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Thelandor holds his swords to Quinn's throat while she sleeps. She doesn't know it yet, because in her dream she is somewhere else entirely, and she is not alone.

Twenty Sides, a D&D actual play podcast. Campaign 3, Crownfall, Episode 46.

On the snowy road, Thelandor's night watch becomes a gnoll watch. In her dream, Quinn wakes on red ground scattered with small fires as two figures walk toward her: an eight and a half foot devil whose horns match her own, and the celestial patron she calls Sky Daddy, who cannot see the devil at all. He tells her she is not what her parents did, that her mother is safe, and that she might want to ask the elf why he had swords to her throat. A few hours into the next day's ride the gnoll watch is a gnoll warning, and five gnolls with suspiciously good hair come leaping out of the snowstorm.

In the fight that follows, one of the big gnolls makes a grab for Annabel's bag, which is a very specific thing for a gnoll to want. Thelandor and Annabel carve into the closest of them, Quinn upcasts Witch Bolt for 30 damage, and Miller drops two gnolls in a single turn.

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Twenty Sides is a D&D actual play podcast following a five person table through Crownfall, a dark fantasy Dungeons and Dragons 5e campaign. This episode has a dream visit from an archangel, a tiefling warlock facing her devil father, a gnoll ambush in a blizzard, Witch Bolt, Vow of Enmity, Sneak Attack and Great Weapon Master.

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Miller has one job: keep the mapmakers busy out in the snow. Annabel has to find one map in a tent full of them.

Twenty Sides, a D&D actual play podcast. Campaign 3, Crownfall, Episode 45.

To fix the cracked Focusing Prism, the party needs a map of the forest to the northwest, and every map at the outpost lives in the scholars' tent. An outpost brother brings two scholars out of the tent, and Miller keeps them standing in a snowstorm over the party's map of the portal, grilling one of them about scale, keys and what you are supposed to draw for a portal, until the mapmaker takes Miller's hand and draws it for him. Inside, Annabel unrolls map after map, puts each wrong one back, and slips out with the right one. Miller brushes the mapmaker off by calling him terrible at his job and walking away.

Back in the tent, the brother who helped them is now sure he is part of the team, and he is already pitching names. Zalkim confirms the map, the prism goes into Annabel's bag, and the party rides out into the cold. On the first night under a big tree, Miller tests his new darkvision on watch, Annabel asks Quinn about her Sky Daddy, and the howls out in the dark do not stop.

Every Twenty Sides campaign stands on its own. If you are new, start Crownfall at Episode 1 with the link below and catch up from the beginning.

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Twenty Sides is a D&D actual play podcast following a five person table through Crownfall, a dark fantasy Dungeons and Dragons 5e campaign. This episode has a roleplay heist, a stealth rogue with Reliable Talent, a fighter stalling for time, Persuasion and Investigation checks, survival in the snow, and a night watch in the wilderness.

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They tied the tent shut from the inside. She was already in there.

Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 44.

The prism works exactly the way Zalkum said it would, right up until he holds it to the light and tells them to keep watching for the flash. There is a crack in it. Not a chip, a hairline, the kind you only see for half a second at a time, and it is enough to make the thing useless. Which leaves two options, and the first one ends with the portal staying open forever. The second one is a woman who lives in a thicket to the northwest, who can put it right, and who is described to them in terms that would make most people pick option one.

Back at the tent that night, somebody finally says out loud what the last four months have actually been like, and does something with a cup of water to prove to herself that any of it is happening. And in the morning, getting what they need out of the outpost turns out to cost something nobody saw coming.

New here? Crownfall is a self-contained D&D 5e campaign. Start at Episode 1 and you are caught up in a weekend. Episodes run about 30 minutes, tightly cut, no table admin.

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0:36 Episode 44 begins
31:14 Outro

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If Crownfall is landing for you, subscribe and leave a review. It's the single biggest thing that helps new adventurers find the table.

Twenty Sides is an actual play D&D podcast for anyone who likes their Dungeons and Dragons campaigns tight, character-driven and low on housekeeping. Campaign 3: Crownfall follows Quinn, Miller, Annabel and Thelandor across Averynth, in the world of Eclura. New episodes every week.

