C03 - Ep. 49 - Under Oondar Fire - Bask in Reflected Gory
August 5, 2026
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5 min readThe Vault, the Chimera, and a Pact with Death
The episode opens not with combat, but with an extended anti-roast of Doug Boon. Each player character—Natty Wonder, Gunter, Tolve, and Doug himself—takes a turn saying what they genuinely appreciate about the bugbear artificer. Doug admits he's proud of putting himself out there despite his anxiety, and the warmth is thick enough that the dungeon master, Gustavo Sorola, jokes they could make the whole episode an "inverse roast." It's a rare, unguarded moment before everything goes sideways.
Entering the Treasure Vault
The party dives through Doug's portal painting and emerges in a vast treasure vault. The floor is thick with gold coins. Six arched caverns hold mounds of unique golden treasures. A golden well sits in the center, flanked by two stone water fountains. On the ceiling, 50 feet up, stands the Chimera—but it looks different from their last encounter. Its left head is now a walrus, its center head a Tasmanian devil, its right head and tail a scorpion, and it has pterodactyl wings. It's covered in diamond-hard, multi-faceted glass shards. Jammed into its scales is the Wilder Shield, the artifact Gunter and his deity Bunlap have been seeking.
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What you'll learn
- 1 Main Outline
- 2 (02:21) **Episode Recap & Character Introductions** - The adventurers recap their previous journey and introduce their characters with a special arrow question boosting Doug Boon's self-esteem.
- 3 (13:23) **Entering the Treasure Vault** - The party emerges from the painting into a vast treasure vault filled with gold coins, where a mutated Chimera stands upside-down on the ceiling alongside Umbarian tourists and Goliath Gold Chasers.
- 4 (19:28) **Rolling Initiative & Planning the Leap** - The party rolls initiative and Gunther proposes using the Leapfrog maneuver with Bunlap to reach the Chimera and retrieve the Wilder Shield.
- 5 (24:57) **Gunther's Daring Shield Retrieval** - Gunther leaps off Bunlap, critically succeeds on grabbing the Wilder Shield, and manages to pull it free with team support.
- 6 (29:25) **Chimera's Mirror Images & Gravity Shift** - The Chimera creates five duplicate reflections of itself and shifts gravity for the Tourists, sending them sliding toward a wall.
- 7 (33:37) **Tolve's Ceiling Assault** - Tolve climbs toward the painting using spider silk stockings and attacks the Chimera with a mushroom spore glove.
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Show Notes
Brutaliteam faces off with the Chimirrora in an attempt to reclaim the Wildershield!
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Cast: Gus Sorola, Blaine Gibson, Barbara Dunkelman, Jon Risinger, Chris Demarais
Writer/Editor/Composer: Micah Risinger
Producer: Benjamin Ernst
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