The Thieves Guild
Some secrets are worth dying for. Some are worth killing for.From Nebula, Sturgeon, and StorySouth Award nominee Jake Kerr comes an epic fantasy story in the spirit of pulp fiction classics--a serial adventure told via a full cast and that grows in scope with new chapters every day. The Thieves Guild tells the story of Ralan, a street rat who quickly rises to become the guildmaster of the seemingly powerless and symbolic Thieves Guild. Dive into a rich world of geographical conflict and political intrigue that ignites epic battles and civil war. Uncover forgotten magic, swashbuckling adventure, secret societies...
The Thieves Guild Friday Binge - Chapters 67-71
This binge compilation contains 5 episodes.
Episodes included:
1. Reunion (October 27, 2025)
2. The Disturbing Truths of a Vacant Mind (October 28, 2025)
3. The Empty Box (October 29, 2025)
4. The Burdens of Leadership (October 30, 2025)
5. More Than an Ally (October 31, 2025)
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Episode 1: Reunion
After her harrowing mountain journey and subsequent adventures, Maela returns to find more than just shelter within the Thieves' Tower. As she reunites with a transformed Darla, who has flourished in her absence, the weight of recent confrontations and dark promises made to Karch threaten to overshadow their tender moment. While Darla excitedly shares...
More Than an Ally
Faced with an impossible choice, Ralan seeks counsel in the dead of night—from the one person who isn't entangled in Ness's web of politics. When Vesper proposes an alliance with his longtime nemesis Karch, Ralan must confront both childhood trauma and present-day political necessity. As he stands in Rebecca's candlelit doorway, the weight of the Guild's fate collides with unexpected feelings, forcing him to question everything he thought he knew about enemies, allies, and his own heart.
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The Burdens of Leadership
Rogers, now hailed as the Hero of the Pit and future Guildmaster, confronts the uncomfortable reality of his new position within the Craft Guild. During a tense meeting with the imprisoned Alard, he wrestles with his identity as a thief forced to lead a bureaucratic organization he barely understands. As the political landscape of Ness teeters between Karch's maneuvering and Polo's revenge, Rogers must decide if he can transform from a master of shadows into the stabilizing force the city desperately needs.
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The Missing Key
Locked in Pietro's study, Raef and Kray wage war against an unbreakable cipher protecting a lifetime of secrets. As the frustrated dwarf tears through ancient texts, Raef's thief instincts lead him to an intriguing discovery - an empty box frame that might hold the key to cracking the code. But in a room full of hidden meanings and cryptic marginalia, could the absence of something be more important than what remains?
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The Disturbing Truths of a Vacant Mind
Darla struggles to understand Prosper, a mysteriously damaged man whose seemingly innocent words may hold devastating power. As she divides her time between her love for Maela and her duty to watch over this enigmatic man, disturbing questions emerge about his true nature. Could his vacant-eyed observations about 'sad stones' and casual encounters be more than the ramblings of a broken mind? When Prosper speaks of the ancient Wizards with unexpected clarity, Darla must confront the possibility that his apparent madness masks something far more dangerous—and perhaps intentional.
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Reunion
After her harrowing mountain journey and subsequent adventures, Maela returns to find more than just shelter within the Thieves' Tower. As she reunites with a transformed Darla, who has flourished in her absence, the weight of recent confrontations and dark promises made to Karch threaten to overshadow their tender moment. While Darla excitedly shares discoveries about their new home, Maela must reconcile the exhausting reality of her mission with the unexpected comfort of finding her own place in this fortress of secrets. But can this moment of peace last when shadows of conspiracy still linger?
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The Thieves Guild Friday Binge - Chapters 62-66
This Friday Binge contains 5 episodes.
Episodes included:
1. The Dead Past (October 20, 2025)
2. The Long Shadow of the Dead Tree (October 21, 2025)
3. Decisions (October 22, 2025)
4. A Single Day (October 23, 2025)
5. The Money Counter (October 24, 2025)
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Episode 1: The Dead Past
Ralan ventures alone into the haunting ruins of Harvest House, a once-magnificent living tree turned lifeless husk at the edge of the Ash Fields. As he explores its decaying halls and treacherous staircases, he confronts unsettling parallels between this fallen guild house and his own responsibilities. What mysterious sickness could destroy something so powerful...
