Icebound | Ep. 1 | The Southward Gambit

**Derek Hudson** (0:02)
Welcome to Legends of Avantris. I'm Derek Hudson and you're listening to Icebound.
89 days. 89 days since you were all captured and imprisoned. A little more than three months by the calendar you all share. 89 days on the outskirts of the river city of Wuzhe, the largest urban center of Southwest Yulong. 89 days confined in the sweltering heat of the Wuzhean labor camp you now call home. 5,287 days left to go. Serving your 16 year sentences for crimes you were unjustly framed for. 16 years, stolen, imprisoned in the Golden Egg, the brazen name given to the quarry and camp you've come to know over the past three months. 16 years gone, but still yet to endure. It's hard to say what's worse. The brutal, foul, cool conditions, the exhausting drudge of each day's work, the blistering heat that infuses even the isolated night, or the shared glimpses of your peers, desperate and hopeless.
A few simple innovations have made the Golden Egg as inescapable as it is profitable for its other governors. There are no cells, at least not in the traditional sense. The quarry is dug down layer by layer. So too are the fresh holes mined into the damned and stony earth.
Territorial, vigilant, spitting, hissing, biting, and wholly unbribeable. Guard geese supplement the usual security layers one might come to expect of such a place. Hopelessness, it would seem, is not without a sense of humor. And so it is on this day, the 89th day, you awaken to find yourself wondering again, not just how you came to be here, but how you might survive.
Let's all make a survival check.

**Andy** (2:46)
Alrighty.

**Kimma** (2:46)
My first roll of campaign.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:55)
You said perception?

**Derek Hudson** (2:57)
Survival.

**Andy** (2:58)
Survival.

**SPEAKER_7** (3:01)
Thank you, Kimmo.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:02)
22

**SPEAKER_7** (3:03)
Nice.

**SPEAKER_8** (3:03)
13

**SPEAKER_6** (3:05)
20 to 25

**SPEAKER_7** (3:06)
20

**SPEAKER_8** (3:06)
Oh, sorry.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:07)
22

**SPEAKER_2** (3:08)
Some weird initiative thing going on.

**Kimma** (3:10)
Scrim?

**SPEAKER_2** (3:11)
I think Yornir beat me.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:13)
22, yeah.

**Kimma** (3:14)
I got a 20

**SPEAKER_2** (3:16)
So Yornir, Barnabus.

**SPEAKER_8** (3:17)
Thank you. I can listen to my players.

**Kimma** (3:20)
Then?

**SPEAKER_2** (3:22)
What did you get, Taishen?

**SPEAKER_9** (3:24)
Oh, I got a 13 as well.

**SPEAKER_10** (3:25)
You can survive better than me.
You survive better than I would. I don't do well in prison.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:32)
Kimma said, did you not get the box with the cup? I did not see one.

**SPEAKER_10** (3:38)
You guys handed me this stuff.

**Kimma** (3:40)
Oh, is there another box?

**SPEAKER_2** (4:04)
Well, sorry, guys, past my bedtime, I'm going home.

**SPEAKER_11** (4:07)
Box, I've no idea what you mean. Oh, this?

**SPEAKER_2** (4:13)
Listen.

**SPEAKER_11** (4:13)
You mean to be great in prison?

**SPEAKER_12** (4:20)
Is that against the two of us?

**SPEAKER_2** (4:22)
No, it's a warp knife.

**SPEAKER_10** (4:24)
It's got a wolf on it, if that helps.

**SPEAKER_12** (4:26)
That's really cool.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:28)
Inside you, there are two wolves.

**SPEAKER_11** (4:36)
Oh, it's a box of paper.

**SPEAKER_13** (4:41)
I mean, I did say the box of the cup in it.

**SPEAKER_12** (4:46)
Oh, hang on, hang on.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:48)
Is it a cup?

**SPEAKER_13** (4:49)
It looks like it.

**SPEAKER_10** (4:50)
It's right on its own, and it's wrapped in it.

**SPEAKER_13** (4:52)
But Kimma did say the box of the cup in it, so.

**SPEAKER_14** (4:58)
Beautiful tea cups.

**SPEAKER_13** (5:00)
I thought it was a butt hole. Those are really nice.

**SPEAKER_11** (5:02)
They're like inscribed.

**SPEAKER_15** (5:04)
Yeah, that's amazing.

**Kimma** (5:08)
I know this is for Mace.
I know this was for Mace, but I'm gonna steal this paper. I know, it's my paper now. Are you kidding me?

**SPEAKER_6** (5:19)
Because it's a prop now.

**Andy** (5:20)
Only you can believe them, man.

**Kimma** (5:22)
It's a prop.

**SPEAKER_6** (5:22)
Whatever.

**SPEAKER_10** (5:23)
Absolutely unimaginable.

**SPEAKER_6** (5:25)
Mike, you're stealing my mace's knife, apparently.

**Andy** (5:27)
Oh, you are?

**SPEAKER_10** (5:36)
Just honest to reach under there.

**SPEAKER_16** (5:51)
16 years passed.

**Kimma** (5:56)
In fact, you all die in prison.

**Derek Hudson** (7:59)
So that's about issue.

**Andy** (8:01)
You're wanted with the Warden.

**SPEAKER_17** (8:05)
I know you just told me.

**SPEAKER_11** (8:06)
You make your way up.

**Derek Hudson** (8:09)
Circle the quarry as you approach the Warden's Tower, and very quickly, you find yourself in a holding cell. All on your own, the door clangs to a shut, and you find yourself waiting, wondering what the Warden or whomever could possibly want.

**Kimma** (8:28)
Do I have any of my old possessions on me?

**Derek Hudson** (8:31)