Skaldova - Ep. 4: The Dawn Hold
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The Zu Crew explores the sunken castle! Welly searches for answers, Boggy searches for treasure, and Zudrick searches for danger.
Sound Mixing and Editing by Brian Murphy and Faris Monshi
Music / Sound Effects Include:
"Blackthorn Hall" by Emily Axford
"Cured By The Light" by Emily Axford
"The Children" by Emily Axford
"Secret Basement" by Emily Axford
"The Fat Monk" by Emily Axford
"The Objective" by Emily Axford
Comments
I was at the climate pledge for D20 🙌
Soft-Two Unsure-Hand
2025-09-12 16:54:53 +0000 UTC“Better to poke it before it pokes us!” sounds like something Ify Nwadiwe would say
Kathryn Martin
2025-08-13 06:30:05 +0000 UTCLullabies from the wild sides is absolutely amazing! I’ve been listening on repeat 💖
Loren
2025-04-15 07:29:04 +0000 UTCWhat I love about Jake’s narration, among many things, is how he can clearly picture the room he is describing in intricate detail, and then can so eloquently describe it using a modicum of beautifully-chosen words. His narration is not flowery or verbose so that a listener gets lost in the room (or reception hall) that Jake is describing. His first description of a room paints a picture in my mind, and as the narration continues I see that everything is laid out for Jake just as I, a listener, had envisaged it. It is such a gift to so succinctly and beautifully describe a place so that your audience is right there with you. The Hemingway of DnD.
Nikolaus Cox
2025-03-28 19:59:21 +0000 UTCFor Emily — I had literal chills when I heard the song that was included at the end of Campaign 3’s final episode
The Wizard Smudge
2025-03-27 14:18:09 +0000 UTCSame energy as Moonshine being a solid 29 years old
Tony Cappellino
2025-03-24 13:26:04 +0000 UTCSo glad one of them finally said ‘Hamdam thank you ma’am’
Jenna Jones
2025-03-17 12:51:09 +0000 UTCI think Sol and Beverly were relatively light positive characters, I LOVE Boggy being so dark and matter of fact 😭 Dying of old age in the stocks
Sam
2025-03-17 02:45:42 +0000 UTCaw, thank you so much!
Alexis
2025-03-16 21:41:14 +0000 UTCThe tone of “Hm… well… he was hung” was impeccable
Ivan Gonzalez
2025-03-15 20:33:14 +0000 UTCHe's so handsome!
Lilli of the bog
2025-03-15 15:29:27 +0000 UTCThis campaign has been positively incredible
v_squared (Vanessa)
2025-03-14 23:14:40 +0000 UTCJake is a great DM. Emily Murph and Cadwell are hilarious in a parry together. I think this campaign is the most I've laughed in a while. You guys are great.
Ian Mcilwean
2025-03-13 22:35:40 +0000 UTCI just want to say thank you to you all. Right now everything in current events is so insanely depressing and your show brings a brief reprieve from the haunting nature of reality.
roomwithoutawindow
2025-03-13 15:04:50 +0000 UTCHe’s got the rod!
Pali Endi
2025-03-13 00:47:08 +0000 UTCMy only gripe so far is that Jake's imagery and descriptions are so great, I wish he'd slow down his delivery a bit. I realize he's probably trying to get through to the role play but I want this read to me like a scary story over a campfire. So good.
Erik Farrar
2025-03-12 19:35:47 +0000 UTCWow absolutely adore the descriptions of this castle.
Lisa Vee
2025-03-12 17:08:31 +0000 UTCJake is killing it on this campaign. Also every character is an A+
Mr. Serpentarius
2025-03-12 13:09:43 +0000 UTCNext episode, Welly gets knocked out and you hear Murph tell Jake "I run over to her and start pouring a freakin Gatorade frost down her gullet. We were supposed go go back to hell and play Diddy Kong racing after this!!"
Eons Abroad
2025-03-12 10:14:22 +0000 UTCPushed to the limit, he finally lets out his battle cry... :YOU FREAKIN' KNOBS"
Chris Truex
2025-03-12 05:25:29 +0000 UTCnot that I intend to have children, but if I did they would absolutely be brought up listening to Lullabies from the Wild Side (along with the rest of Em's magic-imbued music!!) btw Skaldova has been an incredible vibe so far, tysm folks! keep it up!!
Rafael C
2025-03-11 23:48:18 +0000 UTCI listen to Emily’s lullabies all the time :)
Grass
2025-03-11 21:16:16 +0000 UTCAbsolutely loving this new campaign! Great job first time DM Jack! Also loving the vibe of the PCs, we’ve never had this combo before!
Tim R
2025-03-11 03:41:56 +0000 UTCLongest Tom is the hardest I’ve laughed at anything NADDPOD. Redownloaded the Patreon app so I could leave this comment. Just absolute deadpan perfection at the dumbest throwaway joke. This podcast has brought me joy for years, so glad to be current and share this silly moment.
Brad Slavin
2025-03-10 22:57:13 +0000 UTCLongest John being “hung” is so funny, since it’s grammatically wrong it can be inferred that he had a long …
Reece Brogden
2025-03-10 17:30:44 +0000 UTCI listened to Lullabies from the Wild Side the day it came out and it brought me to tears! All of those songs are wonderful!
Nitzan Harel
2025-03-10 12:58:04 +0000 UTCI absolutely need to hear more about flute boy 😄
Gabriel Hyatt
2025-03-10 05:17:04 +0000 UTCAlso I love that Murph built a character who can in-character call mechanics like the pit trap and the tentacle-piranha combo. He always does a good job of creating characters who let him be himself.
AlbireoRising
2025-03-10 00:42:47 +0000 UTCI love Jake's description of the pit trap at the beginning. He "gives them the answer" without actually giving them the answer on the nat twenty. Edit: he does it again with the secret door in the library! So good.
AlbireoRising
2025-03-10 00:27:23 +0000 UTCI often hum “A Gloaming Lullaby” to myself and my cat will walk up to me and meow
Alexis
2025-03-09 19:02:27 +0000 UTCI would read any fantasy or science fiction novel written by Jake with these artful descriptions. I knew he was a writer but I had no clue his talent stretched so far into other genres. How seamlessly he can go between improvised comedy and back to a detailed fantasy world just goes to show how much experience he has.
Josh Stadtmiller
2025-03-09 08:55:39 +0000 UTCI could easily listen to somewhere in the range of 25-45 eps of these guys
thedragonllama
2025-03-09 06:42:27 +0000 UTCI am imagining closer to Draco Malloy from A Very Potter Musical lol both work in dif ways tho
thedragonllama
2025-03-09 06:36:42 +0000 UTCEm! We found them and we love them!!! Thank you for sharing!! 😍❤️
Courtney F.
2025-03-09 00:42:21 +0000 UTCPlease note that a man being hanged and a man being hung mean two very different things 😂
Lindsay
2025-03-08 20:05:38 +0000 UTCMan I can NOT get enough of this campaign. It is so lovely to see Jake stretch his wings with DMing (doing a great job!), Murph on the other side of the table (able bring out his loose and playful side!), Lovvving both Caldwell and Emily's characters as well. It's got such a playful vibe (although a lot of that has to do with early campaign stakes levels).
Emster V
2025-03-08 16:47:49 +0000 UTCGlad someone else mentioned this hehehe
Egg
2025-03-08 09:14:29 +0000 UTCi have this irrational fear that now he's going to take off his helmet and be super freaking hot😂😂😂
syzmon
2025-03-08 02:22:22 +0000 UTCLoving the campaign so far. Great DMing Jake.
Peter
2025-03-08 01:52:37 +0000 UTC11 minutes in and they haven't gotten in the castle yet. 🤣🤣 poor Jake
Becca_rebaker
2025-03-08 01:12:00 +0000 UTCI'm loving absolutely everything about this campaign - the characters and their dynamic, the DMing, and I also really want to shout out the piano music in this ep while Jake is describing the great hall. It's both beautiful and eerie in a really fabulous way and I'm totally here for it.
Roo
2025-03-08 00:52:35 +0000 UTCunironically how it works
SlainSigny
2025-03-08 00:12:50 +0000 UTCWhoever spoke most recently
Darby Tyler
2025-03-08 00:09:08 +0000 UTCAnyone else picture Welly as looking exactly like Ariana Grande’s Little Antonio from SNL?