The Money Counter
As Karch awaits news that could save the guild, he seeks refuge in mundane tasks - only to discover a horrifying truth. The guild's chief money counter arrives bearing news that threatens to shatter the very foundation of the Merchant Guild. With Quinto's ultimatum hanging over his head and time running out, Karch must now face not just external threats, but the possibility that the guild's power has been quietly crumbling from within.
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A Single Day
As Karch stares through his broken office window, a city's fate hangs by a thread. When Guildmaster Quinto arrives demanding an immediate council vote to fill the Craft Guild's vacant seat, Karch must navigate a dangerous political minefield. With his assassins still in the field and Polo's growing paranoia threatening to upset his carefully laid plans, Karch finds himself in a desperate race against time. Will his gambit to delay the council succeed, or will his schemes crumble before Vesper and Maela can complete their mission?
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Decisions
Ralan's quiet contemplation in Raef's library is interrupted by the shocking return of Maela and Vesper, who bring news that threatens to upend everything he thought he knew about Ness's fate. As the new Guildmaster wrestles with conflicting reports of murder and imprisonment, he must navigate a web of loyalty and deception while maintaining control of the conflicting personalities within his own guild.
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The Long Shadow of the Dead Tree
Ralan returns from the mysterious Harvest House with he weight of leadership even heavier. An unexpected arrival threatens to pull him away from his immediate concerns: the Outlander Rebecca has returned. Now Ralan must choose between unraveling ancient secrets in Gaotteland or facing the pressing challenges of a city still reeling from Larsen's attempted purge.
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The Dead Past
Ralan ventures alone into the haunting ruins of Harvest House, a once-magnificent living tree turned lifeless husk at the edge of the Ash Fields. As he explores its decaying halls and treacherous staircases, he confronts unsettling parallels between this fallen guild house and his own responsibilities. What mysterious sickness could destroy something so powerful? And why does the thought of making his fortress worthy of Rebecca's return keep surfacing in his mind? Among the poisonous dust and splintered wood, Ralan discovers that this dead monument may hold vital lessons about power, leadership, and the price of failure.
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The Thieves Guild Friday Binge - Episodes 57-61
This Friday Binge contains 5 episodes.
Episodes included:
1. A Carriage Ride (October 13, 2025)
2. An Old Quarter Welcome (October 14, 2025)
3. A Thief at Heart (October 15, 2025)
4. A Single Life's Work (October 16, 2025)
5. The Missing Key (October 17, 2025)
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Episode 1: A Carriage Ride
The journey to find Ralan begins with a debate over his reliability. As Vesper and Maela cross the lawless Great Bridge, they are forced to deal with the desperate chaos of the city, clearing their path with the cold, brutal efficiency that only two Blades can command.
Episode 2: An Old Quarter...
The Missing Key
Raef and Kray uncover Pietro's hidden journals, only to find their pages filled with an indecipherable code. As they pour over volumes of encrypted text, mysterious margin notes begin to reveal themselves - including an enigmatic symbol of a serpent devouring its own tail. What secrets did the former Guildmaster lock away in these coded pages, and what do his increasingly urgent margin notes warn about?
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A Single Life's Work
Kray drives his prison guards to the brink with increasingly absurd demands for assistance. What seems like the petulant complaints of an elderly prisoner masks a cunning scheme, as Kray orchestrates a calculated campaign of annoyance from within his luxurious cell. But beneath his theatrical helplessness lies a deeper purpose - one that could reunite him with a certain assistant. As the guards' patience wears dangerously thin, Kray's true objective begins to take shape.
