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Content Warnings: Humans transforming into animals, discussions around death of a father, war, children navigating US foster care system, themes surrounding the intersection of disability and personal agency SFX Warnings: Screaming and gory chainsaw squelching (29:27-29:35) ------------------------------------------------ Strangers in the Wood 2: Road Trip Episode #1 - What’s wrong with Quiet Little Town? Our Troublemakers are speeding towards Interstate 84 West, the highway that can take them wherever they need to go in Sublime County. Walter guides the crew to Quiet Little Town, home of the Double Hog Bar & Grill. Turns out he’s been gone longer than he thought. ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Kendrick Smith as Game Master August Knobbe as Walter Brookstone Dr. Hilda as Dorothy Reed Marceline Von Carstein as Dakota Wallace Production Department: Kendrick Smith - Creative Director & Producer, additional editing Ellis Morgan - Dramaturg August Knobbe - Theme Composer Zach Zito - Lead Editor & Sound Designer Additional Music & Sound Effects from Epidemic Sound System: Kids on Bikes 2E by Hunters Entertainment  ------------------------------------------------ You can find our content at TalesYetTold.com, YouTube, or Twitch. You can find us @TalesYetTold on BlueSky, Instagram, or Tumblr. You can email us at [email protected] for comments, questions, or feedback.

Strangers in the Wood 2: Road Trip Episode #0 - Buckle Up (Session 0) The road trip is about to begin, but before we head out we need to make sure we’ve got everything we’ll need for the journey. Kendo and the Troublemakers go over the rules of their new system and explain everything on their character sheets. I promise, it’s more entertaining than it sounds. ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Kendrick Smith as Game Master August Knobbe as Walter Brookstone Dr. Hilda as Dorothy Reed Marceline Von Carstein as Dakota Wallace Production Department: Kendrick Smith - Creative Director & Producer, additional editing Ellis Morgan - Dramaturg August Knobbe - Theme Composer Zach Zito - Lead Editor & Sound Designer Additional Music & Sound Effects from Epidemic Sound System: Kids on Bikes 2E by Hunters Entertainment  ------------------------------------------------ You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.shop Get 10% off your order when you use promo code: ORCHID  ------------------------------------------------ Featured Show: GODKILLER: Homerun by Game Master Monday Lee Fisher has played for the Louisville Legends for 15 years but has never won a championship. He finally understands why. The Cradle, and all of baseball, will never be the same. ------------------------------------------------ You can find our content at TalesYetTold.com, YouTube, or Twitch. You can find us @TalesYetTold on BlueSky, Instagram, or Tumblr. Consider subscribing to our Patreon!

Strangers in the Wood 2: Road Trip - Trailer The troublemakers are on the run again! Follow Sublime County’s most wanted, Dakota, Dorothy, and Walter, as they try to evade capture while making the long journey across Sublime County to the Border Cities. Along the way they’ll visit strange locations, fight horrifying creatures, and take in all the hopelessly melancholic atmosphere Sublime County has to offer. The Stranger’s Curse has them in its grasp but our troublemakers won’t go down without a fight.  ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Kendrick Smith as Game Master August Knobbe as Walter Brookstone Dr. Hilda as Dorothy Reed Marceline Von Carstein as Dakota Wallace Production Department: Kendrick Smith - Creative Director & Producer, additional editing Ellis Morgan - Dramaturg August Knobbe - Theme Composer Zach Zito - Lead Editor & Sound Designer Additional Music & Sound Effects from Epidemic Sound System: Kids on Bikes 2E by Hunters Entertainment ------------------------------------------------ You can find our content at TalesYetTold.com, YouTube, or Twitch. You can find us @TalesYetTold on BlueSky, Instagram, or Tumblr. You can email us at [email protected] for comments, questions, or feedback.

Content Warnings: Discussions about colonialism, white supremacy, war, starvation, chronic illness, eating disorders, religious themes, deicide ------------------------------------------------ GODKILLER: Peace & Death - Post-Season Talk Back Michelle, Zo, and Kendo sit down to talk about episodes 4-6 of Peace & Death and answer some listener questions! ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Michelle Jones as God Kendrick Smith as Orchid Lullaby, Our Godkiller Produced By: Zo (RadicalZo) Kendrick Smith Editor & Sound Design: Steve Anderson (TallHalfling) Kendrick Smith Additional Music: Epidemic Sound System: GODKILLER: First Blood by Connie Chang  ------------------------------------------------ You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.shop Get 10% off your order when you us promocode: ORCHID ------------------------------------------------ You can find our content at TalesYetTold.com, YouTube, or Twitch. You can find us @TalesYetTold on BlueSky, Instagram, or Tumblr. Join our growing community Discord server! You can email us at [email protected] for comments, questions, or feedback.