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Something on the road opens its mouth and a human voice comes out. It is not its voice.

Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 43.

Two days of walking back toward the outpost with the prism, and on the second night the howling in the trees stops being distant. Six of them are coming up the road, five ordinary and one that is not, and they are not heading anywhere good. The party could let them pass. The party decides not to, and then immediately botches the approach badly enough that the things get to move first, which costs Miller more in one exchange than anything in the observatory managed.

What follows is the most lopsided fight this campaign has produced, in the other direction. Then one of the few still standing opens its mouth, and what comes out is worse than the howling was.

They get the prism to the one person at the outpost they trust with it, and he tells them exactly what it does by way of a story about his childhood that nobody asked for and nobody will forget.

New here? Crownfall is a self-contained D&D 5e campaign. Start at Episode 1 and you are caught up in a weekend. Episodes run about 30 minutes, tightly cut, no table admin.

0:00 Previously on Twenty Sides
0:41 Episode 43 begins
30:46 Outro

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If Crownfall is landing for you, subscribe and leave a review. It's the single biggest thing that helps new adventurers find the table.

Twenty Sides is an actual play D&D podcast for anyone who likes their Dungeons and Dragons campaigns tight, character-driven and low on housekeeping. Campaign 3: Crownfall follows Quinn, Miller, Annabel and Thelandor across Avernth, in the world of Eclura. New episodes every week.

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The prism is finally free. That is when the ceiling gives up.

Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 42.

Annabel gets the prism off its arms with a set of thieves' tools while a reptilian head the size of a table works its way in through the roof. The armored thing they were fighting takes one look and leaves. Thelandor goes up toward the creature instead of away from it, which is either the bravest or the stupidest decision anyone makes this week, and honestly it might be both. Then the whole thing drops into the room and opens its mouth, and the party finds out what it does at range.

Getting out means going up the outside of a dome that behaves like a wet water slide, with a very large animal trying to follow. And then, on the way, somebody finally mentions a detail he has been sitting on for several minutes that would have changed the entire plan.

New here? Crownfall is a self-contained D&D 5e campaign. Start at Episode 1 and you are caught up in a weekend. Episodes run about 30 minutes, tightly cut, no table admin.

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0:35 Episode 42 begins
30:16 Outro

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If Crownfall is landing for you, subscribe and leave a review. It's the single biggest thing that helps new adventurers find the table.

Twenty Sides is an actual play D&D podcast for anyone who likes their Dungeons and Dragons campaigns tight, character-driven and low on housekeeping. Campaign 3: Crownfall follows Quinn, Miller, Annabel and Thelandor across Averynth, in the world of Eclura. New episodes every week.

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Two figures in full plate turn to face the party. There is nothing inside the helmets.

Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 41.

Another floor up in the sunken observatory is a room full of broken windows, and hanging in the middle of it on four metal arms is a prism catching light from every angle. One of the armored things is up a ladder working on the arms when the party walks in. Both of them draw. What follows is a fight the party is winning, except the prism itself keeps lighting up and firing on everyone not behind cover, and they want it off those arms in one piece.

Then something starts moving around on the floor above them. Then it stops moving. Nobody in this room, including the thing in the armor, is prepared for what comes through the ceiling next.

New here? Crownfall is a self-contained D&D 5e campaign. Start at Episode 1 and you are caught up in a weekend. Episodes run about 30 minutes, tightly cut, no table admin.

0:00 Previously on Twenty Sides

0:59 Episode 41 begins

31:40 Outro

Atmospheric background tracks by Tabletop Audio ➡️ https://tabletopaudio.com

If Crownfall is landing for you, subscribe and leave a review. It's the single biggest thing that helps new adventurers find the table.

Twenty Sides is an actual play D&D podcast for anyone who likes their Dungeons and Dragons campaigns tight, character-driven and low on housekeeping. Campaign 3: Crownfall follows Quinn, Miller, Annabel and Thelandor across Averynth, in the world of Eclura. New episodes every week.

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There is one telescope left in the ruin that still works. Looking through it turns out to be a mistake.

Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 40.

They come out of the portal into ground they have never seen, black earth and burnt grass, two hundred feet from an observatory that has sunk into the ground. Something large has been climbing in and out through the torn roof, and something else has dug its own way down to the original doors. The party takes the doors. Inside, under the rubble of a collapsed hall, two things are purring in the dark, and when Quinn throws a lit stone to find out what they are, what comes out to grab it is not a paw.

Upstairs, five observation stations, three of them intact and only one still in working order. It takes two tries to get a picture. The first person to look through it sees someone they recognize standing out in the shroud, which would be fine except that she is also standing right here in the room. Then somebody else takes a turn.

New here? Crownfall is a self-contained D&D 5e campaign. Start at Episode 1 and you are caught up in a weekend. Episodes run about 30 minutes, tightly cut, no table admin.

0:00 Previously on Twenty Sides

0:44 Episode 40 begins

31:16 Outro

Atmospheric background tracks by Tabletop Audio ➡️ https://tabletopaudio.com

If Crownfall is landing for you, subscribe and leave a review. It's the single biggest thing that helps new adventurers find the table.

Twenty Sides is an actual play D&D podcast for anyone who likes their Dungeons and Dragons campaigns tight, character-driven and low on housekeeping. Campaign 3: Crownfall follows Quinn, Miller, Annabel and Thelandor across Averynth, in the world of Eclura. New episodes every week.

Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below.

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A bat flies into the tent, looks around, and flies back out. Nobody at the table thinks it was a bat.

Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 39.

This picks up the same night. Zalkum leaves them with one instruction, tell no one, and a reason to take it seriously that has nothing to do with devils and everything to do with who is running the outpost. Then the party sits in the dark and starts doing the arithmetic out loud: what order any of this has to happen in, whether you close the portal before or after you free what is behind it, and how a person is supposed to reach the Hells in the first place.

By morning they are the talk of the camp. Brother Havoc lets himself into the tent without knocking, and he has questions: the fortress, the map, and whether any of it matches the reports he already has from a world nobody has walked in before. A debrief with command is waiting after that. The interesting part is not what they report. It is the short, quiet conversation they have first about what they are going to leave out.

New here? Crownfall is a self-contained D&D 5e campaign. Start at Episode 1 and you are caught up in a weekend. Episodes run about 30 minutes, tightly cut, no table admin.

Atmospheric background tracks by Tabletop Audio ➡️ https://tabletopaudio.com

If Crownfall is landing for you, subscribe and leave a review. It's the single biggest thing that helps new adventurers find the table.

Twenty Sides is an actual play D&D podcast for anyone who likes their Dungeons and Dragons campaigns tight, character-driven and low on housekeeping. Campaign 3: Crownfall follows Quinn, Miller, Annabel and Thelandor across Averynth, in the world of Eclura. New episodes every week.

Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below.

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They were inside the portal for an afternoon. Everyone at the outpost says they were gone four days.

Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 38.

No combat this week. The party gets back through the gate with Miller's hood pulled low and a deception check standing between him and being turned away, and then they go and fetch the one person at the outpost who might be able to explain what happened to his eyes. They find him buried in three and a half days of scrolls, damaged texts and planar studies, because while they were gone he has been chasing a single question: why does a portal whisper? Portals don't whisper. What he found instead is the reason the party's whole understanding of that thing in the woods has been wrong, most portals are doors, but some of them are windows, and a window works in both directions.

Then he ties the tent shut, tells them he hasn't breathed a word of any of this to a single guard or commander, and asks Quinn what her name is.

New here? Crownfall is a self-contained D&D 5e campaign, start at Episode 1 and you're caught up in a weekend. Episodes run about 30 minutes, tightly cut, no table admin.

If Crownfall is landing for you, subscribe and leave a review, it's the single biggest thing that helps new adventurers find the table.

Twenty Sides is an actual play D&D podcast for anyone who likes their Dungeons and Dragons campaigns tight, character-driven and low on housekeeping. Campaign 3: Crownfall follows Quinn, Miller, Annabel and Thelandor across Avernth, in the world of Eclura. New episodes every week.

Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below.

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Three of them make it through the portal. One of them doesn't, and nobody notices until it's too late.

The chapel fight ends here, and it ends strangely. The party has worked out the rule by now: every spirit they destroy adds another piece to the portal forming against the back wall, so the way out gets built one kill at a time. What they haven't worked out is what the spirits actually wanted. One of them sheds a tear before Annabel puts a dagger through its chest, and the table spends a moment deciding what that means. Two more appear kneeling at the altar, and somebody finally says the thing nobody wanted to say: we're trying to help them, and they have no idea.

Thelandor is down to four maximum hit points, which means one more coin puts him on the floor until the party can manage a long rest. The portal is barely wide enough to shimmy through. And every spirit that dies still has to pass through Miller to get there.

New here? Crownfall is a self-contained D&D 5e campaign — start at Episode 1 and you're caught up in a weekend. Episodes run about 30 minutes, tightly cut, no table admin.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Previously on Twenty Sides
0:25 Episode 37 begins — Crownfall
0:57 Annabel's steady aim and sneak attack
1:52 An ethereal tear
2:06 Round three — how much portal do we need?
3:00 Thelandor's critical hit and divine smite
3:33 Another spirit passes through Miller
4:52 Life drain and uncanny dodge
5:55 What happens when maximum hit points reach zero
7:25 Miller's action surge
8:02 The portal takes shape
9:45 Two spirits kneeling at the altar
10:05 "We're trying to help them"
13:01 Wide enough to shimmy through
14:36 Through the portal
15:50 Two more stand up
20:44 The other side
22:26 A plan
25:27 Out
26:23 Getting their bearings
29:12 Quinn tries something
31:48 Outro

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The figures in the pews don't look hostile. They also don't look like they're coming to say hello.

Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 36.

Episode 35 ended on initiative being rolled in a dark chapel, before anyone had taken a single turn. This one opens with the party finding out what the spirits' tokens actually do — and it is not a blessing.

What follows is a full episode of combat, and it's the strangest fight this campaign has run. The spirits don't simply die. Each one comes apart, travels to the back wall, and starts building something. Piece by piece, kill by kill, a way out assembles itself from the things the party is destroying — which leaves them doing arithmetic nobody wants to say out loud: how many more do we need?

The room keeps refilling. Two of them rise in a pew where they'd been sitting side by side, holding hands. And every time one passes through Miller on its way to the back wall, the party notices something about him is worse than it was.

New here? Crownfall is a self-contained D&D 5e campaign — start at Episode 1 and you're caught up in a weekend. Episodes run about 30 minutes, tightly cut, no table admin.

If Crownfall is landing for you, subscribe and leave a review — it's the single biggest thing that helps new adventurers find the table.

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Twenty Sides is an actual play D&D podcast for anyone who likes their Dungeons and Dragons campaigns tight, character-driven and low on housekeeping. Campaign 3: Crownfall follows Quinn, Miller, Annabel and Thelandor across Avernth, in the world of Eclura. New episodes every week.

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A thousand-year-old hymn finally tells the party what this place was really built for — and why the people who kept the watch never left.

Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 35.

The skeleton is down. Miller's eyes are still glowing blue.

Before anyone can work out why, the party spots a faint light burning under a dead guard's armor — and it isn't the only one. In the barracks they find letters that were never sent, written by soldiers who were afraid but certain their god would protect them. They also find a prayer to that same god carved into the bed frames again and again, and crossed out every single time.

In a ten-by-ten stone offering room, the party uncovers the Hymn of Vigil and Binding: a full liturgy about a king crowned in dawn, a name broken beyond repair, and a watch that was never meant to end. Then there's a final verse, in different handwriting, that the people who wrote it clearly never expected anyone to read.

What the party pieces together from it reframes everything on the other side of the portal — and it has consequences back home that nobody there has noticed yet.

There are stairs going down. Obviously they take them.

Two floors down is the quietest room they've walked into yet. It's already praying.

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The fortress has given Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor powerful new weapons—but every discovery comes with a price.

