Episode Description
Camp Pain #024: Fruit Basket Case (Season 1.5 Continues!)
Welcome back to Shimmerlake City—where the sewers smell like profit, the Thieves’ Guild doesn’t hand out memberships easily, and the fruit baskets may or may not be a form of stealth technology.
This week, our heroes split the party (because of course they do). Belleth faces her initiation test from the Thieves’ Guild, tasked with intercepting a mysterious package from the elusive Lord Duvane. Meanwhile, Guldor and Seven venture into the sewers ahead of the city’s grand event, hoping to get the lay of the land—and discovering that “nothing but rats” might have been optimistic.
Between suspiciously specific spells like Detect Bread, misguided attempts to Summon Beavers, and at least one creative use of a fruit basket, chaos reigns supreme as the team navigates deception, danger, and possibly produce-related doom.
In this episode:
As the group inches closer to uncovering Lord Duvane’s schemes, Shimmerlake’s underbelly proves that corruption runs deep—and it smells faintly of sour grapes.
Join Belleth Thornton, Guldor Firebeard, TR-33, Seven of the NiteWood, and Liam the DM as our magical misadventure continues—where even a fruit basket can be a weapon if you throw it hard enough.
In the Sunfire kingdom of Valdoria, our adventurers attend Pyreglow Preparatory Academy—one of many schools training the next generation of heroes after the legendary Great Vanishing left the realm unguarded. Now, teens from across the kingdom have enrolled in the famed Camp Shimmer Lake, where danger, drama, and dice rolls await.
Camp Pain is a bi-weekly Dungeons & Dragons game hosted by Michael Heit from Hey Other Parents, Food & Fury, and Snackzeroth podcasts. Created and run by our extraordinary DM Liam, and starring Bridget, Orlep, Levine, and the occasional guest. Some of us are seasoned adventurers, others are still figuring out which dice is the d20. This podcast is more chaos than critical hits—if you’re looking for serious D&D, turn back now. If you’re here for fun, you’re in the right camp.
Produced by Liam, Bridget, Orlep, Levine, and Michael Heit. Edited and mixed by Michael Heit. Intro voiced by the one and only Koltrane. Music sourced from Fanatical’s 2023 Music Bundle featuring Dark Fantasy Studio. Official maps by Ethan, our youngest and most talented cartographer. We’re playing D&D 5E on D&D Beyond.
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