Content Warnings: Discussions about Forced Starvation, Death & Dying, Deicide, Fantasy Violence, Imperialism, Incarceration, Self-Sacrifice ------------------------------------------------ Episode 6 - Death in the Cradle It all comes down to this. Orchid vs Adamas, God of War & Peace. ------------------------------------------------ Post Season Talkback Question Form: https://forms.gle/qKmhYCazv5NnpJgc7 ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Michelle Jones as God Kendrick Smith as Orchid Lullaby, Our Godkiller Produced By: Zo (RadicalZo) Kendrick Smith Editor & Sound Design: Steve Anderson (TallHalfling) Kendrick Smith Additional Music: Epidemic Sound System: GODKILLER: First Blood by Connie Chang  ------------------------------------------------ You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.shop Get 10% off your order when you us promocode: ORCHID  ------------------------------------------------ Featured Show: GODKILLER: Songs of the Past by Help Action NeededOdette is nobody, she is a girl in a world that cares not for her and hardly acknowledges her. But her life will change when accepting a mission on The Tower, her home. One choice, one wrong time, and a life time of consequences to come.  ------------------------------------------------ You can find our content at TalesYetTold.com, YouTube, or Twitch. You can find us @TalesYetTold on BlueSky, Instagram, or Tumblr. Join our growing community Discord server! You can email us at [email protected] for comments, questions, or feedback

Content Warnings: Discussions about Forced Starvation, Death & Dying, Deicide, Fantasy Violence, War Tensions, Imperialism ------------------------------------------------ Episode 5 - Revelations in Adamence Orchid rides to the city of Adamence, in hopes of stopping Adamas and finding her mother. But she finds that the city is not at all what she imagined as no one seems to even acknowledge the war in the first place. ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Michelle Jones as God Kendrick Smith as Orchid Lullaby, Our Godkiller Produced By: Zo (RadicalZo) Kendrick Smith Editor & Sound Design: Steve Anderson (TallHalfling) Kendrick Smith Additional Music: Epidemic Sound System: GODKILLER: First Blood by Connie Chang  ------------------------------------------------ You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.shop Get 10% off your order when you us promocode: ORCHID  ------------------------------------------------ Featured Show: GODKILLER: Songs of the Past by Help Action NeededOdette is nobody, she is a girl in a world that cares not for her and hardly acknowledges her. But her life will change when accepting a mission on The Tower, her home. One choice, one wrong time, and a life time of consequences to come.  ------------------------------------------------ You can find our content at TalesYetTold.com, YouTube, or Twitch. You can find us @TalesYetTold on BlueSky, Instagram, or Tumblr. Join our growing community Discord server! You can email us at [email protected] for comments, questions, or feedback

Content Warnings: Discussions about Forced Starvation, Death & Dying, Deicide, Fantasy Violence, War Tensions, Conservative views on romantic relationships, Mother with chronic illness ------------------------------------------------ Episode 4 - Crafts in the Workshop Orchid makes a desperate escape from Brookshire with her mother and the followers of Archaea in tow--the Adamentine soldiers hot on their heels. The God of War & Peace is on the hunt and Orchid's tutor, Nanalie, might be their only hope, but even she has her secrets. ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Michelle Jones as God Kendrick Smith as Orchid Lullaby, Our Godkiller Produced By: Zo (RadicalZo) Kendrick Smith Editor & Sound Design: Steve Anderson (TallHalfling) Kendrick Smith Additional Music: Epidemic Sound System: GODKILLER: First Blood by Connie Chang  ------------------------------------------------ You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.shop Get 10% off your order when you us promocode: ORCHID  ------------------------------------------------ Featured Show: Bloom & Blight: PersephoneThe checkered flag waits for no one. The Hades Cup approaches and only the best teams will qualify. Join the members of local racing team Persephone Protocol as they discover their magic, and their destinies! A story of mech-racing magical girls coming into their own. ------------------------------------------------ You can find our content at TalesYetTold.com, YouTube, or Twitch. You can find us @TalesYetTold on BlueSky, Instagram, or Tumblr. Join our growing community Discord server! You can email us at [email protected] for comments, questions, or feedback.

GODKILLER: Peace & Death - Mid-Season Talk Back Michelle, Zo, and Kendo sit down to talk about episodes 1-3 of Peace & Death and the process of developing the show. ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Michelle Jones as God Kendrick Smith as Orchid Lullaby, Our Godkiller Produced By: Zo (RadicalZo) Kendrick Smith Editor & Sound Design: Steve Anderson (TallHalfling) Kendrick Smith Additional Music: Epidemic Sound System: GODKILLER: First Blood by Connie Chang  ------------------------------------------------ You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.shop Get 10% off your order when you us promocode: ORCHID  ------------------------------------------------ Featured Show: The Heart Is A Dungeon - Babylon, You Are EverythingA dark drama Thirsty Sword Lesbian actual play sponsored by Evil Hat Productions. ------------------------------------------------ You can find our content at TalesYetTold.com, YouTube, or Twitch. You can find us @TalesYetTold on BlueSky, Instagram, or Tumblr. Join our growing community Discord server! You can email us at [email protected] for comments, questions, or feedback.

Content Warnings: Discussions about Forced Starvation, Death & Dying, Deicide, Descriptions Fantasy Violence, War Tensions, Military Siege on a Civilian Village, Allusions to Conservative Views on Romantic Partnerships, ------------------------------------------------ Episode 3 - Insight In Archaea On her way home from the city of Tryta, Orchid encounters the followers of Archaea stationed outside the village of Brookshire. They speak of wanting nothing more than to trade food for protection and information, now that the people of the Tower need to eat. Though perhaps their seer may offer the goddess' wisdom. ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Michelle Jones as God Kendrick Smith as Orchid Lullaby, Our Godkiller Produced By: Zo (RadicalZo) Kendrick Smith Editor & Sound Design: Steve Anderson (TallHalfling) Kendrick Smith Additional Music: Epidemic Sound System: GODKILLER: First Blood by Connie Chang  ------------------------------------------------ You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.shop Get 10% off your order when you us promocode: ORCHID  ------------------------------------------------ Featured Show: Bloom & Blight: PersephoneThe checkered flag waits for no one. The Hades Cup approaches and only the best teams will qualify. Join the members of local racing team Persephone Protocol as they discover their magic, and their destinies! A story of mech-racing magical girls coming into their own. ------------------------------------------------ You can find our content at TalesYetTold.com, YouTube, or Twitch. You can find us @TalesYetTold on BlueSky, Instagram, or Tumblr. Join our growing community Discord server! You can email us at [email protected] for comments, questions, or feedback.

Content Warnings for this episode: Forced Starvation, Death & Dying, Fantasy Violence, Description of Bodily Wounds, Imperialism, Religious based sacrifice, Conversations about Deicide ------------------------------------------------ Episode 2 - Hope in Tryta Orchid sets out to the city of Tryta, the seat of power in these parts of the cradle and home to Trytis--God of Abundance & Scarcity--to ask for the god's favor. Death has returned to these lands and so the people must eat now, in order to survive. A simple request, but how will this god respond to it? ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Michelle Jones as God Kendrick Smith as Orchid Lullaby, Our Godkiller Produced By: Zo (RadicalZo) Kendrick Smith Editor & Sound Design: Steve Anderson (TallHalfling) Kendrick Smith Additional Music: Epidemic Sound System: GODKILLER: First Blood by Connie Chang  ------------------------------------------------ You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.shop Get 10% off your order when you us promocode: ORCHID  ------------------------------------------------ Featured Show: GAME MASTER MONDAY - GODKILLER: HOMERUNGODKILLER: Homerun is a wild and weird actual play of GODKILLER: First Blood set in a cradle you've never seen before. Watch as a baseball veteran makes his way back onto the field to win his ring back. ------------------------------------------------ You can find our content at TalesYetTold.com, YouTube, or Twitch. You can find us @TalesYetTold on BlueSky, Instagram, or Tumblr. Join our growing community Discord server! You can email us at [email protected] for comments, questions, or feedback.

Content Warnings for this episode: Forced Starvation, Death & Dying, Fantasy Violence, Description of Bodily Wounds, Imperialism, Religious based sacrifice, Mother Suffering From Chronic Illness ------------------------------------------------ Episode 1 - Peace in Brookshire It's was supposed to be an average day in the cursed town of Brookshire for Orchid Lullaby. A day of fasting for Trytis, god of abundance & scarcity and a day of hard work in service of her community. What she did not realize was that this would be the the day she, and the world, experiences death for the first time in over 20 years. ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Michelle Jones as God Kendrick Smith as Orchid Lullaby, Our Godkiller Produced By: Zo (RadicalZo) Editor & Sound Design: Steve Anderson (TallHalfling) Kendrick Smith Additional Music: Epidemic Sound System: GODKILLER: First Blood by Connie Chang  ------------------------------------------------ You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.shop Get 10% off your order when you us promocode: ORCHID  ------------------------------------------------ Featured Show: Genre SpaceDEATH OF THE MAGNATE, our new Court of Blades actual-play show, follows the escapees of Psyche Penitentiary as they return to Earth to ruin the man that imprisoned them. It's a thrilling cyberpunk-revenge tale set amongst the stars! ------------------------------------------------ You can find our content at TalesYetTold.com, YouTube, or Twitch. You can find us @TalesYetTold on BlueSky, Instagram, or Tumblr. Join our growing community Discord server! You can email us at [email protected] for comments, questions, or feedback.

