The Master

Episode 24: The Pirate’s Tale

Episode 24: The Pirate’s Tale

September 6, 2025

With the help of the All-Knowing, Miria delves into the terrors of Haalu’s mind to learn more about the cruel and enigmatic Master.

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Episode 22: Spiders & Flies

Episode 22: Spiders & Flies

August 2, 2025

The party makes a narrow escape. Miria, Edryk, Raxon, Berle, and Kale secretly prepare for treachery.

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Episode 21: Conspiracy

Episode 21: Conspiracy

July 12, 2025

Miria and Edryk recruit new followers and head into the jungle, but discover that one of their own party is plotting against the rest…

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Episode 20: Desperate Measures

Episode 20: Desperate Measures

June 21, 2025

Swords Against Madness episode 20 is a summary of the plot from episodes 11 through 19. An opportunity to catch up on the plot or just refresh your memory. It adds nothing to the main plot-line.

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Episode 17: Villainy

Episode 17: Villainy

April 12, 2025

While Miria & Edryk face a deadly trap, The Master & his acolyte Halu conspire to murder Miria, and Yanghu extracts a bloody revenge on the crew of the pirate…

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Episode 10: The Lady Who Fell From the Sky

Episode 10: The Lady Who Fell From the Sky

November 9, 2024

A summary of the first 10 episodes of Swords Against Madness.

Miria, a space-faring smuggler crash-lands on the world of Orbus, near the Island of Nar. Nar is a poor former colony of a failed Oligarchy full of conflict between its two religions, and is plagued by seeming indestructible monsters.

Miria steps right into the conflict by giving them the holy words she guessed had been engineered into the Island’s older faith by star-faring criminals, and thanks to horrible radiation poisoning, finds herself racing against time to fulfill a prophecy, hunt down an old space pirate associate, end the clash between faiths, and slay monsters, with the help of a pair of teen-aged misfits.

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Episode 6: Mind Control

Episode 6: Mind Control

August 17, 2024

Rayya struggles under Mormont’s mind control as he debates to which faction he wants to sell out Miria. An unfortunate communication and a careless intruder cause danger to awaken on every side. Making escape seem increasingly more perilous by the second.

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Episode 2: Burn

May 25, 2024

Miria awakens in a hut at the edge of the ruined village, covered in blisters, and discoveres that she may well be living on borrowed time, and so is the A.I. on her ship, The Empyreal’s Coin. As a madman plots her death, she stands before the council of the village to tell them a terrible truth about their beliefs…

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Episode 1: The Sorceress and the Squid

Episode 1: The Sorceress and the Squid

May 5, 2024

Miria, a smuggler awakes next to her sinking starship on a strange world, alone, with holes in her memories, and only the clothes on her back and her wrist computer….

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