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In this episode we once again play a game of our own devising called “Wheel of Tropes.” We use random TV Tropes, entries from The Evil Overlord List, cards from the Rider-Waite tarot deck, and entries from The Tough Guide to Fantasyland to create a new story.

Content warnings for strong language and weird academic in jokes.

We discuss and potentially spoil: Shakespeare‘s Hamlet, Goethe‘s Faust; Bram Stoker‘s Dracula, Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein, Harry Potter, Terry Pratchett‘s Discworld universe (particularly the book Hogfather and the City Watch storylines), the Superman mythos, Terry Rossio’s “The Task,” the fairy tale “Rapunzel,” Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald‘s Circle of Magic series, Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald’s Mageworlds series, Star Trek episode “Whom Gods Destroy,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s “The Replacement,” The Lord of the Rings, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Sherlock Holmes, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

The full transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.