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A Thief at Heart
Alard challenges the established order from within Polo's magnificent rooftop garden. During a routine agricultural report, Alard's careful questioning exposes troubling inconsistencies in how resources are distributed between the Inner and Outer Fields. As tensions rise between the former guildmaster and Polo's trusted deputy, the conversation turns to Rogers, whose place as Polo's choice as Guildmaster Craft no longer seems certain.
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An Old Quarter Welcome
As Vesper and Mayla enter the Old Quarter, they discover not chaos but a surprisingly organized refugee operation run by mysterious figures in black. Their reunion with Captain Coode reveals shocking developments: Rogers has somehow become a captain for three opposing guilds, while the Guildmaster himself has vanished into the Upper Quarter with an enigmatic Outlander woman.
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A Carriage Ride
The journey to find Ralan begins with a debate over his reliability. As Vesper and Maela cross the lawless Great Bridge, they are forced to deal with the desperate chaos of the city, clearing their path with the cold, brutal efficiency that only two Blades can command.
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The Thieves Guild Friday Binge - Episodes 52-56
This binge compilation contains 5 episodes.
Episodes included:
1. A Command in the Dark (October 06, 2025)
2. The Sleepwalker (October 07, 2025)
3. Empty Quarters (October 08, 2025)
4. Embers in the Plains (October 09, 2025)
5. The Plight of the Plains (October 10, 2025)
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Episode 1: A Command in the Dark
Rogers finally gets his audience with Alard, intending to make his own case for leadership of the Thieves Guild. Instead, he receives a fiery defense of Ralan's honor and a stark reminder of who is truly in command.
Episode 2: The Sleepwalker
Darla's frantic search for the missing Prosper...
The Plight of the Plains
Rebecca's solitary journey across the desolate plains takes a dark turn when she encounters a starving family of homesteaders. What begins as a simple request for aid escalates into a tense standoff between survival and compassion.
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Embers in the Plains
Alone in the vast plains, Rebecca confronts the weight of her grandfather Pietro's legacy as she struggles to unlock the secrets of a mysterious wand. As night falls and doubts surface, she questions everything she believed about Pietro's tales and her place in his grand vision. Was the beloved storyteller truly a secret genius, or was his friendship with the Crown built on nothing more than entertaining fabrications?
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Empty Quarters
Prosper quietly admits he “sent away” Guildmaster Ralan—minutes before Darla discovers the top floor of the Tower empty, the bed made, and a guard who swears no one came down. Her sprint through silent libraries and moonlit balconies becomes a midnight search for a leader who shouldn’t be able to disappear.
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The Sleepwalker
Darla's frantic search for the missing Prosper ends in the one place he shouldn't be: the Guildmaster's private quarters. She finds him there, not lost, but drawn by a hidden purpose, delivering a cryptic message about the Tower's true nature and its secret history.
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A Command in the Dark
Rogers finally gets his audience with Alard, intending to make his own case for leadership of the Thieves Guild. Instead, he receives a fiery defense of Ralan's honor and a stark reminder of who is truly in command.
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The Thieves Guild Friday Binge - Episodes 47-51
This is a weekly binge compilation containing 5 episodes.
Episodes included:
1. The Undecided Vote (September 29, 2025)
2. The Truth of the Wind (September 30, 2025)
3. The Desert Road (October 01, 2025)
4. A Room for the Night (October 02, 2025)
5. "I'll Be Watching You." (October 03, 2025)
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February 2025 - Date Range Binge
This is a date range binge compilation containing 4 episodes.
Episodes included:
1. Karch & Vesper (February 07, 2025)
2. The River (February 14, 2025)
3. The Wand and the Red Dress (February 21, 2025)
4. The Battle of Trader's Bridge (February 28, 2025)
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The Thieves Guild Monthly Binge - February 2024
This is a episode range binge compilation containing 8 episodes.
Episodes included:
1. Escape (February 03, 2024)
2. A More Important Duty (February 06, 2024)
3. The Blade's New Mission (February 10, 2024)
4. A Discussion in the Shadows (February 12, 2024)
5. The South Tunnel (February 16, 2024)
6. Walking The Ash Fields (February 19, 2024)
7. Books And Signs (February 23, 2024)
8. Blood on the Bridge (February 26, 2024)
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Episode 1: Escape
Weeks pass in the mine prison. Maela carefully cultivates her connection with Darla, setting a trap using feigned affection. After successfully incapacitating the guard, Maela's escape is within reach, but Darla's desperate plea forces an...
