Ep. 77: Enter the Nine Hells (The Hellfire Chronicles)
AD-FREE EPISODE FOR $5+ PATRONS! The Band of Boobs enter the ruby portal after Alanis and find themselves in an inhospitable place! Hardwon puts his dwarven minecart experience to work, Moonshine loses herself in dance, and Beverly learns about 69ing. Support us at Patreon.com/Naddpod to get access to the after-show and a bunch of other Naddpod content! Get tickets to our upcoming live shows at naddpod.com/live.
Music/Sound Effects Include:
"Unknown Tome" by Emily Axford.
"Salice's Conundrum" by Emily Axford.
"The Vast Expanse" by Emily Axford.
"Deal with a Devil" by Emily Axford.
"Jacked" by Emily Axford.
"The Bronze Bastard" by Emily Axford.
"Buzzer's Cutters" by Emily Axford.
Comments (46)
Returning to my relisten of this campaign, and I gotta say... "The Band of Boobs and the Musky Husk" sounds like a kids book.
The wat the band of boobs gets information from npcs is fascinating, funny, and somehow infuriating all at the same time 🤣
"It just says stump" is one of my favorite lines in NADDPOD history.
I’m going through a re-watch, and this is still some of the best music Naddpod’s ever done. Hell fuckin’ RIPS dude
Husk-Musk was a Kids in the Hall fake product. I suppose there's a 20 year statute of limitations.
Emily, you can't just say "help action!" with no explanation and get advantage...great episode though!!!
You can if the DM allows it!
I love how the band of Boobs judge Thiala, then as soon as they are in hell they start using it and the people there to do their greater good, hopefully they'll understand her more now
I truly feel for Thiala more now. She's kinda awesome once you think about what she is actually standing for. I know she's being portrayed as the BBEG (and probably is) but I sort of support her stance in the world of Bahumia.
Did anyone get the John Elway the sword reference
The fact that Balnor would follow them to hell w/o question tho ❤️
moonshine getting her home address right really got me 😭❤️
That and Hardwon using an action surge to read are definitely top-tier moments
Murph’s adaptation/butchery of conventional D&D lore is fascinating; I’m going to pretend that it’s entirely according to some complex backstory, where things were normal in the “original” campaign, but the side effects changed everything since then. Changes Murph has made: - The Githzerai and Githyanki would never “set aside their differences” to fight mind flayers. Neither one is a fan of Illithidi, but they generally kill *each other* on sight. It’s sort of a deliberate theme that they could easily wipe out the mind flayers if only they could work together. - There are lots of individual elder brains, each leading colonies of ~100 mind flayers. Not a single, all-ruling brainmommy - The Nine Hells are Avernus, Dis, Minauros, Phlegathos, Stygia, Malbolgre, Maladomini, Cania, and Nessus. “Lust” and “Heresy” don’t factor in at all - The war fought on the first level, part of The Blood War, is between the devils of Baator and the demons of the Abyss - This one varies by edition, but Asmodeus often is specifically considered a non-deity, Ahriman notwithstanding. So my assumption is that when the first party came through, they helped open diplomatic channels between the Gith factions, they stopped the Abyss from spilling into Baator (thus slowing down if not outright ending The Blood War), and Ilsed restructured Baator to its current form. The various Elder Brains all merged into the singular Brainmommy on their own.
If only it was a world if his creation that only borrows elements from traditional dnd
The biker gang in the beginning gave me Fantasy High / Johnny Spells vibes - Daddio!
Same! I couldn't point out what it was reminding me of at first, and then it hit me so hard bsjajka
When is the short rest going to post?
so do the 9 hells look like gat out of hell
I imagine more like heluva boss/hazbin hotel
Were those some Sonic adventure book references with Dancesaw and Ripchain?? So good
Was the short rest being posted later this week?
Damn Murph. Layers on Layers of callbacks!
I'm super excited about this Avernus stuff! I wonder if Murph is going to apply the rules regarding travel on Avernus where distance gets wonky for no reason.
I don’t think it’s Avernus, since the other layers have new names
Gonna get me some Naddpod on!!!! Woot!
Hmm, that Timmy the Tuna song is a little suspicious. “if I fillet here” sounds a hell of a lot like “if I FLAY here”. Timmy the Tuna = The Elder Brain all along?
Hey so I was inspired by the intro and did a dumb thing... I bought huskmusk.com so it redirects to your store page
melora bless you
Anyone feel like the new council of elders shoutouts would be a great way to create doge ball teams at NAD con.
The music for this episode is so top tier! I was running during the buzzers cutters description and I was getting pumped for the fight, then the fight music kicked and I was like, "hell yeah watch this!"
I got a real chrono trigger robo theme vibe there for a bit
I would be so screwed in Bahumia because I get too invested in these NPC's that are horrible people. #teamRipchain
Let's go descent into avernus! Loving the mad max esque stuff!
Hell's music is amazing
The voice given to Buzzer's Cutters sounded like a mix between a borderlands character in Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage and Shaggy from scooby doo. I love it.
The whole place gave me a borderlands feel honestly and i was all for it
Loving the industrial vibe of this sode
Brilliant timing, i was able to listen to it while I did some very boring work in the lab. Also great to hear some Descent Into Avernus inspired stuff, I am about to start DMing and considered running that adventure. Hopefully I'll get to play it at some point
I came up with... way too many husk/musk rhymes, but "Moonshine Cybin: loves the husk, makes the musk" and "riding in a dead goblin god husk/ ridden as a pregnant moose with musk" were my faves
THANK YOU for finally following up on your promise and scrying on your mums
Is it next week yet!?
"she/he nods" weirdly has become my favourite
what an intro.
Yes!! Gonna finish out my night shift with this
For once, thank you insomnia! Excited to listen guys!!!