Wow, Christopher. 
Amazing story. I am impressed and glad you were able to help all those people.
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Two things appear to have gone missing: this episode, and the forum thread for the following episode, Editorās Note #57. The latter simply doesnāt exist; perhaps nobody thought to create one, and maybe thatās just as well, as the thing I was motivated to comment on there was mostly just a pet peeve I was going to complain about; yāall can live without, Iām sure. But it does seem as though all you July People really enjoyed this episode, and Iād like to know why it now either returns a 404 error or simply refuses to play.
It does seem like for some reason you need to choose Download This Episode if you listen via the Libsyn page, but otherwise the episode is there.
And the reason there seems to be no Editorās Note #57 thread is because the title was misnumbered: Editorās Note #56
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Whoops. Thatās been corrected
The download gives me a 404.
Heh, I admit I had noticed at the time, but didnāt say anything because it didnāt seem important and I didnāt want to look pedantic. Welp.
I genuinely have no idea whatās going on, then. If I hit the play button on the episodeās page, that does nothing, but clicking on Download This Episode does. I can also play it through my podcast app and on Spotify.
Do they upload on YouTube or anything like that? Maybe thereās another location someone could link me to.
Nope, itās just Libsyn and other major podcast apps
Well whatever Justyās issue in '22 was fine, the episode works fine in 2026.
Iāve never been in a cave, and I really want to be in one at some point in my life. (Or not; if I die and become a ghost and am not region-locked to the area I died in, Iām definitely going to haunt a cave. Hopefully ghosts have dark vision with a sufficient range that I can see the walls and ceiling without needing a light source. Until then Iāll just replay Dear Esther chapter 3, thatās unquestionably the best cave experience Iāve ever had.)
Anywho, on to the episode. This story about golden Age Scholar, predating even the Wraith and maybe Legacy too, I really want to see a Definitive Edition deck for him. Obviously in those days heās not gonna be a fat dude in a bathrobe, so Iām picturing some sort of lightly noirish ālooks like Sydney Greenstreet, sounds like Peter Lorreā kind of person who gets sucked into suspense thriller situations without really trying to.
Andolin is a pangolinā¦how did I never get that
Some āall about the moneyā villainsā¦you mean, someone whoās a villain FOR PROFIT!?
There actually is a ābelow the hollow earthā concept in the H.P. Lovecraft Mythosā¦thereās blue-littten Kn-Yan, which has a very Agharta/Shaver Mystery kind of concept with mostly normal humans in it, and below that is red-litten Yoth, which has reptilian and mammalian monsters in it, and below that is black lightless NāKai, where amorphous alien horrors dwell.
Not a huge fan of how they got to Waykeep as a character, especially since I canāt hear the name Leybeast without channeling Jerry Seinfeld and going āItās a female body part?..ā But since we have this spirit that can body jump when killed, Iām like āwell this is how you take a relatively neutral force of nature that wants to stop what the Scholar is doing, and turn it into a nihilistic villain that wants to kill the Scholar out of revenge.ā (Itās a very different revenge from BB, since āyou killed my fatherā is quite thoroughly not the same experience from āyou killed ME.ā) In fact, Iād go even further; IMO the way they got us to the Scholar of the Infinite was a very unsatisfying āyada yadaā bit of the story, similar to things like Hakaās origin, where we deserve to know more about why heās fading out of reality than just āhis awareness is pulled into too many directionsā. So I would patch that hole by saying that Waykeep succeeds in killing the Scholar (another way in which the Baron is different). After failing several times to destroy his power or himself, Waykeep fibally essentially cursed or poisoned John, with an effect that would gradually unweave him from reality in a way that he couldnāt counter, since trying to reverse it would only accelerate it. She told him that his remaining time should be spent saying goodbyes or making amends or whatnot, but instead he continued heroing until he was a minute or three from poofing out, and spent that last minute saving Guise. Who should then meet Waykeep later on and seek revenge on her.