Episode Thirty Five – Of Course, The Videostore Was The Headquarters Of The Wyld Hunt

There are some audio problems with this episode, which I suspect are the result of noise removal getting carried away & clipping the quieter end portions of words. Unfortunately, it’s not something I can fix.
Sorry,
T. Jones

Of Course, The Videostore Was The Headquarters Of The Wyld Hunt

The Fairy Folk use a videostore to launder money

Creature of Legend attempt to modernise, hampered by not understanding just how quickly the modern world changes

A videostore is a collection of gateways to other worlds, all shelved in convenient sections, with enticing covers

Retail Bullshit The RPG: Mythical Shenanigans Edition

A powerful Faery inherits a video store, along with an obligation to keep it running

What’s it like to run an entirely ordinary business while sharing a building with something really weird?

People mistakenly returning videos to the wrong store is a common problem, but what happens when the video is from a store in an entirely different world?

Episode Thirty Four – I’m Still Here, Treasure Planet!

I'm Still Here, Treasure Planet!

Why is an Earth-sized planet rampaging around the galaxy, blowing things up?

Having rescued the stranded explorer, how do you extract the clues about his big score from the rest of his rantings & ramblings?
It’s like having a Treasure Map which makes no sense & needs a bath.

The trouble with raiding a Treasure Planet is that the planet doesn’t want you there, and is bringing it’s capacity to do something about it on-line.

The world kind of sucks, and even if you get out among the stars it’s still not that great.
Somewhere out there, however, is a better place; A world with a wise, kind, and above all generous ruler, offering a great place to live if you can make it there.

Rather than setting up a mining operation on that airless moon, why not just blow it up & collect the ore from the planetary surface?
All we need is someone to wander around and pick it all up.

A Planetary Romance in which one of the participants is an actual Planet.

Episode Thirty Three – The Samson Protocol

The Samson Protocol

The game starts with the team captured, their covers blown, their weapons confiscated, and their demolition charges deactivated.
Through flashbacks, we discover that this was the plan all along.

 

Can you pretend to be a cultist well enough to infiltrate the higher ranks and discover what is really going on?

 

When The Situation Gets Hairy, That’s When You Trigger … The S.A.M.S.O.N Protocol!

  • In a remote base coming under attack, the S.A.M.S.O.N Protocol has protected the secrets of the facility, but will it protect the crew?
  • When the S.A.M.S.O.N Protocol is triggered, an elite squad of legendary heroes, many of them played by Kurt Russell, are woken up & sent to the rescue.
  • The base AI, fractured and reeling from an attack, attempts to re-integrate itself & fight off the attackers using whatever resources it can find.
  • The S.A.M.S.O.N Protocol has worked as expected, and has wiped the base computers AND the memories of the crew.
    Fortunately, the crew had enough time to leave clues for themselves to help them remember.
    Unfortunately, they’re still under attack.

 

The R.A.P.U.N.Z.E.L Procedure
Aliens have kidnapped the person with the world’s strongest hair, and are using their purloined hair superiority to lay waste to the world.
A Hail-Mary mission is launched to infiltrate the alien mothership, find the source of their power, and cut it off at the root. Or scalp.

 

In a world where your hairstyle indicates your social class, only the very best may wear long hair or extravagant up-dos; The working classes must adopt the hairstyle appropriate to their profession, from the short-back-and-sides of a labourer to the mandated chrome-dome of a fry cook.

 

The Massive Space Station has de-orbited itself upon the assassination of it’s owner, in accordance with the S.A.M.S.O.N Protocol, so that none shall profit from the monstrous deed.
The trouble is, it didn’t stop to let the crew off first.

Episode Thirty Two – Our Story Begins In A Dying Stripmall

Our Story Begins In A Dying Stripmall

 

A game which cuts between a strip mall & the people who work there in a family drama setting, and that same strip mall & people in a rain-slicked shadowy Film Noir setting, and what happen when the two begin to bleed together.

After the apocalypse, a deteriorating strip mall AI tries to provide for its inhabitants before it dies.

A group of travelers in a strip mall cafe in the middle of nowhere, sheltering from the storm outside, pass the time by telling the tale of how they came to be there.

