Twilight Sanctorum - Ep. 4: Masquerade
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Private Investigators Frankie, Penny, and Mavid Vantasmo attend a masquerade! Frankie is haunted by a memory, Penny makes a connection with a puppet, and Mavid takes a bath. 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:
"Club chatter, London" by mlteenie at Freesound.org.
"A Knock at the Door" by Emily Axford
"Twilight Sanctorum" by Emily Axford
"The Client" by Emily Axford
"Doppelganger" by Emily Axford
"The Shard" by Emily Axford
"The Smithy's Hut" by Emily Axford
"Friend for Life" by Emily Axford
"Dolores the Puppet" by Emily Axford
"Frankie Vantasmo" by Emily Axford
"Eternal Return: Frankie's Reprise" by Emily Axford
"The Scale - Piano Reprise" by Emily Axford
"The Gambling District" by Emily Axford
"Bonkginya, Fia Bonkginya" by Emily Axford
"Too Many Eyes" by Emily Axford
"Shostakovich Second Waltz on Guitar" by hermanruzh on freesound.org
"Left is Left and Right is Center" by Emily Axford
"Zirk Vervain" by Emily Axford
"In the Dark of Dusk" by Emily Axford
"Cured by the Light" by Emily Axford
"Angels and Devils" by Emily Axford
"Sea Beast" by Emily Axford
"Crash Landing" by Emily Axford
"Cruel Crescendo" by Emily Axford
"Demi-God" by Emily Axford
"Acid Rain" by Emily Axford
"The Scale" by Emily Axford
"The Prodigal Sister" by Emily Axford
"The Twinkling Lights of Galaderon" by Emily Axford
"The Forest" by Emily Axford
"The Pact" by Emily Axford
"Gunvar" by Emily Axford
"Haunting Visages" by Emily Axford
"Bittersweet Sixteen" by Emily Axford
Comments (144)
Every October I give this series a relisten and pray for a sequel
SUPER excited for the return of this campaign when it rolls around as well 🖤
I truly hope to see more Twilight Sanctorum eventually. Its my favorite thing NADDPOD has done, I could listen to an 80 episode season of it.
Please bring them back 🙏
This continues to be my favorite thing you guys have ever done. Any chance that it will ever be revisited?
A travesty that this hasn't been continued
MORE TWILIGHT SANCTORUM
I'd join the damn council of elders for another TS series. Emily is such an incredible dm
Ough the music for the resurrection spell was SO GOOD
Vote for more TS!! Please please please!
straight up cried at frankie desperately huffing the little death fumes. shit hit hard
OMG, More TS please. Loving all of this!
Im crossing my fingers we get more after trinyvale×strahd wraps up!
Spooky season has ended but never the less I cry if we got more TS
I've been re-listening to TS and wanted to leave a note saying how much I love this series! I hope we get more some day!
Omg I have no idea how patreon works so no clue if the crew will see this but I am dying for more of this campaign for spooky season!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Please continue this series! Too many interesting loose ends to leave them all undone.
Hoping beyond hope we get more Twilight Sanctorum for spooky season
just finishing up a relisten - again. thanks two crew 🫶🏼
I hope we eventually get another Twilight Santorum campaign. I love these characters and the story Emily laid out for them!
Cant believe its already been 2 years almost since this amazing campaign. No one imbues the same kind of pathos and visceral imagery into their GMing like the Dungeon Docent. Heres to hoping we get a sequel soon.
Callum Woodhouse is who i picture for Mavid (in the Durrells, or any other similar character he's played)
i'm obsessed with the lil xylophone puppet music. so… mischievous
This makes me so excited to play some “one shots”/“four shots” for once
This is some impressive stuff right here. The part where Frankie persuaded the guard to basically try to save a collapsing relationship and have him take the guard watch had me dying. Imagine working at a McDonald’s and all the sudden a random man starts working at the cash register while the employ says, “This is my fast-food chain too!” And just sits down and eats a Big Mac.
The gang’s performances in this campaign are so different from C1 — having a D&D show feels like the absolute dream goal for pure writer-actors
I name the puppet the name we were going to name Mavid if he was a girl?? That's so fucking funny!