Robert
2025-03-08 00:04:02 +0000 UTCNice rod
Cory Wyse
2025-03-07 22:19:22 +0000 UTCHis scene descriptions are wonderful
Scott Specht
2025-03-07 20:53:40 +0000 UTCskaldova has the same problem as C1 wherein it’s impossible to pick my favorite character because it changes literally by the minute
SlainSigny
2025-03-07 20:46:15 +0000 UTCwelly 🤝 me feeling a bit queer
Emma Franks
2025-03-07 20:31:56 +0000 UTC“Ham damn thank you ma’am”, all hail worm wife 👑
Melissa Shilale
2025-03-07 20:11:24 +0000 UTCIt's like someone who has finally become a dad and their kids do all the same shit they used to do to their parents and it all accordian crashes down
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! No jokes today, just excited Emily's gonna be on Gastronauts!!
2025-03-07 20:07:34 +0000 UTCWet, petty cat zudrick oh i love you
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! No jokes today, just excited Emily's gonna be on Gastronauts!!
2025-03-07 20:07:05 +0000 UTCemily's "I'm...older than you" was truly a delight
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! No jokes today, just excited Emily's gonna be on Gastronauts!!
2025-03-07 20:06:51 +0000 UTCabsolutely! No way he’s not letting that thang hang
super cockler
2025-03-07 19:38:32 +0000 UTCJake's been doing such a good job. So proud to see him flourishing!
Jarod Brumley
2025-03-07 19:36:19 +0000 UTCzudrick being a rough 25 is the funniest possible thing murph could have ever done for his character. It just wouldnt hit the same if he was like 30 or even 27. Instead he’s perfectly mid 20s and it’s glorious
super cockler
2025-03-07 19:26:40 +0000 UTCI find myself listening to these at least three times each to make sure I don't miss anything from giggling so much 😂
Isaiah
2025-03-07 19:08:55 +0000 UTCThat might just be a Murph thing
Amanda M
2025-03-07 18:46:18 +0000 UTCI love how petty Zudrick is lol
Amanda M
2025-03-07 18:41:37 +0000 UTCSame!!!
Crumb Gunderson
2025-03-07 18:29:50 +0000 UTCWellie might be my favourite Emily character to date, and that’s saying something
Matt Kilsby
2025-03-07 18:26:42 +0000 UTCthats why he keeps the helmet on, his disguise self will disappate
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! No jokes today, just excited Emily's gonna be on Gastronauts!!
2025-03-07 17:25:08 +0000 UTCOH ANGELO
Abbie Brennan
2025-03-07 17:22:40 +0000 UTCYou guys make me feel so good. Your energy is so infectious and wonderful and hilarious. And I really love Skaldova and Jake DM'ing. 10/10 love you guys
Travis Rees
2025-03-07 15:46:14 +0000 UTCBoggy has gotta be my favorite Caldwell character lol
womp
2025-03-07 15:34:47 +0000 UTCThere’s just something about these three going off on tangents and Jakes quiet god dammits that feed my soul
Hostage4hire
2025-03-07 15:13:43 +0000 UTCEmily, I made a Spotify playlist of your vocal songs and have been listening to it on repeat for weeks, so it was on my front page immediately when it came out. I’m not even done with C3 yet but I couldn’t wait to listen. Amazing job as always!
Alexis
2025-03-07 14:43:24 +0000 UTCGrimdark ? More like GRINdark
Hermit
2025-03-07 14:39:32 +0000 UTCYou simply must honor the cock!
Hugo Wull
2025-03-07 14:28:52 +0000 UTCMan that is a twin peaks as hell song 13 minutes in
Bills Mcblow
2025-03-07 14:22:59 +0000 UTCAccidentally stayed for the thank yous to the circle of elders. The amount of people called honor the cock is insane
Li I
2025-03-07 13:59:37 +0000 UTCjobby in scotland means a poop so jade jobbies took me out
Syf Sloane
2025-03-07 13:37:20 +0000 UTCThe beginning of this episode is the next incarnation of dragons genitals
Tavitafish
2025-03-07 13:36:50 +0000 UTCI don't feel that "rod willing" got laugh it deserved.
WanderingRobot
2025-03-07 13:27:39 +0000 UTCEvery episode Murph let's a lil more Pendergreens slip out in his Zudric performance and I love it 🤣
Eons Abroad
2025-03-07 13:19:56 +0000 UTC"My internal life is too powerful" another incredible episode
Kelley
2025-03-07 13:03:25 +0000 UTCAnthropologist crows
Carlos Chicas
2025-03-07 12:36:46 +0000 UTCThat beginning is such payback to the beans thing and the D.S. (treading so carefully) from campaign 3. Wild. Awesome.
Cassual Grammer
2025-03-07 12:32:24 +0000 UTCSomeone please tell murph that jobbie means poop in Scotland
Luke
2025-03-07 12:20:30 +0000 UTCThis episode gave me another favorite NADDPOD one liner: "Did not the lodestar guide the hand that painted these tits?" It's up there carnally close to "You were aiming at the shadow of my nuts," from C3
Javan Thomas
2025-03-07 11:50:58 +0000 UTCCan't stop relistening from the beginning on repeat, loving the fuck out of Skaldova ❤️❤️
Tyler Gob
2025-03-07 08:51:45 +0000 UTC“while I breathe I hope” - I knew this sounded familiar, and it turns out it’s because it is a state motto! South Carolina, I learned about it in the podcast E Pluribus Motto 😁 it’s a good motto!
Kitty Stryker
2025-03-07 07:39:56 +0000 UTCHung you say? That's why he was long!
Cory P
2025-03-07 06:46:36 +0000 UTCOhhhh my god. “Hm. Well, he was hung” was the best comedic timing I’ve ever heard Caldwell. Incredible. Boggy might be my favorite character you’ve ever played.
Adam Sutton
2025-03-07 06:40:30 +0000 UTCLove love love how silly the episode started and also how much Zudrick's paranoia as a character choice pays off in the castle full of traps.
Jenna H
2025-03-07 06:38:15 +0000 UTC4 episodes in and Skaldova already feels like home.
austinoxner
2025-03-07 06:13:38 +0000 UTCRandom, but anyone else feel like Boggy wears a kilt?
Cam Baker
2025-03-07 06:03:59 +0000 UTCIt's a classic.
Tiffany C
2025-03-07 05:53:59 +0000 UTCEvery time Welly asks Zudrick some crazy reason about why his helmet doesn't come off and Zudrick is like "absolutely, 100%, that is not it" GIVES ME LIFE
Will M.
2025-03-07 05:48:08 +0000 UTCZudrick is a true gamer this ep lol. Also good lord the campaign 3 B-sides are phenomenal
Sam Ninegar
2025-03-07 05:37:23 +0000 UTCI remember when they joked about the long pole thing during Eldermourne in that one wizard’s tower, and just look at them now lol
Drew Faber
2025-03-07 05:22:03 +0000 UTCI just restarted C1 and in both campaigns semi charmed kinda life is mentioned within 5 eps 😂
Jorde
2025-03-07 05:05:31 +0000 UTCThis dropped right as I was heading home from work and the maniacal laugh I was doing during "hold the rod to the slit" was getting me some looks. Skaldova is so legendary already!
Ben Daly
2025-03-07 04:51:39 +0000 UTCLove the riff on the long pole method of dungeon crawling. Done fully in character. Love Jake getting the full Experience from his players. Meanwhile, Emily's lullabies are on a Playlist that is just her, Chappell Roan and the Indigo Girls and it is getting heavy rotation.
Tiffany C
2025-03-07 04:45:37 +0000 UTCwow, Zudrick is 25? (he should be at the club)
Zanna
2025-03-07 04:38:52 +0000 UTCI was literally bawling my eyes out to lullabies from the wild side the other night
Jack K
2025-03-07 04:38:42 +0000 UTCZu Crew!
Im a BladeSinging Wizard but only cut Beef&Pork
2025-03-07 04:35:38 +0000 UTC8 minutes in and Jake is having a Murph style freak out 😂
Matthew Leonard
2025-03-07 04:34:01 +0000 UTCI think Caldwell knows that the term for rope execution is "hanged". I see what you did there!
Allen S
2025-03-07 04:20:00 +0000 UTCThe way I gasped when one of the lullabies played on my spotify shuffle in January and I was like THAT IS AN EMILY SONG IVE NEVER HEARD. Will definitely make it into my spotify wrapped again 😂
Madison Marcinczyk
2025-03-07 04:12:53 +0000 UTCI am trying not to wake my wife up and Clunky keeps making me laugh. “Classic…the tentacle pulls us into the piranhas.” “Oh yeah, look at that uncanny space?”
Michael Lawton
2025-03-07 04:12:12 +0000 UTCCody Walsh walked so Zudrick could stab violently into the darkness
Drew Faber
2025-03-07 04:08:10 +0000 UTCWe are blessed by the lodestar!
Ellie P
2025-03-07 03:52:24 +0000 UTCIt's even better because when a person has been killed by hanging, the correct past tense is actually hanged
Patrick Kearney
2025-03-07 03:50:42 +0000 UTCSo unhinged to start ahaha I have been loving this campaign. I hope it becomes a longer length run
Ian Montgomery
2025-03-07 03:40:03 +0000 UTCEnder’s Clavicle! The Ep dropped early!!!
Michael Lawton
2025-03-07 03:32:52 +0000 UTCI love these guys. The characters bounce off each other so well, it’s hilarious
wick
2025-03-07 03:27:22 +0000 UTCThe only good thing about being unable to sleep at 4 am: getting to revisit Skaldova! I'm loving Jake's world and storytelling!
Myckeli
2025-03-07 03:05:22 +0000 UTCThis arc is so good and so classic D&D it’s quickly becoming my choice arc to suggest to someone new to D&D podcasts. Short, excellent chemistry in the party, terrific DMing and still so funny
Nick Nelson
2025-03-07 03:04:05 +0000 UTCSo excited to have an episode to listen to on my 1.5 hour commute. Thank you murph!
Knightowl
2025-03-07 02:57:40 +0000 UTC"well he was hung." lmfao, just was so not expecting that
Michael
2025-03-07 02:57:11 +0000 UTCI am currently listening to Campaign two but gotta pause to ravenously consume Skaldova. CUMPATRIOTS OR BUST
Jake Miller
2025-03-07 02:54:21 +0000 UTCSkaaaalDOOOOVAAAAA
ChefJustinLane
2025-03-07 02:47:19 +0000 UTCThursday night treat. Appreciate you Murph.
Dmkampz
2025-03-07 02:42:41 +0000 UTCAlso, this has strong post gamer fuel sommelier energy. The vibe was hilarious from the rip
Nick Neverman
2025-03-07 02:36:06 +0000 UTCJakes immediate exasperation is just so perfect
Nick Neverman
2025-03-07 02:30:16 +0000 UTCYa hit me stoned, ya snazzy bastahds! I’m so excited!
Peter Turek
2025-03-07 02:23:53 +0000 UTCPERFECT TIMING! Was getting bored on my long night drive
Emily Wines
2025-03-07 02:22:48 +0000 UTCRight as I am going to bed
Arctic Starhunt
2025-03-07 02:20:06 +0000 UTCMY SHOW IS ON!!!
Reptar
2025-03-07 02:18:59 +0000 UTCI was waiting so so much. Im very happy now
Michał Krawczyk
2025-03-07 02:18:41 +0000 UTCyess, literally the second I opened patreon to find an old ep to listen to at work this popped up 🎉
Jennifer S
2025-03-07 02:17:54 +0000 UTCAbsolutely fuck yes
Kyle Veach
2025-03-07 02:17:47 +0000 UTCWhen I tell you I’ve been WAITING for this drop
Space McMac
2025-03-07 02:17:29 +0000 UTCLet’s gooooo
Trés
2025-03-07 02:17:29 +0000 UTCSKALDOVA!
Crumb Gunderson
2025-03-07 02:17:28 +0000 UTCHell yes brotherrrrrr let’s go
writeathome
2025-03-07 02:17:14 +0000 UTCyesss
Erin G
2025-03-07 02:17:09 +0000 UTCBEST PART OF THE WEEK
Vickyrae
2025-03-07 02:17:08 +0000 UTCThe end of my shift thanks you 🙏
Nate S
2025-03-07 02:16:48 +0000 UTCJust the way to end the day.
JFran
2025-03-07 02:16:41 +0000 UTCYES!!!!!
The Fun Yaunt
2025-03-07 02:16:35 +0000 UTCLet’s fucking goooooo
Damian Rodriguez
2025-03-07 02:16:10 +0000 UTC
