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The thorns close behind them the moment they step through the gate. That turns out to be the friendliest thing these woods do all day. Twenty Sides presents Campaign 3, Crownfall, Episode 47. The last big gnoll's glaive flashes like the prism did, and then he turns and runs. Thelandor Misty Steps into melee, Annabel finally tries out her Wand of Magic Missiles, and Quinn finishes him off with Witch Bolt and Eldritch Blast, earning a brand new title from the table. After a short rest the party rides into the woods, follows the map through a night under the trees, and reaches an archway hung with charms made of bone, teeth and hair. Past the gate, a small stone bridge shows Annabel and Miller something in the water that nobody else can see. Then a tree in the middle of the path swings at Miller and Thelandor and pulls itself up onto its roots, and Quinn answers with the loudest voice in the forest. A little farther on, Annabel spots something green and about the size of a horse moving through the underbrush, and the whole party has to be super casual about it. New to Twenty Sides? Crownfall is a fresh campaign with a brand new party, so you can start at Episode 1 with no homework from earlier campaigns. 0:00 Previously on Twenty Sides 0:27 Episode 47 begins 30:47 Outro Start Crownfall at Episode 1 ➡️ https://shorturl.at/tFgXM Exclusive Content ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/twentysides Listen Here ➡️ https://linktr.ee/twentysidespod Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ Discord ➡️ https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh Website ➡️ http://twentysides.com/ Atmospheric background tracks from Tabletop Audio ➡️ https://tabletopaudio.com/ If you are enjoying Crownfall, a rating or review wherever you listen helps new players find the table. Twenty Sides is a Dungeons and Dragons 5e actual play podcast following a party of four through Crownfall, a homebrew fantasy campaign. This episode has a gnoll chase in the snow, Misty Step, a Wand of Magic Missiles, Witch Bolt and Eldritch Blast, visions on a bridge and a Wisdom saving throw, a treant ambush, Thaumaturgy and an Intimidation check, and Stealth checks with a green dragon wyrmling on their trail. #DnD #ActualPlay #DungeonsAndDragons #TwentySides #Crownfall Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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. 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. 0:00 Previously on Twenty Sides 0:30 Episode 46 begins 32:08 Outro Start Crownfall at Episode 1 ➡️ https://shorturl.at/tFgXM Exclusive Content ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/twentysides Listen Here ➡️ https://linktr.ee/twentysidespod Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ Discord ➡️ https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh Website ➡️ http://twentysides.com/ Atmospheric background tracks by Tabletop Audio: https://tabletopaudio.com If you enjoy the show, a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify helps new listeners find us. 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. #DnD #ActualPlay #DungeonsAndDragons #TwentySides #Crownfall Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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. 0:00 Previously on Twenty Sides 0:40 Episode 45 begins 31:24 Outro Start Crownfall at Episode 1 ➡️ https://shorturl.at/tFgXM Exclusive Content ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/twentysides Listen Here ➡️ https://linktr.ee/twentysidespod Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ Discord ➡️ https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh Website ➡️ http://twentysides.com/ Atmospheric background tracks by Tabletop Audio: https://tabletopaudio.com If you enjoy the show, a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify helps new listeners find us. 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. Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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. 0:00 Previously on Twenty Sides 0:36 Episode 44 begins 31:14 Outro Start Crownfall at Episode 1 ➡️ https://shorturl.at/tFgXM Exclusive Content ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/twentysides Listen Here ➡️ https://linktr.ee/twentysidespod Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ Discord ➡️ https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh Website ➡️ http://twentysides.com/ 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. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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 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 Avernth, in the world of Eclura. New episodes every week. Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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. 0:00 Previously on Twenty Sides 0:35 Episode 42 begins 30:16 Outro Start Crownfall at Episode 1 ➡️ https://shorturl.at/tFgXM Exclusive Content ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/twentysides Listen Here ➡️ https://linktr.ee/twentysidespod Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ Discord ➡️ https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh Website ➡️ http://twentysides.com/ 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. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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. Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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 If Crownfall is landing for you, subscribe and leave a review — it's the single biggest thing that helps new adventurers find the table. Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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. CREDITS Atmospheric background tracks by Tabletop Audio ➡️ https://tabletopaudio.com 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. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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. New to us? Campaign 3: Crownfall starts at Episode 1 and you can be caught up in a weekend. Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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. 📣 Follow for Crownfall clips, Dungeons & Dragons combat, and discoveries from beyond the portal 👉 @twentysidespod 🔥 Support the show and unlock bonus content on Patreon 👉 Patreon.com/twentysides ⭐ Enjoying Crownfall? Follow, subscribe, and leave a review to help new adventurers find the table Next time… Miller must escape the blue-eyed commander’s control before the fortress claims him too. 👑⚔️ Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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. 📣 Follow for Crownfall clips, combat moments, and discoveries from beyond the portal 👉 @twentysidespod 🔥 Support the show and unlock bonus content on Patreon 👉 Patreon.com/twentysides ⭐ Enjoying Crownfall? Follow, subscribe, and leave a review to help new adventurers find the table Next time… Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor follow the trail deeper into the darkness. 👑⚔️ Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below. Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/ YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh