Welcome to the Witchuation Room! We're reading Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher series, and podcasting about it! Each episode we read some, then discuss it with (some) wit and (occasional) insight. We recap the reading so you can enjoy the discussion even if you choose not to read along. Join us!
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Welcome to Necrofancy! We're reading Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series of novels, and podcasting about them! Each episode we read a few chapters, then discuss them with (some) wit and (occasional) insight. We recap the reading so you can enjoy the discussion even if you choose not to read along. Join us!
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We're reading the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris and podcasting about it! We'll recap as we go, so you can read along or just listen along. Join us!
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Ciri is captured by one gang. They meet a second gang. A third gang shows up and kills them all, except for Ciri. Who joins that third gang. Good choice. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:17) - Intro (00:31) - Recap (01:00) - Chapter 7 (15:23) - Review We are Alice Sullivan, Micah Sparkman, and Jeff Lake. Find us at armadillo.club! Music: Int…
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Ciri finds herself at the wrong end of a broken portal. She's lost in a harsh desert and all of her training is not enough. She must do the impossible: Make a friend. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro (00:29) - Recap (00:52) - Chapter 6 (14:27) - Outro We are Alice Sullivan, Micah Sparkman, and Jeff Lake. Find us at armadillo.club…
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Geralt recuperates in Brokilon and Dandelion visits with the news. War everywhere, and that kind of news is never good. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro (00:31) - Recap (01:16) - Chapter 5 (20:20) - Outro We are Alice Sullivan, Micah Sparkman, and Jeff Lake. Find us at armadillo.club! Music: Intrigue by Alexandr Zhelanov licensed…
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Geralt awakes from his night of extreme passion with Yennefer to a day of extreme violence. The wizards' banquet has becoming a confusing overlap of coup and counter-coup, and the wizards are settling the matter by blasting each other to scraps. Geralt doesn't want to get involved, but Ciri is in there somewhere. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…
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It's banquet time! Geralt serves as arm candy for Yennefer at a grand feast at the magic school of Aretuza. Geralt is resolutely uninterested in the treacherous currents of intrigue all around him, but unfortunately the intrigue is interested in him. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:15) - Intro (00:28) - Recap (00:59) - Chapter 3 (20:23) - O…
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Yennefer and Ciri have an adventure in the big city. Yennefer's side of the adventure involves banking and drunken bathing. Ciri's side involves donuts, monster slaying, and dire apparitions. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro (00:30) - Recap (01:08) - Chapter 2 (22:32) - Outro We are Alice Sullivan, Micah Sparkman, and Jeff Lake. …
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Geralt seeks a way to protect Ciri from the deadly plots which aim to keep her from her destiny, as well as from that dark destiny itself. The first problem is easier, because it's a problem that can be solved with a sword. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:17) - Intro (00:41) - Recap (01:45) - Chapter 1 (24:35) - Outro We are Alice Sullivan,…
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We read a short story about Palamedes, Camilla, and a mysteriously persistent skeleton. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:21) - Intro (00:41) - Recap (01:21) - The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (21:43) - Outro We are Alice Sullivan, Micah Sparkman, and Jeff Lake. Find us at armadillo.club! Music: Shadow by Alexandr Zhelanov licensed under CC…
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The Sleeper's invasion of Harrow's half-dead fantasia reaches a new level when a new, extremely poetic combatant engages. Then Gideon (not that Gideon) joins Gideon (yes that Gideon) to watch the conspiracy to kill God finally come to fruition. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:21) - Intro (00:40) - Recap (02:04) - Chapter 49 (08:49) - Chapte…
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All becomes clear in Harrow's strange vision of the past. Well, clearer. Meanwhile an old friend (and previous titular character!) returns, in a new package. When things get confusing, sometimes you just need someone to smash stuff. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:21) - Intro (00:41) - Recap (01:13) - Chapter 43 (06:46) - Chapter 44 (09:50)…
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Did I say things were weird before? I was wrong. Now things are weird. Harrow runs into some old friends, we learn a little bit about Harrow's attempt at autoneurosurgery, and our one false history splinters into multiple. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:21) - Intro (00:40) - Recap (02:40) - Chapter 34 (08:58) - Chapter 35 (11:46) - Chapter…
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In order to stop Ortus from killing Harrow over and over, Harrow and Ianthe hatch a plot to destroy him. A sexy plot. Then Harrow gets a surprise visit from an old friend, surprising because they are super dead. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:21) - Intro (00:40) - Recap (02:00) - Chapter 29 (07:11) - Chapter 30 (10:25) - Chapter 31 (24:00)…
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Things are getting eerie in both Harrow's mind and Harrow's world. Canaan House undergoes a deluge of water and filth and death (but not the usual kind of death). While in the Mithraeum, the dead seem to be rising (but not the usual kind of resurrection). ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:20) - Intro (00:40) - Recap (01:07) - Chapter 21 (08:1…
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Harrow settles into life in the Mithraeum. Where "settle" means "struggle confusedly" and "life" means "constant anxiety and periodic murder attempts". ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:21) - Intro (00:40) - Recap (01:30) - Chapter 12 (04:52) - Chapter 13 (08:18) - Chapter 14 (15:52) - Chapter 15 (17:59) - Chapter 16 (26:06) - Chapter 17 (27:…
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Harrow travels into the world of the Necrolord Supreme and the Lyctors. She travels the River, which is gross and dangerous, and meets the other surviving Lyctors, who are not gross but very dangerous. Also, there's a Resurrection Beast nearby, which is just as threatening as it sounds. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:21) - Intro (00:40) - …
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Strange things are afoot aboard the Erebos. Newly Lyctorized Harrow recovers aboard the Emperor's flagship while also recollecting a variety of things that, as far as we know, never happened. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:20) - Intro (00:40) - Recap (06:32) - Prologue (10:04) - Parados (13:38) - Chapter 1 (16:17) - Chapter 2 (28:26) - Cha…
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The hidden monster(s) of Canaan House come into the light. The dark secrets of the past are revealed, and Gideon and Harrow must work together extremely closely to deal with their very gross consequences. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:21) - Intro (00:40) - Recap (01:30) - Chapter 34 (11:36) - Chapter 35 (22:09) - Chapter 36 (36:18) - Chap…
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The missing Protesilaus partially turns up. The part being his head. Then the dark revelations start coming in rapidly and the number of people left alive in Canaan House starts to drop precipitously. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:20) - Intro (00:40) - Recap (01:16) - Chapter 29 (05:34) - Chapter 30 (17:01) - Chapter 31 (29:22) - Chapter …
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The Ninth, Sixth, and Fourth houses team up. An unfortunate incidence of extreme cosmic terror occurs. Now it's just the Ninth and Sixth houses. Also, Gideon and Harrow have remembered that they hate each other. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:20) - Intro (00:39) - Recap (01:21) - Chapter 24 (11:06) - Chapter 25 (16:24) - Chapter 26 (25:45)…
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Things get challenging, in the form of challenges that the necromancers in the First House must accomplish. Gideon and Harrow succeed at another one (once again involving much pain for Gideon). Then events take a turn toward more mundane violence. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:19) - Intro (00:38) - Recap (01:03) - Marker 13 (12:26) - Chap…
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Gideon and Harrow get invited to a nice dinner party. It goes well! Then they attempt a dangerous challenge in the depths of the First House. It goes extremely painfully, but also well. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:20) - Intro (00:38) - Intro (01:09) - Chapter 15 (08:29) - Chapter 16 (10:27) - Chapter 17 (16:30) - Chapter 18 (20:46) - Ch…
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Gideon wanders the First House and meets the other visitors. Eventually she realizes that Harrow is missing and rushes to her rescue, surprising herself. Harrow has discovered the challenge of the House and to everybody's dismay she needs Gideon's help to overcome it. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:20) - Intro (02:24) - Chapter 11 (13:08) …
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Gideon is recruited to be Harrow's Cavalier. They travel to the First House where Gideon meets a whole pack of interesting and occasionally friendly necromancers and cavaliers. Some of them are dangerous, which doesn't matter to Gideon. Some of them are hot, which very much does. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:19) - Intro (01:13) - Chapter…
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We start in on Gideon the Ninth! Gideon hatches her plan to escape her dreary life in/on the Ninth, which is a planet and a house and a tomb. But her nemesis Harrowhark Nonagesimus has other plans for her. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:19) - Intro (00:36) - Cover (02:00) - Cast of Characters (04:10) - Chapter 1 (13:06) - Chapter 2 (17:30)…
