A Dark Wagon Comes to Town (Wildcards: Carnival episode)

"A Dark Wagon Comes to Town" is the first episode of the first season, and thus the campaign premiere, of the Wildcards: Nightlinger's Traveling Carnival of the Extraordinary campaign of Wildcards. This episode aired live on August 28, 2020 on the Saving Throw Twitch channel, and is archived on the YouTube channel. Of note, this episode was streamed remotely due to precautions taken during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Summary
Nightlinger's Carnival has arrived in a town called Purity, and begun to advertise for customers with a short teaser show. A drunken brawl breaks out, and to try and smooth things over Nightlinger suggests inviting some VIPs to the carnival, staying the night and starting the Carnival the following day.

The group wakes in the middle of the night to discover there is something corrupt in the heart of Purity.

Locations

 * Purity, Kansas

Character & Cast Appearances

 * Jordan Caves-Callarman as the Ringmaster (GM)
 * Midas Buchanan, played by Jordan Pridgen
 * Victor Parish, played by Gaurav Gulati
 * Celestina Moldovanu, played by Meghan Caves
 * Buster Callahan, played by Dom Zook

Trivia

 * The content rating for this episode, according to JCC, is the following: "Wildcards is rated R/TV-MA/Whatever your country or region's rating of equivalence is for strong language, for violence, and for dark and disturbing horrific imagery."