{"id":3520,"date":"2021-05-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2021-06-19T06:57:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T18:57:49","slug":"episode-one-hundred-and-fifty-nine-apartments-of-catan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/2021\/05\/episode-one-hundred-and-fifty-nine-apartments-of-catan\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode One Hundred and Fifty Nine &#8211; Apartments Of Catan"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7371\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3520-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-159-ApartmentsOfCatan.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-159-ApartmentsOfCatan.mp3\">https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-159-ApartmentsOfCatan.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-159-ApartmentsOfCatan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/?powerpress_pinw=3520-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-159-ApartmentsOfCatan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"BRC-159-ApartmentsOfCatan.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emerging from the shelters and expecting to find a world ravaged by centuries of disaster and destruction, the bunker-folk instead find themselves in the overgrown gardens of a apartment block megastructure; An impossibly tall vertical city, clearly damaged by whatever catastrophe people headed underground to avoid, but still standing, and with some work, still habitable.<br>And not entirely uninhabited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your role in society is both necessary &amp; tightly proscribed.<br>What you do is vital, and part of a bigger system of interlocking roles, but the Gods are capricious, and success can be as much a matter of luck as of skill.<br>If everyone would just cooperate, things would be fine, but \u2026 That&#8217;s really not how people work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Housing Project: The Managing<br>These innovative community dwellings will greatly improve the lives of the people who&#8217;ll live in them, and if the embedded AI systems can organise the right resources and deal with the problems encountered along the way, maybe they&#8217;ll get the chance.<br>Of course, with the number of things that&#8217;re going wrong, some of those embedded AIs are starting to wonder whether there&#8217;s something else at play here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new ( and only ) residents of an apartment block find themselves trapped by vanishing hallways &amp; bewildered by the regular deliveries of lumber, paving stones, hay, and \u2026 sheep?<br>If they can combine their resources, maybe they can find a way out, or at least move the damn sheep into the inexplicable fields in the apartment next door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more Links!-->\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evilhat.com\/home\/blades-in-the-dark\/\">Blades in the Dark<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Last_of_the_Summer_Wine\">Last of the Summer Wine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Official Video)\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gAjR4_CbPpQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garry%27s_Mod\">Garry&#8217;s Mod<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yogscast.com\/\">The Yogscast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MOST AMBITIOUS BOARD GAME IN HISTORY | Gmod Build\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6GrAA2kKT1o?start=965&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>With luck, this&#8217;ll start at the pitch which gave John the idea for this prompt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catan.com\/\">Settlers of Catan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ive-got-wood-for-your-sheep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ive-got-wood-for-your-sheep.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ive-got-wood-for-your-sheep.jpg 400w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ive-got-wood-for-your-sheep-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Craig made me put this one in ~ T. 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