This article is about the season. For the location, see Marielda (city).
Marielda is an interlude season of Friends at the Table, released after the conclusion of COUNTER/Weightbefore returning to the player characters of season one with Winter in Hieron. Episodes 01 and 02 worldbuild through the game The Quiet Year, and the following twelve episodes are a game of Blades in the Dark.
The season is set in pre-Erasure Hieron in the city of Marielda. It centers around The Six, a group of five "daring scoundrels" who steal and sell knowledge as cataclysm encroaches on the city.
Framing
Marielda's episode descriptions are excerpts from Uklan Tel's book The Illustrated Concordance of Marielda. The opening narration for each episode is spoken by Samol. Template:Spoiler
Episodes
| No. in season | Title | Runtime | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The City of Light Pt. 1" | 2h 6m | July 14, 2016 | |
| Austin, Art, Janine, Keith and Nick begin worldbuilding for the season, expanding Marielda from a sparse map into a city filled with turmoil. | ||||
| 2 | "The City of Light Pt. 2" | 1h 55m | July 21, 2016 | |
| Marielda's quiet year continues, from the coming of the pala-din in midsummer to the threat of the Frost Shepherds' winter arrival. | ||||
| 3 | "The Crosstown Job Pt. 1" | 2h 37m | August 5, 2016 | |
| Ali, Jack, Sylvi and Dre build their characters and their crew, The Six, before embarking on their first heist: stealing the plates that control Marielda's new crosstown train. | ||||
| 4 | "The Crosstown Job Pt. 2" | 2h 5m | August 11, 2016 | |
| Aboard a rushing train fifty stories over Helianthus Parish, the members of The Six continue their attempt to steal the navigation plates of the Crosstown Express. | ||||
| 5 | "War and Azaleas" | 1h 29m | August 19, 2016 | |
| The members of have some downtime after their successful heist, but begin to entangle themselves in the consequences of the criminal life. | ||||
| 6 | "The Valentine Affair Pt. 1" | 1h 44m | August 25, 2016 | |
| Looking for help to end their war with the Fontmen, The Six embark upon a plan to steal a book from the famously guarded Memoriam College. | ||||
| 7 | "The Valentine Affair Pt. 2" | 1h 37m | September 1, 2016 | |
| Aubrey, Sige and Castille enter the library, where they face off with the Yellow House. Meanwhile, a traumatized Hitchcock makes his way to the rectory. | ||||
| 8 | "The Valentine Affair Pt. 3" | 1h 57m | September 9, 2016 | |
| The gang frees Maelgwyn from the library vault. Hitchcock has troubling dreams before finding himself running with Caroline from a void nun. | ||||
| 9 | "The Valentine Affair Pt. 4" | 1h 41m | September 15, 2016 | |
| As the situation in and around Memoriam College gets increasingly unstable, the members of The Six do their best to escape with a stolen book and their lives. | ||||
| 10 | "Four Conversations" | 1h 48m | September 22, 2016 | |
| The Six go through an extended downtime period in the months between The Valentine Affair and their final job. | ||||
| 11 | "The Killing of the King-God Samothes By The Traitor Prince Maelgwyn Pt. 1" | 1h 35m | September 30, 2016 | |
| 12 | "The Killing of the King-God Samothes By The Traitor Prince Maelgwyn Pt. 2" | 1h 34m | October 6, 2016 | |
| 13 | "The Killing of the King-God Samothes By The Traitor Prince Maelgwyn Pt. 3" | 1h 55m | October 13, 2016 | |
| 14 | "The Killing of the King-God Samothes By The Traitor Prince Maelgwyn Pt. 4" | 2h 1m | October 20, 2016 | |
Cast
- Austin Walker (GM)
The Quiet Year
The Six
- Jack de Quidt (Ethan and Edmund Hitchcock)
- Sylvia Clare (Aubrey)
- Ali Acampora (Castille)
- Andrew Lee Swan (Sige)