"I'll Be Watching You."
Rogers is given quarters in the heart of Harvest House, a suite of breathtaking beauty that feels more like a trap than a reward. After a tense showdown with Quinto, he realizes he's being pulled in too many directions and that his only hope is to find a way to speak to his true commander, Alard.
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A Room for the Night
Kray's plan is as strange as it is brilliant: get arrested in Gaotteland. He hopes to be imprisoned in Pietro's legendary library, but when they are thrown into a common cell, he is forced to pivot to a new, desperate gambit that gets him moved, but leaves Raef behind.
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The Desert Road
Upon arriving at Gaotteland, Kray's request for an audience is denied by the gate guards. He responds not with force, but with history, revealing his name and his role as the former tutor to the current king's father, forcing a standoff as they await the Crown's response.
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The Truth of the Wind
With the hunters left to their fear in the darkness, the journey continues. Raef and Kray must navigate a forgotten and dangerous dwarven ford to cross the mighty Dragon's Tear river and enter the new realm of Gaotteland. They've escaped the shadows, but Kray gives a grim warning: walking in the light can be a far more dangerous path.
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The Undecided Vote
The revelation of the Guildmaster Thief's vote changes the game, but Karch is skeptical. He tests the new alliance, forcing Maela and Vesper to reveal the deep-seated betrayals that will guarantee Ralan's support, solidifying their treacherous path to power.
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If you would...
The Thieves Guild Friday Binge - Episodes 42-46
This is a date range binge compilation containing 5 episodes.
Episodes included:
1. Three Captains and a Guildmaster (September 22, 2025)
2. Two Duties (September 23, 2025)
3. A Father's Counsel (September 25, 2025)
4. The Guildmaster's Return (September 25, 2025)
5. An Unfilled Throne (September 26, 2025)
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An Unfilled Throne
Vesper and Karch form an uneasy alliance against Polo. Karch lays out the political board and makes an audacious proposal: to make Vesper the new Craft Guildmaster. When Vesper's cold logic proves the plan is doomed, Mayla reveals a hidden player who holds the deciding vote.
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The Guildmaster's Return
Ralan returns to the Thieves Tower to find a thriving, integrated community and two mysterious new arrivals who speak of magic. But his welcome is cut short by a grim warning: in his absence, a new, ambitious leader has risen who believes the guild is better off with him in charge.
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A Father's Counsel
Reeling from Rebecca's departure, Raylan expects a final lecture from his father. Instead, he receives a piece of shockingly profound advice about love and duty, comparing Rebecca's fire to his mother's and urging him to build a fortress worth returning to.
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Two Duties
Pulled between his duty to the Guild and Rebecca’s urgent mission, Ralan must make an impossible choice. His decision to stay and rebuild his city forces Rebecca to leave for Gaotteland alone, creating a chasm between them that may never be bridged.
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Three Captains and a Guildmaster
Rogers arrives at Harvest House expecting a simple debriefing but walks into a political summit. He's shocked to find Alard is alive, and stunned when Polo names him as the next Guildmaster of the Craft Guild.
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The Thieves Guild Friday Binge - Episodes 37-41
This is a date range binge compilation containing 5 episodes.
Episodes included:
1. A Quiet Place (September 15, 2025)
2. The Lay of the Stone (September 16, 2025)
3. The Hard Plains (September 17, 2025)
4. The Shadow of the Dragon (September 18, 2025)
5. A Great Honor (September 19, 2025)
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A Great Honor
Quinto arrives at Harvest House expecting to form an alliance with Polo, only to find the traitor Alard acting as a key advisor. As they debate the future of the Craft Guild, a stunning candidate is proposed, and Quinto realizes he has been expertly maneuvered into a corner.
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