Emily (as Edgar) reflected true Murph energy with: “You want ME to be an UNSPEAKING ROLE in HAMLET???” The AUDACITY! 🤣🤣🤣
We need more plzzzz
Revisiting Twilight Sanctorum for spooky season and its even better than I remembered!! It's easy to feel all the heart and soul you guys put into this one 🧡🖤
It’s October and I need more of this series now, thanks
Okay guys. October is right around the corner. Get your daggers and dog cones ready for hopefully another installment in the plane of shadows!
What an amazing telling. What do I love about this setting? It's all the monsters you fight in dnd but now they're normalized, they're in their monster city. I loved Franky becoming a friend to a hag, a vampire benefactor who knows kindness, ghouls that run a business.
Emily. Wow. This was amazing. What a world, what a story. The guys did a great job with their characters (Jake’s best character yet) but Emily knows how to weave a wonderful tale! More please!!!!
One of NADDPOD’s best works here.
I need more. Just like Freg.
and i need more Freg!
Twilight Sanctorum has been a joy to listen to! I loved the interactions and dynamic between all the PCs and Emily definitely nailed the noir tone and tropes!! The mystery was super fun and the story took shape in such a cool way! I hope we get to hear more from the Vantasmos and their illustrious Dungeon Docent one day!
It is my first time commenting but I wanted to say how much I loved listening to Twilight Sanctorum. Emily, your ability to weave a story is amazing. Thank you so much for your hard work. It is inspiring. This adventure is a favourite of mine to listen before bed and I always have sweet dreams. The whole team did such a great job and just the delightful twists and turns just make it a fun listen. As a long time listener, I just want to say you guys are wonderful.
Well said
I know this is probably waiting for next spooky season, but we need more of these ghouls!!! I love them so much
Twilight Sanctorum has been so excellent, as what Hot Boy Summer. Love your guys individual DM styles, you are an excellent podcast and compliment each other's styles so well
We need more!!! Can’t wait for the “get Pennys blood back” arc
I need more of this. Everything Emily DM’s is gold. The three ghouls are comedic platinum. Give the people what we want. More Twilight Sanctorum!
That was incredible I laughed so hard so many times Mavid was just pure goat
I LOVED this so much!!!! ❤️❤️❤️ Like, truly wonderful. More please!!!!
This might be the best single episode y’all have produced of anything since the King Dragon fight. So effortlessly atmospheric, equal parts hilarious and spooky and emotional. I adore how Emily’s mood leans toward the murky but she doesn’t let it get in the way of her cackling delight at great jokes and meaningful touches. Really wonderful stuff.
Lol Jake's voice in this series is just too hilarious, I Loved hank's voice but this is somehow much better
SO GOOD SO GOOD WANT MORE PLZ ♥️♥️♥️
This was masterful! I would LOVE LOVE LOVE more Twilight Sanctorum
MORE PLEASE
I never write on patreon but dammit I need more!!!
This was SO GOOD - more please!
I demand more Mavid content.
I have relistened to Murph’s nat 20 persuasion check about 5 thousand times
Ohmygod please I need this as a full campaign I love these characters and Emily doing spooky horror DMing so much! 🖤🖤🖤🖤
I'm absolutely loving this series. So glad you guys brought it to the main feed because I need so much more of it
What would Calder think of Dolores?!
Put listening to this away for a bit cause I didn't want it to end [and was getting into my rewatch of the first arcs of c3], but it was worth the wait!! Really hope we see more of Dungeon Docent Emily messing with the Vantasmos eventually! (And sounds like y'all do too lol.) Also, a rose to Murph cause listening to Frankie this episode was heartbreaking, like, his kindness to Able Miss Mabel at the end, and that decision about Trudea... cathartic stuff my man. Also another rose (to Caldwell probably?) cause I just realized Twanc/the Vantasmos have their own lil d20 emblems like other pcs!! Love how their initials were worked into the designs!!
Really amazing series, can’t wait for the next part 😍
This is the BEST extra content ever on any patreon. I realllllllly hope to hear more from this crew. Thank-you so so much!
