| “ | Monsters live on bad metaphors, Rilla. Science is a human domain. That’s how you get an ogre with two faces that makes you betray one another, and that awful bird that duplicated every time you placed it in a bush, and that earthworm that turned into a dragon when you bullied it, and— | ” |
—Sir Marc
Second Citadel - The Treacherous Heart is the tenth episode of the second season of The Penumbra Podcast. It was released August 15, 2017.
Overview[]
On the third morning of the Festival of the Three, Sir Marc knew nothing of Sir Damien’s duels with the Lord of the Swamp. Sir Marc’s problems lay closer to his heart – or brain, as the case may be.
Because Sir Marc's condition requires medication, and medication is hard to come by out in the wilds. Luckily, Sir Marc has a medical professional on his side: Rilla, the herbalist of the Second Citadel. But unluckily, medicine in this overgrown world is never easy… and Rilla and Marc will have to think and act quickly if they’re going to keep the urge to save a life from killing them.
Trigger Warnings[]
- Sudden loud noises and screaming
- Depictions and descriptions of violence and death
- Fire and burning-related violence
- Depictions of being Trapped
- Manipulation
- Depiction of breaking and entering/kidnapping
Episode Summary[]
Cast and Crew[]
Starring
- Melissa Ennulat as Rilla
- Stefano Perti as Sir Marc
- Matthew Zahnzinger as Sir Damien
- Jason Mellin as Sir Talfryn
- Noah Simes as Lord Arum