Our Delvers put as much space between Landsmith's Rocket and themselves as possible, and are en route to the fabled haven of Hallow. However, they must first make it through the perilous pitfalls of The Barbed Shacks. On the way, they discover a secret entrance belonging to the famed Gryndel Club, a door to nowhere with no key. Our travellers must make a choice: to brave the known dangers of the path before them, or to step into the mysterious doorway, not knowing what may be lurking behind.

Real Fantasy Encounters

Delve 14 - The Barbed Shacks

Muz'zel has a son! And worse, he's in the Heart working as a navigator in the Space Boudoir of St. Landsmith. It is imperative our delvers take him out of this horrible place, but there are fires on the horizon, and the Holy Church of the Moon Beneath may have something different to say...

Delve 13 - Seeing a Man about a Dog

A supposed saint has built a rocketship in the Heart for an interstellar quest, but Hyponikon has reason to doubt that it will ever take off. Light reads about an angel that eats people, and Muzz'el meets some human cultists with suspiciously gnollish tech.

Delve 12 - The Space Boudoir

Our delvers are bound for Hallow having escaped the clutches of the Papillius Library, and the vengeful ploys of the Drow Vigilites. They find themselves randomly spat into the infested wilderness beyond the library. In front of them is an all-too-convenient inconvenience store, and on the horizon: a derelict space-faring vessel. The Heart is yet to reveal itself.

Delve 11 - A Trap Door

Having acquired an assortment of arcane tomes, our Delvers' path through the Heart will take them to the haven of Hallow, the domain of the 1111-eyed angel: Theolosian. Between them and the perilous comfort of the Heart is an infestation of corrupted Papillius moths... But all bugs die the same under the crushing weight of a Heretic's brazier.

Delve 10 - Knowledge is Power

Our delvers are en route to exact a moth's revenge against an expert bug collector. In exchange it will lead them to the Papillius Library, an archive of knowledge nobody knows. Within our delvers will uncover secrets about their own mystifying conditions, and glimpse the true nature of the Heart.

Delve 09 - Tomes Abound

Moon's Chosen Light takes a tour through Silverfish Park with fellow High-elf and avid bug collector: Camo. While they're distracted, Hyponikon takes a tour behind the velvet rope and sneaks a look at Camo's private collection. Meanwhile, at the B&B, Muz'zell eludes a vengeful Warband of Heretics. At the centre of all of this is Camo's prized specimen: a dead (for now at least) Pupilia moth.

Delve 08 - Like a Moth to Vengeance

Our delvers find their way to a bug collector's haven on the other side of the sabotaged ski-lift where they meet two deep apiarists managing a Bed & Breakfast. Muz'zel seeks answers about their enigmatic curse while Hyponikon and Moon's-Chosen-Light admit themselves to Silverfish Park and infiltrate a prestigious entomologist's private collection.

Delve 07 - Honeymead Helpers

Muzz'el attempts to coerce the delvers into riding a rickety ski lift into the unfathomable depths of the Heart. From the outside Muzz'el appears lucid, but Moon's Chosen Light suspects them of supernatural treachery. Will our delvers hold fast? Or will they indulge the whim of the bees?

Delve 06 - Honeyed Words

Our delvers must survive the abhorrent Bloodbeast they have encountered on the slopes deeper into the Heart. There will be no time to lick their wounds. At the ski lift beyond is a packless Gnoll from the other side. Not everything is as it appears with this stranger, but not everything is as it appears with Muzz'el either... The bees have plans. Our delvers cannot be allowed to interfere...

Delve 05 - Ski Lift Stranger

Our Delvers return to the place where their fates became intertwined. Within lie unpredictable horrors, and the threat of bees and Bloodbeasts. Can our Delvers overcome the perils of the Reaperwood, or will Hyponikon's divine greed lead them to their deaths?

Delve 04 - The Reaperwoods

Our Delvers locate the Temple of the Moon Beneath, but without a shipment of swords to trade they are merely another band of foolhardy pilgrims. A merchant makes an open wager, and Hyponikon accepts... This merchant doesn't know what happens when you kill a Red Priest.

Delve 03 - Godly Errands

Our Delvers' first stop is the Sword Kitchen at the Temple of the Moon Beneath. But between them and the church is a zealot with a rifle and deep-set prejudice against pigeon-brained automatons. It's up to Moon's Chosen Light to negotiate the only way he knows how - with smoke and blood.

Delve 02 - Delve Mommy

On our first Episode of Heart: The City Beneath we are introduced to our Delvers: a sordid assortment of displaced outcasts searching for meaning in the grotesque, cavernous reaches of the Heart. Moon's Chosen Light, the Heretic, hears the profane sirensong of the Moon Beneath calling to him; Muzz'el, the Deep Apiarist, seeks a cure for their twisted form of honeycomb and reunion with their familiar pack; and Hyponikon Screed, the Incarnadine, follows salt trails and scrimshaw carvings to the Rhinestone Skywhale, a grim reminder of his life of servitude in the Spire.

Delve 01 - Into the Heart

It all comes down to this. Castaway on the open ocean, all that stands between our detentioneers and freedom is a turncoat, yokai stoner and her loving dad. Will our heroes open the Gate and portal to freedom from Ganymede Island, or will the Foundation wipe their memories and subject them to further future-proofing experiments? Tune in to the finale of our Breakfast Cult campaign and find out!

Report 30 - A Dream of Blurred Bodies

An actual play podcast where escapism means having the same dumb problems as every other day of your life, but now your fate is decided by the roll of dice. New episodes every Thursday.

hubhopper

Real Fantasy Encounters

hubhopper