Loved this mini series so much
I love Emily's worldbuilding so much! I have a feywilde adventure coming up in a homebrew D&D game where a major archfey NPC can weave the night itself, and her sisters the moon and the stars. They're all the humanoid-fey offspring of a giant spider that weaves fate and story itself. I think I'm gonna bung a moonweaver bird and spinning magical spiders in for sure. Thanks for the extra inspo! :D
Emily did an amazing job with the soundtrack- I am desperately waiting for the sake of my home game to get ahold of these tracks to use at my table! Also would always love to hear more of Emily DMing!
Sorry this needs to be a full season. So good
“platinum - jeez louise” lmfaoooo
This arc was so much fucking fun!! This is a world I want to spend more time in, and the characters had such fantastic chemistry!! I’m down for 100 episodes of Twilight Sanctorum, and I’d love to see the Vantasmos live!!
Need more of the Vantasmos!
Caldwell plays Penny so sweetly, I want him to be happy!
Murph and Emily acted Trudea’s death scene so impactfully. I could imagine Frankie staring down, mournfully, as the tense grimace fell from Trudea’s face-that maybe the urn caught a glint of moonlight and Frankie saw Lynette in its reflection- I’m sorry…I’m sorry.” Frankie’s mercy and compassion really touched me. I love these boys
YES!!! Frankie's apologies to her totally sounded like they were for Lynette, it was really heartbreaking
This arc was such a beautifully executed dramedy- the intrigue was so consistent, the emotions so real, and the bits so fucking funny!!! Everyone killed it: Frankie and Penny, my beloved sad boys, Mavid, my bastard gremlin son, and Emily- dungeon docent of the stars!!!
More please Dungeon Mommy!
Mavid has got to be my new favourite character. I hope we get more of the Vantasmo's in the future!
I love Jake of course, but he really ramped up the humor and role playing with Mavid to a whole new level!
Twilight Sanctorum has been so good!! Loved it
Amazing everyone! The character were perfect, love the family! The story, the scene, the setting, the atmosphere, EMILY just perfect! I will always support more Twilight Santorium! Ya'll just let me know the Patreon Tier and I'll be there!
Bravo, Emily!
Just finished and bravo 👏 everyone was spectacular!! I don’t know how it will happen but I want a Sanctorum and hot boys summer cross over
PLEASE DO MORE OF THIS!!!! IT IS SOOO GOOOD
This campaign has such a fun dynamic - really into it, all. Huge fun!
This world is so fun! The atmosphere is so lush and I love how the world is crazy and fun as well as spooky and gloomy. I'm looking forward to catching up with the Vantasmo's again.
Caldwell plays such a good dad character, I actually teared up when we saw young Frankie being so nice and encouraging to Penn, he's chasing that good time he remembers and overdoing it sometimes
Emily (and all) are so talented. I hope we see more of this wonderful group of characters and her DMing.
So I've been wanting a replacement to Trinyvale to have along side the main campaign like campaign 1. I do believe we have it with Twilight Sanctorum. Can't wait for the next arc of TS and C3. Thanks for another great year and happy new year.
I LOVE this campaign!! The way the characters interact, Jake's hilarious character 😂, Emily's wild creativity, Murph a d Caldwell's exceptional ability to yes-and, and Caldwell's absolutely terrible jokes 😂. It's all so good!
Man just like everyone else is saying. This was absolutely amazing. Emily is a phenomenal DM(/DD) You crafted this world so expertly and Murph Caldwell and Jake played their characters incredibly (Mavid might be my favorite character) I am also so happy that this is going to be continuing in the future i would love to see a longer campaign by Emily. You guys are 👌. (Also I saw someone else say in previous comment but we have to know who killed Lynette. Love all the open ended things that you have left to continue this)
Okay but now I need more Twilight Sanctorum! The vibes, everything, please let this become a thing even if it's just every now and then. I need this 😩 🥰🥰
Emily smashed this out of the park; she is the VIBE QUEEN. Absolutely loved the boys dynamic when they're all playing together, especially that they're grandfather, father and son😂😂😂
100% would love this as an ongoing campaign
Able Miss Mable is the wholesome hag I didn't know my soul needed thanks for such a stellar story! Emily's melancholy mystery just 10/10 no notes loved it!
i absolutely LOVED this campaign! i love the idea where the goal of an adventure is to reincarnate someone, and the motivation being so professional-driven is so charming in a way that shows how loyal and dedicated the party is. and the ending teasing a next adventure featuring nicco is so exciting!! i really hope this campaign comes back sooner than later, absolute loved it
would love to see emily dm the next naddpod campaign!!!
