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Horror Movie Minisode 2: Stephen King's IT

1h 45m | Oct 31, 2026

Welcome to Wonderful World of Darklords! Our generous listeners donated to the Capital Area Food Bank and earned two horror movie minisodes, but we didn't let y'all vote on the second one, because it was going to be Derry whether you liked it or not. We both love this book, this miniseries, and one of these movies, so we're making this domain work even though Pennywise has exactly one of our qualities of a good darklord. (It's a theme for this October.)

There are uncensored F-bombs in this episode and discussion of some of the more disturbing elements of IT. There's an "E" next to this episode for a reason. You have been warned.

Topics discussed include:

  • yet another invented backstory to give two of the first three elements to our untormented, untragic, evil-by-nature darklord, and our very first unconditional failure in scrounging up anything for one of those elements;
  • The stat block that actually gives us a ton of what we need for "reality-bending murder clown;"
  • bringing the power of friendship and belief into a game that's much more about the power of longswords and fireballs, and how the power of belief gives you license to metagame;
  • snaring PCs who presumably aren't the Losers' Club in Pennywise's web, including Tom's gloriously heady and bonkers idea for giving your PCs the complete IT Chapters 1 and 2 experience;
  • and more!


The writeup for Derry is available for free on DM's Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/589053/Derrymain-A-Ravenloft-Domain-of-Dread?preview=1

Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

7:29 The Lord

50:20 The Land

1:01:50 Dread Possibilities

1:28:06 Parting thoughts


All music recordings are in the public domain (mark 1.0) and are licensed through https://musopen.org:

Chopin Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No.1 (main theme), performed by Eduardo Vinuela

Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 12 in C Minor: “Ocean” (darklord theme), performed by Edward Neeman

Chopin Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (land theme), performed by Luke Faulkner

Rachmaninoff Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3 - 2. Prélude in C sharp minor (Dread Possibilities), performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Chopin Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (parting thoughts), performed by Luke Faulkner


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