GODKILLER: Peace & Death is a six-part actual play series that follows the story of Orchid Lullaby, a child of the cursed town of Brookshire, as she discovers the truth about her mother's festering wound and the disappearance of the god of death over 20 years ago. ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Michelle Jones as God Kendrick Smith as Orchid Lullaby, Our Godkiller Produced By: Zo (RadicalZo) Editor & Sound Design: Steve Anderson (TallHalfling) Kendrick Smith Additional Music: Epidemic Sound System: GODKILLER: First Blood by Connie Chang  ------------------------------------------------ You can find our content at TalesYetTold.com, YouTube, or Twitch. You can find us @TalesYetTold on BlueSky, Instagram, or Tumblr. You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.shop Join our growing community Discord server! You can email us at [email protected] for comments, questions, or feedback

Content Warnings for this episode: Profanity, Fantasy Violence, Unreality, Heart Beat Sounds, Blood and Blood Drinking, Environmental Destruction, Vampires, Discussions of Death ------------------------------------------------ Three knights of the order Sanguis Populi find themselves lost in the Illusory Forest. The Illusory Forest's caretakers seem to have taken offense to the lack of care for collateral damage the knights have brought.. ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Oleander as Game Master Kendrick Smith as Elvira Jibril Fabian Lelay as Blythe Josephine Kim as Swan Arcati Producers: Kendrick Smith, Oleander Editing and Sound Design by: Oleander Music and SFX from: Epidemic Sound  System Used: Hunt by Gila RPGs  ------------------------------------------------ Featured Show: GODKILLER: QISMAT (A GODKILLER actual play) What is the fate of your gods - the pillars on which you build your soul. Will you kill them, or let them thrive? https://www.youtube.com/@amaanhk ------------------------------------------------ Follow us on BlueSky and Instagram or check out our website: talesyettold.com! You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.shop Join our growing community Discord server! You can email us at [email protected] for comments, questions, or feedback. Be safe, drink some water, and don't forget to love yourself like we love you!

Content Warnings for this episode: Profanity, Fantasy Violence, Unreality, Blood & Gore, Blood Drinking, Discussion of Mass Death, Harm to Non-Domesticated Animals, Vampirism ------------------------------------------------ Changed forever by that sanguine banquet, the remaining members of Sanguis Populi still protect the People of Ozzurod decades later - now as vampires. The People cry out as invading creatures bent on draining this world of magic close in on The Illusory Forest. Sanguis Populi answers, sending Elvira, Blythe and Swan to do what has not yet been done - slay one of the leaders of the invaders. First, though, they'll have to make it through a Forest that fights back against their presence and the smaller Creatures from Beyond that have imposed themselves upon this land... ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Oleander as Game Master Kendrick Smith as Elvira Jibril Fabian Lelay as Blythe Josephine Kim as Swan Arcati Producers: Kendrick Smith, Oleander Editing and Sound Design by: Oleander Music and SFX from: Epidemic Sound  System Used: Hunt by Gila RPGs  ------------------------------------------------ Follow us on BlueSky and Instagram or check out our website: talesyettold.com! You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.shop Join our growing community Discord server! You can email us at [email protected] for comments, questions, or feedback. Be safe, drink some water, and don't forget to love yourself like we love you!

Content Warnings for this episode: Profanity, Violence, Blood, Discussions About Mortality, Classism, Vampires, Crypts, Grave Robbing ------------------------------------------------ Blood in the Snow: Prologue The beautiful yet dangerous Swan Arcati, the young and conflicted Doctor Blythe, and the benevolent but baneful cryptkeeper Elvira are invited to a banquet for all who work within the Crimson Castle of the knightly order Sanguis Populi. Little do they know of how important this will be in shaping the rest of their... lives... ------------------------------------------------ Cast: Oleander as Game Master Kendrick Smith as Elvira Jibril Fabian Lelay as Blythe Josephine Kim as Swan Arcati Producer: Kendrick Smith Editing and Sound Design by: Oleander Music and SFX from: Epidemic Sound  System Used: Hunt by Gila RPGs  ------------------------------------------------ Follow us on BlueSky and Instagram or check out our website: talesyettold.com! You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.shop Join our growing community Discord server! You can email us at [email protected] for comments, questions, or feedback. Be safe, drink some water, and don't forget to love yourself like we love you!