cordially invites them to a piano recital that evening.   Here's a link to buy the Berlin: The Wicked City sourcebook published by Chaosium.   Cast: Phaedra as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Lydia as Brita Lantz Tyler as Dr. Ester Rosenbaum Howl as Luise Engel Jayson as Helene Krauss   Audio Editors for this episode: Seb, Howl & Jayson   Website | Review us | Support us on Patreon | Buy merch! Discord | Twitter | Mastodon | Facebook | Instagram | Reddit For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate.

Our investigators deal with the aftermath of Paulette’s disappearance and nightmarish work, only to find a new friend in Grau. He remains in their orbit and invites them to the latest Anita Berber performance, which promises to be a night of debauchery!   Here's a link to buy the Berlin: The Wicked City sourcebook published by Chaosium.   Cast: Phaedra as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Lydia as Brita Lantz Tyler as Dr. Ester Rosenbaum Howl as Luise Engel Jayson as Helene Krauss   Audio Editors for this episode: Braydon & Jayson   Website | Review us | Support us on Patreon | Buy merch! Discord | Twitter | Mastodon | Facebook | Instagram | Reddit For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate.  

Four years after The Devil Eats Flies. Our new investigators receive a letter from the Prussian library announcing  a robbery of their restricted titles. The lost volumes are in French, which makes them think of a certain club patron who hasn’t been seen lately…   Here's a link to buy the Berlin: The Wicked City sourcebook published by Chaosium.   Cast: Phaedra as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Lydia as Brita Lantz Tyler as Dr. Ester Rosenbaum Howl as Luise Engel Jayson as Helene Krauss Audio Editors: Lydia & Jayson   Website | Review us | Support us on Patreon | Buy merch! Discord | Twitter | Mastodon | Facebook | Instagram | Reddit For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate.

In the gruesome finale of the scenario, the desperate students descend to the depths of the college, uncovering a burning truth about the former sanatorium and the ghosts who haunt it. In their bid to escape, the investigators meet some very strange gallery patrons who have an equally strange request. Yes it’s madness, but is it art?   You can buy this scenario to run for your friends! Check it out here.   Cast: Phaedra as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Lydia as Simone the potter. Tyler as Maia the painter. Jayson as Leo the musician. Knoxicles as Bernie the jewellery-maker.   Audio Editors: Tyler & Jayson   Website | Review us | Support us on Patreon | Buy merch! Discord | Twitter | Mastodon | Facebook | Instagram | Reddit For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate.

The students find themselves hating the rich kids who got them into this mess. Maia has torn off much of her face, Bernie has been hassled by a ghost, and no one is having a good time. Will the answers await them in the library, or should some truths be left alone?   You can buy this scenario to run for your friends! Check it out here.   Cast: Phaedra as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Lydia as Simone the potter. Tyler as Maia the painter. Jayson as Leo the musician. Knoxicles as Bernie the jewellery-maker.   Audio Editors: Howl & Jayson   Website | Review us | Support us on Patreon | Buy merch! Discord | Twitter | Mastodon | Facebook | Instagram | Reddit For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate.

Our group of students continue exploring the so-called “haunted” college building. Choosing to let sleeping security guards lie and indulge their artistic curiosity, they sneak past and poke around in the back of the gallery. They soon come across some pieces that affect them more than art usually does…   You can buy this scenario to run for your friends! Check it out here.   Cast: Phaedra as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Lydia as Simone the potter. Tyler as Maia the painter. Jayson as Leo the musician. Knoxicles as Bernie the jewellery-maker.   Audio Editors: Seb & Jayson   Website | Review us | Support us on Patreon | Buy merch! Discord | Twitter | Mastodon | Facebook | Instagram | Reddit For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate.

Chapter one of our playthrough of a new, and super spooky, Stars Are Right scenario: The Exhibition of Dread by Jared Tallis. Join a ragtag bunch of art students as they tour the college buildings after dark in search of artistic inspiration, but get more than they bargained for.   You can buy this scenario to run for your friends! Check it out here.   Cast: Phaedra as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Lydia as Simone the potter. Tyler as Maia the painter. Jayson as Leo the musician. Knoxicles as Bernie the jewellery-maker.   Audio Editors: Braydon & Jayson   Website | Review us | Support us on Patreon | Buy merch! Discord | Twitter | Mastodon | Facebook | Instagram | Reddit For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate.

Wonderful cultists, The earliest part of 2024 has been a series of failed rolls that we’ve been continuing to try to Push, but unfortunately we’ve not always succeeded. There have been some critical successes as well as fumbles, though. First of all, the inimitable Braydon has, through fel magicks, brought his own new  spawn into the universe. Join us in welcoming Reya (and admire her either on Discord or on our Patreon!) Gilly’s also had her own life changes, in the form of having to travel extensively for work this year! She’s consequently not able to join us on the regular for the next part of our Berlin campaign, but we’re sure you’ll join us in wishing her well on her adventures and hoping she can come back soon to play with us! Thus, we have had to make some changes in how we are doing things on our end, at least for the time being. Here’s the breakdown: We’ll be reducing our release frequency to every two weeks, rather than every week, in order to rebuild a buffer, and rush less with recording and editing. We’ll be tweaking our patreon offerings to make our bonus content more accessible.  Beyond The Madness, our post-recording chit-chat show, will soon also be available at the Cult Initiate tier! The Cult Elder and Avatar tiers will continue to have exclusive access to our bonus game-play. This will soon include a second play-through of Alone Against the Static (for any completionists) and The Necropolis (run by Gilly, to help you not miss her too much!). The next adventure released will be The Exhibition of Dread, a spectral one-shot written by Jared Tallis and published by Stars Are Right. Berlin the Wicked City part 2 is currently being recorded and will be released after that, everything progressing smoothly, so get hyped! The idea behind this slowing down is for us to serve you the finest Deep One Steaks instead of mere soggy fishburgers, and to ensure that we can keep putting out the podcasts that you’ve all been loving. None of this would have been possible without you, and we appreciate the ongoing support that we have had over the years. Onwards and upwards, with many hopeful things on the horizon. Until the Stars are Right again…

The second and final part of Chaosium's newest Alone Against... adventure. Can Seb make the right choices to reunite Alex with his lost love and escape, or is it already too late? Stick around for some Beyond-the-Madness style chit chat afterwards!   Website | Review us | Support us on Patreon | Buy merch! Discord | Twitter | Mastodon | Facebook | Instagram | Reddit For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate.