Welcome to Pray, Ponder, and Search (PPnS), a podcast dedicated to sharing the truth, light, and love of Jesus Christ one word a time. I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We are truly in the last days before Jesus Christ's return. With so much contempt, hatred, division, and darkness in the world, I wanted to share my witness of Jesus Christ and the positivity I feel from a life connected with Jesus Christ. I love all scripture that testifies and bears witness of ...
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Welcome to Roll, Ponder, and Play (RPnP), a podcast dedicated to crafting stories through the application of role-playing game engines, combined with creative thinking, and propelled into the aether by the barest of prompts. I take on all the roles of game master, solo player, author, and narrator. Come with me on a journey, and together let us explore realms of shadow, danger, and wonder! One roll can decide the fate of many things… Roll, Ponder, and Play podcast blends immersive story tell ...
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Pray, Ponder, and Search - Episode 6 (Book of Mormon 3 - 1 Nephi 14-16)
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This episode continues my narration of the Book of Mormon, another testament of Jesus Christ. It covers 1 Nephi, chapters 14 through 16. This is a recording from the text on gutenburg.org. I originally recorded this between the years of 2013 and 2015, and I’m reposting it here with some audio and balance corrections. Ways to Show Support: Give the …
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Hi friends, I wanted to give a brief channel update. First of all, I'm going to be taking a hiatus from publishing weekly until the new year. Posting weekly is a tremendous time commitment, and with the approaching busy schedules associated the Thanksgiving and Christmas season, I frankly need a break, and don't want to risk burning out. I do inten…
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Pray, Ponder, and Search - Episode 5 (Book of Mormon 3 - 1 Nephi 11-13)
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This episode continues my narration of the Book of Mormon, another testament of Jesus Christ. It covers 1 Nephi, chapters 11 through 13. This is a recording from the text on gutenburg.org. I originally recorded this between the years of 2013 and 2015, and I’m reposting it here with some audio and balance corrections. Ways to Show Support: Give the …
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Pray, Ponder, and Search - Episode 4 (Book of Mormon 2: 1 Nephi 5-10)
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This episode continues my narration of the Book of Mormon, another testament of Jesus Christ. It covers 1 Nephi, chapters 5 through 10. This is a recording from the text on gutenburg.org. I originally recorded this between the years of 2013 and 2015, and I’m reposting it here with some audio and balance corrections. Ways to Show Support: Give the s…
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Pray, Ponder, and Search - Episode 3 (Book of Mormon 1: 1 Nephi 1-4)
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This episode begins my re-posting of my narration of the Book of Mormon, another testament of Jesus Christ. It covers 1 Nephi, chapters 1 through 4. This is a recording from the text on gutenburg.org. I originally recorded this between the years of 2013 and 2015, and I’m reposting it here with some audio and balance corrections. Ways to Show Suppor…
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Pray, Ponder, and Search - Episode 2 - Happy Thanksgiving!
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Just in time for Thanksgiving, I give you a reading of the excellent essay, "The Courage to Face Ingratitude" by author William George Jordan from his book, "The Power of Truth: Individual Problems and Possibilities"! Ways to Show Support: Give the show a positive review Leave a comment Share the show with others Reach out to me and say hello Visit…
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Pray, Ponder, and Search - Episode 1 - About
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In this first episode, I talk about the why I'm doing this new podcast in a cozy Q&A format and what to expect. Ways to Show Support: Give the show a positive review Leave a comment Share the show with others Reach out to me and say hello Visit my fantasy, sci-fi audio-drama podcast: Roll, Ponder, and Play Attributions: - Music and effects from Pix…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen investigates the ruined palace at Greenhome while Seith and Aron take their rest. She finds a cellar and beyond the cellar a prison, a prison where manacles where wrenched free from their mountings and the door burst asunder. She feels a darkness and evil emanating still from that prison and flees back to…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Inside Greenhome, the above ground ruined building built for the queens of old, Eilwen hears sounds of fighting above her. Rushing to investigate, she sees Seith's bloody and still form rolling down some stone steps towards her. He's alive but hurt and soon loses consciousness. She proceeds up the stairs and is …
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Previously: In our previous episode, when dawn comes, Eilwen and Scratch make their way back near the escarpment where their camp had been attacked two days before. Together, they arrive in the treeline and study the clearing where their camp had been. Amidst the din of cawing ravens and buzzing flies feasting on the fallen slaughtered horses, Eilw…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen having fled from the Varou assault on their campsite the day before, and having spent the night in the deep woods, spends the next day healing, hunting, resting, and recuperating. As she does so, Scratch, the little wyvern gets into her food, attacks her boot laces, attempts to fly, hunts bugs, climbs a t…
