Rotgoons - Narrative Declaration

The gate is the tomb of a betrayed general, and the talisman has been screaming his name this whole time. Heart is his key. They set the stone in the door and something crawls out — an eye, a robe, a rhyming corpse called Der Tib who remembers being murdered and wants a crystal soul to reap. Beetle's mother is waiting on the other side with a knife at Heart's throat. The Rotgoons have one finale in them. Make it count. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Last chance to say goodbye. Gray hands Brog a rhythm bone to remember his daughter's laughter. Heart apologizes to Hollick with a sunflower seed. Talim plans a life after the gate in the land of Admari. Beetle gets a pocket elemental extracted from his skull. Then they walk toward the gate because the talisman is finally pointing somewhere. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Giant spiders chirping like birds. A nest that drops its catch and pulls them up half-alive to finish later. Heart gets cocooned. Beetle shoots him trying to save him. In the bones of a long-dead delver they find another dungeon-runner's pack — and a truth about Heart's father that the party has been skirting for months. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

The caves on the far side of the ferry fold in on themselves. A kind old man at a cottage door turns out to be the tongue of a mimic. A room of disembodied hands demands their darkest secrets. Somewhere in the bends, the crew gets separated from the army marching behind them. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

They find their friends. Vena, the Elmas, Hollick, Brog and his daughter — all driven underground while Outset burned topside. Greg the potato mancer shows up with 64,950 gold. The Ferryman's rate has climbed to a thousand a head. Talim clutches the money bag like scripture and weeps. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

A ghost pipe almost brains Beetle. The river is a rollercoaster. On the far shore: Shum Town, a fey market run by the greatest NPC alive — Terry the fairy ferryman — who will take them across for a hundred gold a head. The goons kill rot-infested fairies in his streets and the price goes up anyway. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Talim finds out he has been dead longer than he thought, and he is starting to count the seconds. Adrift on the river, the goons meet Tevok — a fey made of hands and mouths — who builds them a fake farm and a fake dwarven host named Kepper just to sit at a table with them. The murder mystery is real. The friendship is not. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

One enormous chicken. Four exhausted adventurers. The witch sets her cockatrice loose on the crew and watches from the treeline. They strangle the cock to death. Twice. Then they learn the way out is the underground river, and the river is moving whether they're ready or not. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Resupplied by the leshies and pointed toward a cave that might lead home, the goons crawl deeper instead of higher. Shum hands Talim a flintlock engraved with a cult's eye. Somewhere ahead, the witch's cockatrice is waiting, and she has not forgotten the Elmas. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Two hundred corpses shamble out of the treeline toward a village of flower-people who eat their dead. The crew holds the line in the dirt, cuts down wave after wave, and keeps the zombies from crossing the river. Not a single building burns. The witch rolls away in her wagon, unfinished business. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

A knight frozen in amber, a hag rolling through the woods in a wagon, and a cockatrice waiting in the trees. The goons free the knight, side with the leshies, and make an enemy of the Underwood's witch. She gives them her chicken as a parting gift. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

The way up is sealed behind a rockfall and the way forward runs through a hag's woods. The crew meets a village of leshies — sunflowers, cactus folk, a pumpkin-headed scarecrow called Jack — and a moss-bearded elder who warns them a zombie horde is coming for the village by morning. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Dropped into glowing fungal caverns with the rot creeping into their bones, the goons bargain with a dying delver named Garavan, adopt a mushroom leshy who only says "Shoom," and trade favors with fey that don't take no for an answer. Beetle swallows a water elemental. It does not help. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Four goons wake up in a theatre of the mind, and Croc is in the next seat smoking a cigar. He offers them their lives back for one small favor: make it whole. Each of them walks through the worst memory they ever buried — a burning church, a betrayed caravan, a mother's cigar ash — and comes out the other side owing a debt. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Beetle is dead. They carry him to Diamond Hands McBlark's safehouse in a beer crate and bury him in candlelight. Gray breaks. Heart goes quiet. The chalk on the wall writes back in Talim's spell book — make it whole, you're running out of time. The key is at the old blacksmith's home. The blacksmith isn't what's waiting there. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Deep under the den, chained into the stone: a giant with a scarf Veena knitted. Metal wedge of a helmet, chains driven into his bones, a voice Heart almost understands. He is dying on purpose. He stays because something is creeping in and he will not risk his friend. But one of the Rotgoons does not walk out. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Beetle signs the door ledger as The Dragon. Three bodyguards, one mark, a rigged room. Under the torn rugs is new stonework, new walls, new cells. The big pot is dangled in front of them and every single croc at every single table is watching to see if these four will reach for it. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

The only way into Crocs' den is through his tables, and the Rotgoons don't know the rules. Holic deals blackjack in a back room, Talim learns to palm a card, Beetle learns to read an opponent. Everyone at that den cheats. The ones who cheat best walk out with the pot — and the ones who don't walk out in pieces. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Curtinand, head of the Conservance, doesn't charge for blessings. He trades. He smiles through a game where the audience votes who gets executed on stage, hands Beetle a fork with a farm boy's soul trapped inside, and sends the Rotgoons back into Outset on a simple errand. Retrieve what Crocs was supposed to deliver. The key. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Queens opens. Music, floats, skeletal guards holding back the crowd. The cart is set. Food is on the grill. A crystal-headed census construct floats past every stall with a kobold skull flickering behind its face. And somewhere in the audience, a vendor is selling what he says are candies. They hatch spiders. Website: https://www.narrativedeclaration.com System: Pathfinder Second Edition Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript.