30. That Dark Academia: Pooling Resources

All things must come to an end. Apologies for the tumultuous release schedule of 2022 and for the limited capacity of human resource! We hope to see you again someday (and will be giving you episode 33 in the future).

Thanks always to the incomparable GOTRPROD team: Sarah, Riley, and Keats. And to Sam and Alayna for their work on the oneshot, to Aiden Chan for the amazing soundtrack, and Tulomne for the pristine artwork. 

Eddie, Claire, and Lenore meet with Shreya to gather more clues and evidence of the strange occurrences around town. Claire tries to keep a secret about the center console in his car.

Content Warning(s): Mild language, discussions of food, death, mass past death, manipulation. Intro briefly touches on current events in the queer community.

That Dark Academia's Cast:
Sarah Kay (@ablindingidea) as Eddie Everette and Theodore Jones 
Keats (@klolsen32) as Eleanore Lane
Riley Linn (@therileylinn) as Clarence Monroe
Lucien (@cafewithlucien) as the GM

Original Music by Aiden Chan | Dungeon Maestro (@AidenChan)

Logo by Riley Linn, EQ by Sarah Kay

All SFX and non-original music are licensed through Storyblocks.com.

For more information on this season and behind the scenes footage, follow us on twitter @gotrprodpods or email us at gotrnetwork@gmail.com.

The Gays of the Round take some time for world building to expand the Heldholm city limits, so the trio can rope Jules and Theo into their Friday plans. 

Content Warning(s): Mild language, sexual innuendo, discussions of food, waxing poetic about Minnesota, mild stereotyping

That Dark Academia's Cast:
Sarah Kay (@ablindingidea) as Eddie Everette and Theodore Jones 
Keats (@klolsen32) as Eleanore Lane
Riley Linn (@therileylinn) as Clarence Monroe
Lucien (@cafewithlucien) as the GM

Original Music by Aiden Chan | Dungeon Maestro (@AidenChan)

Logo by Riley Linn, EQ by Sarah Kay

All SFX and non-original music are licensed through Storyblocks.com.

For more information on this season and behind the scenes footage, follow us on twitter @gotrprodpods or email us at gotrnetwork@gmail.com.

After Lenore shares her dream with Eddie and Claire, the trio plan how to proceed with their lives considering the rapid uptick in strange occurrences. 

Content Warning(s): Mild language, food discussion (both in and out of character), sexual innuendo

That Dark Academia's Cast:
Sarah Kay (@ablindingidea) as Eddie Everette and Theodore Jones 
Keats (@klolsen32) as Eleanore Lane
Riley Linn (@therileylinn) as Clarence Monroe
Lucien (@cafewithlucien) as the GM

Original Music by Aiden Chan | Dungeon Maestro (@AidenChan)

Logo by Riley Linn, EQ by Sarah Kay

All SFX and non-original music are licensed through Storyblocks.com.

For more information on this season and behind the scenes footage, follow us on twitter @gotrprodpods or email us at gotrnetwork@gmail.com.

Lenore's strange happenings have more in store as she goes to bed on Halloween night...or maybe they just drank a little too much and had too much fun. Who's to say? 

Content Warning(s): Mild language, coercion, forced violence, references to unnamed disease, general consent checklist check-in, loud screeching noises, heartbeat noises, repressed childhood memories of failure

That Dark Academia's Cast:
Sarah Kay (@ablindingidea) as Eddie Everette and Theodore Jones 
Keats (@klolsen32) as Eleanore Lane
Riley Linn (@therileylinn) as Clarence Monroe
Lucien (@cafewithlucien) as the GM

Original Music by Aiden Chan | Dungeon Maestro (@AidenChan)

Logo by Riley Linn, EQ by Sarah Kay

All SFX and non-original music are licensed through Storyblocks.com.

For more information on this season and behind the scenes footage, follow us on twitter @gotrprodpods or email us at gotrnetwork@gmail.com.

The trio starts a night of Halloween revelry at The Commodore, but things take a turn for the unexpected when they encounter Julian and Theodore.