Steals puppet from the house, comes back to house the next day showing off the puppet 😂
lmao I was so sure that was going to come into play
Why does mayvid speak to my inner self so.... I am afraid for what this says about me.
Truly an inspired 4-shot. Can't wait to revisit these characters and this world in the future.
Holy shit. Emily is an amazing DM and Storyteller. She’s incredible.
If this story doesn’t continue I will be deeply bummed out. If Able Miss Mable and Frankie don’t find domestic happiness together, I will be okay because the story continued but also a little bummed. Edit: I couldn’t leave this just as it was. Emily was a good DM for The Mavrus Chronicles but it’s rad as hell as a fan to hear her become truly excellent.
They are literally the Pawn Star guys
Twilight Sanctorum every other week would be a dream come true, either between Campaign 3 episodes or even just as the next full-time campaign
Amazing Mavid for the win!
Twilight Sanctorum was so much fun! Please DD Emily, please let there be more!
Bravo! Anyone else ship Frankie and Able Miss Mable?
Amazing! I laughed too hard at Frankie's optimism during his flashback scene
Frankie's "Little Death" scene is case in point why I love your storytelling. So quick and clever, funny, tragic, and poignant at the same time. Just came to say bravo.
Okay hear me out…. Jasper or Zac as a guest for the next season of TWANC
Oh yes. That would be amazing.
Mavid is my fav character of Jake’s. He really was hilarious and quick during this series. Just so so well done
Please let there be another Twanc adventure, we gotta know who killed Lynette!
I love Mavid so much. I need more of this campaign!
More. MORREEEEE. (Please I beg, return to the Twilight Sanctorum soon) 💕
Okay but like…I may prefer this to Campaign 3 lol And Miss Mabel made me miss Fia!
I simply need MOAR. I love it!
Love these characters, love the setting, and love Emily as DM! Thanks for the constant laughs, ya ghouls!
Def happy it seems like there will be more arcs of this- TS is 10/10 and I love every time Emily DM’s. So good keep it up. Love the characters.
Seriously, pretty please may we have more and more episodes of this series??? Emily is SUCH A GOOD DM and the family dynamic is just perfect and hysterical!!! Thank you guys so much!!!🖤🖤🖤
Noooo! the skeleton!
Ah man that was an awesome short shot! Thanks for putting it out during the holiday lull. 👍
Never thought I would hear reference to a dark room in Nadpod. I support this.
I am so so glad you guys promised to do more of these! I'd love to see a full length campaign in this world. Everyone in this crew is so talented, but Emily is my favorite dm of any actual play, and this world is so imaginative and fun. Plus, the private eyes played by the boys have me laughing like every two minutes minimum.
I don't usually comment and just listen/lurk quietly, but I LOVED this arc. I'm so glad you're setting up for more. Shoutouts to Emily for being such an INCREDIBLE DM, but also let's give Jake credit for making the most lovable and despicable character in any campaign. I'm Mavid's biggest fan, he's my little deviant.
I absolutely loved this series! Amazing job from everybody, especially DM Emily!
MORE!!!
Absolutely phenomenal work Emily. Every single campaign you've dmed has been absolutely amazing.
Thrilled! Thrilled! Delighted, I say!
That acoustic Shostakovich was really good
So much for getting any sleep before work lol
Shostakovich hell yeah
Aw gheez lousie
WOOOOOO FINALLY EPISODE 4
It's hereee!!!!!
Was about to hire Vantasmo and sons to investigate the whereabouts of the episode!
Nothing better than a thick late night 'sode before bed 😎
Much love to our beloved dungeon docent
Thank for the 'sode🤤
It surely is thic
🥹 the gaggle of ghouls to the rescue
I was just about to go to bed but now I got to listen to
what better time to listen to the twanc finale than midnight? much love to y'all and a happy new year
hell yeah brother love to see it
Thank ya’ll for your hard work🥹
🖤
gotta love the refresh that does it !!
