Skaldova - Ep. 6: The Solar Knights
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The Zu Crew continues to uncover the mysteries of The Dawn Hold as they go toe to toe with a wild beast, and an inanimate object.
Sound Mixing and Editing by Brian Murphy and Faris Monshi
Music / Sound Effects Include:
"Blackthorn Hall" by Emily Axford
"Angels and Devils" by Emily Axford
"The Children" by Emily Axford
"Signal Boost" by Emily Axford
Comments (114)
Why is it Zudrick's always the butt of the joke.. -Welly "Language!"
Still getting goosebumps from the elder Hamdam reveal on 2nd listen!
I love that Emily has Welly wanting to go to space and then Sluggz ended up wanting the same thing. I think Emily wants a space campaign lol
thats purple snake brain right there entering my lexicon against my will
the solemness with which boggy says "oh yes remember he was hung u_u" fucking kills me LOL
Cody Night Angel is a descendant of Zudrick.
Please please! I need Skaldova on the next tour in Boston just so can call out “Welly?! “. I absolutely adore Zudrick and I spend my days saying “guys? C’mon. That’s just crass.” Murph does it again and I love the comment that suggests Zudrick is the Pentagreens origin story.
Emily needs another compass so she can talk about her compi
not "cum? piss??" 😭😭😭😭😭
I wanna see a live show with these characters and the whole audience sings "SKALDOOOOOVAAAA" at the beginning
“Zudrick, language!” 💀
I haven't finished listening, but prediction: the princess IS the dragon...
FYI, the short rest for this is missing from the collection
I used to go to Friendly's after every football game with my marching band! (I played the clarinet!) and I love mozzarella sticks, but burnt myself once carrying back an extra marinara sauce!
I audibly gasped at exactly the same Emily did for that Reveal.
Same. The reveal was so unexpected and so good!
found a video of zudric when he finally has time to learn the guitar again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVcOIlITUR8
In the corner and everything
Zudrick’s voice is giving Pete from the Goofy Movie..
YOU CANT. LEAVE US ON THAT!!!
The Skaldova music is awesome and really adds the ambience to every scene. Truly awesome stuff!
Jake, the worldbuilding in this one was incredible dude, insanely cool!!! I can't wait to find out more about this world!!!.!! And we can all hear the same excitement and curiosity in your players voices 🔥🔥🔥 I'm so hyped rn
"That's so fun, that.. the people on your team.. considered it Your team 😲" THE WAY I CACKLED
The way I GASPED at the end!! This story is so intriguing and fun!!
Zudrik is like an alternate universe Cody
Zudrick's also getting more and more Pendergreens-like as the days go by lmao
Who is Wilma Hamdan??
Thank you! i didn't want to post.. it feels like i missed something basic... and from everyones reaction seemed like a big deal.
Emily - I just want to particularly compliment the way you are reharmonizing and reorchestrating your older ambient music for the show. Reworking existing motifs is such a baller move as a composer, you're so good at evoking mood just with a bassline change or new instrument ❤️
Jake is an incredible story teller and I love him. Thank you for setting this stage for this gang of absolute chuckle heads to be so silly together.
"You are a suit of armor full of freak outs, my friend" this party's interactions are non-stop gold
This entire series is great, Jake!! I love fighters and I love your new world! Also the entire crew is hilarious! I think this is my favorite set of PCs since Twilight Sanatorium! Boggy give major Mavis vibes lmao
Any reason why this is showing as locked on spotify? or just me?
are you looking at the naddpod patreon feed instead of the usual Spotify one?
After starting my naddpod journey almost a full year ago today I've finally caught up on all campaigns and MOST of the other content. Really happy to watch the episodes as they come out. Cheers guys!
theory: i bet the bog is circled cuz the dragon took the princess there to hide out from the encroaching godswar, cuz it kinda seems like based off the map that the gods were coming for princess lunark (kinda feels bright sword-ish for the gods to be invaders that killed off the original inhabitants)
My personal theory is that the princess *is* the dragon.
Second time through and the ending is still amazeballs!!
2 minutes in and ive already lost it at Zudrick's 'Maybe this boar is KIND!!'
I love that Boggy just keeps saying “Longest Tom was hung” instead of “hanged” with all of the innuendo banter
loved it! thanks u guys
"Nicely Clenched" Made me laugh WAY too hard for some reason.. And the music at 44:20 (i think) was soo perfect... And SOOO Twin peaks... more of that please :) well done
Anyone else thinking this is a world that is potentially gonna be connected to Bahumia? With all the talk of space and Purple snakes… it just got me thinking
Hope not lol
this seasons score reminds me so much of the twin peaks score
Yup.. when jake was explaining stuff in it was in the background i was totally picturing the opening of twin peaks.. i want more of that music in this :)
Zudrick is a guy who’s already went through like 5 mental breakdowns having a mental breakdown
Zudrick being made fun of so badly and then missing the boar and pretending it didn’t happen made me laugh so hard.
also can i say my name is tabitha and zud jump scares me every time.
