Eldermourne - Ep. 21: The Crux
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The Third Mates learn about some strange happenings under the mountain from Losgrar, then venture off to investigate. Fia gets a scare, Zirk gets in deep, and Henry gets some disturbing news.
Music / Sound Effects Include:
"Club chatter, London" by mlteenie at Freesound.org.
"A Wizard's Tournament" by Emily Axford.
"The Red Fen" by Emily Axford.
"The Lonely Autumn" by Emily Axford.
"Kingshammer" by Emily Axford.
"Zirk" by Emily Axford.
"Henry" by Emily Axford.
"Spooky Shafts" by Emily Axford.
"Friend for Life" by Emily Axford.
"Baroness" by Emily Axford.
"Blackthorn Hall" by Emily Axford.
"Cursed" by Emily Axford.
"Soul Coins" by Emily Axford.
"Into the Planar Pool" by Emily Axford.
Comments (54)
The Zirk foreshadowing in the intro 😭
still annoys me that licking fire dealt any more than 1 damage. like they treat it as such a ridiculous action and it is silly but 6 fucking damage? for licking? is this fire hotter than the sun?
This is my favorite t shirt to wear
For some reason every time Shank gets summoned I want him to say "WASSSUUPP!"
💪🏽WE ARE A SMAPPHIRE 💪🏽
Anyone else having issue with the episode crashing?
The fucking venom in Caldwell's delivery of "I saw you licking those shells" gets me every time
Sometimes Emily gets way to worked up over blood and hair. You're characters and everyone else CONSTANTLY leaves behind blood after a battle. If Murphy is planning on scrying on someone it's not going to be with a group of kids from the town that saved you. A good amount of time was wasted on that little chase because Emily trips out over blood being used for witchcraft when 98% of the time, it's simply not.
I think she set up caring about blood as a character quirk, and as a bit, but once they set up a premise that strongly and put the blood in a vile like that and lose it, Murph will turn that into a reality and use that against them at a later time, he is a fan of turning their bits against them and is a big believer of turning things into a Chekov’s gun and making sure it is used. Also, this whole thing was because Zurch went on his own with ruffians and 1 hp.
Re listening to this season and I fully appreciate these characters more. However My first listen...i realize this episode made me so mad at zerk lol
Also on a re-listen. These first few arcs are 🔥
100% imagine fia punching the pillow with Both fists at the same time lmao
I wish more of the naddpod music would be in Spotify.
I just realized that we never talk about the parallels between Jake in real life and Henry, Jake's got Tucker and Henry's got Carlisle!
I know, I was hoping Murph was gonna name the new guy Tucker but oh well. I'm pretty sure the parallels gonna come up though. It has to
So what are Honk Honkfish’s weapons now? Does he have the claws forever now?
🎵WHERE IS MY BOY tonight I hope he is a gentleman🎵
Oh. So it’s a Bloodbourne.
first crappy vcr's, now a dating app.... thanks mom and dad for that. anyway.... i'm being transported
Respect your evil NPCs when they try to awkwardly convey their lore! Someone worked very hard on it, and it's just rude to ignore them.
Blood and stone.... sounds familiar... i called it if they turn out to be evil
God damnit!! Fia saying "I go make love to one" to Murphy "murphy bed" joke made me snort laugh and spill coffee all over myself!!
This episode honestly had some really good examples of d&d. The market segment was probably my favorite. Small detail I liked but I thought it was really clever to just have the market yelling out what they were selling to just let the players know. Functionally, it felt like a videogame shopping area with also this fun flavor of some of the shops being poorer quality. Really good dming Zirk sussing out the shady vs quality shops was an interesting and fitting player action. Also I really liked Murph giving his players a newspaper. An effective way of establishing threads of information to have on the back burners of their mind as you quest forward Sorry if this comment is messy, more than anything I just appreciate your guys back and forth, the solid communication between everyone is something to appreciate.
I know it was weeks ago that it happened but the name shank is still so hilarious
I love how mind flayers and spectators are sometimes the pinnacle of a campaign because of their rich lore but in Eldermourne they’re just something that the deep folk have to deal with as they’re racing down a river nbd. Absolutely love the pacing of the storytelling of this campaign. Keep it up y’all!!
loved this episode! especially w hank acting as the spokesperson for the third mates :) super excited for what comes next!!
Also, in keeping with the King of Pigeons comment- does anyone else think Caldwell has gotten more gonzo in his decisions since coming back? Not a criticism at all! I just love that you can tell he is enjoying all of this so much!
Favorite part: when you could tell Murph had had enough playing the blacksmith, "Go away!" and "there is now a sign saying 'closed for lunch'."
Never follow a child to a second location
Please make the Bills mafia one shot happen #billsby40
Oh, sweet trusting Zirk. Teens are always bad news. Always.
Jake saying “glory to Zelbuldra” to that kids mom was sooo funny to me
Caldwell is pure chaos unleashed from hell
"Curiosity is good until you lick something." Words Caldwell will, without a doubt, say to his daughter one day soon! If he hasn't already! 🤣
Caldwell is allergic to good decisions lol
Batilda gives off Nana Kindleaf vibes
this is my first episode "live" after catching up on both campaigns! can't wait!
We need smaphire merch!!!
“All right, fuck off”...I spit out my coffee! LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
Vomit berry was crazy, but Caldwell was in peak form tonight. The first action of the episode was Zirk licking fire and passing out. In the first four minutes Zirk was knocked out. Then came the entire ‘target practice’ thing. Erlin’s sword was foolish, but there was logic there, there was emotion there...the first 30 minutes of the latest episode is nonstop bananas because Zirk is an incredibly silly person.
Which Caldwell choice was more insane - trying to goof a god or going out alone in an unknown city for target practice and then following a group of ruffians into a dark cave. (Keep in mind Zirk could have rested first for four hours then gone out)
The vomit berry was way more insane lmao besides some light razzing, the Deepfolk never gave off a shady vibe. I think the most insane Caldwell call was taking Erlin's Plague sword back to Gladeholm.
I love this so much!
They were at the crick already in the first campaign, and thinking we’re already that far into this campaign makes me sad for the ending, and we’re only on episode 21! Murph is so good at weaving a story and I can’t think of a better cast of people to make his world come alive. Love you guys.
To be fair, excluding the Hexbloods arc, we're only actually 15 episodes into the main campaign.
So much Bev energy this episode lmao I love it
Stoked!
Just caught up, so this is great timing!
A fatty of an episode! Thanks y’all, pumped to have this for our road trip tomorrow
Needed this today was getting really sad not seeing that notification. Honk Honk!!!
Oh my god yes just when I needed something to listen to!!
Thursday is podcast day, and on Wednesdays we wear pink!
these notifications are literal instant serotonin
Thank you daddy Murphy!