After defeating the drowned soldiers and searching the ruined courtyard, the party studies a mysterious military map showing a large force moving toward the darkness at the center of this strange realm. The markings suggest failed assaults, identified anchor points, and something being contained deep within the grid. 🗺️🌑

Then Thelandor translates the word written at its center: Prison.

With the party positioned along the outer edge of the map, the scale of their situation becomes terrifyingly clear. Whatever this army fought—and whatever the anchor points are holding—is waiting far deeper inside this world. Before leaving the fortress, the adventurers search a nearby war room filled with armored skeletal remains. There are no broken bones, visible wounds, or obvious signs of how they died. They simply appear to have fallen where they sat.

Miller decides to inspect the greatsword resting before one of the dead commanders. The skeleton grabs his wrist.

Its eyes ignite with the same unnatural blue light seen in the drowned soldiers, and another brutal battle begins. Annabel immediately tests her newly discovered Flame Tongue dagger, driving the burning blade into the undead commander for devastating damage. Quinn finds a far more creative use for her immovable rod, locking it across the creature’s lap and trapping it in its chair. 🔥🛡️

The plan works—but not before the commander strikes Miller with necrotic force and unleashes a terrifying vengeful glare. Miller becomes frightened and completely paralyzed. As the battle continues, his companions notice a faint blue glow beginning to appear in his eyes. Every failed attempt to break free makes the light grow brighter, suggesting the undead creature may be doing far more than simply holding him in place. 🩸👁️

While Miller remains helpless, Annabel and Thelandor tear into the trapped commander. Quinn attempts to blast it from across the room, and the immovable rod turns the enemy’s own chair into a prison. But even after enduring an incredible amount of damage, the skeleton refuses to die.

👑 Crownfall continues deeper into the mysteries beyond the portal.

The party now knows that something is imprisoned at the center of this realm. They just don’t know whether the armies on the map were trying to keep it contained… or trying to set it free.

Welcome to Episode 34 of Twenty Sides: Crownfall.

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Next time… Miller must escape the blue-eyed commander’s control before the fortress claims him too. 👑⚔️

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The drowned soldiers are finally dead—but the fortress ahead may hold something even worse.

Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor continue their brutal first battle beyond the portal, surrounded by undead soldiers capable of draining away their maximum health. Already weakened by the creatures’ attacks, the party must finish the fight before the damage becomes impossible to recover from. ⚔️💀

Annabel strikes with her daggers. Quinn unleashes Eldritch Blasts at close range. Thelandor cuts through the remaining enemies while Miller brings his maul crashing down like a hammer driving a fence post into the earth. At last, all four drowned soldiers fall into the water. But victory brings little relief.

Thelandor’s maximum health has been devastated, and the party remains trapped in an unfamiliar realm illuminated by a strange reddish-purple glow with no visible source. With nowhere else to seek shelter, the adventurers turn toward the ruined fortress looming before them. 🌑🌌

Inside, they discover a horrifying scene. More than forty bodies lie throughout the partially flooded courtyard. Some are skeletal. Others are bloated and waterlogged. None appear to have visible wounds, and there are no insects feeding on the remains. Even more disturbing, strange markings across the floor appear to show military formations—or perhaps the movements of an army. 👁️🩸

Scattered among the dead are several powerful items. Quinn discovers an immovable rod suspended in midair, capable of magically fixing itself in place and supporting thousands of pounds. Miller claims a beautifully crafted magical maul bearing the symbol of Udon. Annabel retrieves a Flame Tongue dagger that erupts with fire during battle. 🔥🔨

Thelandor uncovers something even more important: a map matching the grid markings across the fortress floor. The map shows a large force moving away from their current location and heading deeper into the realm—directly toward the distant darkness.

👑 Crownfall’s portal expedition has only just begun. The party has survived its first battle and found powerful new weapons. Now they know an army passed through this fortress. The only question is what that army was marching toward.

Welcome to Episode 33 of Twenty Sides: Crownfall.

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Next time… Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor follow the trail deeper into the darkness. 👑⚔️

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The party has crossed the portal—and the new world immediately tries to kill them.

Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor barely have time to take in the strange landscape before drowned soldiers rise from the murky ground around them. Rusted blades swing, axes strike from behind, and every enemy carries an ability far more dangerous than its weapon: the power to drain the life directly from its target. 🌊💀

The battle quickly becomes a war of attrition.

Annabel hurls daggers and drives wooden stakes into waterlogged bodies while trying to avoid the strange pools surrounding the battlefield. Quinn fights at close range as undead soldiers swarm her position, forcing her to burn through luck and magic just to remain standing. Miller holds the line with his maul, while Thelandor discovers that every failed defense permanently reduces the strength keeping him alive. ⚔️🩸

These are not ordinary undead. Their touch weakens the party’s maximum health, turning every failed saving throw into damage that cannot simply be healed away. The longer the fight continues, the more dangerous the expedition becomes—not only for this battle, but for everything still waiting ahead. 👁️🌑

Even the party’s strongest attacks struggle to bring the drowned soldiers down. Blades cut through rotting armor. Eldritch blasts tear into soaked flesh. Divine fury lands again and again—but the creatures refuse to fall.

The portal has placed Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor in an alien, unforgiving world with no visible route home and a fortress looming in the distance.

👑 Crownfall has crossed the threshold. The world beyond the portal doesn’t just threaten to kill them. It threatens to leave them weaker with every step.

Welcome to Episode 32 of Twenty Sides: Crownfall.

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Next time… the drowned soldiers still refuse to stay dead. 👑⚔️

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The portal is closer than ever.

After a restless night filled with questions, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor continue their search for answers before stepping into the unknown. With Bram’s terrifying transformation still fresh in their minds and the mystery of Neithera hanging over them, every rumor suddenly feels important. 🌌👁️

Their investigation leads them deeper into the stories circulating throughout the outpost. A child dreams of a king in chains and awakens with bruises around her wrists. Survivors whisper about strange visions. Old tales from the Deep Hallows resurface. And the more the party listens, the more it feels as though unseen forces are moving beneath the surface of everything happening around them. 🕯️🔮

Meanwhile, questions about the portal continue to pile up. What waits on the other side? Why does it seem connected to so many ancient mysteries? And how many people truly understand the danger of entering it? 📜

As dawn arrives, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor gather once more with Lyra Duskbane, Ordon Vale, Garrick, and the leadership of the outpost. Coffee is poured. Plans are discussed. Final preparations begin. ⚔️☕

The portal expedition is no longer a distant possibility. It is happening. And for the first time since Norvale fell, the party finds themselves standing on the edge of something even bigger than the gnoll invasion.

👑 Crownfall takes a deep breath before crossing the threshold.

Because tomorrow may change everything.

Welcome to Episode 31 of Twenty Sides: Crownfall.

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Next time… the portal finally opens before them. 👑⚔️

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The portal has claimed its first victim.

After Bram Deepwood murders a guard and vanishes through the portal, the outpost is thrown into chaos. Alarm bells ring through the night, soldiers scramble for answers, and the leadership of the outpost is left trying to contain a situation that may already be out of control. 🌌⚔️

But for Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor, one mystery overshadows all the others. A single word.

Neithera. 🔮

The portal didn’t merely whisper this strange name—it spoke directly to Annabel and Quinn. Personal. Intentional. Almost as if it knew them.

Refusing to ignore the warning, the party begins searching for answers before dawn. Their investigation points toward a reclusive scholar known for collecting knowledge others cannot find. If anyone in the outpost knows the meaning of Neithera, it may be him. 📜👁️

As rumors spread throughout the camp, tension rises with every passing hour. Bram is already beyond the portal. The leadership is scrambling to respond. And whatever waits on the other side of the gateway seems to be reaching back into the world they know. 🌑

For the first time, the mystery of the portal feels personal. Not because it threatens the realm. But because it appears to know exactly who Annabel and Quinn are.

👑 Crownfall moves closer to the threshold. The gnolls, the pale blue ash, the prism, Bram, and the portal all seem connected. Now the party just has to discover how.

Welcome to Episode 30 of Twenty Sides: Crownfall.

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Next time… the search for Neithera begins. 👑⚔️

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The portal is no longer whispering. It’s speaking.