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Fiji gets out of the hospital (though Olivia does not), just in time for the Demon Sex Ritual. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:13) - Intro (00:32) - Recap (03:04) - Chapter 30 (06:15) - Chapter 31 (09:19) - Chapter 32 (10:49) - Chapter 33 (12:32) - Chapter 34 (15:04) - Chapter 35 (17:10) - Chapter 36 (17:40) - Chapter 37 (23:44) - Chapter 3…
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It's time for explanations in Midnight, as Lemuel tells his unexpectedly boring past, and Manfred learns the new gas station attendant's unexpectedly exciting story along with his connection to Manfred himself. Then the Midnighters tie up some loose ends permanently. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:13) - Intro (00:32) - Recap (01:11) - Chap…
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Fiji teaches Teacher a lesson about invading her space. Lemuel knows how to uncover the dark secret of Midnight, but it requires somebody who can read Etruscan, which nobody living can. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:13) - Intro (00:31) - Recap (01:07) - Chapter 14 (06:59) - Chapter 15 (09:26) - Chapter 16 (10:37) - Chapter 17 (12:48) - Ch…
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The strange suicides continue, and the Reeds are also getting hinky. Also, the malevolent presence at the crossroads is speaking to Fiji, who really doesn't have time for it. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:13) - Intro (00:32) - Recap (02:04) - Chapter 6 (09:25) - Chapter 7 (12:30) - Chapter 8 (14:46) - Chapter 9 (20:52) - Chapter 11 (24:21…
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A series of bizarre suicides unsettles the Midnighters, especially Fiji, whose patience is already worn thin by her visiting sister. Hopefully Lemuel has the answer in that creepy werewolf-skin book. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:13) - Intro (00:27) - Recap (01:30) - Cover (03:08) - Prologue (04:11) - Chapter 1 (10:48) - Chapter 2 (15:39)…
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Ciri completes her education in magic under the gentle tutelage of Yennefer. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:17) - Intro (00:30) - Recap (01:15) - Chapter 7 (21:05) - Review (23:40) - Outro We are Alice Sullivan, Micah Sparkman, and Jeff Lake. Find us at armadillo.club! Music: Intrigue by Alexandr Zhelanov licensed under CC-BY 4.0.…
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Plots and counterplots abound in this meeting-heavy episode. The rulers of every land around resolve to kill Geralt and Ciri, while Geralt himself is busy dusting his knuckles with a local charlatan. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:15) - Intro (00:28) - Recap (01:32) - Chapter 6 (23:51) - Outro We are Alice Sullivan, Micah Sparkman, and Jef…
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Geralt takes a side job on a barge, which means he has to deal with a terrifying river monster in between attacks by Nilfgaardian agents. Then Dandelion and Geralt head to a party hearty college town and indulge in some spycraft. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro (00:34) - Recap (01:20) - Chapter 5 (18:28) - Outro We are Alice Sul…
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Geralt, Triss, and Ciri join up with a caravan to travel through a war-torn area. They are set upon by Squirrels (who are more dangerous than they sound) and learn about war and bigotry in the battle. Spoiler: they're both bad. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro (01:26) - Chapter 4 (24:30) - Outro We are Alice Sullivan, Micah Spark…
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Triss joins Ciri on one of her (drug-induced) prophetic visions. The prophecy: pain and death. Triss also discusses her experience in the war against Nilfgaard: pain and death. Triss tries to get Geralt interested in world events, but he refuses. Probably because of the pain and death. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro (00:31) - R…
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Triss Merigold makes her way to Kaer Morhen, where the witchers need help taking care of Ciri. Her first recommendation: stop feeding her hormone mushrooms from the witcher cave. Also, maybe let her read a book now and then. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro (00:29) - Recap (01:12) - Quotes (16:14) - Outro We are Alice Sullivan, M…
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Geralt and Ciri are traveling to Kaer Morhen, but this chapter spends most of its time with Dandelion. Dandelion first regales a crowd (and us readers) with a handy recap of the story so far, then he meets a very enthusiastic fan. Unfortunately this person is a fan not of Dandelion but of torture. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro…
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Manfred gets some good news about the police investigation, then his nemesis Lewis (and friend) get some very bad news about what's lurking on the streets of Midnight during the full moon. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:13) - Intro (00:30) - Recap (01:26) - Chapter 29 (07:18) - Chapter 30 (10:07) - Chapter 31 (13:45) - Chapter 32 (15:56) -…