Following the evolution of a strip mall through the collapse & recovery of civilization.

A bunch of teenage retail workers on a migratory shopping mall, which is stranded in deep space & literally dying, attempt to solve or prevent its murder – possibly at the hands of illegal space whalers.

Here are some links to stuff we nattered about

Episode Thirty One – Roman Empire In Space

Roman Empire In Space

The Characters are citizens of the sprawling Roman Galactic Empire; The Players are guiding the development of that empire, viewing the results through the lens of their Character.
A Garrison & it’s hangers-on head back to Europe at the end of Roman Britain, but end up somewhere very different after being caught in a storm, and start to build a new life for themselves in a strange & magical land.
All Romes Lead To Rome – Through advanced robotics & quantum entanglement, every world in the Empire has a Rome. The same Rome.
A lone world of heavy-gravity Hard Bastards hold out against the might of the Robo-Roman Legions

Here are some links to stuff we nattered about

Episode Thirty – Apollo Rising

Apollo Rising

Apollo is a Dark Listening Station … Apollo is a Downed Ship … Apollo is a Small Colony … Apollo is a Forgotten God, most of all by Himself … Apollo is a Cloud-Intelligent Microbe Swarm
Apollo is all of these things

What happens when a breakthrough is made, and people suddenly understand what a God is, and how they can finally do something about it?

Launching that first spacecraft into orbit breaks the barrier separating Earth from the rest of the Universe, and the Things outside are starting to leak in

The Trials & Tribulations of a Lunar Vinyard

The Space Race continues long after Apollo 17, and the Cold War expands into colonization and espionage on the Moon

“Apollo Rising” looks like it’s going to be an awful film, and a small group set out to stop it from being released, either by heist or subterfuge

Here are some links to stuff we nattered about

Episode Twenty Nine – Ancient Greek Steam Automatons

Ancient Greek Steam Automatons

The Colossus of Rhodes is just one of a number of enormous crew-served Mecha, built to fight the other Mediterranean powers.
Greco-Roban wrestling between Greek Letter Houses at University
An ancient clockwork intelligence guides a team of crime-fighters in the modern era
Time Agents try to correct changes to the timeline caused by anomalous events, such as Ancient Greek Steam Automatons, before they re-write history

Here are some links to stuff we nattered about

Episode Twenty Eight – Apocalypse Engine

Apocalypse Engine

A drunk maintenance crew wake up to find themselves the only ones left aboard a colossal crew-served fighting machine run amok.
Guerrilla Journalists sneak aboard a top secret mega-weapon.
Engineers trying to defuse a nuclear test stuck in mid-explosion find themselves on a dream quest which may, or may not, involve fusion imps.
Well, the device has gone wrong & ended the world as we know it; How do we shut it down?
The last hope for humanity may lie aboard a massive train, making it’s way around the world.
Everyone gives the convoy whatever they want, so long as they keep moving & get out of the area quickly. Why? Because they have an Apocalypse Engine.
Weaponised Calypso Music.
This cruise liner contains all that’s left of post-apocalyptic humanity.

Here are some links to stuff we nattered about

Episode Twenty Seven – Novel Genre Cross-Over, Possibly Accidental

Novel Genre Cross-Over, possibly accidental

What happens when the characters from a novel accidentally wander into a novel from a completely different genre?
If they get lost out there, stuck between the pages, how do the characters left behind repair their own story without a major character?
What happens when a highly-competent heist crew steal the out-of-context problem that is a Lovecraftian artifact?

Here are some links to stuff we nattered about

Episode Twenty Six – Spectral Dance Maneuvers

Spectral Dance Maneuvers

Citizen Detectives Attending Upper-Class Ball To Apprehend Notorious Gentleman-Thief, “The Spectre”!
Investigators Observing Echoes Of The Past In Efforts To Decipher Strange Incident At Grand Ball!
Negotiations With Spirit World Predicted To Ensure Peaceful Year To Come!
Modern-Day Communication System Reliant Upon “Ghost Wires” Between Graveyards & Ley-Line Conjunctions!
Diplomats Baffled As To Why Our Alien Neighbours Are Leaving – Unable To Decipher “Danger; Spectral Dance Maneuvers” Message!

Here are some links to stuff we nattered about