As night falls over the outpost, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor keep watch over the mysterious gateway that has dominated every conversation since their return from Norvale. Rumors swirl throughout camp. Bram Deepwood remains as suspicious as ever. And the portal itself seems determined to draw attention. 🌌👁️

While Miller and Thelandor patrol the area, Annabel and Quinn sit together beneath the strange glow of the portal, staring into its shifting depths and hoping for answers. Instead, they receive something far more unsettling. A name, a voice, a command.

The portal speaks directly to them, repeating a word neither of them has ever heard before: Neithera. Then, as the strange vision deepens, the message becomes even more personal.

“Annabel, thy Neithera, come.” 🔮🕯️

Neither Annabel nor Quinn recognize the name. No story. No legend. No memory connects to it. Yet the voice feels deliberate, intelligent, and impossible to ignore. Before they can make sense of what happened, another problem arrives. Bram.

Wrapped in a dark cloak and moving through the camp with suspicious confidence, Bram approaches the portal under cover of night. What follows is a tense confrontation with the guards as he insists that the outpost leadership has granted him permission to enter the gateway. 🌑⚔️

Whether he is telling the truth—or manipulating everyone around him—remains unclear. But one thing is certain, Bram wants inside the portal. And the portal may already want something from Annabel.

👑 Crownfall takes another step into the unknown. Because some doors do more than open. Sometimes they call your name.

Welcome to Episode 29 of Twenty Sides: Crownfall.

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Next time… the portal’s secrets may finally begin to reveal themselves. 👑⚔️

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The adventure back from Norvale may be over—but something far stranger is waiting at the outpost.

After returning with survivors and delivering their report to Brother Harvick, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor find themselves facing a growing problem. The mysterious Bram Deepwood has made no secret of his intentions. He wants the portal. And worse, he plans to reach it before anyone can stop him. 🌌👁️

As the party settles back into life at the outpost, questions begin piling up faster than answers.

Why was a former portal explorer abandoned in the wilderness after returning covered in strange sores? What really happens to those who disappear beyond the gate? And why does it seem like the outpost leadership is losing control of the situation? ⚔️🕯️

While Thelandor keeps a close eye on Bram, Quinn and Annabel uncover a chilling rumor spreading through the camp. The portal whispers at night. Some claim it calls people by name. Others refuse to go anywhere near it after dark. 🌑

The more they learn, the more urgent their mission becomes. Bram intends to enter the portal soon. The outpost plans another expedition in only a few days. And Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor are beginning to realize they may not have time to wait for permission. 🔥

👑 Crownfall stands at the edge of a turning point. The horrors of Norvale revealed what is happening to the world. The portal may reveal why.

Welcome to Episode 28 of Twenty Sides: Crownfall.

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Next time… the portal stops being a mystery and becomes a destination. 👑⚔️

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Sleep doesn’t last long in Crownfall.

As the party continues their cautious journey back toward the outpost, Annabel hears something chilling during her watch—a distant scream echoing through the darkness of the forest. Not once, but twice. 🌙🌲

The sound is wrong.

Muffled. Painful. Desperate.

Unsure whether it’s a trap, a prisoner, or something even stranger, Annabel and Quinn immediately begin investigating. Familiars are sent into the night. Headcounts are taken. Bram is watched closely. But the scream remains unexplained. 👁️

Soon, Miller and Thelandor are awakened, and the four adventurers make a choice that has become all too familiar:

They head straight toward the danger. ⚔️

Guided only by moonlight and instinct, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor push deeper into the woods until they discover a small lean-to hidden among the trees. A campfire burns softly beneath it. Two figures sit in the darkness.

And one of them appears to be the source of the screams. 🔥

But as the party watches from a distance, something feels off.

This isn’t a torture scene.

This isn’t an ambush.

At least… it doesn’t seem to be.

🕯️ Crownfall continues to remind the party that not every mystery in the wilds can be solved with steel.

Sometimes the hardest part is figuring out what’s really happening before you act.

Welcome to Episode 27 of Twenty Sides: Crownfall.

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Next time… the strangers finally explain themselves. 👑⚔️

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