State of the Ruin Address for July of 2025

Tonight is the night we look back over the first five episodes of the series. We start with a hapless traveler on his way home that is pursued by a faceless phantom, and we end with a mysterious vigilante assaulting a gang of creeps in a graveyard. In between, we have two sisters learning a new way of life, two brothers preserving their old way of life, a ventriloquist dummy given unholy life by a ruined man, and a doomed soul robbed of all traces of their identity. All the while, the river that cuts through the village is haunted by two lost souls who hoard trash, a tunnel dwelling miscreant who poisons the village around him, and a vengeful Kitsune trying to take his pound of flesh from a world that thought it had escaped him. For tonight is the night we examine where these tales came from, and we speculate where they are going. Because nobody who sets foot in the ruined village ends up where they intended. This episode contains profanity, violence, and references to previous episodes and antisocial behavior. Listener discretion is advised.