And with that, our time in the Delta draws to a close. There’s just enough time for us to catch our breath and regroup before we go our separate ways and tackle the next big thing.

Dragomir and I have reached a sort of impasse, I think. He wants to have a relationship with his daughter, and for a long time Daria had been that proxy. I still don't know if I want a relationship with my father, because I have made it this long without one. I was afraid, at first, to see what kind of man he would be. Then I was terrified once I learned who he was.

Him? I had thought, remembering that look in his eyes as he slaughtered a hydra or forced Cipru to hold a gun to his own head. This is the man my mother had loved? Still loves, in her own way.

Now, after working and fighting alongside him, I have come to understand him in another light. I won't say that he's a good man, but I can see how he thinks he is one — or at least not a bad one. I say that because I am not a good person in the same ways, and I can see familiar pieces of me in him. I can see the same sort of ache in him that I see in my mother when he talks to me.

He’s not interested in the greater good, but he wants to do right by me. I will give him that chance. I am not a little girl anymore, and he is not the selfless, heroic man I once thought he might be. But he wants to try, for me, for what we could have been if circumstances were different, and that’s enough.

Because if there’s one thing that I’ve learned from working with the Rams this past year, it’s that so long as you’re willing to try, and so long as you care, then that’s enough. There will always be someone there to help carry you the rest of the way.
- From the investigation notes of Elżbieta

Cast:
Bitmap as Ksana the Spear
Cory as Apricus the Luminary
Jade as Viidra Matei
Mab as Elżbieta Wrona
Zachary as The Game Master

Produced by: Mab
Theme song: "Stray Not, And Be Safe" by Zachary Frederickson.
Sound effects: zapsplat and Freesound users matucha, dermotte, julianmateo, and eminyildirim
Other music: Ovani Sound and Kevin MacLeod

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It seems useless at this point to be asking why? And they’re not even good investigative questions either.

Why do the Errols want to control Tarandaur? Spare me the greater good rhetoric, you’ve proven you’d just as soon control mindless sheep than lead people to prosperity. Endless food supply? Finally a chance at freedom, for your chosen handful?

Why did Hans and Nico want to become vampires? What reward was worth so great a risk? Why subject yourself to such a miserable way of life simply because you eke out the slightest advantage against the common man?

It’s a foolish and childish question. I can’t say I inherently believe in the good of any one individual as a general sense; I’ve been a hunter and an investigator long enough to know that people will do awful, petty things for their own advancement, even if it only earns them inches. It isn’t like the adventure serials where the bad guy always gets their comeuppance.

Why is this the future that the Errols want to promote? Why do I feel like none of them have an ounce of common sense, because all they have created is a breeding ground for dissent.
- From the investigation notes of Elżbieta

Cast:
Bitmap as Ksana the Spear
Cory as Apricus the Luminary
Jade as Orin Nāttsku
Mab as Elżbieta Wrona
Zachary as The Game Master

Produced by: Mab
Theme song: "Stray Not, And Be Safe" by Zachary Frederickson.
Sound effects: zapsplat
Other music:

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When we first came to the Delta, there was no real reason for Viidra to have trusted us the way that he did. Implicitly, our presence meant that we were here to disrupt the order of things — undoubtedly Jack had told him stories about us. What we had done in Ruel, and what we looked to do in the Delta. At the time, what did we know of Viidra’s life before our arrival?

He was hired to ferry us about the Delta and to be our local guide while we got our feet under us. Now he’s leading one of the charges against Sofia’s grip on this place. He has, more than any of us, a reason to pry her claws from the beating heart of his home. We merely gave him the leverage with which to anchor his spear.

I am glad that he talked me out of pursuing vengeance against Curwen. The bigger picture dictates that I should join the charge on Viclean, but it is hard to see around the hurt and betrayal that still sting.

The battle against Curwen is one that involves the Sangele; I have no need to overstep the bounds of their generosity towards my presence. Let Viidra see this one through, to solidify in him the knowledge that he is willing to fight to see his home freed from the stagnation it has maintained under Dragomir’s thumb.

He will work at the rot blocking the river until the water can run clear once more.
- From the investigation notes of Elżbieta

Cast:
Bitmap as Treju of the Swamp
Cory as Sad Jack “The Axe” Little
Jade as Viidra Matei
Mab as Lilli Kuusela
Zachary as The Game Master

Produced by: Mab
Theme song: "Stray Not, And Be Safe" by Zachary Frederickson.
Sound effects: zapsplat user lukas_tvrdon and others, Soundbible user Tony Phillips, and Freesound users univ_lyon3, homeboylp, slave2thelight, molefimanaka, jaklocke, brendan89, cgeffex, artninja, tosha73, minecraftgamerlr, jessie_s, and britelife
Other music: Kevin MacLeod, Ovani Sound, and AlesiaDavina from Pixabay

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