This week's episode is a follow up to last week's since my brother and I started a new Thirteenth Hour DnD campaign using the rules of the Infinite Stories system Jeremy created (detailed in episode 551), and I wanted to also include those adventures in the timeline since they take place in the nebulous time frame between the events of The Thirteenth Hour and the sequel. That said, as more events start to fill that period, it starts to get less nebulous! -After the events of The Thirteenth Hour, when Logan and Aurora leave the Capital City of their country, Tartec, for the island later discussed more in the sequel, we actually learn more about the Capital City itself as well as some new protagonists, detective Lester LeFoe and his assistant, Claudia Copperhoof, who are involved with The Case of the Almost Assassination (saving King Darian IV from a would be assassin, events that are actually referenced in the short story, Falling Leaves Don't Weep. -Some time after this, we are introduced to the character of the half-elf freedom fighter, the Wayfarer, who features heavily in the sequel. His story nearly ends when he takes on King Darian IV's army, but in events not explained until the sequel, he does not exactly die, but rather escapes and finds his way eventually to the island where Logan and Aurora now reside, as that island is a haven for half elves. This story is detailed in The Wayfarer's Escape Parts 1, 2, and 3. -Before the Wayfarer actually gets to the safety of said island, however, he ends up in dungeon crawl territory, detailed in episodes 418 and 419, The Wayfarer's Dungeon Crawl. -Around this time, Lester and Claudia take us back to Aquaria, the sleepy village that Logan and Aurora grow up in. The ghost of Mrs. Hortense Brunscomb, a character mentioned briefly in The Thirteenth Hour, and the woman who essentially raised Logan and Aurora, comes back from the afterlife to try to make things right in the orphanage she ran for so long. This is told in The Case of the Grandmotherly Ghost. -Not long after, we meet the grizzled character of Axel, one of the Imperial Explorers, when he sets out on a series of adventures to remote corners of Tartec to investigate strange happenings involving otherworldly creatures. Those stories are detailed in a woodland adventure (episodes 467 and 468) and a trip to the frigid northern Tartec territories in a two part adventure called, Into the Rift (episodes 531 and 532). -After Axel returns from his last adventure, we return back to the going-on of Lester and Claudia, in The Case of the Troubled Territory. This is the adventure we most recently started, which, in the world of The Thirteenth Hour, takes place about a year and a half after the events of Lester and Claudia's last big adventure, The Case of the Grandmotherly Ghost (in in real-life years, it has been almost 8 years!) Axel, the Imperial Ranger Esmerelda Millicent, William the Wizard, Wander the Wizard, King Darian IV, and a number of other characters from previous adventures return. It was a lot of fun to revisit these characters, kind of like catching up with old friends, and I'm very lucky to have a brother who takes such an interest this world that mostly occupies a lot of rent-free space in my noggin! Jeremy recorded the playthrough, and it's available on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_3ep80UBNE&t=725s&pp=0gcJCS4MAYcqIYzv -I imagined that the main events of Dare, The Thirteenth Hour sequel, would begin some years after all this, as they take place about ten years after The Thirteenth Hour ends. More next week! ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Signup for the mailing list for a free special edition podcast, a demo copy of The Thirteenth Hour, and access to retro 80s soundtrack!Like what you see or hear? Consider supporting the show over at Thirteenth Hour Arts on Patreon or adding to my virtual tip jar over at Ko-fi. Join the Thirteenth Hour Arts Group over on Facebook, a growing community of creative people.