Giving me so much joy, since Murph is not DMing, that they are still trolling Murph via his beloved, cranky PC, with their kindly, supportive PCs.
The gasp I gusp at that last line. Loving Skaldova so much! Jake is knocking it out of the park
Also is anyone else clocking Zudrick’s slow decent into Pendergreens?
What a cliffhanger! I loved Emily's genuine gasp at that reveal, I was right there with her.
Skaldova is awesome. Jake is killing it. The tactical genius of Welly is something you are going to have to watch out for.
Is there a Murph character that hasn’t threatened to freak out at this point? I love it
Sabrina is my favorite bird
Caldwell really has two kinds of characters. Silly little guys and two silly little guys in a trench coat, disguised as a serious and tragic figure.
I'd like to thank Emily for the word "paroxysm"
Great episode. I’m impressed Jake didn’t let the wheels fall off the campaign Volkswagen after the BBGE (Rump Lord) was killed last episode.
Jake I audibly gasped in joy when I got the alert the new ep dropped last night. Skaldova is so great, excited to jump into another ep!
You 4 as Dms embody all my favorite things of D&D! I usually have a preferred DM in podcasts that trade off but I just cant choose a favorite story so far. Good job on this campaign so far Jake you're just fantastic at descriptions!
really love that murph avoids saying “tweet about the show” now given the oligarch running it
See you in Seattle y’all!
Zudrick was giving real Vegeta vibes this episode lol
God damn, this campaign is SO good! I wish it was full length so badly
Theory: Zuddy is cursed and they are a kenku atm
I've been harboring this same theory!!! Not necessarily the cursed aspect, but that would be fun ngl
Ah come on. Caldwell points out Murphe's perfect dad joke and there's no acknowledgement? We can BOAR-d it up? Love it.
You can hear pendergreens start to come out when zuddi gets mad at the razzing
Jokes about his passing/dick aside, “Longest Tom” is such a perfectly silly, yet believable-in-this-world adventuring buddy name
Boggy Roger, my relatable king. I, too, would be hyper fixated on securing food after like 4 hours of adventuring without a snack.
Zuddrick vs the Bookcase. Legendary match up
I'm truly loving skaldova so much. Jake's descriptions are so evocative, and all the characters are so much fun. im listening to every episode like 5 times as i excitedly await each new installmemt
Can’t get enough of Jake’s descriptions. From the get go they’ve been awesome but particularly since they reached the perimeter of the castle - you can see it so clearly in your mind’s eye, even feel and taste the changes in the air. So great. Skaldova is brilliant. 👏👏👏
Anyone else immediately think of Princess Mononoke when Jake was describing the boar?
That Laura Palmer ass song is back 🥹
I love that Zudrick devolves into Pendergreens when he gets upset 🤣🤣
I clocked that too 🤣🤣
I’m so glad “polycrow” didn’t go entirely under the radar. CawCawldwell always thinking up silly bird things!
‘the smell of autumn or something older’ JAKE!
Jake your descriptions are gorgeous!
I feel like jake was so nervous to DM but he is killing it and quickly becoming one of my all-time favorite actual play DMs.
Agreed! And what fun mechanics he's coming up with too, the "death saves" on the cage doors was very clever
That ending was awesome! This campaign looking to be a certified banger.
I grew up in a part of England that is all farmland now but was once marshland and was drained over the course of a couple of hundred years to farm the peat soil, often with violent pushback from the locals, so I'm really enjoying Boggy's characterisation and the research Caldwell has done!
Im in the middle of traveling and getting screwed over by airlines and I really needed this episode to help me through thank you naddpod
Scaldovas not going to be Bahamian millions of years in the future is it? That would be fucking amazing
Halfway through the episode but this zudrick crash out is great
Loving this campaign so far! Great job DM Jake <3
I know they're planning on doing shorter campaigns but man am I fricken sucked IN to Skaldova
HYPED, HELL YEAH
I love this podcast ✨
So fucking good John!! You're killing it!!!!
Joseph did an amazing job
I *screamed* with Emily at the end!
Truly the best birthday present I could’ve gotten!!
Happy birthday 🎂🎉
Murph as a PC is amazing
What I wouldn’t give to be a part of this friend group, they just seem to always be having fun, and they’re all so talented!
Jake is killing it!
Chiming in to say imo this the best stuff I’ve heard out of naddpod in a long while (it’s all great of course!) props to Jake and crew
LETS FUCKING GOOOO! Loving this campaign and Jake is a natural GM!
Let's go!
I just caught that: Welly’s dirty 20 is an “indecent 20”.
So pumped. Jake, we all want you to know that this season fucking rules.
Great ep listened at x10 speed
Yesss! Just heard my notification chime!!!!
Lfg!!!!! Skaldova!!!!!
i just want to listen to Jake describe things for 2 hours
zu crew zu crew
Hell yea
I forgot this was coming, so glad I got the notification!!!
SKALDOVA !!!!!!!
Yesssss!! Two crew!!!