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This is episode is sponsored by the collective socialist consciousness known to your puny human minds as “Canada”.

Sorry if you haven’t been assimilated yet, we are all out shoveling  snow, eh.

In a bilingual country with a dashingly handsome Prime Minister, super heroics must include a strict Francophone quota.

Your gritty cyber-punk cabal is poised for immediate action – if they could just stop apologising to one another.

The ur-Canuck is waiting. The ur-Canuck is watching. The ur-Canuck is insistently, politely unstoppable. And it’s knitted you mittens.

Striking north from your crumbling society, you and your group push towards salvation through dangers both real and imagined.

(Apologies.  Genuine inhabitants of “The Canadia” were hard to come by, so we we had to settle for a lost, stair-well dwelling geographer, a travel-shy antipodean, and the finest quisling that Her Majesty could spare.  The wild generalisations and stereotypes abound, but at least we didn’t do the “aboot” joke.  Small mercies and all that.)

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The trouble with having a dedicated team who go spelunking through the dark paths of the internet in search of That Which Must Not Be Downloaded is that you’ve got to deal with what it does to them: How fine is the line between Burned-Out and Hollowed-Out?

What’s it like to be back at the Ops Centre as the strike team hits a Mythos Infestation, trying to keep the strike team alive as it all goes to hell, or worse, around them?

You’re the second-best, and the very best spare no effort to make sure you never forget it.

Why might a time-traveller need a 74-gun ship of the line? And how long does it take to sail home when you’re not really sure how the time drive works?

Abd Alhazred has been dead for centuries, but the revelations of blasphemous events just keep on coming, through the medium of an unholy relic; When the Icon glows, it’s time for Alhazred’s Angels to leap into action.

Battling Mythos threats would be easier if your guide wasn’t insane, out of touch, and overly fond of metaphor and hyperbole.

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A crumbling gentleman’s club and it’s equally crumbling members are called upon to defend the realm.

The disinherited sons and daughters of a fallen dynasty join forces to reclaim their birthright.

In a binary star system, the ancient machines holding the two stars apart are being tampered with, threatening (very literal) disaster.

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Indiana Jones and Santa’s Workshop.

Krampus isn’t just about beating people with sticks; It’s about sending a message.

The maintenance crew of a hibernating colony deal with a heist in the dead of winter.

What happens when you come out of stasis to discover that the wintering-over crew have gone a bit … odd?

Here are some links to stuff we nattered about

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As they move against the enemies of their society’s psychic overlord, his agents must balance their own misgivings and their team’s allegiances with the needs of the mission.

The city is enveloped by a choking malaise, an invisible force sapping it’s inhabitants and industry.  Is it an conspiracy, a twisted secret, or something even darker?

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And It Was Aliens All Along – Is that really a creature of faerie you’ve come across? Does the Leprechaun actually need your help to get to their pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Or did you just help a crashed alien explorer return to their spacecraft?

The Grandest Central Station – Workaday life in a ‘train’ station where the 08:15 could be coming in from absolutely anywhere, and the Starlight Express might not just be a fanciful name.

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Unraveling the impending demise of Genetically-Engineered Super-soldiers before it unravels them.
Defending your new home from the uptight a-holes you moved here to avoid, ideally without anyone local finding out you’ve moved in.
Skulduggery & Genocide among the multidimensional produce of the Vegiverse.
Comedic Confused Urban Fantasy Post Apocalyptic Cyberpunk gaming.

And we do terrible things to VeggieTales. And Mad Max 2. Simultaneously.

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Dracoarchy in Action – “Yes, we elected a Dragon as our head of state.  His campaign had some very compelling points…      …and not just on his teeth.”

A horrifying discovery in the middle of the dungeon puts the party into high gear.  Reverse gear, that is, and wishing they’d dealt with the tricks and traps rather than just circumventing them.

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