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Craig: Papa Legba’s Gumbo Hut offers Authentic Gumbo AND contact with the Loa!! – Ask about Franchise Opportunities Today!
Tonya: Where do the spirits of those possessed by the Loa GO while they’re not at home? A diner on the corner of the road beyond the veil, of course.
Ben: After the Singularity, pervasive nonotechnology may as well BE Magic for all the sense it makes, but for the right people, Vodou turns out to be a good model for interfacing with it.
Kev: In the Grim Future of the Franchise Wars, heavily-branded Corporate Behemoths do battle for Dominance, uncaring of the Parasite Eateries riding on them, and oblivious to Humanity, who mostly try to stay out of their way & gather leftovers.

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We’ve had a number of Listener ideas over the last few months, and they built up to the point that we couldn’t really tack them onto episodes here & there, so we’ve recorded our longest episode yet, just to get through them all.
Many thanks to our Audient for their fantastic ideas.

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Tonya builds a game around the experience of dreaming, with players as elements of the dream, Craig dispenses advice for navigating massive urban societal dissolution, Ben presents the City as an Out-Of-Context alien environment, and Kev explains a dreamscape where arbitrary rules accumilate & build upon each other.

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Kevin takes us to the Development Conference for the early Universe, Craig imagines Winter Festivals where the atmosphere falls as rain, and also considers Citizenship in a vastly less united U.S.A., Tonya proposes a world where Our State Fair Is The Best State Fair, Or I’ll Cut You, and Gulo T. brings us the Trade & Exchange of Emotional States.

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In which Craig pitches an Omega Squad that makes good in spite of themselves, Kevin calls operatives from WWII who must overcome memory blocks in order return to service, Tonya pitches a Daring Heist from the Teapot Museum (well, Kevin does it for her,) Gulo T. repairs a terraforming project before anyone finds out it broke and Ben sends a good-hearted Private Military Force to save children from a nefarious Industrialist.

Also, we spoil your appetites, and the plot to a certain Tim Burton movie. We are not sorry.

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It’s just gone midnight here in New Zealand, so, from the Couch to our Audient, Happy Holidays, Merry Gaming, and have a good one.
Craig.

Hope you are all having a nice, relaxing day, with plenty of healthy and unhealthy treats and drinks to keep you through the season.
May your coming year be full of stability, joy, love, togetherness and all that jazz. May your dark moments be short and easily dispelled. May your needs be met and your wants be few.
Tonya.

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Educating Children and their Monsters together, in the hopes that it’ll socialise them.
How do you re-integrate supernatural prisoners with society, and what happens when things go wrong?
The social ramifications of schooling in a world where the D&D monsters have emerged.
Psychic Children, Regular Schools.
Tonight on “The Quest For The Next Big Horror Icon”, …
Refugee surface-dwellers try to make a new home in the Dungeons.

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Ben thinks about Norse Gods having personal responsibility for the days named after them, and how that can’t possibly go wrong.
Tonya imagines “Moon-shining With The Stars”
Craig considers who you call when you find something really strange on a battlefield, and what that call might be.
Kev suggests a pirate radio station in a world of super-heroes & super-villains, trying to make the world a better place.

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Craig imagines a traveling band, Gulo T. wonders about finding & transporting a much-needed specialist who might not want to go, Kev tries to find a safe place for crypto-boffins in a post-serpent world, Tonya looks at the Convention industry, and Ben goes Meta.
Really Meta.

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We got together to read & talk about ideas from BRC Foreign Correspondent TAZ, who had some thoughts about Space-Wreck Exploration & Goblin Paradise.

Planetes
Memories (a.k.a. Otomo Katsuhiro’s Memories)

Event Horizon

Hospital Station, by James White

Bulldogs! RPG

World War 2.0, by John Birmingham

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

Wombat

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