Content Warning(s): Mild language, implied destruction by fire and sounds of fire, alcohol use and formulation of alcoholic drinks, self-checking potential appropriation, implied technical infidelity (though the partner in question is longterm missing), drinking with profs

That Dark Academia's Cast:
Sarah Kay (@ablindingidea) as Eddie Everette and Theodore Jones 
Keats (@klolsen32) as Eleanore Lane
Riley Linn (@therileylinn) as Clarence Monroe
Lucien (@cafewithlucien) as the GM

Original Music by Aiden Chan | Dungeon Maestro (@AidenChan)

Logo by Riley Linn, EQ by Sarah Kay

All SFX and non-original music are licensed through Storyblocks.com.

For more information on this season and behind the scenes footage, follow us on twitter @gotrprodpods or email us at gotrnetwork@gmail.com.

Our representatives compete in a surprising melee round, and the Council of Kardia is officially decided!

Content Warnings: language, cross-talk, paper shuffles during dialogue, deception, blood

Once Upon a Round's Cast:
Sarah Kay (@ablindingidea) as Matisse Solos
Keats (@klolsen32) as Iolanthe
Riley Linn (@therileylinn) as Hemlock Valavanis
Lucien (@cafewithlucien) as Saunder Zeek
Alayna Joy (@missfenderr) as Lethe Terzi
Sam Cat (@Sam_Sam_Cat) as Petra Costas and the GM

Logo by Riley Linn

All SFX and music are licensed through Storyblocks.com.

For more information on Gays of the Round, follow us on twitter @gotrprodpods or email us at gotrnetwork@gmail.com.

Each competitor must face their worst fears to showcase performing under personal pressure and distress in the Mirror Trial.

Content Warnings: manipulative families, death, destruction (of natural resources), oppression, child abandonment, reliving personal trauma, warfare, asphyxiation, cross talk, language.

Once Upon a Round's Cast:
Sarah Kay (@ablindingidea) as Matisse Solos
Keats (@klolsen32) as Iolanthe
Riley Linn (@therileylinn) as Hemlock Valavanis
Lucien (@cafewithlucien) as Saunder Zeek
Alayna Joy (@missfenderr) as Lethe Terzi
Sam Cat (@Sam_Sam_Cat) as Petra Costas and the GM

Logo by Riley Linn

All SFX and music are licensed through Storyblocks.com.

For more information on Gays of the Round, follow us on twitter @gotrprodpods or email us at gotrnetwork@gmail.com.

The competitors show up to a lavish celebration on the first evening of The Proving to entreat themselves to the nobles and the clergy. Personal reveals foster surprising inter-region connections between representatives.

Content Warnings: untrustworthy nobility, implied gaslighting, waste, fraught family histories, gendered language, forbidden love

Once Upon a Round's Cast:
Sarah Kay (@ablindingidea) as Matisse Solos
Keats (@klolsen32) as Iolanthe
Riley Linn (@therileylinn) as Hemlock Valavanis
Lucien (@cafewithlucien) as Saunder Zeek
Alayna Joy (@missfenderr) as Lethe Terzi
Sam Cat (@Sam_Sam_Cat) as Petra Costas and the GM

Logo by Riley Linn

All SFX and music are licensed through Storyblocks.com.

For more information on Gays of the Round, follow us on twitter @gotrprodpods or email us at gotrnetwork@gmail.com.

Learn about the preliminary trials that gave us our Artenai representatives, and watch our six competitors test their wits and knowledge of Kardia history to get to the center of a winding labyrinth.

Content Warnings: language, references to disease (plague) and a suffering populace, rigged nomination processes, cross talk, questionable strategies for victory, badger fight noises, low decibel firework sounds

Some feats and skills have had house-rules alterations to fit with the competitive nature of The Proving that aren't always explicitly stated in the recording - these will be outlined in the one-shot once available at the end of the limited series.

Once Upon a Round's Cast:
Sarah Kay (@ablindingidea) as Matisse Solos
Keats (@klolsen32) as Iolanthe
Riley Linn (@therileylinn) as Hemlock Valavanis
Lucien (@cafewithlucien) as Saunder Zeek
Alayna Joy (@missfenderr) as Lethe Terzi
Sam Cat (@Sam_Sam_Cat) as Petra Costas and the GM

Logo by Riley Linn

All SFX are licensed through Storyblocks.com.

For more information on Gays of the Round, follow us on twitter @gotrprodpods or email us at gotrnetwork@gmail.com.