Cast Party: A Dungeons & Dragons Podcast
Cast Party: A Dungeons & Dragons Podcast

Facing A Past Life | Campaign 2 | Ep.59

August 10, 2026

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Facing A Past Life | Campaign 2 | Ep.59

The party reunites at the base of a mountain where the largest piece of Eilos' orbital fell, and what they find there forces each of them to confront memories they weren't sure were real — and a threat they weren't ready for.

The Reunion and the Climb

After several episodes of the party being split between Squalls' End and Keley, Santos, Jackal, and Tevin meet up with Poppy, Bjorn, Lenora, and Yorg at the mountain's base. The reunion is warm but brief — everyone is eager to share what happened (the Keley group killed a vampire; the Squalls' End group dealt with bees and "sex parties"), but they decide to push forward rather than dwell. As they climb, the terrain is the roughest they've faced, requiring ropes, flight, and cutting through dense forest. The Keley group, exhausted from desert travel, notices animals all around them — birds, deer, wild cats — all climbing the mountain alongside them, none aggressive. Many are resonantly corrupt, with misshapen bodies, but they ignore the party entirely. Santos, Jackal, and Tevin also feel a deep reverberation coming from the summit, a pull that grows stronger the higher they go. Tevin, wearing the backpack from the vampire fight, wonders if the metal in his body is amplifying the sensation.

The Cave and the Researcher's Log

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (00:04) **Episode Open & Full Party Reunion** - The full party regroups after splitting up in previous episodes, catching up on their separate adventures.
  • 2 (13:19) **Ascending the Resonant Mountain** - The party begins their difficult climb up the mountain, noticing strange, non-aggressive resonated animals all moving in the same direction.
  • 3 (20:50) **Encounter with the Flower Gate Guard** - The party is stopped by a sentient, resonant plant that scans them before allowing them to pass toward a glowing cave.
  • 4 (23:49) **The Crash Site and the Lunite Corpse** - The party discovers the crashed remains of a Lunite research lab inside the cave, finding a corpse with a memory plate.
  • 5 (35:14) **Activating the Memory Plates & The Researcher's Log** - The group uses a functioning "VCR" device to play a thought plate, revealing a Lunite researcher's philosophical questions about resonant autonomy.
  • 6 (46:57) **Santos's Past Life Vision: Miguel** - Santos steps onto a pressure plate before a large, polished moonrock mirror, triggering a vision of his past life as a human named Miguel.
  • 7 (53:01) **Tevin's Past Life Vision: The Hitman** - Tevin steps up to the mirror and is confronted with a brutal vision of his past life as a contract killer working for a man named Tai.

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Show Notes

The Party joins together once more and heads for a piece of Ilos's orbital

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