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Previously: In our previous episode, in the gray early-morning hours, during their breakfast, Eilwen, Aron, and Seith are ambushed by a group of Varou who used the thick fog to get in close and attack their camp. In the ensuing fight, as their horses are being slaughtered, Eilwen is wounded in the forearm, and due to the thick fog, and the chaos of…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen, Aron, and Seith are reunited near Seith's home with Aron leading several horses. While Seith is gathering supplies for a departure from Redcrag, Aron reveals that they have little some time but not much if they are to stay ahead of their pursuers from the Wolf Fang Clan. By the light of moon and stars, t…
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Previously: Welcome to Episode 21 of the Queen of Shadows Podcast on Roll, Ponder, and Play! I'm Jared Hess, your friendly neighborhood game master, solo-player, author, and narrator. In our previous episode, as night falls in the settlement of Redcrag, Seith allows Eilwen to keep the baby wyvern, Scratch, in his shed prior to Eilwen, Aron, and Sei…
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Oct 7, 2025 - (I've reuploaded this file to capture some corrections.) Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen and her brother Aron make their way down out of the frozen heights of the Veiled Mountains into another mountainous region, much lower in elevation, known as the Tempest Hills. Still considered the highlands, these high golden alpine m…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen and Aron finally made their way through the large pile of rock and continued their journey through the subterranean depths. In one area, they found some strange blue-glowing water that would pass through living matter with little effect, but would affix itself to unliving matter such as stone or metal. Ei…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen and Aron finally made their way through the large pile of rock and continued their journey through the subterranean depths. In one area, they found some strange blue-glowing water that would pass through living matter with little effect, but would affix itself to unliving matter such as stone or metal. Ei…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen, Aron, and Kyffin venture into the dark subterranean ruins beneath the tower of the Husk, Edris, hoping to pass through to the other side of the mountains. They move through a huge rectangular-wrought chamber with large finely-crafted statutes carved into the pillars holding up the ceiling. The artistry i…
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Previously: In our previous episode, at the zenith of her despair, Eilwen draws strength by feeding her anger at those who would slay the innocent for their nefarious and dark magics. She and Aron and Kyffin manage to barely escape from Edris's clutches and those of his leather-winged minions by fleeing through a rusty trap door near their feet and…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen, Aron, and Kyffin continue to press through the pass, but the constant snow combined with blasting winds, strong enough to strip shards ice and flakes of sharp rock from the narrow canyon walls forces them to look for shelter or be flayed and frozen alive. They find a crumbling tower and hurry inside, gra…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen, Aron, and Kyffin continue their journey to the mountain pass. There, amid the gray, ice-rimed cliffs, they find a body of a humanoid with a cracked wooden mask of curious design and ruined weapons and armor of fine make. The human-like being, is clearly not human and its missing eyes, and open chest cavi…
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Previously In our previous episode, Drystan and Kyffin find Eilwen at Frostbridge. The two men had arrived the night of the attack after seen the smoke from Drystan's home on the outskirts of the settlement where Kyffin had been convalescing. As they arrive, Frostbridge is holding a ceremony of remembrance, and while the bonfire burns, and the peop…
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About this Podcast Series: At the edge of known space, the UASN Oracle, a military destroyer turned science vessel, begins a survey mission in an unexplored star system. In the face a dire threat to all of humanity, Ardelle Leath, a junior officer, on board the Oracle, will struggle to overcome her past and fulfill her duty to the United Alliance S…
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Flight of the Oracle - Episode (Session) 0
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About this Podcast Series: At the edge of known space, the UASN Oracle, a military destroyer turned science vessel, begins a survey mission in an unexplored star system. In the face a dire threat to all of humanity, Ardelle Leath, a junior officer, on board the Oracle, will struggle to overcome her past and fulfill her duty to the United Alliance S…
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Previously In our previous episode, Eilwen, Aron, and Cadfael race back to Frostbridge to find it beset by some enemy. Several buildings are ablaze and the corpses of the fallen are in the streets offering visceral witness to the violence done to them. They find Mabon cornered by a spirit-possessed blacksmith Gwili, one of the men who had been on b…
