{"id":287,"date":"2026-10-11T18:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T18:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2026-10-11T19:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:49:49","slug":"the-ledger-october-10-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/11\/the-ledger-october-10-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ledger \u2014 October 10, 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Ledger-1024x689.jpg\" alt=\"The Ledger: a Hunters, Inc. scenario set in St. Francisville, Louisiana, October 1986\" class=\"wp-image-288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Ledger-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Ledger-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Ledger-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Ledger-1536x1034.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Ledger.jpg 1712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October, 1986. Louisiana is broke, the oil money is gone, and desperate people are signing anything that keeps the lights on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A rare-book dealer offers two hunters $20,000 to steal a single volume from an old man in St. Francisville, LA.  The job should be simple: get in, get the book, get out before dawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the Ledger is more than a rare book. It binds the people whose names are written inside, feeds life to whoever owns it, taking it from the Named. And it has kept Elias Crane alive for nearly a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The closer the hunters get to the truth, the harder the job becomes\u2014not because they can\u2019t steal the Ledger, but because once they have it, they have to decide what to do with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Ledger<\/strong> is a four-to-five-hour Southern Gothic horror scenario for two hunters and a Keeper, built around investigation, infiltration, dangerous choices, and one the question that matters most:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who deserves life at the expense of others?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-save-vs-podcast-journal wp-block-embed-save-vs-podcast-journal\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lyhfrA0Fmy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/the-ledger\/\">The Ledger- October 10, 1986<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cThe Ledger- October 10, 1986\u201d \u2014 Save VS Podcast Journal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/the-ledger\/embed\/#?secret=CDK6ax0nHh#?secret=lyhfrA0Fmy\" data-secret=\"lyhfrA0Fmy\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October, 1986. Louisiana is broke, the oil money is gone, and desperate people are signing anything that keeps the lights on. A rare-book dealer offers two hunters $20,000 to steal a single\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","_aioseop_title":"","_aioseop_description":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savevspodcast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}