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Olivia's mission with the old timers goes great. It doesn't succeed, but nobody dies and that qualifies as great. Later, a full moon shines on Midnight and something fearsome stalks the streets. Well, the street. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:13) - Intro (01:38) - Chapter 20 (05:19) - Chapter 21 (09:19) - Chapter 22 (12:09) - Chapter 23 (…
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Manfred's legal woes get serious as the police question him about the missing jewelry. He and the Midnighters also decide to get serious about finding it, and they turn to Midnight's oldest resident (not counting Lemuel) for help. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:10) - Intro (00:28) - Recap (01:14) - Chapter 14 (04:28) - Chapter 15 (06:43) -…
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The suspicious circumstances of Manfred's client's death have brought a lot of press attention to Midnight, which is just the way the Midnighters don't like it. To get rid of this trouble, Olivia is tasked to 1) resolve the mystery and 2) not kill anybody. She almost succeeds at one of those. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:13) - Intro (00:…
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There are a couple of surprises in Midnight: a new hotel and a child. Manfred goes on a work trip and runs into Olivia, and there ends up being several more deaths than expected. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:12) - Intro (00:30) - Recap (01:23) - Cover and Map (05:01) - Prologue (10:18) - Chapter 1 (16:08) - Chapter 2 (21:55) - Chapter 4 …
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Geralt, convalescing in a rag-cart after being trenched by some bridge ghouls, has a series of combo hallucination/flashbacks which fill in several blanks in his situation. Specifically to do with Ciri and his destiny. It turns out that destiny doesn't like being denied. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro (00:29) - Recap (01:48) - …
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Geralt journeys to the heart of the wild woods of Brokilon. He mostly manages to not get killed by the dryads. He also runs into one Ciri, a child who appears to be his Destiny. As usual, the D word makes Geralt run for the hills. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro (00:31) - Recap (01:55) - Sword of Destiny (31:03) - Outro We are A…
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Geralt meets a mermaid! Not a little one, a regular-sized one. He also meets a beautiful and intriguing bard (also regular-sized). One of them wants love, the other wants him to avoid tangling with the deadly fish people from that underwater city. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro (00:34) - Recap (01:24) - A Little Sacrifice We ar…
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Geralt and Dandelion meet up with Dandelion's old friend Dainty the merchant. But not really, because Dainty has been replaced by a shapeshifter! The shapeshifter turns out to be better at Dainty's job than Dainty, making Geralt wonder if this is a problem really worth solving. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro (00:32) - Recap (01…
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Geralt is living with his on-again (but mostly) off-again true love, Yennefer. Things are perfect though, because Yennefer doesn't like to be pinned down and Geralt might be an emotionless mutant. They form a love/hate triangle with another wizard, Istredd, and things end sadly for all involved. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro (…
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It's basilisks and mercenaries, witchers and dragons in The Bounds of Reason, the first story of Sword of Destiny. Geralt teams up with a dragon slaying crew (despite being a non-slayer himself) as they hunt down a dragon for its loot. Why would he join? Same reason he does lots of stupid things: Yennefer is there. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon…
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We read the titular story, The Last Wish! When Geralt's bestie Dandelion is struck down by something that seems awfully like a wish-granting genie, Geralt seeks help from the sexy and treacherous Yennefer of Vergeberg. Her services don't come cheaply, though, and the price isn't in coins. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro (00:30) …
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When Geralt and Dandelion are called in to remove a "deoval" pestering some villagers, nothing goes according to anyone's plan. Soon Geralt has a new friend, a new enemy, and a new appreciation for the transience of all living things. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (00:16) - Intro (00:50) - Recap (02:24) - The Voice of Reason 5 (05:23) - The E…
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The Last Wish: The Lesser Evil and A Question of Price
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First: The Lesser Evil, in which Geralt encounters a very grim take on Snow White. Snow White is a sexy mutant bandit who is out for revenge on, well, basically everybody. Then: A Question of Price, in which Geralt encounters take on The Green Knight which is much less grim. The Green Knight is still a sexy mutant though. ★ Support this podcast on …
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