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Previously In our previous episode, Eilwen rests and recuperates after her duel with Belvan and makes preparations for the journey through the mountains to the burial chamber Belvan had infiltrated. Her father reminds her that it is a place of death and is what led to her mother's illness and subsequent demise. On the morrow, Eilwen reveals herself…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen, Aron, Cadfael, and Mabon, Chieftain of Frostbridge, escape the mine and make it to Rockriver's ruins where they rest and recuperate. They journey back to Frostrbridge and find that Belvan isn't there. During the feasting that ensured upon Mabon's return, Carys, the old crone, tells Eilwen that Belvan wen…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen, Aron, Cadfael, and Mabon enter the mine in an attempt to get away from the Wolf Fang warriors and return to Rockriver and then Frostrbridge. After a few hours they recross the rope bridge and navigate the mine's dark tunnels and reach the edge of the dark underground lake. Eilwen shows the lake-side skel…
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Previously: In our previous episode, in the dead of night, Eilwen spots, within the Wolf Fang Clan raiding party's encampment, her Father, Cadfael, and Frostbridge Chiefton Mabon in a wooden cage with some old women. She awakens Aron and they get a closer look. When they see that only one sentry is on duty, guarding the cage, she and Aron decide th…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen and Aron find a sheltered spot with an overhang, largely obscured from view where they can see the valley below. They prepare for the Wolf Fang raiders to circle the mountain and come into view. Eilwen goes hunting and nearly falls to ruin when she encounters a pack of hungry wolves that chase her onto an…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen and Aaron leave behind Drystan behind in Rockriver with instructions for him to care for Kyffin so that they can move more quickly through the mines and get ahead of the Wolf Fang warriors and their prisoners. They find the mine entrance one valley over to the west and enter it about mid-morning. In the t…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen, Aron, and Drystan arrive safely at Rockriver, however they find that the town has been attacked and half burned to the ground, its inhabitants dead or missing. They aid one of the wounded survivors, a man named Kyffin. He tells them that the town was attacked by none other than Uzak an erstwhile and now …
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen chases the retreating figure and ends up in a clearing where she finds ancient stone blocks and two strange iron pillars. She investigates the pillars and to her surprise realizes she can read at least some of the angular runes on their faces. She remembers how her mother had taught her the skill through …
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen and her twin brother, Aron, meet with Drystan, a member of the Frostbridge community. They manage to convince the large man to aid them in their search for Mabon, the missing chieftain of Frostbridge and Cadfael, their missing father. Drystan agrees and brings his sleds and dogs so they can travel more qu…
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Previously: In our previous episode, Eilwen her twin brother Aron, both 18 years old, find out their father and Chief Mabon have not returned from their morning hunt. Eilwen vows to find them and she and Aron gather supplies in preparation. Before they can set out however, a huge silverback bear enters Frostbridge hoping for an easy meal. In the en…
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Previously: In our previous episode, the prologue, Eilwen and her twin brother Aron were both only 15 years of age. They discover that Eilwen's ailing mother has kept in her possession for many years, a finely carved box, and in that box is a cloven crown of gold with a crimson ruby shorn down the middle. This is the lost crown of the royal line of…
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Previously: In our previous episode (our "Session 0" if you will), we met Eilwen, our main character and protagonist, a young huntress of Frostbridge in her late teens. We found out that Frostbridge, Eilwen's settlement, is a failing mining settlement deep in the cold and snow-ridden wilderness of the Veiled Mountains. We learned that Eilwen is dau…
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Queen of Shadows Podcast - Episode (Session) 0
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Previously: In my previous upload to this podcast (I can't call it an episode really), I described the origin and impetus for the Queen of Shadows podcast series. And now, onto episode 0 where we will discover our character and do some world building. Ways to Show Support: Join my patreon for free at https://patreon.com/rollponderandplay or as a pa…
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Welcome to my very first ever podcast, the Queen of Shadows, a multi-part and as of 2025 ongoing episodic (and epic) work of fiction where I, Jared Hess, your friendly neighborhood game master, solo-player, author, and narrator bring to life the story of our protagonist, Eilwen, a huntress from the faraway settlement of Frostbridge in the Veiled Mo…
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